Candidates' Home Sweet Homes
Our LATimes.com colleague Peter Viles over at the L.A. Land blog on real estate has an interesting item up now on the homes of the current crop of presidential candidates. What the heck are they doing away from these palatial places?
Not that any of these candidates are at home that much these days. They're out on the road staying at Marriotts spending other people's money trying to gather our votes. But the item and pictures do provide revealing windows into the presidential wannabes' private lives that we don't see too much. And that's no accident.
There's a photo of Mitt Romney's $3-million New Hampshire "cottage," and the candidate with the most expensive home and haircut, John Edwards. The former senator and trial lawyer didn't want to be too showoffish, so he kept the $5.4-million structure to just 21,000 square feet of living space.
That's almost a half-acre indoors.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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Wow...
For once I'm speechless.
Posted by: Winston | January 16, 2008 at 08:07 PM