The video footage of the Heroes babe yesterday was shot back January when Hayden Panettiere was in town to lobby Congress on whaling issues. Senator Paul Strauss met her at the Barack Obama rally on January 28, and enlisted her help for a quick PSA. The senator relates,

“She [Hayden Panettiere] was lobbying the Senate on whale issues as part of her Save the Whales campaign … I assured her that she would get my vote, but, hey, I don’t get one.”

Over lunch in the Senate dining room, Sen. Strauss says, he explained “what I could do for whales and how much more I could do if I got a vote … She saw the injustice and agreed to help us out.” Lucky for him, a camera crew documenting Hayden Panettiere’s whale work was following her around and they agreed to shoot a quick video after their lunch =)