Say Anything Blog

Someone’s soulmate Michelle Malkin posts a story worthy of…someone, only it’s a “D” instead of an “R”!

Democrat Calif. Rep. Laurie Richardson yesterday denied a Capitol Weekly report that she had walked away from her half-million-dollar-plus, second-home mortgage. Mounting evidence contradicts her denial.
Also: I am checking with California government officials to try to get an answer to WLS’s good question about whether Richardson, who was a California state assemblywoman when she purchased the now-abandoned home, was “receiving tax-free per diem from the State of California to pay for the mortgage [on the house]…which she elected not to pay in order to pump money into her campaign for Congress.” Stay tuned for that.

Meantime, last night, the AP published more details of the Hillary superdelegate’s financial woes. Turns out she didn’t bother to pay utility fees and property taxes on the house, either:

Property records on file in Sacramento show Richardson bought the three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath home on West Curtis Drive for $535,500.

The bill collectors started knocking soon after, according to records reviewed Wednesday by The Associated Press.

In June 2007, the city’s utility department placed a lien on her property for $154 in unpaid bills, according to documents on file at the Sacramento County Recorder’s Office. In December, Richardson received a default notice from the collection agency of Washington Mutual Inc., her lender. At that point, she owed $18,356. …Records on file at the Sacramento County Tax Collector’s Office also show Richardson is delinquent in paying $8,950 in property taxes.

Heh.