Only one month after filing paperwork to run for Congress in California's 44th District, Stacey Dash has revealed to Cosmopolitan.com that she's withdrawing from the race.

"I started this run with the intention to address the pressing issues in the district where I live," Dash wrote in the statement. "I hoped, and remain hopeful, that I can assist people living here on the national level."

Dash is perhaps best known for her role in the '90s comedy "Clueless." Before starting her campaign, running as a Republican, Dash had been a conservative commentator on Fox News. In her statement, she expressed frustration with the current political climate.

"My goal was, and remains, to improve the lives of people who have been forgotten for decades by the Democratic Party," she wrote. "At this point, I believe that the overall bitterness surrounding our political process, participating in the rigors of campaigning, and holding elected office would be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of my family."

"I hoped, and remain hopeful, that I can assist people living here on the national level."

As a commentator, Dash often stirred controversy with her political viewpoints. Her contract with Fox was not renewed in early 2017. In her statement, Dash spoke out against economic inequality, specifically in reference to California's diverse 44th District, where Dash currently resides, which includes historically poverty-stricken neighborhoods like Compton and Watts.

"I believe we live under a system of 'Plantation Politics,' which offers people on the lower end of the economic spectrum little more than symbolic gestures instead of true political empowerment and improvement," she wrote. "The high crime rate, unacceptable high school dropout rate, and decaying infrastructure are all problems that could receive federal attention and funds, but not if we focus on distractions and partisanship instead."

Dash made news in 2016 for her reaction to the #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign, which she called "ludicrous." In an appearance on Fox & Friends, Dash said that she believed BET and Black History Month only further racial inequality. And she garnered more controversy for her first TV interview after starting her campaign this year, when she said she agreed with President Trump's assertion that there was blame on both sides of the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville:

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"My political positions have often been labeled as controversial," Dash acknowledged in her statement, "but the real controversy is how decades of government corruption and political disempowerment have created a system where skyrocketing home prices, dirty needles in the streets, and long bus trips to other districts for jobs are somehow considered acceptable by the government officials representing the 44th District.

"The people living here deserve better. I will continue to speak out about these and other problems facing this district, as well as the distractions that take the place of real change."

Dash ended her statement by writing that she has decided to go "where I feel God is leading me," but did not specify what her next career path would be.

Kristen Mascia Kristen Mascia is a journalist and editor who writes about health, politics, and people and trends in the zeitgeist. Emma Barker Features Editor Emma Baker is an Editorial Intern and graduate student in NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program.

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