Posted on 06/06/2013 8:25:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Back in April, we notified the public that the insanely rich town of Atherton was attempting to bill President Obama for his visit to the small Peninsula town, where the median home price is $4,010,200.
Presumably, the White House told Atherton where they could shove their bill, because now the town is reportedly hitting up the two homeowners who hosted the President's April fundraiser that cost the town some $8,000 in security and cleanup. The city is going as far as threatening to slap a lien on the two properties unless the owners pay up.
"If the town incurs a cost that rightly should belong to somebody else, we're going to pursue that," Atherton Town Manager George Rodericks told KPIX 5.
On April 4, President Obama attended a morning brunch hosted by Liz Simons and Mark Heising, then a luncheon at the home of Marcia and John Goldman. Those stops were to benefit the Democratic National Committee -- and that they did. The fundraisers raked in more than $3 million for Democrats.
The town, which is home to Google guru Erick Schmidt, was pissy over the amount of cash spent to accommodate the event and was ballsy enough to send invoices to the White House, the Democratic National Committee, the Secret Service and both homeowners.
So far, the town has not received a cent, according to CBS.
"If we were to hold, say, a wedding here, and have to close off streets, we would expect the people that were hosting the wedding to pay it and I think the taxpayers would also ask for that," Councilman Bill Widmer lamented to the press.
If the homeowners don't reimburse the town the $8K, then Atherton city leaders could (and probably would) process a lien against their property and collect the cash via property tax, Rodericks, said.
Rodericks noted that Atherton is not Obama's personal ATM.
No, that'd be San Francisco, where police racked up more than $60,000 in overtime in April for the president's visit. Oakland reportedly ended up with a $300,000 bill last year when Obama made his one-time stop to the O-Town.
Meanwhile, the city of Palo Alto, which is also insanely wealthy, is awaiting Obama's presence today for private fundraiser, but says it has no plans to hit up the White House for reimbursement.
For what it's worth, Atherton's Mayor Elizabeth Lewis is a registered Republican.
????And what did it cost the nation’s taxpayers to have Zer0 and the entire advance team, as well as his entourage to travel to Kalifornia so he could suck another $3mil from the libs?????
Do you know her?
obama doesn’t clean up after himself, silly he has others for that
They had a private party that cost the city. Why shouldn’t they reimburse the city?
If they invited the Sh*t they should pay for the shovel.
Palo alto and its suburbs are a major center of considerable wealth. Atherton has lots of old money. Plus new of course. Woodside used to be largely social outcasts but theyve mostly been driven out excelt the rich ones of course. Hard to say which town is richer. But they’re all doing very well indeed thank you. You’d not turn down a free house in the city of
Palo alto or any of its little neighbor townlets. (And you don’t see Dear Leader visiting any poor inner city ghettos do ya? Nope. It’s always where the money is. Palo alto or Beverly Hills or similar wealthy enclaves in our increasingly poorer country. Sensible. If you’re after money the go where the money is. Willie Sutton comes to mind.
“What next? Stiff the caterer?”
That’s an old story. The Messiah wants to be original, donchaknow. Stiffing the caterer is a Klintonian specialty.
I think he’d stiff whatever was around.....
Exactly. This is just another hit piece. Obama is not a king, let him pay for his extravagances, not the homeowners in the towns he visits.
Personally, no...
average used house prices....april 2013
PALO ALTO (the main town in the center of the rest of those listed below).... $1,800,000 you get 3 bedroom post-WW2 army returnee tract house of about 1500 sq feet on a 60x100 ft lot, plus or minus.
SUBURBS or neighboring smaller towns:
Atherton (the original wealth center, now has new money too)... $2,154,000 (but it was $4.250,000 last year and prices haven’t gone down in that time, so the difference is just random draw which places were on the market is all ...)
Portola Valley (presumably this data includes Woodside based on Ws not being separately reported and this figure seems on the high side for PV by itself)...$3.930,000 (same comment in reverse from Atherton comment above, since previous year’s random draw gave a figure of just $1.960,000 — must have been a veritable shack, eh?)
Los Altos... $2.069.000. Menlo Park... $1.365,000.
Average figures. Some higher, some lower (but not by a lot).
A number of places reach $10,000,000 or higher.
One I know of went for $150,000,000 but that was exceptional.
Conclusion: much of the world’s wealth has been buying into this little area, indeed 75% of resales are reported by the leading broker to be to immigrants mostly from Communist China, many for all-cash. This bids up prices a lot.
Which town has the greatest wealth is hard to say, however. If you have a few million dineros in spare change to buy a used shack, you can pretty much take your pick and you’ll be happily enscounced amidst great plenty no matter which you select.
Except that Dear Leader keeps coming for fund-raisers and ties up all the traffic for ya, of course....
Enjoy!
Insanely wealthy = anyone with private sector money who votes Democrat
GREAT MAYOR!!! She’s watching for TAXPAYERS MONEY!!
bttt
good that the rich libtards are going to be forced to pay for their love of Obama
I’ll NEVER have to worry about that peckerwood coming to my neighborhood, so it’s all good. On the other hand, these liberal elitist idiots (76- 80% more than likely) voted for the King...let them deal with His Majesty.
That would be a good way to do it. Assess the expected cost in advance, and if the bill is not paid in advance (and the check cleared), then the visit gets no assistance from the town. No street closings, no cops, nothing.
Of course, a Dem administration would have a thousand direct and indirect ways to retaliate against the town and its politicians.
One more, one more...
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Tomorrow’s report.
Black man exited suburban in Atherton residential area in custory of secret service.
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