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Saturday, March 18, 2006

I’ve Never Had Anything
Handed to Me in My Life.
(Except Full Tuition)


'Gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos, who recently came under fire from his own sister for calling himself a self-made man, is now taking back a statement he made on his Web site that he paid his own way through college.


The official bio on Mihos’s campaign Web site, www.christy2006.com originally contained the following sentence about the Stonehill College grad: “Christy paid his way through college by playing the saxophone, bass guitar, clarinet, and bouzouki (a long-necked mandolin) at Greek weddings.”


But sometime this month, the online bio for Mihos, a millionaire convenience store magnate who recently launched his official bid for the Corner Office as an independent,was amended, and the sentence was taken out.


Yesterday, Mihos told the Herald the sentence was axed because it is not true.


“Like many college students, my parents paid my tuition, and I am eternally grateful for it,” Mihos told the Herald. “I did have some part-time jobs while at school, and that’s where I got some of my spending money.”


Last month, Mihos’ sister Marlene Mihos Bucuvalas contacted the Herald to blast Mihos after reading her brother’s quote: “I’ve never had anything handed to me in my life.”


“We were all given things,” Mihos Bucuvalas said, adding that their father, Peter Mihos, gave his three children proceeds from real estate sales and gifted ownership of Christy’s Markets to his two sons. “My parents did so much for us.”'



From bostonherald.com