I find it more than a little ironic that two of the three key Tea Party victors yesterday can most accurately be described as “elites”. Highly educated, well-connected, and wealthy, and of course white, they fit the much-maligned “elite” moniker to a tee. I guess if you say enough stupid things and make enough ridiculous promises it’s easy for the electorate to overlook who you actually are, where you actually come from, and where you’re planning to take them.
A little too ironic. Yeah, I really do think…
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Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971)
Early life and education
Lee was born in Mesa, Arizona on June 4, 1971. His family moved to Provo, Utah one year later when his father, Rex E. Lee, became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. While Lee spent about half of his childhood years in Utah, he spent the other half in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.. His father was serving first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney General (overseeing the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Ford Administration) from 1975 until 1976, and then as the U.S. Solicitor General (charged with representing the United States government before the Supreme Court during the first term of the Reagan Administration) from 1981 until 1985.
After graduating from Timpview High School (Provo, Utah) in 1989, Mike attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate student, receiving a B.S. in Political Science in 1994. He served as BYU's Student Body President during the 1993–1994 school year.
Legal career
After graduating from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1997, Lee served as a law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The following year, he clerked for then-Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who was serving at that time on the U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Third Circuit Court in Newark, New Jersey. After finishing his clerkships, Lee joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, where he specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation. Several years later, Lee returned to Utah to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. from January 2005 until June 2006, when he returned to Washington to serve a one-year clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Alito.
Rand Paul
Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American ophthalmologist and politician.
Paul is a member of the Tea Party movement who describes himself as a "constitutional conservative." He is the son of Republican Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas. Paul first received national attention in 2008 when making political speeches on behalf of his father.
A graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine, Paul has been a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, since 1993, and established his own clinic in December 2007.
Early life and education
Rand Paul's parents, Carol Wells Paul and Ron Paul, married in 1957. Rand was born in Pennsylvania in 1963. He has four siblings: Ronnie, Lori, Robert, and Joy.
The Paul family moved from Pittsburgh to San Antonio in 1965, eventually settling in Surfside Beach, Texas in 1968. In 1976, Rand Paul's father was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Paul attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas from fall 1981 to summer 1984. According to a current Senate campaign consultant of Paul's, Paul was enrolled in the honors program at Baylor, and had scored approximately in the 90th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test, though no documentation has been provided to support these claims. During Paul's time at Baylor, he became a member of the NoZe Brotherhood, which would later become an issue in his run for the United States Senate. Paul never obtained a degree from Baylor, however, instead leaving early when he was accepted into his father's alma mater,[15] the Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993.
Personal life
In Atlanta, Paul met Kelley Ashby, a Rhodes College English major. Paul and Ashby were married on October 20, 1990, and moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, less than 30 miles (48 km) from her hometown of Russellville, Kentucky, in 1993.
The couple have three sons: William, Duncan, and Robert.
