Sam Brown, the Republican difficult incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in Nevada, first launched himself to Silver State voters two years in the past throughout his failed bid to unseat the state’s different Democratic senator, Catherine Cortez-Masto. He did it with an advert known as “Duty.”
“I wasn’t born into power. I’m from small-town America,” he stated within the 2022 advert.
What he didn’t say is that his prolonged household owns the Cincinnati Bengals, an NFL crew price $4 billion, and that his family members have been supporting his political ambitions for some time now.
To listen to Brown discuss, he comes from probably the most humble of backgrounds. His was a “sort of working-class family,” he informed radio host Ken Wall again in 2021 (at in regards to the 22-minute mark). That very same 12 months, he informed an area information host that he comes from “salt of the earth people,” not from a “dynasty” (at 23:48).
Talking of dynasties, Brown’s great-grandfather, Paul Brown, based the Bengals and his great-uncle, Michael Brown, is the present proprietor of the NFL crew. So possibly a little bit little bit of dynasty?
In a 2023 interview with an area CBS affiliate, Brown stated that he couldn’t take his household on trip as a result of he couldn’t afford gasoline. Possibly that’s true; it may very properly be that his family members are stingy with regards to sharing the wealth with prolonged household. However they certain haven’t been stingy with Brown with regards to his political profession.
Simply final quarter, Brown netted $13,200 from great-uncle Michael and his son-in-law, Bengal govt Troy Blackburn. They every donated $6,600—the most allowed. The Nevada Globe reported that in his 2022 race, Brown obtained “$10,000 from current owners of the team and their spouses, including a double max contribution ($2900 x 2 = $5800) from team owner Michael Brown, $2900 from his wife Nancy, $1000 from his aunt, Bengals Executive VP Katie Blackburn (Paul Brown’s granddaughter) and another $2900 from his uncle Paul Brown Jr., who is a Vice President of the team.”
That’s good. It would assist to make up for that household trip Brown needed to cancel.
His family members even booked him as a motivational speaker for the Bengals at one level. It’s not clear how a lot of an honorarium he netted via this gig with “Speakers of Substance,” however the most payment is $10,000.
It’s all sounding much less and fewer working class and much more dynastic, isn’t it?
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