House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been lambasted due to his son and wife being on his campaign staff but the AP has compiled this extensive list that shows many politicos of both parties are working tirelessly to support family values.
Their own.
Well, that’s really not fair. We’re SURE they ran extensive job searches and it just so happened that these Republicans and Democrats found that their sons, wives, daughters, cousins, grandparents, great uncles and cats and dogs were the most qualified out there to fill the slots.
Also, sometimes these jobs can be detrimental to a career: Monica Lewisky worked on a president’s staff and look what happened to her.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.