Ben_Quayle


You might look at the photo above and think, Oh, no—not another generation of Quayles.

The photo is from a campaign mailer in Ben Quayle’s bid for the GOP nomination for John Shadegg’s congressional seat—one of two his campaign has sent out that shows him with the young girls.

Turns out that Quayle, the son of former vice president Dan Quayle, doesn’t have kids.

That despite the fact that he’s certainly acting like their father, the hedline blares “A NEW GENERATION,” and the copy below includes the line, “[Wife] Tiffany and I live in this district and are going to raise our family here.”

A Quayle spokesperson told the Arizona Capitol Times, “They’re just terribly cute kids.”

The ACT didn’t follow up and ask whether Quayle, who is 33, couldn’t find some kids his own age to play with.

An Arizona Republic story says that the Quayle website doesn’t mention any children, though it does contain the information that “Ben and Tiffany have a puppy named Louie they rescued from the Wickenburg Humane Society.”

In the ACT story, the campaign spokesperson, Damon Moley, gets a little defiant:

“We are presenting Ben as a pro-family candidate because he is a pro-family candidate,” Moley said. “We are presenting him as a traditional-values candidate because he is a traditional values candidate.”

He’s pro-family—but doesn’t happen to have one. And he’s into traditional values: Like misrepresentation and pandering.

A Politico story on the mailer says that Quayle has raised more than $1 million thus far.