Posted on 03/27/2012 8:07:46 PM PDT by BobL
SAN DIEGO — At Mitt Romney’s proposed California beach house, the cars will have their own separate elevator.
There’s also a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square foot basement — a room with more floor space than the existing home’s entire living quarters.
Those are just some of the amenities planned for the massive renovation of the Romneys’ home in the tony La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, according to plans on file with the city.
A project this ambitious comes with another feature you don’t always find with the typical fixer-upper: its own lobbyist, hired by Romney to push the plan through the approval process.
Work on the project has not yet begun.
But it may not help Romney — whose wealth has caused him trouble connecting with average folks — to be seen building a split-level, four-vehicle garage that comes with a “car lift” to transport automobiles between floors, according to 2008 schematic plans for the renovation obtained by POLITICO that are on file with the city of San Diego.
The documents were provided to POLITICO by a rival campaign, but authenticated independently by POLITICO with San Diego officials.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74518.html#ixzz1qNOg5wgk
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“Gore had no chance of winning WV. I could have told the Bush campaign that after seeing two petitions in as many convenience stores. Likewise Charleton Heston wasted his time coming to WV.”
My point is about stupidity when you’re running for high office. In the case of Bush doing his victory lap in Texas, I could write a headline and a few lines of text that would have cost him the race. Behold:
Headline: “Governor Bush Heads Back to Texas, Certain that He’ll Win the Election”
“Governor Bush, confident of victory on Tuesday, spend last weekend in Texas thanking his supporters. With most polls showing him with a slight lead in the popular vote, the governor saw no need to continue his campaigning. Meanwhile, Vice President Gore continued his full-throttle campaign throughout the country, not ready at all to concede defeat...”
In CA people are spending a lot of money on old houses just to have the lot. Then they need to maximize the house on it by have basements and even elevators for cars. The price of the lot is one thing..just finding one is another. Then the approval process takes months..maybe years. So you must plan ahead. I assume that Mitt is intending this for a secondary home to be used by his kids and grandkids for a generation.
And maybe a Western WH. He will be lucky to see it finished 36 months from now. I wish I had his money, but it is his money. Obama got his big house in Chicago with the help of a friend who is now in jail for corruption. Which is better?
In CA people are spending a lot of money on old houses just to have the lot. Then they need to maximize the house on it by have basements and even elevators for cars. The price of the lot is one thing..just finding one is another. Then the approval process takes months..maybe years. So you must plan ahead. I assume that Mitt is intending this for a secondary home to be used by his kids and grandkids for a generation.
And maybe a Western WH. He will be lucky to see it finished 36 months from now. I wish I had his money, but it is his money. Obama got his big house in Chicago with the help of a friend who is now in jail for corruption. Which is better?
Try to look at it this way: he's putting Americans to work... home builders, roofers, landscapers, artisans, craftsman using his own money.
“Try to look at it this way: he’s putting Americans to work... home builders, roofers, landscapers, artisans, craftsman using his own money. “
I’m cool with him spending his money, it’s just the timing. He’s already getting nailed by hiring a so-called “lobbyist” (i.e., a permit expediter), which is probably done by just about everyone else in that situation. He just doesn’t need that this campaign season.
I think it is just fine if he is building/remodeling a house in La Jolla NOW. If he is elected, then he would have a western “white house” like Nixon did in San Clemente. I’m sure all the extras would be to accommodate for his LARGE family as well as Secret Service. At least he has the money to build his own place, which would make it a lot cheaper for the taxpayers when he went there. Much better than the Obama’s opulent vacations together and apart.
I do not begrudge him or any other wealthy person who has made their money by working for it. I don’t even care about people who have inherited money who have made it grow. I pity those fools, many of them sports stars or film stars, who have made a ton of money and pissed it away.
The lobbyist would be necessary to get the thing built before the election. So what? It wouldn’t be the first time a business or individual has done that very thing.
Good for Romney!
My support was Sarah, but she never got in. Briefly it was Michelle, then Cain and then Newt. I toyed with supporting Rick but by the time my state (Illinois) had its primary I voted for Newt.
People on the left are going to criticize anyone with money for having money. We would be better off debating reactions to Obama’s communist tendencies and his support of the Muslim Brotherhood at any turn, and his embracing of the Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the system. I think it is nothing but self-destructive for us to focus on the kinds of houses that the candidates live in. I never saw this country so filled with class envy (I was born in the 1950s) and I am sickened to see similar criticism emanating from supposed conservatives such as yourself.
I would recommend he get four elevators - one for each car! (And maybe an extra one in case guests stop by)
I was just trying to poke a funny jab (unsuccessfully) at the Politico writer for being a drama queen.
Thanks for explaining the complications in the building approval process in CA, we don't run into that here often in the Midwest so I was unfimiliar
Why doesn’t Romney just retire to his house, and leave republicans alone? Triple for conservatives.
I saw one of Diane Feinsteins home in Sf and it was beautiful and I have also seen Al Gores home which is fabulous and then there is Oprah’s many homes how about Jon BonJovi’s house or John Kerry who served in Vietnams home face it rich people have nice homes and if I were rich so would I. As if George Soros lives in a shack
The Republican Platform in one inequality.
My daughter and son-in-law just did the same thing in MA. They bought an old, rundown house on a great piece of properly and tore it down. They put up a beautiful 4,000 square foot beauty and certainly improved the look of the neighborhood.
I bet they could give a few good ideas as to where exactly the money should go, and what size the garage should be, and perhaps what color the walls, and which way it should face?
Maybe some here could post, for the benefit of others, the correct timetables when designing and building a home?, Or perhaps, the correct number, or the square foot size of each?
I certainly could use a list as to what political office I could aspire to based on my income, and when I chose to spend it, and on what, specifically.
My retirement home will have two bedrooms and a 15-car garage.
TWO bedrooms?
This is yet one more reason why he won’t win the general election if he hijacks the GOP nomination.
You know what else? A damn car elevator is frigging cool as hell, Gotta love a guy that appreciates a good car elevator.
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