She is, but it runs in the family.
Too bad. I had her old man as a philosophy teacher at Santa Ana College in the Fall of 1963. Even though he was a wacko, he was an excellent teacher.
The affair and refusing to take care of the children were bad, but the Wiki article makes it out as though his “extreme right wing sympathies” were a problem. Hell, sounds to me like that was the only thing he had going for him.
The old man (Schmitz) ran on the American Independent Party ticket in 1972 after George Wallace was shot. Schmitz was a solid conservative and was the first candidate I was eligible to vote for—preferable to Nixon and certainly to McGovern.