Apparently, political ideology means the Romney’s should be barred from living in certain neighborhoods.
The New York Times has taken the unprecedented step of digging up dirt on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, by asking his neighbors for potentially damaging information.
Their findings: Romney lives within a few blocks of six gay couples and several people who politically disagree with him.
Romney and his wife own a historic Spanish beachside villa in La Jolla, a well-to-do suburb of San Diego, California.
Because Romney is running for the presidency, and currently wants to quadruple the size of his house, the situation is especially sticky with neighbors who are agitated with the potential construction that could be going on in their neighborhood in the coming months.
One of the neighbors interviewed said that he wished he could run into Romney to provoke a conversation about same-sex marriage. He also had plans to hold a fundraiser for President Barack Obama just a few doors away from Romney.
La Jolla is traditionally the Republican-leaning area of San Diego, but in recent years the area has become a more progressive neighborhood, as one neighbor in the story remarked that he didn’t know why Romney wanted to even live there.
There are currently 7,764 registered Republicans and 7,024 Democrats in La Jolla.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, host Joe Scarborough said The New York Times reporting was sketchy, and blasted them for their hypocrisy and apparent bias against Romney and his family.
“The New York Times dispatched reporters to Mitt Romney’s home. They went around the neighborhood, found every Democrat they could to trash Mitt, and in fact, admitted as much.”
Very sarcastically, Scarborough asked one of his panelists this morning, “Did The New York Times ever dispatch reporters to John Kerry’s home? Because John Kerry is worth a lot more money than Romney, obviously. Like his Georgetown home? Was there ever a story on his Georgetown home, do you recall?”
