Keeping Jr. Off the Dole

Fathers don't have to agree with their kids, only support them. Otherwise there are consequences.

Case in point, Lawrence Quinn reportedly told a doubter of his daughter (NYC Council Speaker) Christine that he needed her vote: “I don’t agree with her, either ... But listen, if she loses, she’s unemployed and I’m going to have to pay her rent. So I am going to check you as a yes, thanks so much.”

Even if he does occasionally and loudly carp about his daughter's policies, Quinn does everything he can from his basement office to support his daughter's political ambitions — she is favored to be that city's next mayor. But imagine the possibilities if he were in office. Suppose he could near-magically appoint his daughter, as Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. is doing for son Emil III, despite (probably) disagreeing about that college dropout thing and not seeming to do much else beside take a job his father arranged with a political ally.

Again, there is that unemployment thing looming.