It sounds like North Carolina Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler’s kids were named by Barbara Seagull (nee Hershey) or Frank Zappa, not a “conservative” Democrat from the N.C. mountains:
“My son, Navy, is 9, so he doesn’t think I can win, because he’s heard me having these conversations,” the two-term conservative Democrat from North Carolina told me Tuesday afternoon, on the eve of Wednesday’s leadership contest in the party caucus. “But my little girl”—6-year-old Island—“she thinks Daddy can always win. That’s always good to know.”
