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Hoeven 'Stache Makes News
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jan 13, 2010 04:29pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ND Gov. John Hoeven (R) is among the rare group of politicians who keeps facial hair, and as he launches a bid for the seat held by retiring Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), the whiskers themselves are making news.
Hoeven has had the same moustache since before he was married 27 years ago, the Fargo Forum reports today in an 833-word article dedicated to his soup-strainer.
Why is that a problem? Well, because no elected member of the upper chamber has one. Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) sports a narrow moustache, but he was appointed, not elected. Take a look at the rest of the Senate: Clean-shaven, the lot of them!
But Hoeven, whose sky-high approval ratings are the envy of politicians everywhere, may not be fazed by the stigma of facial hair. And, First Lady Mikey Hoeven told the paper, it doesn't look like he'll be entering the upper chamber clean-shaven if he wins election.
"He's pretty attached to it," Mikey Hoeven said of her husband and his look. "And obviously the mustache is very attached to him." |
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