Bush & Company

Now that Mitt Romney is officially running for president, Fred Karger, a lesser-known competitor for the nomination, is back in the news. He wants the fact well known of the fabulously wealthy Mitt and Ann Romney's unlikely use of their oldest son Tagg's unfinished basement in Belmont, Massachusetts, as their "primary residence," near the family home they had recently sold. This was done ostensibly so they could vote in Massachusetts in 2010 for Scott Brown, now Senator Brown, filling Ted Kennedy's empty seat, and for other Republican candidates.

The senior Romneys currently own two homes---in La Jolla, California and on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. A foremost New Hampshire newspaper is said to have described Mitt as an "unscrupulous opportunist" in connection with the apparent flimflam, a far cry from his squeaky clean image of the past.

In Massachusetts, the definition of a residence is "where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life." The penalty for fraudulent voter registration is $10,000 and up to five years jail time

It happened back in 2009. . .

I heard a funny thing today---
Mitt and Ann are going to stay
In the basement of their son,
Where the washing up is done.

Likely they're not paying rent;
Better they should pitch a tent
Outside on the family's lawn,
Making sure to rise by dawn,

Lest some nosy neighbors think
Romney's fortune's on the blink;
Then perhaps the two could stay
In the house during the day;

Mitt could tend to his affairs
And his presidential run
From a little room upstairs.
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