Gores Buy $2.3 Mln Home In Wealthy Town Near Nashville

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Gores Buy $2.3 Mln Home In Wealthy Town Near Nashville

Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP)--Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper have bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent town of 3,000 people bordering Nashville.

The white frame, colonial-style home sits on a little over two 2 acres (nearly one hectare) filled with magnolia trees. The deed was signed June 17, records show.

Belle Meade, home to an exclusive country club, a botanical garden and art museum, is the fifth-richest town in the United States. The annual per-capita income is $104,908, more than five times the state average of $19,393.

Since Gore lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, the Gores have split their time between the family farm 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Nashville, and a home in Arlington, Virginia, that has been in Tipper Gore's family for 64 years.

A Gore spokesman said earlier this year that the couple planned to move back to Nashville.

Gore has been teaching classes at Fisk University and at Middle Tennessee State University. He also has joined a Los Angeles-based financial management firm, and is working on a book.

He plans a retreat this weekend in Memphis at which he could indicate whether he intends to make another run at the White House.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires 28-06-02

[Tennessee_Bob]

You mean he's actually planning to live here now? Whoa!!!

[mewzilla]

Is this place, in addition to being wealthy, also lily white?

[anniegetyourgun]

Not to worry, he'll hire a black housekeeper and driver. They can eat in the kitchen.

[Dallas]

The brightside.....he'll be paying property taxes.

[anniegetyourgun]

Hey, didn't Belle Meade country club once exclude Jews, blacks, blah, blah, blah......

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I don't think so.

[TennTuxedo]

Already posted:http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/707685/posts

[martin_fierro]

I wonder: How are his (former) tenants doing?

[ctonious]

"...a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent town of 3,000 people bordering Nashville. The white frame, colonial-style home sits on a little over two 2 acres (nearly one hectare) filled with magnolia trees

Probably has an outhouse on those two acres, since we've learned from the Gore's tenants that Al is incapable of fixing a toilet. And the goofy loser thought he could run a country.

[tracer]

Reaping the royalties from his invention of the Internet, no doubt.........

[caa26]

Its amazing how a man whose worked as a public servant his whole life can afford such a wealthy house. But there is not way it could be through corruption. </sarcasm>

Being an elected official is like hitting the lottery.

[spectre]

During the Clinton Presidency years, Little Rock Country Club approved of one Black person to join.

Don't know if he is still a member.

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[NativeNewYorker]

I couldn't find a search function on the Fisk U. website.

But here's a picture of the school's president.

Carolynn Reid-Wallace

[Dallas]

Yeah you're right..........what was I thinking.

[NativeNewYorker]

Middle Tenn St. U. has a Gore Research Center.

[NativeNewYorker]

Scroll down here, for a hurl of a class description.

http://www.mtsu.edu/~proffice/Record/Rec_v10/rec1012/body.html

[Howlin]

Its amazing how a man whose worked as a public servant his whole life can afford such a wealthy house

Can you say Occidental Oil?

[Joe Bonforte]

The reporter is obviously from somewhere outside Nashville. Belle Meade is a part of Metro Nashville. It's not a "town near Nashville" - it's in Nashville.

[polemikos]

Courtesy of Registered