{"id":3512,"date":"2006-11-01T04:33:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kir.com\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2006-11-01T04:33:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:33:37","slug":"all_in_the_fami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kir.com\/?p=3512","title":{"rendered":"All in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"drew<\/a>Based on this article<\/a><\/strong>, it’s safe to say that the family get-togethers of New Orleans Saints and former Austin Westlake High School quarterback Drew Brees aren’t the stuff of a Norman Rockwell painting:<\/p>\n

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has asked his mother to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court.
\n“I think the major point here is that my mother is using me in a campaign, and I’ve made it known many times I don’t want to be involved.”
\nIn commercials running on Austin stations, Mina Brees had been using a picture of her son in the uniform of his former team, the San Diego Chargers, to emphasize her ties to football.
\n“I think the major point here is that my mother is using me in a campaign, and I’ve made it known many times I don’t want to be involved,” Drew Brees said Monday.
\nMina Brees, an Austin attorney, is running as a Democrat for a spot on Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals. She said replacement commercials that omit any mention of her son were taped last week and sent to stations on Friday.
\nShe said she did not anticipate upsetting her son and that “everything in the ad was true.”
\nShe said her connection to football is relevant to her campaign because her father, a successful high school coach, used sports to teach her a strong work ethic that she would bring to the judicial bench.
\nDrew Brees, who won a state football championship with Westlake High School in suburban Austin, said he got no response from his mother when he first heard about the ads and called her to ask that she stop using them. His agent sent her a letter Oct. 20 threatening legal action, he said.
\nHe called his relationship with his mother “nonexistent” after it crumbled six years ago when he refused to hire her as his agent.
\nMina Brees said her son’s allegations were a mischaracterization and that she had no intention of becoming his agent.
\n“I love Drew very much, and I’m very proud of him. But sometimes when people are following a career path, they change,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds as if Mrs. Brees and Marc O’Hair<\/a><\/strong> ought to get together and compare notes on child rearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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