{"id":9113,"date":"2009-06-13T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-13T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:21:26","slug":"note-to-laura-richardson-take-care-of-your-damn-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/13\/note-to-laura-richardson-take-care-of-your-damn-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Laura Richardson: Take Care of Your Damn House!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/tag\/Laura%20Richardson\">Laura Richardson<\/a> isn&#8217;t the most beloved Democratic Congresswoman around here, or really anywhere. Since she&#8217;s been elected she&#8217;s received a lot more attention for her <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/6021\/\">foreclosure problems<\/a> than for her actual work in Congress. Given that she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crewsmostcorrupt.org\/\">dangerously close to making the Most Corropt Members List<\/a> you&#8217;d think she would try to do everything possible to avoid making news for this foreclosure issue.<\/p>\n<p>But no, after getting one story <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/6676\/\">in the LA Times about the poor condition of her home in Sacramento<\/a>, she never got around to hiring somebody to water the lawn and trim the weeds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But two years later, he doesn&#8217;t feel so lucky. The congresswoman&#8217;s house is abandoned and in disrepair, &#8220;a blight on the neighborhood,&#8221; Bailey said. He thinks the way that Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) has treated her Sacramento home tells far more about her than her voting record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want anyone that irresponsible to represent me,&#8221; said Bailey, like Richardson a liberal Democrat. &#8220;What I don&#8217;t get is how she has the time to visit with Fidel Castro but doesn&#8217;t have time for her own house. If you can&#8217;t manage your own household, you probably shouldn&#8217;t get involved in international affairs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch! Perhaps if she weren&#8217;t so busy leaning on big banks to get her homes back and <a href=\"http:\/\/sharp.sefora.org\/votes\/house\/house-passing-of-fisa-amendments-act-of-2008-hr-6304\/\">voting in favor of telecom immunity<\/a>, she would have time to hire somebody to take care of her houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/tag\/Laura%20Richardson\">Laura Richardson<\/a> isn&#8217;t the most beloved Democratic Congresswoman around here, or really anywhere. Since she&#8217;s been elected she&#8217;s received a lot more attention for her <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/6021\/\">foreclosure problems<\/a> than for her actual work in Congress. Given that she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crewsmostcorrupt.org\/\">dangerously close to making the Most Corropt Members List<\/a> you&#8217;d think she would try to do everything possible to avoid making news for this foreclosure issue.<\/p>\n<p>But no, after getting one story <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/6676\/\">in the LA Times about the poor condition of her home in Sacramento<\/a>, she never got around to hiring somebody to water the lawn and trim the weeds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But two years later, he doesn&#8217;t feel so lucky. The congresswoman&#8217;s house is abandoned and in disrepair, &#8220;a blight on the neighborhood,&#8221; Bailey said. He thinks the way that Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) has treated her Sacramento home tells far more about her than her voting record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want anyone that irresponsible to represent me,&#8221; said Bailey, like Richardson a liberal Democrat. &#8220;What I don&#8217;t get is how she has the time to visit with Fidel Castro but doesn&#8217;t have time for her own house. If you can&#8217;t manage your own household, you probably shouldn&#8217;t get involved in international affairs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch! Perhaps if she weren&#8217;t so busy leaning on big banks to get her homes back and <a href=\"http:\/\/sharp.sefora.org\/votes\/house\/house-passing-of-fisa-amendments-act-of-2008-hr-6304\/\">voting in favor of telecom immunity<\/a>, she would have time to hire somebody to take care of her houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[2349],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2349"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}