‘House on the Prairie’ star to run for Congress

Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ announced that she will be running for Congress. Gilbert is running as a Democrat against a first-term Republican Rep. Mike Bishop from Michigan’s 8^th congressional district. Bishop won his election with 54% of the vote after the previous representative retired. Bishop’s spokesman mentioned that Gilbert owes $300,000 in back taxes to the IRS, which he said showed that her values don’t match the voter’s main values.