Any relation?
Posted on 08/12/2008 7:09:18 PM PDT by ricks_place
HONOLULU The oceanfront vacation home Barack Obama is renting this week is owned by a campaign contributor who, along with her husband, has given more than $62,000 to the Democratic Party and its presidential candidates since 2000.
There’s nothing improper about that. Indeed, by renting the house, rather than borrowing one from wealthy friends, Obama is taking a more scrupulous approach than former President Bill Clinton, who was criticized for making a habit of vacationing for free throughout his presidency.
But here’s the twist: According to the campaign, it is a mere coincidence that Obama, his family and friends from Chicago are staying on a sprawling Kailua beach estate owned by Jill Tate Higgins, a California businesswoman who Federal Election Commission reports show has contributed $2,300 to his campaign over the past year. Higgins is the general partner of Lakeside Enterprises, a Burbank, Calif., private family investment company listed in property tax records as the owner.
“He has no prior relationship with her, did not speak with her during this process and had no knowledge that this was the rental home of a Democratic donor,” an Obama campaign aide said Monday.
The campaign would not speak on the record, the aide said, "while discussing the personal plans of the senator, his family and friends."
Obama and his friends rented the 11-bedroom house through an island realty company for “standard market value,” said the aide, who would not identify the company or provide the market rate.
Higgins and her husband, James P. Higgins, gave $20,000 each to the Democratic National Committee in 2000. They have also donated to the presidential campaigns of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Dean and Sen. John F. Kerry, records show.
Jill Tate Higgins serves as a trustee for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group with strong ties to Hollywood and Washington.
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standard market value How much would that be
Nice pad.
Where’s Grandma?
Why am I not surprised...
Is he paying for it or is his campaign?
There are 11 bedrooms and 10.5 baths. I’m sure the Messiah took some of the downtrodden with him to enjoy his heaven
Any relation?
Sitting in the same apartment she raised Obama in.
...........Where’s Grandma?..................
She’s gasping for air, whilst trying to emerge from under the bus.
But, she’s clutching Barry’s Birth Certificate in her bloody fingers, so Barry has ordered the bus to start backing up!
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
Doesn’t she deserve more than a perfunctory hour?
Now I see, the hour might have been more a negotiation of the birth cert. than a family reunion.
I bet she knows how to negotiate touch, given her rise in the banking business.
Someone posted some photos of him taking his kids to see Grandma. Of course he had the kids, I don’t know if that is meant that he is taking them on vacation to see Grandma, or he was on the way right that very minute. But the other day, he went for an hour.
I don’t know why Grandma isn’t staying in this sweet mansion.
One bedroom to store all the designer matching luggage of Michelle Obamas traveling wardrobe. Living in america has been a nightmare for her and thankfully, her hubby is running for president so now she can be proud of what she has.............
What do you think?
I’m sure he flew to Hawaii on Messiah One as well. What’s the fuel cost for a round trip to Hawaii on a Boeing 757?
Meanwhile, Barbra Streisand, Democrat Activist and Environmentalist, is supervising the expansion of her Malibu Estate.
With two people living there, I’m sure 20,000 Square Feet is not enough.
Carbon Footprint, there’s no Carbon Footprint here.
The owner of the house is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which took “out full-page ads in this newspaper [WaPo] and others to decry offshore drilling for oil as “George W. Bush’s Gasoline Price Elixir” that is “100% Snake Oil.” The environmental group calls on supporters “to stop the giveaway of our coasts.” “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060515/posts
So the “environmentalists” get to keep the coast for themselves and their big houses...
My bet is the campaign and O-Force 1 and that the campaign is picking up all expenses Obama and his family. The media will never ask or report the info so we can only guess.
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