Kevin Donahue was born into an influential Texas family who had made their immense fortune from oil. After taking mediocre level classes in high school with even more mediocre grades, he attended Yale University with the aid of a few dollars from his father's bank account. Even though he hardly spent any time studying, he got the highest grades in his classes because the more money that a person has, the higher grades they will get. Kevin finished his education by attending law school, where he got his law degree which is not very hard to do anymore because just about every hobo off the street has a law degree now. It even came out that Ralph Nader went to college and passed the bar examination.

Kevin had no idea what he wanted to do after graduating, but luckily his father set him up with a great job as an assistant to the junior Senator from Texas, John Mulberry. Although this job was exhausting for Kevin because of the Herculean amounts of coffee and sandwiches he had to make, he found that it was a good springboard for his political career. By being the "best" he could be and by kissing up to a great many senior senators, Kevin moved up in the social arena until he was very high up in the circus that we call politics today.

A few heart attacks later and after a couple of votes by the people and Kevin Donahue was the new Senator from Texas. Kevin found that his new position was the most stressful position he had ever been in. He was dead tired at the end of all of his four day weeks and sometimes he even had to pass laws. Kevin's family was outraged when they realized that he only got the entire summer off for vacation as well as several weeks for most major holidays. They were concerned that he would have no way to visit all of the family condos around the world in their fleet of cruise ships. In addition, Kevin barely got paid enough to buy two of his own private jets, and it just looks silly if you only have two jets and not a whole fleet of them to whisk you around the word.

Despite these atrocities and many more, Kevin was able to keep his job for 48 more years until he collapsed on the Senate floor of a stroke. The doctors said that the cause of his stroke was being overworked, and that he didn't have enough leisure time. Although he died, Kevin paved the way for more rights for Senators which allowed them to be freed from the horrible conditions that they were living in before.

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