Democrats have been all over the news Tuesday that Mitt Romney’s multimillion-dollar mansion project in La Jolla, Calif. includes an elevator for cars as well as its own lobbyist. The Romney campaign defended the elevator to the New York Times:
The Romney campaign said that a “car elevator” was simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces, but that hasn’t stopped Mr. Romney’s rivals from jumping on the details of the planned expansion.
The Times sent a reporter to the site where the mansion is scheduled to be built. The house Romney is planning to pull down and replace is still there, behind a locked gate. “On Monday, no signs of Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, could be found, though a group of teenagers smoking cigarettes sunned themselves against the seawall, and a homeless man set up camp a bit further down the beach,” the Times reported.
