Plucked from talking points memo, but found it facinating and quite telling about that slimy witch. Wow, a 300% profit over just 6 years. You gotta love the connections these politicians have.
Birds of a feather?
Katherine Harris' senate campaign is on the brink of implosion because of her ties to Cunningham-fraudster Mitchell Wade.
Now we find that she sold her house for three times what she paid for it only six years earlier.
Justin Rood reports at www.tpmmuckraker.com .
Hate to see her campaign implode but this is getting late in the season for the GOP to find a credible campaign. So hopefully, Nelson is in like Flint and/or becomes a huge financial and resource drain for the GOP as it believes it has a solid pick up oppurtunity. My guess is that they are hoping for a close race and then "fix" the count accordingly.
reported from the local Florida paper
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris made a bit of a killing in the local real estate market recently.
Her Myers Park home, a stately 1936 mansion that Harris lived in when she was secretary of state, was sold last month to a retired British educator and his wife for nearly $500,000 more than she paid for it in 1999. Public records at the Leon County Courthouse indicate Harris bought the former bed-and-breakfast, known as the Riedel House, for $269,000 when she joined the Cabinet six years ago.
Buyer Michael Reiser, who is moving from West Palm Beach, said the home at 1412 Fairway Drive needs some interior and grounds work but that he hopes to have it reopened as a B&B next spring. Reiser said he wasn't surprised by the near tripling of the price.
"Most people who have had property in Florida for five years have made a bundle off of it," he said. "It's a very good appreciation, I agree, but I'd imagine it's par for the course."
Reiser said he and his wife, Nafiseh, have been in the country about six months. He said they're not political people but he knew who Florida's most famous member of Congress was.
"Obviously, her fame had spread to England," he said.
That means she sold the house for almost $769,000. That's quite a run up. I'd love to see the comparables