They could have just said he hired an Architect
“They could have just said he hired an Architect (rather than a lobbyist)”
But I doubt the guy is a lobbyist in the typical sense of the term. He’s more likely an “expediter” that makes a living of guiding rich people through the maze that is the California approval process. Makes perfect sense for anyone with the money to hire someone like that.
The problem is that the media turns him into a “lobbyist” and Romney winds up looking like crap to the GENERAL PUBLIC...in an election year.
I think it is just fine if he is building/remodeling a house in La Jolla NOW. If he is elected, then he would have a western “white house” like Nixon did in San Clemente. I’m sure all the extras would be to accommodate for his LARGE family as well as Secret Service. At least he has the money to build his own place, which would make it a lot cheaper for the taxpayers when he went there. Much better than the Obama’s opulent vacations together and apart.
I do not begrudge him or any other wealthy person who has made their money by working for it. I don’t even care about people who have inherited money who have made it grow. I pity those fools, many of them sports stars or film stars, who have made a ton of money and pissed it away.
The lobbyist would be necessary to get the thing built before the election. So what? It wouldn’t be the first time a business or individual has done that very thing.
Good for Romney!