I was reading a [blog entry](http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2006/08/ladies-and-gentleman-duke-cunningham.html) with quotes from [an TNR article about Nancy Cunningham](http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060828&s=kelley082806&c=2), the wife of disgraced Congressman Duke Cunningham, when I read the following quote.
> Nancy showed little interest in defending her husband’s behavior, which, she said,
> was an embarrassment to her and her girls. “When I was going to retire and
> become director of the Rhoades School, I made him promise to stop gay-bashing in
> public, because it might upset parents at that private school,” she said.
I thought it was interesting because the [Rhoades School](http://www.rhoadesschool.com/) was my elementary school. It is a private school for gifted kids. Not that I have any connection with the school beyond some memories. I am not even sure I was there at the same time as the current director, Luanne Kittle, who has been there for 18 years. And they moved to a new location across Encinitas Blvd a few years after I graduated.
I was have been somewhat interested in the Duke Cunningham scandal because he was my local representative back home in San Diego. We were a liberal family in a mostly conserative area and my parents have been very happy about his downfall. What I didn’t realize is that the house he sold to a defense contractor for an inflated price was in Del Mar Heights. It is only a few blocks from my parents house. I doubt we ever drove past it since it was off Del Mar Heights Rd in the other direction.