Posted on 04/10/2007 6:46:10 AM PDT by presidio9
Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home — and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.
Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing workers investigating a right of way off his property. The Edwards family has yet to meet Johnson in person.
"I wouldn't be nice to him anyway," Edwards said in an interview. "I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me."
But Johnson defended the occasion he brandished a gun, saying those on his land didn't have the proper approval.
"I use the gun for protection, and I considered that an appropriate time," Johnson said. "Sometimes you have to take drastic measures."
Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion
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Maybe I should place a bid on the house next to hers.
I assume Mr. Johnson was already there when the Edwards were looking for land in that area and they would have had ample opportunity to see his property in advance. If so, then it appears that Mrs. Edwards has CHOSEN to move into an area and is now taking steps to force out her neighbor that she doesn’t want. Earth to Elizabeth Edwards, “Being a Republican is NOT a crime.”
We have had bunches of people move in on our road who just assumed they would move out here and do as they pleased on their property and on ours as well - and have to some degree - except where they step on our toes, and then my gun owning but not always toting husband has had to confront them.
“the neighbor does sound like a jerk, but it’s not because he’s a republican - he’s just a jerk.”
She should just be glad that I’m not her neighbor.
“I wouldn’t be nice to him anyway,” Edwards said in an interview. “I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me.”
The first place this b!tch would run to if the fit hits the shan, would be this “evil” Republicans house. I hate her and her commie husband!
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We need to check the zoning laws in that area. If there are no restrictions, we can hold a Freepathon, buy the property and turn it in to a tire dump or a shooting range. On weekdays it can be rented out for ultralight aircraft and ATVs. It’ll be great.
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Got it.
She's a twit.
That's it! Republicans, according, to La Edwards must equal the "new" great unknown minority.
Where's her love of diversity?
Will you let me know if he displays the dozen, plastic pink flamingos I plan to send him? (I think I read somewhere that Elizabeth likes the color pink!)
That'd be a huge Freepathon. The property that Big Valley is on, in Orange County, could go for at least a quarter million, probably a lot more if it were cleaned up.
Ix-nay on the ooting range-shay, however. There's a big trailer park behind Big Valley, and other houses all around the property on both sides. Well, maybe an indoor range could be had, with gun-toting, Realtree-wearing rednecks toting all sorts of hardware from their Broncos into the building!
Sounds like a campaign ploy to me.....just look at their layout??!!
HERE IS HIS FENCE!
Looks like Two Americas right there in Edwards' neighborhood.Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.
Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage that he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition.
Johnson said he has lived his entire life on the property, which he said his family purchased before the Great Depression. He said he's spent a lot of money to try and fix up the 42-acre tract.
"I have to budget. I have to leave within my means," Johnson said. "I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place."
Johnson, who has posted a "Go Rudy Giuliani 2008" sign on a fence just 100 feet from the entrance to the Edwards' driveway, has criticized Edwards for the scale of their nearby home. The property and home, which includes an indoor basketball court, an indoor handball court and an indoor pool, is valued at $5.3 million.
"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."
“Caveat emptor” springs to mind.
Publicly criticizing a neighbor you haven’t even met, and you’ve recently moved into the neighborhood yourself...Liz, that’s just tacky.
And so is your house, by the way.
Let me know when Elizabeth Edwards is afraid of calories.
Or is it this?
Big Valley Auto Repair
1118 Old Greensboro Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
He put that sign up before January, when Rudy was the only known name Republican running. And from article I suspect there was trace of maliciousess towards the elitist Democrats in the gesture.
Yes, that is it. Used to be a nice (but WAY overpriced) used furniture store right next to the repair shop, too.
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