He's been dabbling into political campaigning (obviously not him running for an office) for a while now. I think many moons ago, a clip of him campaigning for then-less-than-one-term Congresswoman Kathy Hochul in Buffalo was posted here.
Bauman's political persuasion is probably the only thing he and Gene agreed on during MGHS (Jon ribbing Reagan despite his popularity and impending landslide win, Gene saying William Buckley was "wrong 100% of the time").