Hilarious Headline re Conor Lamb
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From the New Yorker:
"Some people took a while to open their doors. Lamb is a thirty-three-year-old marine and former federal prosecutor. He is so wholesome-looking that he is frequently mistaken for a Jehovah’s Witness. “One man called out, ‘I’m a Roman Catholic!’ ” Lamb told me. He’d replied, “So am I.” He grew up in the northern part of the PA-18 district, in the more affluent suburb of Mount Lebanon, and was shaped by years at Central Catholic, a high school run by Christian Brothers, an order within the Catholic Church that takes a vow of poverty. “They really make an effort to go out and be with people on the margins,” he told me."
A local guy tweeted: "
MoreReplying to @alexburnsNYT"true story: he apparently had to stop wearing a tie while door-knocking because he said he kept being confused for a Jehovah's Witness. Don't think they made the same mistake with Saccone"