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Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/12/2009 9:20:13 PM

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      Hardly the worst offense we've ever seen from a US Representative, but this made me chuckle.

      John Bailey thought it was great when his neighbor was elected to the House of Representatives in 2007.

"Not everyone lives next door to a congresswoman," he said.
But two years later, he doesn't feel so lucky. The congresswoman's house is abandoned and in disrepair, "a blight on the neighborhood," Bailey said.

He thinks the way that Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) has treated her Sacramento home tells far more about her than her voting record.

"I wouldn't want anyone that irresponsible to represent me," said Bailey, like Richardson a liberal Democrat. "What I don't get is how she has the time to visit with Fidel Castro but doesn't have time for her own house. If you can't manage your own household, you probably shouldn't get involved in international affairs."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-richardson12-2009jun12,0,709616,full.story

          Personally, I love the bit where a neighbor emailed her, and got a reply that he didn't live in the right district.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/12/2009 10:02:01 PM

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Oh, thought this was going to be about government control of Bikini Waxing.

Never mind.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/12/2009 10:25:16 PM

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Oh, thought this was going to be about government control of Bikini Waxing.

Never mind.

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I had a similar angle: some paparazzi sneak-shot catching an unexpectedly ungroomed area.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 4:24:05 AM

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Oh, thought this was going to be about government control of Bikini Waxing.

Never mind.

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*snort*

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 4:29:47 AM

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i'm still looking for the pics where the house is in disrepair....methinks the neighborhood association might be a little "Stepford" in it's expectations.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 5:06:58 AM

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i'm still looking for the pics where the house is in disrepair....methinks the neighborhood association might be a little "Stepford" in it's expectations.

i thought so too Tulip, but the article said the neighbors were caring for the lawn themselves...and the tall grass had been harboring rats *shudder*

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 6:44:54 AM

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i'm still looking for the pics where the house is in disrepair....methinks the neighborhood association might be a little "Stepford" in it's expectations.

i thought so too Tulip, but the article said the neighbors were caring for the lawn themselves...and the tall grass had been harboring rats *shudder*

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 7:31:46 AM

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Dammit, rats and the greater Sacramento area...it sounds like a thread resurgence

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 7:50:11 AM

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*spews coffee*

Oh thanks a bloomin' heap!

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 8:20:09 AM

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'Course, now that the grass is cut, the rats are simply gone?

Methinks the neighbors need metal trash cans and a dose of reality.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 8:21:04 AM

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Oh god,

PLEASE, please, please....let's leave the rats in California...though so many have migrated to DC...

I thought "oh jeezus, not Pelosi's bush...." I just about gagged

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/13/2009 9:15:53 AM

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"Richardson bought the house in early 2007 for $535,000. She already owned two other houses that she had defaulted on six times.

The house went into foreclosure last year and was sold to real estate investor James York for $388,000 in May. Washington Mutual took back the house and returned it to Richardson. York sued. The case was settled privately."

Sounds like fine representative material to me.

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/14/2009 11:57:15 AM

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She owns the house in Sacremento, but her district is in Long Beach? Umm, I don't know California that well, but aren't these areas just a bit apart. Maybe she is just another permanent resident of DC

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RE: Congresswoman, mow your lawn! - 6/14/2009 12:03:04 PM

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I believe she bought the Sacramento place while she was in the state legislature. As I read the first article, she didn't bother caring for the place when she lived in it, either.

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