Arianna Huffington's kids move in with dad
Mr. F. Le Mur
Susan Estrich
Call her Guv-to-be, not Mom
August 21, 2003
Arianna Huffington has been recalled as a mother.
Her children have voted with their feet. They didn't
want her to run for governor of California. She ran
anyway. On the day she announced her candidacy at "A
Place Called Home," in South Central Los Angeles,
her children moved out of hers in Brentwood and into
their father's. "Our oldest daughter has been devastated
by it," her dad said.
"A Place Called Home," according to its Web site, was
created to give inner-city kids somewhere to go after
school to do their homework, watch TV, play with their
friends and "be with people that care about them --
basic rights that all kids should have." That's what
most kids get from their mothers.
Bad fathers have been running for office for decades. Does
it matter if a mother runs instead?
Huffington has no chance of winning. Never did. The only
reason to run was her ego, self-aggrandizement, attention
-- at the expense of her kids.
She is running on a platform she didn't even believe in
a few years ago. Nor is it one she lives by.
How could she do that to her children? my own children ask.
In Huffington's case, of course, it may be a bit more
complicated than that, financially speaking, since it's
slightly more difficult to live off your children's child
support when your children aren't living with you. But
don't bet against her. This is, after all, the woman who
runs against oil interests and lives in a mansion financed
by oil money, rails against pigs at the trough and pays no
taxes, runs as an independent and supports a guru. She's
even got a documentary crew following her for the campaign.
I wonder if they filmed the children moving out.
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Michael Huffington says she is very seductive. I guess.
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