GOP Candidate Slammed for Telling Voters to Deal With Gas Prices by Cutting Back on Starbucks
View all posts by Nikki McCann Ramirez August 12, 2026 Michele Tafoya at the Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth, Minn., on Saturday, May 29, 2026. “When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” Australian millionaire Tim Gurner said in a now infamous 2017 60 Minutes segment that became the subject of widespread mockery online. Since then, the gap between prices and wages has only grown wider — particularly for young people.
- ▪View all posts by Nikki McCann Ramirez August 12, 2026 Michele Tafoya at the Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth, Minn., on Saturday, May 29, 2026.
- ▪“When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” Australian millionaire Tim Gurner said in a now infamous 2017 60 Minutes segment that became the subject of widespread mockery on
- ▪Since then, the gap between prices and wages has only grown wider — particularly for young people.
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