Reply #40: Euan Blair gets job in US as an intern (Tony Blair's Boy)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Prime minister's eldest son to spend three months in Washington after university working for Republican congressman

Michael White, political editor
Monday June 27, 2005
The Guardian

Euan Blair will be spending three months in Washington working as an unpaid intern for a powerful Republican congressman this summer. But he is also hoping to work for a Democrat as well, Downing Street confirmed yesterday.

The prime minister's eldest son, who is about to graduate from Bristol University, will work for Congressman David Dreier, chairman of the House rules committee as part of preparation for what he hopes will be an MBA course at Harvard, possibly after a gap year.

Mr Dreier, 53 next week, has represented California in Congress since he was 28 and has been attacked from both left and right for supporting tax cuts and not being tough enough on illegal immigration. Gay groups accused him of being anti-gay, even though other opponents demanded that he "out" himself.

Before the 2003 Iraq war Mr Dreier was quoted as saying that the US would not be fighting alone, in part thanks to "a great speech by Tony Blair", a man who had been elected "out of the mould of Bill Clinton and yet has become a great ally of George Bush".

More: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1515389,00.html

Bush pays his bills.