Duke breaks his silence! Speaks out on long sordid shenanigans. North County Times reprints statement.
It’s fairly long. So you’ll want to read it. But on a quick glance, this jumped out at me …
Finally, recent news reports have questioned whether it was appropriate for me to live on a boat owned by Mr. Wade while I was working in Washington. It is important to note that I first came to Congress in 1991, and I only began living on Mr. Wade’s boat in roughly April 2004. Mr. Wade and I agreed that, in return for me staying on the boat, I would pay the monthly dock fees and maintenance costs associated with keeping Mr. Wade’s boat at the marina. There was nothing improper about my arrangement with Mr. Wade because I paid these monthly fees and costs in lieu of rent. Based on the records that I have been able to locate to date, I have paid well over $8,000 for the dock fees and well over $5,000 for service and maintenance. My attorneys are collecting the full payment records now and will make them available when they are all gathered.
This is great. Duke has <$Ad$> lived there for over a year. And he’s paid $13,000 out of pocket. Yes, he says “well over”. But by the looks of the document search he and his lawyers are doing it seems he’s going to dig up the receipts for every roll of toilet paper and every bottle of windex he bought while he was there to pad the total.
When I lived in DC I lived in a medium to small-sized one bedroom apartment on 19th Street between R & S streets. That’s in Dupont Circle.
DC housing isn’t cheap. By the time I left last December I think my rent was $1468 a month. So with the help of my trusty calculator I can figure out that I was paying $17,616 in rent a year. So I was paying substantially more to live in my little one bedroom apartment than Duke was to live on Wade Mitchell’s yacht down on the river.
He should have mentioned it. I would have been happy to trade. I had no idea it was so cheap to live down on a yacht on the Potomac.
Can you get wifi on a boat?
