What an utter slob

U.S. Representative Laura Richardson, D(isgusting property owner)-California, has plenty of time to go hobnob with murderous dictators such as Fidel Castro (as she did in April), but she just can't seem to find a couple of hours to deal with the condition of her home in Sacramento, which is being described by her neighbors as "horrifying". In fact, they've pretty much had to perform routine maintenance on the place themselves, just to prevent their own houses from being damaged by Richardson's negligence:

"Carrie Thomsen would walk across the street with her hose and water the yard. Janet Carlson sent her gardener to Richardson's house once a month for six months to mow the lawn. She paid kids $20 during the fall to rake the leaves. They once peeked inside and saw a dead bird in the living room. Her husband turned on the sprinklers the last two summers, worried that dry weeds would turn into a fire hazard.

Things got so bad that in the fall, rats began breeding in Richardson's backyard and soon moved into a house next door." (Emphasis mine)

Maybe she wishes to duplicate the squalid conditions that currently predominate in Havana right there in her own neighborhood, in some sort of solidarity with Uncle Fidel.

Ironically, most of the neighbors interviewed for the story seem to be like-minded liberal Democrats who supported and voted for Richardson, who, oddly enough, only moved into the Sacramento house in 2006, after she was elected to the California Assembly to represent Long Beach. She was then elected to the U.S. Congress in 2007 through a special election, and seems to have abandoned her central California constituents just as quickly as she dumped her Long Beach peasants. Judging from her home's condition, she has no intention of ever returning to her (newish) old digs, save for campaign appearances, now that she's reached the Promised Land of Washington, D.C.

(Shades of Tom Daschle, who homesteaded his house in Washington, certifying that his mansion there was his primary residence instead of any residence in South Dakota, while at the same time purporting to represent that state in the Senate. He apparently thought that he would also never again have to slum it and live outside of D.C., until John Thune knocked him off in 2004.)

And yet the supposedly "responsible" Richardson presumes to be one of the Messiah's dictators who would micromanage every tiny aspect of everyone's home lives if they could only manage to do so, yet who doesn't wish to be bothered with such mundane details herself.

What blatant hypocrisy, even for one of today's elected officials.