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LEFT WING LOONS Title: An illustrated guide: The homes Kamp Alinsky Kids won’t protest You knew it was coming. The Kamp Alinsky Kids are taking a sight-seeing tour today. After a month of trashing Zuccotti Park at a public cost of $2 million per day, the riff-raff is marching uptown to occupy
wealthy peoples private homes. According to the NY Daily News: A Millionaires March will visit the homes or, more realistically, the gleaming marble lobbies of five of the citys wealthiest residents, including News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and conservative billionaire David Koch. Some millionaires and billionaires and their homes get protected, of course. Billionaire NYC Mayor Bloomberg, who refuses to crack down on protesters who have no permit to conduct the march, has a pass. Former Enron adviser Paul Krugmans compound is off-limits. So is NY-based billionaire hedge fund mogul, Obama donor, and Dodd-Frank waiver beneficiary George Soros. Photo credit: Business Insider Scandal-plagued LightSquared billionaire investor and Obama donor Philip Falcone owns a $49 million Upper East Side palace that wont be on the protest route. GE billionaire fat cat Jeffrey Immelt wont be targeted, either. Outside NYC, Billionaire Obama donor and Solyndra peddler George Kaiser isnt even on their radar. Also on the immunity list: Al Gores multiple mansions, including his $9 million Montecito oceanfront villa: Oh, and you wont see any Occupy Wall Street zombies banging their bongo drums in front of the sweetheart homes of privileged Democrats whove cashed in on cozy Wall Street/BigGov-BigBiz deals like the ones below. Remember? Flashback September 2010
How privileged Democrats pay for their houses by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010
Former senior senator from Delaware and current Vice President Joe Biden has a custom-built house in Delawares ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood. It is now worth at least $2.5 million and is the Bidens most valuable asset. Biden tapped campaign funds to pay for his compounds lawn needs. He secured the new estate with the help of a corporate executive who worked for Bidens top campaign donor, credit card giant MBNA. In 1996, Biden sold his previous mansion to MBNA Vice Chairman John Cochran. The asking price was $1.2 million. Cochran forked over the full sum. Biden then paid $350,000 in cash to real estate developer Keith Stoltz for a 4.2-acre lakefront lot. Stoltz had paid that same amount five years earlier for the undeveloped property. Stoltz told the Wilmington News Journal that the residential real estate market was soft at the time he sold the land to Biden. But soft for whom? Stoltz was a well-off businessman who didnt appear to be in such dire financial straits that he needed to unload the property quickly in a weak market. Reporter Byron York looked at comparable properties in Bidens neighborhood and found three cases where homes in the area went for a good deal less than their appraised value. In comparison, it appears Cochran simply paid Bidens full asking price. Bidens office denied any sweetheart deals took place, but York noted that it appeared MBNA indirectly helped Cochran buy the Biden house through six-figure executive compensation funds listed as moving expenses and losses suffered on the sale of his previous home. To be clear, no laws were broken. These arrangements were simply a continuation of Bidens decades-long, Beltway business-as-usual relationships with a deep-pocketed corporate benefactor which, by the way, later hired his son. Nice nepotism, if you can get it. North Dakota Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad and Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd made cozy arrangements with subprime sleaze lender Countrywide. Portfolio.com reported that Conrad borrowed $1.07 million in 2004 to refinance his vacation home with a balcony and wraparound porch in Bethany Beach, Del., a block from the ocean. Senate Banking Chair Dodd received two discounted loans in 2003 through Countrywides VIP program. He borrowed $506,000 to refinance his elite townhouse in Washington, D.C., and $275,042 to refinance a home in East Haddam, Conn. Countrywide helpfully waived fractions of points on the loans. The lower interest rates could have saved Dodd a combined $75,000 during the life of the 30-year loans. Dodd had known about the preferential treatment on his loans since 2003, yet continued to deny that he was treated like a VIP, refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and encouraged government-sponsored mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest in Countrywides risky loans. Not content with two shady home deals, Dodd got in on a real estate scheme for an Irish cottage and nearly 10 acres of land with William Kessinger, a businessman tied to his close friend, insider trader Edward R. Downe Jr. Downe had pleaded guilty to tax and securities law violations and was banned for life from the business. In 2001, Dodd helped Downe obtain one of the treasured presidential pardons on Bill Clintons last day in office. A year after that, as Irish real estate prices went through the roof, Dodd purchased Kessingers share of the estate at a discount. He failed to include the obvious quid-pro-quo gift on Senate disclosure forms: Help a crooked friend, reap a cut-rate real estate deal. Prominent members of Team Obama benefited from similar special home deals. Politico.com noted that the Clintons secured a $1.35 million loan from Democrat pal and fundraiser Terry McAuliffe for their New York estate; Obama special envoy Richard Holbrooke snagged a sweetheart loan to refinance his Telluride, Colo., ski vacation home from the Countrywide VIP program; and Obamas close confidante and erstwhile vice presidential search committee panelist Jim Johnson accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate loans from Countrywide. Then theres President Barack Obamas own $1.7 million Chicago manse which was financed with a discounted mortgage from Northern Trust and infamously included a shady land swap with convicted felon donor/developer Tony Rezko. A report released by the Federal Election Commission in February 2009 underscored that the Obamas received reduced loan rates (saving $300 a month, or $108,000 over the life of a 30-year loan) because of their high-profile positions. Northern Trust offered the super jumbo loan to the Obamas in anticipation of entering long-term financial relationships with the successful couple. The FEC refused to call the Obamas mortgage deal an illegal corporate contribution, but it was an obvious act of favor-trading. Northern Trust employees had contributed $71,000 to Obama since 1990
Perhaps fat-cat Democrats in crony-funded houses should put down their stones. *** NICE PICs OF THE DEMOCRAT 1%ers NICE HOMES AT THE WEBSITE
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