Kids of Vice Presidents: Then and Now

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How about that other Quayle kid? Glad you asked. Ben Quayle, just 12 when dad took the number 2 job, is now a 35-year-old congressman with a lot of enemies. After attending Duke and Vanderbilt Law School, he moonlighted as a contributor to the rumor-mongering, NSFW website TheDirty.com. His pen name at the time: Brock Landers. 2012 was a bad year for Ben. In August, he hired two kids to join him on a campaign flyer, ... more 

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How about that other Quayle kid? Glad you asked. Ben Quayle, just 12 when dad took the number 2 job, is now a 35-year-old congressman with a lot of enemies. After attending Duke and Vanderbilt Law School, he moonlighted as a contributor to the rumor-mongering, NSFW website TheDirty.com. His pen name at the time: Brock Landers. 2012 was a bad year for Ben. In August, he hired two kids to join him on a campaign flyer, supposedly depicting his family life. Voters caught on. A few weeks later, he lost the congressional election. Looks like his kids—real or fake—won't make it to the White House anytime soon. less