Both Gaetz and Carlson are low-performing daddy's boys whose entire existence has been bankrolled by others - Gaetz's dad bought into a hospice care organization that was basically sued out of existence and Carlson's dad married into the Swanson fortune (after Tucker's mom left him for being a virulent homophobic muckraker asshole). Mother Jones did a great profile on Matt Gaetz.The meanest member of Congress hails from a town called Niceville, a sleepy enclave of about 15,000 nestled on ChoctawÂhatchee Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico. When Gaetz was growing up, it was 90 percent white, solidly middle class, and best known for hosting the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival—in honor of the plentiful local fish, not the hairdo. The Gaetzes owned a second home, in the nearby town of Seaside, where The Truman Show was filmed. Gaetz, who has devoted his career to getting on television, spent much of his childhood in a house made famous by a character trying to get off TV.