Posted on 08/27/2023 8:22:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Vice President Kamala Harris greeted supporters on Martha’s Vineyard Saturday on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign.
Her arrival at the idyllic, high-priced Massachusetts resort was touted as a "grassroots reception."
However, access to the VP, on an island in which 75% of voters pulled a lever for the Democrat ticket in 2020, cost as much as $10,000.
"I guarantee you not one working-class Democrat (was) invited to the Kamala event," long-time Martha’s Vineyard homeowner, high-profile attorney and longtime Democrat supporter Alan Dershowitz told Fox News Digital.
The big-ticket appearance underscored growing concerns, according to many long-time island residents, on an island overrun in recent years by powerful leftist elites who rule Washington D.C., and shape pop culture.
Martha’s Vineyard as a result, they say, is now unaffordable for the average person, increasingly hostile to both working-class residents and its Native Wampanoag population, and ruthlessly intolerant of opinions that run counter to hard-woke Democrat talking points.
"Martha’s Vineyard has been socially engineered for the elite of the Democrat National Party," Jim Powell, a longtime Martha’s Vineyard teacher and union rep, told Fox News Digital.
Former President Obama and Michelle Obama purchased a $12 million estate on the island in 2019 after vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard several times while in the White House.
**SNIP**
He said Martha's Vineyard has become a "tax shelter" for Democrat leaders.
The wealthy and powerful are enchanted by the largely rural island's tranquil pace, stunning waterfront properties and one of the nation's most favorable local tax environments.
The fiscal year 2022 tax rate in Edgartown was just 0.3%, according to local data. The tax rate in Chilmark is just 0.28%.
So wealthy Chilmark homeowners pay just $2,820 on each $1 million in assessed value. Each rate is among the lowest in the United States.
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I don’t blame them for fleeing Commielaw!
Rich Men South of Boston
Kamala Harris hosts ‘grassroots’ fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard.
Looks like Martha’s Vineyard is one of those isolated happy farms.
Can’t be to safe they won’t even allow illegals there.
Bttt
“Martha’s Vineyard as a result, they say, is now unaffordable for the average person”
If it was affordable to the average person many people from Gary, IN and Buffalo, NY would move there.
People could commute from New Bedford if ferry service was available.
From Rye, NY to Grand Central takes about 47 minutes by train.
From Greenwich, CT to Grand Central takes about 55 minutes by train.
https://new.mta.info/document/118941
From Winnetka, IL to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago takes about 35 minutes by train.
From Lake Forest, IL to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago takes about 54 minutes by train.
https://chicagolndtransit.org/metra/route/UP-N/schedule
I don’t want to get taxed out of my home because rich people don’t want to mow their own lawns.
If rich people want household help, let them pay higher wages or property surtaxes.
One thing that De Santis did right was sending a plane load of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vinyard. Of course they were only there less than 24 hours but it did make national news.
As soon as my neighbor Alan graduated decades ago, he and his wife were told to move out and to buy a house by their landlord.
By 1929 the Vanderbilts could no longer afford to pay NYC taxes on their W. 57th Street mansion.
Fetterman’s highly affordable Braddock, PA is about four miles from the wealthy areas of Pittsburgh.
People were signing up for the fundraiser until they heard Kameltoe was coming and and over half cancelled their reservations.
Was Big Mike and her bitch at the fundraiser? If not that’s a big tell.
Dershowitz is unquestionably highly intelligent. His failure to address obvious cognitive dissonance suggests character flaw.
Similar to Bill Maher, it is truly impossible to understand.
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