re: #34 SanFranciscoZionist

My assumption tends to be that candidates exaggerate those modest backgrounds. I shall never forget the mayoral election in which Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez clashed in what I liked to call ‘The Great Lower-Middle-Class-Off of 2003’.

“Oh yeah? I had an after school job when I was FOURteen!”

“Oh yeah? My mom made stuff with Hamburger Helper!”

“Oh yeah? My mom had two jobs! Beat that, elitist punk!”

It went on for week after week.

I don’t doubt this at all.

But those leases are not at all inexpensive. And they travelled by private plane? He’d have to be exaggerating his modest childhood by a lot, I think. I’m trying to get my Texas buddies to weigh in on this.