» News
Senate candidate Chris Murphy faced foreclosure in 2007, hosted mortgage seminar 1 year later
Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic Senate candidate in Connecticut, was sued in 2007 for foreclosure after missing mortgage payments, but one year later he hosted a “Housing and Mortgage Education Seminar” for constituents.
The Hartford Courant reported Wednesday that Murphy was sued for foreclosure after failing to pay his mortgage two months after taking office. Murphy represented himself in court, and two months later the issue was cleared up and the charges were withdrawn.
“When Chris and Cathy [Holahan, whom Murphy married in the summer of 2007,] were starting out,” Murphy spokesperson Ben Marter explained to the Courant, “they were in the process of merging their finances and inadvertently missed a couple of mortgage payments. When they found out about it, they immediately got in contact with their bank and then paid it in full from their own funds.”
historicus
September 8th, 2012
What’s the saying? “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach”
cfm990
September 8th, 2012
Not being a financial genius here. What’s the story?
He screwed up. Made good. Decided to help others. I must be missing something?
Col. Angus
September 8th, 2012
He “inadvertently” missed a couple of mortgage payments? Is that like Timmy Geithner inadvertently failing to report some income? Seems kinda innocent when dims leave out little minor details.
persecutor
September 8th, 2012
Missed a couple of payments or was it that his “Friends of Angelo’s” secret decoder ring was delayed in transit to the Congressman’s office.
Wonder why Chris Dodd didn’t lend him his.
grayscape
September 8th, 2012
Typical lack of self-awareness and total egotism of Democrats. Just like rapists Kennedy/Johnson/Kennedy/Clinton being champions and defenders of women.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 8th, 2012
What? A crook from CT, say it isn’t so!
Go Linda!
Buffalobob
September 8th, 2012
Inadvertently missed. This is prog democratic code for I got caught.
IronyCurtain
September 8th, 2012
“…inadvertantly missed a couple of mortgage payments.”
“Go Linda” is right!
Stranded in Sonoma
September 8th, 2012
Personally, I think he’s telling the truth. He is obviously an honest man, being a politician, a man of the people, as it were. I’ve missed bills before. And it is so easy to…zzz…chch…miss…zzz…chch…mortgage paymen…zzzzzz — chchchchch — zzzzzz — chchchc…
This response has been taken over by reality. It is physically impossible to miss something as large and as important as a mortgage payment. Not to mention that you can have those payments automatically deducted from your checking account. Forgetting a mortgage payment is like forgetting to breathe. If any of you bought this scum’s line of taurusfimus, I have the title deed to a large orange traffic structure between San Francisco and Marin County for sale. Cheap.
End transmission.