Posted on 07/24/2007 10:56:57 PM PDT by tlb
Laurie David filed divorce papers citing "irreconcilable differences" with the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" TV comic. But there was speculation her sudden rise to fame from producing the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" had strained the 14-year marriage.
Spies have noticed activity at the Davids' sprawling 76-acre compound in the island's Chilmark neighborhood - which they call "Camp David."
"She creeps over at 11 p.m." to her barn where Thorpe is living, said one resident. Thorpe arrived at Camp David in March after moving out of the home he kept with his wife.
Chilmark residents said it all started when Thorpe and his now-estranged wife began hanging around with the Davids last summer. Thorpe and his father-in-law David Flanders had leased an additional parcel of land to the Davids. At the time, Thorpe was on the Davids' payroll to help develop the property.
The foursome ceased to spend time together when Larry, 59, returned home to Los Angeles at the end of the summer and Laurie stayed on the Vineyard.
By March, Thorpe was out of his home and living in the Davids' barn, said another resident who did not want to be named.
"Thorpe's father-in-law probably wants to take a fire ax to him," said the neighbor. "If it was my daughter that he fooled around on in this tiny community and made a jackass of himself, I'd have him committed."
Meanwhile, Thorpe, a Republican, is lately driving a hybrid car.
"Bart is so besotted he doesn't know which end is up," said a Chilmark resident, who did not want to be named. "He thinks Laurie David is the greatest person in the world. He says: 'She's single-handedly saving the planet.' It's like he's another person. It's sad. He had the greatest wife and a wonderful daughter."
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The Cape hasn’t elected a Republican Congressman since Hastings Keith won his last term in 1970 (it was the 12th district then, the 10th today).
These are the same people who are always telling us how to live our lives. How bout they take a look at their own train wrecks?
Pray for W and Our Troops
I left Chatham six years ago. Never looked back. I met Bill Delahunt once and he didn’t seem like too bad of a guy, but now he has officially slept with enemy (Hugo Chavez). In my area of Chatham, there were definitely more good guys than bad.
Actually, Margaret Heckler’s seat wasn’t gerrymandered out from under her. She and freshman Barney Frank were put in the same seat, and the outgoing then-DINO Governor preferred Frank buy it, as he was too leftist, but Frank turned the tables in a bad GOP year and outside the 16-year incumbent Heckler.
Bleh, I’m dopey. That should read the DINO Gov wanted Frank to get bounced, but Frank did the bouncing of Heckler.
Most of the good folks of MA have been voting with their feet for quite some time now. Although I tend to abhor proportional voting, that would be of enormous help to bolstering the moribund GOP fortunes up there, at least from a legislative standpoint. A nearly 90% rodent legislature is well out-of-whack with the 1/3rd base GOP voting preference.
The history of the Massachusetts 10th Congressional district is interesting. The last Republican Speaker before Newt came from there, Joe Martin, in the early 50's.
It was a 'safe' Republican district and it was assumed that long time State Senate leader John Parker would get it after Joe retired or died. But the 10th was changed to include Wellesley and that gave Peg Heckler an opening to get in and challenge Joe Martin in the Primary and won.
Back in the 50's the Massachusetts Congressional district map roughly conformed to the County map but today the 'rats have gerrymandered it into a jigsaw puzzle.
Amusing, but not surprising. At the core of every liberal you find two things.
A weird self loathing, and massive hypocrisy.
The parts that Joe represented would be in the 4th, albeit barely (at least his hometown of Attleboro is). It’s likely MA will shed another seat in 2012 and drop to 9. More than likely either the winner of Meehan’s seat or John Olver in the 1st will get the shaft to preserve the other members’ districts.
Probably a good thing ole Joe and the rest of the old-time Republicans didn’t live long enough to see their state turn into a sad and embarrassing statist one-party state on par with the Southern backwaters post-Reconstruction.
“Bart Thorpe”-—you gotta love that name as a cast member in this story. And I got the impression that he was some kind of important Republican, not just a guy who had voted Republican. Anyway, it only makes me like Larry David more, who I sense allowed himself to get dragged along with all this GOre crap for the sake of his marriage.
Larry is just too damned crotchety and cynical to get stars in his eyes over someone like Al Gore.
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