My jaw dropped when I read that 66-year old Maureen O’Connor, former mayor of San Diego in California, blew a billion dollars over a 9-year period in gambling. How do you lose that kind of money? Well, I'm sure that she had particularly unlucky days, but she would need to lose over $300,000 daily if she were to gamble 365 days a year for nine years. Trust me, that is a lot of time in casinos. Luckily, it was her money, but she lost it to a point that even her home has a mortgage now that she might not be able to pay. The only reason that this is news is because she stole a meager $2 million from her ex-husband's charity and being charged with a crime. I wish there were a more sophisticated explanation for her partying, but she blames it on a brain tumor.
My Life In Bits And Pieces in Massachusetts.