Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) was very clear about one thing in her new book: she didn’t like living in Arlington, Virginia.
The junior senator from New York, in her new book “Off The Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change The World” describes how living across the Potomac River didn’t quite fit with her family. She details how her husband hated living in Washington when they were there and said Arlington was a “soulless suburb.”
Here’s the excerpt from the book:
We started having the same argument over and over. I’d say, “What’s wrong?”
Jonathan would say, “I have no job and I hate D.C.”
I appreciated Jonathan’s viewpoint. We lived in a soulless suburb. It wasn’t the right place for us, and we needed a change. I could see that, but it took me at least a year to figure out that racing 100 miles an hour to do my job well was leaving no time for us…Eventually we moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Capitol Hill, and Jonathan found a job he liked.
Most of the attention about Gillibrand’s new book has been on her description of fellow lawmakers made inappropriate comments about her weight. She was pressed by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski on why she refused to name the lawmakers during an appearance on Morning Joe on Tuesday.
In a tweet later on in the day Gillibrand said she was sorry for dissing Arlington.
Sorry, Arlington, didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. #OffTheSidelines
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) September 9, 2014
(H/t: arlnow.com)
This post was updated.
