Monday, July 16, 2018

Fun with Name add-ons: California Edition

Eighty-five year old Senator Diane Feinstein has been rejected by her own party leadership:
California Democratic Party leaders took a step to the left Saturday night, endorsing liberal state lawmaker Kevin de León for Senate in a stinging rebuke of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

De León’s victory reflected the increasing strength of the state party’s liberal activist core, which was energized by the election of Republican Donald Trump as president.
This De Leon fellow decided he needed to sound more Mexican, like Texas Paddy Robert Francis O'Rourke. Kevin De Leon's real name is Kevin Leon, and he just throws 'De' in there. It's as if we decided we needed to sound more Jewish, 'Stroockstein' or 'Stroockman', maybe 'Stroockfeld'.* We used to do it with our friends, 'Gagliardistein', 'Velardoman', 'O'Neilfeldman'.** 

Play along reader(s), it's fun.
* Heh, Seinfeld
**Speaking of Seinfeld. In one episode George's mom, Estelle, listens to advice from a woman named Donna Chang, naturally assuming she possesses eastern like Yoda wisdom only to learn Donna Chang is a white woman. You see her name was shortened, it used to be Changstein.

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