We need to stop the spin about Paul Ryan's supposed "blue collar background"

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3. Thanks! I was glad to find that background on Ryan.

I'm still not sure where the idea that he has a "blue collar background" originated, but I heard it more than once while watching the news late last night, and googling it today turned up a lot of results showing that misleading description of him.

I did run across another article today, based on an interview with the Democrat who ran against him in his first race in 1998, that mentioned he tried to counter the accurate description of him even then as a Washington insider (a staffer) by shooting ads where he was wearing a hard hat at a construction site, pretending to be doing something with building plans. I don't know whether Ryan or anyone on his campaign staff then ever used the words "blue collar background" to describe him, though.