Jeb Bush, the Paleo Diet and the Drag Queen: A Campaign Story
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush eats lunch with Zeus and Dana Rodriguez, the winners of his political action committee's "Lunch with Jeb" competition.
Photographer: Phil Mattingly/Bloomberg PoliticsHe doesn't follow politics that closely, that much he admits. But when the waiter at Burger & Beer Joint in South Beach was told to study up on Paleo diet options on Saturday night, he had a pretty good idea who was coming into the restaurant for lunch the next day. "I don't live under a rock," he told a few reporters waiting outside the sports bar as Jeb Bush continued to put his now well-documented diet to the test.
Indeed, he doesn't. A few mentions on Twitter of Tommy Strangie and the feedback was immediate. He's actually a fairly well known drag queen—also known as Shelly Novack—who has been performing in Miami and Los Angeles for more than 20 years. He says he's met everyone from George Harrison to Madonna.