HERE IS HIS FENCE!
HERE IS HIS FENCE!
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Across the road from the entrance to the Edwards estate is Big Valley Auto Repair, a modest garage crowded with cars.
There is a sign painted on the fence: “Go Rudy Giuliani 2008,” a reference to the former New York City mayor who is expected to seek the Republican nomination for president.
Monty Johnson, owner of the garage site and one of Edwards’ closest neighbors, is no Edwards fan. Johnson has left standing an abandoned house facing the entrance to the Edwards property.
“He claims to be for the poor people,” said Johnson, 55, a farmer and retired landscaper. “He don’t care about us. I see him jogging. He doesn’t pull over and say, `How are you doing?’ “
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."