Burnt Orange Report

This Is Just Too Funny Not To Pass On

By Vince Leibowitz

Thanks to Google News Alerts I still have active on a bunch of now-former congressmen, I was directed to SFist.com, a San Franscisco blog which today had a post up about a local election there and discussed Christine Pelosi (daughter of Nancy Pelosi). I could not figure out why this was emailed to me as a news alert for "Max Sandlin" until I read this (all links and puncuation, etc., are from the source):

Christine Pelosi, whose mother you may have heard of, is a former San Francisco deputy DA who is now active with the Democratic party. In her day job, Christine serves as Chief of Staff to Congressman John Tierney (D-Mass.) (who her mother then appointed to the Intelligence committee) and used to date (scroll down) Texas Democratic congressman Max Sandlin (during which time her mother appointed him to the Ways and Means committee). Sandlin, 63, lost his bid for reelection last year (and is now dating a representative from South Dakota. What a player!).

Strangely enough, the funniest thing in the post, to me, was that Max Sandlin was listed as being 63 years old. Hello...look at the guy! Via Wikipedia, try 53.

I just couldn't resist correcting an out-of-state blogger on the real age of one of our former Congressmen.