Gideon is a person of the people
Many of you have asked: just exactly who is Gideon and what qualifies him to be Governor. Is he a he at all?
At the GfG campaign, we strive to answer all your questions in as accurate a manner as our elderly memories and media advisers allow us to.
So here is a brief bio of Gideon:
I was born in Hannibal, Missouri, on August 30, 1910, and my father died when I was three. I quit school after eighth grade and ran away from home, living as a homeless drifter. By the time I was sixteen, I had begun compiling a petty crime profile.
I spent a year in a reformatory for burglary before finding work at a shoe factory. At age 18, I was arrested in Missouri and charged with robbery, burglary, and larceny. I was sentenced to 10 years but released after three, in 1932, just as the Great Depression was beginning.
I spent most of the next three decades in poverty. I served some more prison terms at Leavenworth, Kansas for stealing government property; in Missouri for stealing, larceny and escape; and in Texas for theft.
Between my jail terms I was married four times. The first one ended quickly, but the fourth to a woman named Ruth Ada Babineaux (in October, 1955) lasted. We settled in Orange, Texas, in the mid-1950s, and I found irregular work as a tugboat laborer and bartender until I was bedridden by tuberculosis for 3 years.
In addition to three children that Ruth already had, we had three children, born in 1956, 1957 and 1959: the first two in Orange, the third after he had moved to Panama City, Florida. The six children later were taken away by welfare authorities. I started working as an electrician in Florida, but began gambling for money because of my low wages. I did not serve any more time in jail until 1961.
The rest is history. Due to my insightful and well written petition for certiorari, Yale Law School gave me an honorary Juris Doctor in 1964 and I soon started the practice of law, becoming the first public defender in Florida. I represented my former brethren in many of their criminal trials, compiling a stellar 200-1 record of courtroom victories. After my appellate lawyer Abe Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court, I started a successful appellate practice and argued several times in front of the Supreme Court itself.
I may or may not be gay. You are free to speculate among yourselves.
On the other hand, I am no Young Boozer. But then again, no one is.
