re: #32 reine.de.tout

Here’s a very interesting question: How did Perry’s family afford that hunting lease? Those hunting leases are not cheap. Perry claims to come from very modest background. So, what’s up with that?

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.