She's biracial. Black father, white mother.
Posted on 07/29/2009 7:14:23 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rep. Richardson's Sacramento home is focus of House ethics probe
U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson bought the house in the tree-lined upper-middle-class Curtis Park neighborhood for $535,000 in early 2007 after she was elected to the Assembly.
She already owned two houses, one in her Long Beach district and the other in San Pedro. She has defaulted six times on both homes.
The Office of Congressional Ethics has interviewed an investor who bought the house in foreclosure last year, as well as neighbors. The city declared the structure a public nuisance.
By Jeff Gottlieb
July 29, 2009
U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson's rundown Sacramento house, which became the scourge of the neighborhood and a sore point with an investor who thought he had bought it out of foreclosure, has drawn the interest of a House ethics panel.
The Office of Congressional Ethics contacted real estate investor James York, who bought Richardson's house at a foreclosure auction last year, only to have Washington Mutual take it back after he had recorded the deed and return the house to the congresswoman.
The office also has interviewed at least two of the Long Beach Democrat's Sacramento neighbors, asking about their efforts -- and their expenses -- to tidy up the front- and backyards of Richardson's two-story house. The city declared the house a public nuisance on one occasion and "blighted" on another.
Leo Wise, staff director and chief counsel of the ethics office, said its policy was to neither confirm nor deny
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Just guessing that she’s black.
Not until 3rd paragraph do they mention she’s a DEMOCRAT!
Exactly what was on my mind too. Today’s reporters are worse that dogs. If I were the editor I’d sack the reporter for discrediting the paper.
nope, she is a “wise Latina”
John and Ken of the John and Ken radio show, grilled Richardson for several days. They got callers to call Richardson’s offices. They interviewed neighbors and even Richardson.
Obvious liberal solution...forgive all the loans and raise her pay. /sarc
She's biracial. Black father, white mother.
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