Regis Philbin
Apr 11th, 2007, 06:03 PM
http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/562899.html
This is one vote Edwards never had
Elizabeth gripes; neighbor is famous
Monty Johnson is a proud Republican and an Edwards neighbor.
Monty Johnson says he feels Elizabeth Edwards has singled him out for criticism.
Leah Friedman, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL - Monty Johnson was heading home Monday with a cooler full of catfish when he learned his new neighbor had turned him into a minor celebrity.
The first calls on his cell phone came from two lawyers asking to represent him in a slander case. Elizabeth Edwards, they told him, had called him a "rabid, rabid Republican." That wasn't all. The Democratic presidential candidate's wife also told The Associated Press she didn't want her children near Johnson because, she said, he once pulled a gun on workers investigating a right of way on his property.
Johnson, a 55-year-old retired landscaper with arthritic knees, said he's not interested in suing.
"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."
But apparently, you're nobody until Elizabeth Edwards dislikes you.
"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."
LOL Oh, Monty. The problem isn't that you're poor, it's because you're Republican. Republican poor are "slummy" to the Edwards'. The Democrat poor are downtrodden and only they are worthy of their (Edwards') pity.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070410-124904-4366r.htm
Inside Politics
By Greg Pierce
April 10, 2007
Two Americas
When Sen. John Edwards ran for president four years ago, the North Carolina Democrat declared that President Bush had divided the nation into "two Americas ... one America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward."
Turns out that the other America lives right next door to the 28,000-square-foot, $5.3 million mansion Mr. Edwards has built near Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Edwards' neighbor, Monty Johnson, lives on 42 acres that the Johnson family has owned for decades. Mr. Johnson, 55, has been known to brandish firearms to chase away trespassers, which frightens the former senator's wife, who called the Johnson property "slummy" and condemned its owner as a "rabid Republican."
"I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out," Elizabeth Edwards told the Associated Press, explaining why she hasn't said so much as "howdy" to her neighbor.
In response to Mrs. Edwards' suggestion that he left his property in run-down condition to spite the Edwards family, Mr. Johnson said: "I have to budget. I have to live within my means. I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place."
Mr. Johnson, who has posted a "Go Rudy Giuliani 2008" sign on a fence just 100 feet from the entrance to the Edwards' driveway, says he plans to sell his property and move because of increased taxes and hostility from the Edwards family.
"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Mr. Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."
This is one vote Edwards never had
Elizabeth gripes; neighbor is famous
Monty Johnson is a proud Republican and an Edwards neighbor.
Monty Johnson says he feels Elizabeth Edwards has singled him out for criticism.
Leah Friedman, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL - Monty Johnson was heading home Monday with a cooler full of catfish when he learned his new neighbor had turned him into a minor celebrity.
The first calls on his cell phone came from two lawyers asking to represent him in a slander case. Elizabeth Edwards, they told him, had called him a "rabid, rabid Republican." That wasn't all. The Democratic presidential candidate's wife also told The Associated Press she didn't want her children near Johnson because, she said, he once pulled a gun on workers investigating a right of way on his property.
Johnson, a 55-year-old retired landscaper with arthritic knees, said he's not interested in suing.
"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."
But apparently, you're nobody until Elizabeth Edwards dislikes you.
"I'd just like to know why she has such hard feelings to me," he said. "They say they're for poor people."
LOL Oh, Monty. The problem isn't that you're poor, it's because you're Republican. Republican poor are "slummy" to the Edwards'. The Democrat poor are downtrodden and only they are worthy of their (Edwards') pity.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070410-124904-4366r.htm
Inside Politics
By Greg Pierce
April 10, 2007
Two Americas
When Sen. John Edwards ran for president four years ago, the North Carolina Democrat declared that President Bush had divided the nation into "two Americas ... one America that does the work, another America that reaps the reward."
Turns out that the other America lives right next door to the 28,000-square-foot, $5.3 million mansion Mr. Edwards has built near Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Edwards' neighbor, Monty Johnson, lives on 42 acres that the Johnson family has owned for decades. Mr. Johnson, 55, has been known to brandish firearms to chase away trespassers, which frightens the former senator's wife, who called the Johnson property "slummy" and condemned its owner as a "rabid Republican."
"I don't want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn't like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out," Elizabeth Edwards told the Associated Press, explaining why she hasn't said so much as "howdy" to her neighbor.
In response to Mrs. Edwards' suggestion that he left his property in run-down condition to spite the Edwards family, Mr. Johnson said: "I have to budget. I have to live within my means. I don't have millions of dollars to fix the place."
Mr. Johnson, who has posted a "Go Rudy Giuliani 2008" sign on a fence just 100 feet from the entrance to the Edwards' driveway, says he plans to sell his property and move because of increased taxes and hostility from the Edwards family.
"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Mr. Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."