Here's How Much 2020 Presidential Candidate Amy Klobuchar Is Worth

[TomCADem]

This is interesting. Amy Klobuchar has less money than Bernie Sanders.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/09/12/heres-how-much-2020-presidential-candidate-amy-klobuchar-is-worth/#743f5a787840

When Amy Klobuchar went to Yale in the late 1970s, her father told her she needed to keep her spending to a minimum. Rather than pay to travel home to Minnesota, she often spent holiday breaks on campus. She earned extra money participating as a paid subject in scientific studies. One summer she worked on a construction crew with the Minnesota Highway Department. “No sign-holding for me—I pounded surveying stakes into the ground with an eight-pound maul,” she wrote in her 2015 book The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland.

Today that lesson from her dad appears to have put Klobuchar, 59, and her husband, John Bessler, 51, into a comfortable financial position. Forbes estimates the couple shares a $2 million net worth. Their assets include their Minneapolis home worth about $350,000, retirement accounts and mutual funds worth at least $850,000 and a federal pension worth $560,000—the result of over 12 years of Senate service.

Born in suburban Minneapolis, Klobuchar grew up as the daughter of a teacher and a local newspaper reporter. Her parents divorced when she was in high school, leaving their family in a “shaky” financial situation, Klobuchar wrote in her memoir. The valedictorian of her high school, she got into Yale, but her family didn’t quite qualify for financial aid. They were “caught in the middle-class crunch,” Klobuchar wrote. Her father agreed to pay for part of her school while she took out loans to cover the rest.

Klobuchar graduated in 1982, then headed to the University of Chicago for law school. She earned her second degree in 1985, then started her career in the private sector at a Minneapolis law firm. She made partner at the firm in 1992, married fellow attorney John Bessler in 1993 and gave birth to a daughter, Abigail, in 1995. In 1998, she ran and won the seat as the Hennepin county attorney and served in that job until 2006. That’s when she ran for a Senate seat and won. Klobuchar has held the position ever since.

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Thanks Tom! She's a smart woman of character.

With just the right amount of net worth so as not to detract from her preeminent likability.

[squirecam]

2. Steyer has money

But I find his background and charitable activities make him likable too.