Blessed event for the Gatsbys
Ron Wyden and his wife had a baby girl this morning. The senator even dragged his spouse out from New York to Portland for the delivery. There's one more factoid for him to wheel out when the bona fides of his Oregon residency are challenged.
They'll all be back in the Big Apple in plenty of time for the holidays, of course. In any event, congratulations to the family, and good luck to Wyden with three small kids including a newborn at age 63.
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God, it was hard enough for me to handle the rigors of fatherhood in my early 30s...can't even imagine what it must be like at 63. Of course, I'm sure Ron's got resources to help with diapering and whatnot that far exceed mine...
Posted by Dave J. | November 29, 2012 2:34 PM
63 isn't young even to be a grandfather. I hope the kids from the first family are cool with it. That isn't always the case.
His New York residency and Oregon senatorship should be a least a minor scandal.
Posted by sally | November 29, 2012 2:45 PM
That's interesting news. My last child was born almost 18 years ago, and the doctor put us on very strict orders to not travel within a month of the delivery. It sounds like they planned it all out way ahead of time to have the baby delivered here since it looks like they spend at least 90% of their time in New York.
Posted by Usual Kevin | November 29, 2012 2:48 PM
Oregonians love a good game of charades. They take them seriously.
Posted by Steve | November 29, 2012 3:24 PM
Great news! He'll be 84 when she graduates from college!
No chane of early retirement for the R senator from NY.
Posted by Portland Native | November 29, 2012 3:34 PM
SHE is 49! I wonder who donated the sperm and eggs?
Posted by Portland Native | November 29, 2012 3:36 PM
Various published stories report Mrs. Bass-Wyden is 51, include a March 24th article from WSJ.
God love them. I can't imagine chasing toddlers in my 50s or 60s. It's hard enough in my 40s. I suppose they're taking vitamins and have a nanny or three.
Posted by Mister Tee | November 29, 2012 6:42 PM
Could be one of those medical miracles ... where the treatment is harder on your health than the symptoms.
Also, for as much scheduling as was planned in the event, (if any), the Congressional Staff at-large Astrologer or even a newbie in private practice coulda shoulda woulda advised the consenting adults to deliver themselves away from this week of afflictions under an eclipse of the Moon, and with the regimental rings of Saturn confining the feminine Venus captured, bound, ungraced.
"The senator even dragged his spouse out from New York to Portland for the delivery.
A book reviewer says that in "Ranch Under the Rimrock," the autobiography of Dorothy Lawson McCall,
Births ex-jurisdiction: that's the Republican stylie. (btw, it's like a freak of nature that Wyden was born the same year as Springsteen)Posted by Tenskwatawa | November 29, 2012 6:52 PM
All of the posts, including Jack's initial post, that assume Ron and his wife will be chasing around toddlers is precious, romantic even.
Those old fogies aren't chasing any kids around. Get real.
Seriously, what's the over under on the number of poopy diapers they'll change? 5? 10? How about just Ron Wyden himself? You think he'll change even one?
I will, of course, apologize for my skepticism should I be proven incorrect. They might be very engaged parents, who knows? What are the odds on my being proven incorrect? 5-1? 10-1? Ha! No one is going to take that bet at any odds.
Posted by JO | November 30, 2012 4:28 AM
Hey, Jo, how many diapers are they -- or their staff -- going to change in Oregon?!
Posted by sally | November 30, 2012 11:00 AM
So that's why Wyden pushed so hard for that non-stop airline flight from PDX to DCA. Towing a kid through an airport is no fun...and neither is towing a kid on public transit.
And he isn't high enough on the totem pole to enjoy the use of the Air Force's fleet unlike certain Senators to our south...
Posted by Erik H. | November 30, 2012 2:17 PM