Ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has long told a story about owning a deli in his hometown of Bakersfield. Is it true? Bakersfield residents weigh in.
From George Washington’s alleged inability to tell a lie about cutting down his father’s cherry tree to Donald Trump’s tally of more than 30,000 false or misleading statements over his four years as president, the perception of politicians in America has rightfully slid into skepticism as a starting point. And skeptical could be the word to describe the mood in Bakersfield, which over the past week has seen an unprecedented series of events befall one of its local products: Kevin McCarthy.
” “The truth is, Kevin McCarthy has been a federal or state government employee for his entire adult life beginning with working in Rep. Bill Thomas’s district office from 1987 to 2002,” Washington Post reader Michelle Pettigrew wrote. Along with her comments to the Post, Pettigrew included a 1986 review of Kevin O’s by long-tenured Bakersfield Californian food critic Pete Tittl. Tittl’s Feb. 21, 1986, review said Kevin O’s “is located in a corner of McCarthy’s Yogurt.
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