Musgrave's Money Talk
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The common perception about Marilyn Musgrave's intellect is that she's not the sharpest disc on the manure spreader. (That's meant to be an ag joke, but if you prefer to see it as political commentary, fine by me.)

Even so, I was flabbergasted by THIS ARTICLE in the online Greeley Tribune, telling about Marilyn explaining the so-called stimulus check procedure to residents at a local retirement community.

MM said she was concerned about seniors who live off of Social Security...LIKE HER MOTHER.

0.o

I don't know the details of Marilyn's personal finances, of course, but I'm pretty sure there are no poor Republicans holding congressional seats. Which means there are two possibilities here.

One, Marilyn was cluelessly trying to bond with her audience by saying they were in the same financial straits as her poor dear old aged mother living month to month on her meager SS checks...even though it was a little fib and her mom has plenty of other assets.

OR....

Marilyn's mom lives on or near the poverty line while her daughter jets back and forth from DC and lives the high life like all the other Bushistas.

I wonder which it is?

Reader Comments
  
Hmm...
By Doc Apr 16th 2008 at 4:01 pm MDT
Maybe a little of both, Sue.
  
Oh, and h/t to Alan Franklin!
By Susan the Neon Nurse Apr 16th 2008 at 6:43 pm MDT
It was due to his excellent daily work putting out the Progress Now News Clips that I found the Greeley Tribune article in the first place!
  
It's the latter
By No Name Apr 16th 2008 at 7:51 pm MDT
Marilyn Musgrave's mom still lives near Eaton, Colorado, hovering near poverty. Go there and talk to the people who knew Musgrave before she escaped from a life of grinding poverty into the world of religious extremism and the politics of rage. They are good people, but poor, poorly educated, irreverent. Musgrave's own family was one afflicted by alcoholism and drug abuse. People there perceive her current persona as phoniness. She is ashamed of where she came from. That includes her mother.
Re: It's the latter
By Susan the Neon Nurse Apr 16th 2008 at 9:42 pm MDT
That's really sad. All of them a victim of SOMETHING, on all sides of the situation.
  


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