You may think you’re some sort of big deal in Alaska as mayor of Wasilla.

But if Academy Award-nominated actress and Barack Obama supporter Rosie Pérez can help it, you won’t become vice president.

Pérez, who has appeared in such films Fearless (for which garnered her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations), Pineapple Express, White Men Can’t Jump and Yo Soy Boricua! Pa’ Que To Lo Sepas!, will be visiting Tampa and Orlando on Saturday to encourage people to vote.

She also wants to alert them to the early voting option that starts in Florida on Oct. 20. Joining her will be Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-NY, who will also be hosting an event for Hispanic small-business owners.

Pérez has previously taken particular exception to Sarah Palin’s not-so-subtle swipe during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech at the value of Obama’s background as a community organizer.

Here’s some of what Pérez had to say during an event in September, captured on video here.

She (Palin) had the audacity to say something like this: being a small town mayor is kind of like being a community organizer – except you have actual responsibility.

Now, being a community organizer, being a charitable organizer, being an activist, I have to tell you, Ms. Palin are you crazy?

Do you know how hard it is to get up and stand in the rain and fight ….PEOPLE LIKE YOU?

…come and get arrested for something you believe in, and be stuck in a urine-smelled jail with me, and then let’s talk!”

…take off the heels, Miss thang! and walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk.”

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