In an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Mitt Romney sets the record straight.
I asked him, why give the media and political foes raw meat right now by filing for permits to tear down a La Jolla, Calif., beach house and quadruple its size? That was the wire story we had run the day before, and it was all over the Internet.
It’s not accurate, Romney said, simply. The application he made, two years ago, was to double the living space by turning one story into two. The “quadrupling’’ was a measurement of added nonliving space, including a basement and garage.
As the article notes, there was controversy over the optics of news that Romney was quadrupling his 3,009 square foot house in California.
Doubling the dwelling makes it seem mildly less ostentatious, but his opponents are sure to class warfare him with it (using "class warfare" there as a verb reminds me -- I recently read in GQ that once you're over 30 years old, you can't use "party" as a verb anymore).
[Hat tip: TPM]
