Posted on 07/04/2010 3:20:50 PM PDT by Leisler
DETROIT—The childhood home of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in northwestern Detroit was torn down Tuesday as part of an effort to level thousands of vacant properties in the city.
Wrecking crews leveled 1860 Balmoral Drive, the boyhood home of Mr. Romney, following the removal of several large trees that had delayed the home's demolition for weeks.......following years of complaints from neighbors, Wayne County declared it "a public nuisance and blight"...
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Mitt's dad, George Romney was apponinted( being a production genius ) the head of HUD ( Housing and Urban Development ) by Nixon. 1969-73.
HUD has been great, eh? Right? Bueller? Anyone?
An apt description of Slick Willard.
“a public nuisance and blight”
The childhood home...or Romney?
Great minds, etc.
I looked at the street level view of the house in Google Maps and the neighborhood did not seem that bad. Is it really as bad as they say it is?
*snicker*
HUD is one of the worst money toilets out there in my opinion.
One of HUD’s local successes is an art colony for low income artists. (Lazy bastards with crayons) They recently got stimulated to build a river arts walk so the homeless people would have something nice to look at on the way back to home sweet box at night.
Tearing down the building is only step one, however. Assuming the old gypsy legends are correct, the ground itself still needs to be liberally salted. ;)
Vacant eh? The article said vacant. hehehe
“The childhood home of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in northwestern Detroit was torn down Tuesday as part of an effort to level thousands of vacant properties in the city. “
Wow. Talk about irony.
His Presidential ambitions were torn down in an effort to rid the Republican Party of vacant RINOs...
Amazing.
Hopefully it will be an imitation of his 2012 Presidential Campaign.
My understanding is that all of Detroit is pretty much like the city in "I Am Legend."
I guess no one’s expecting it to be the boyhood home of a president.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
It’s been 47 years since the Romney family sold the home.
I wonder if any Democrats have owned it since then?
I still can’t believe they’re tearing down such a historic property. After all, this is the same house where a young Slick Willard played Twister and ate flapjacks with Martin Luther King, Jr., Emperor Hirohito and Rick James.
This is digusting. Why couldn’t Romney save this property? Totally disgusting.
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