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The Kennedys’ sense of entitlement was so great they expected everything for free, says designer who worked on $4 million eco-home
We’re all going to get these deals, right? It’s economic justice.
- Mary Richardson Kennedy hired Robin Wilson to help rebuild the family’s mold-infested 1920s house in Bedford, New York
- The family secured more than $1.3 million in high-end appliances for free
- Contractors were promised credit in a television show that never aired
- House currently on the market for $4 million after Mary Richardson Kennedy hung herself in the barn in May
During the remodeling of the seven-bedroom mansion, the Kennedys amassed more than $1.3 million in free products including high-end appliances, dual flush toilets, solid brass and zinc faucets, hardwood flooring, and hypoallergenic rugs. In addition, the family used their influence to secure massive discounts from the builder and other contractors.
Builder Jim Blansfield, who led the two-year construction project, said he charged ‘very, very much less than what I would normally charge. I felt the project had great merit.’
However his work on the house did not lead to an increase in business.
Many contractors were promised free publicity and credit in a television show for NBC, which never aired.
The kitchen was designed free-of-charge, and the craftsman who did the bookcases and fireplace mantels charged half his usual rate.
Energy-efficient windows were provided by a local distributor for a Minnesota company, Marvin Windows and Doors, at a discount of more than $100,000.
But Richardson called Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat and an ally of her husband, and asked him to force the company to donate the windows.
pissedpatriot30
November 5th, 2012
All union trades right???????????????
Maudie N Mandeville
November 5th, 2012
Let me try to feel sorry for these contractors…just a minute, ….thinking, thinking….nope.
Troy
November 5th, 2012
Fur, every time I read about the Kennedy clan now I think of the great “Kennedy Funeral” poster you have on your personal website. Makes me laugh out loud!
Tim
November 5th, 2012
“Swim in the cesspool, smell like …”
grayscape
November 5th, 2012
Hey black people – wanna burn down the house of some rich white racist assholes who have kept you down for decades??
pissedpatriot30
November 5th, 2012
Bill Maher’s first…
Sarge
November 5th, 2012
Nasty to see the family being forced to ask for help under the Obama economy. We’ve all been asked to sacrifice but only the Kennedy’s can feel our pain.
jus wonderin
November 5th, 2012
“I await the day that this cretin hangs himself.”
maybe he kinda knows how to ski
RANDO
November 5th, 2012
Shit. My terlet only flushes once. Must be great to be American royalty.
Guess I’m just American Standard.
Johnny Pickleduster
November 5th, 2012
Field of Dreams movie “If you build it he will come.”
Field of Nightmares movie about Kennedys “If you build it we will rape you in the ass until you scream in agony and bleed.
how bout it?
November 5th, 2012
i wonder if those fucking kennedys had anything to do with this::
Are we still a sovereign nation?
Are we moving closer to a global system controlled by the United Nations, dare we say a “one world government?”
Let us start by looking at this from the perspective of the organizations that are calling for the UN to monitor our polling places. We need to realize that this is a different America then the America that most of us remember growing up in. We are being slowly conditioned to accept this new system. If you look at the other side of the coin there are many who truly believe the America they have known is flawed, as that is what they have been taught. In turn they believe it needs to be fundamentally changed. So they look toward the UN and other organizations that support this view. In their view it is a human rights issue.
Below is an excerpt of a letter from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, and six other civil rights organizations to the OSCE (Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe) just for an idea of this mindset.
According to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice,[1] photo ID requirements, shortened early voting periods, limits on poll worker assistance, proof of citizenship requirements, restrictions on same day and community-based registration, and disenfranchisement of former felons, may result in the disenfranchisement of more than five million Americans in this election. These efforts are nothing less than an all-out assault on the progress of the last century—indeed, on the very legacy of the civil and human rights movement. They are part of a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans—particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities, low-income people, women, young people, persons with disabilities, and the elderly.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
http://gulagbound.com/35129/usa-losing-sovereignty-to-un-under-obama-at-election-time/#.UJf_CIblDNk
got eternal vigilance?
Mr. Happy
November 5th, 2012
The more you know about the Kennedy’s the more you hate them.
I will say that the ‘discount for me today’ and get some intangible (but never really spelled out)benefit tomorrow lie is a common ploy used by predatory psychopaths, like the Kennedys.
Mountain Dog
November 5th, 2012
“force the company to donate the windows”
Forced donations, the communist dream.
Toaster
November 5th, 2012
How about some truthful Kennedy campaign memorabilia for a change.
GW Bear
November 5th, 2012
Hell if I was a contractor for these mopes I’d charge double not half.
norman einstein
November 5th, 2012
@Rando, leave it to the Kennedys to have a dual-flush terlet, whatever the hell THAT is.
Maybe it’s is a ‘two-holer’.
I’d like to give all those morons a perpetual motion double swirly.
kelsey g
November 5th, 2012
is there any FREE toolshed way out back so when the ol’ lady hangs herself she won’t bleed on the hypoallergenic rugs.??
Milwaukee Mike
November 5th, 2012
I would have the pond dredged before buying
kelsey g
November 5th, 2012
hangs herself >>> or slashes her wrists <<<
types too slow
Carlos The Jackal
November 5th, 2012
Santa Claus
Easter Bunny
Tooth Fairy
Honest politician
Trust-worthy liberal
What do these people have in common?
Tim
November 5th, 2012
*You don’t get rich by spending money!*
Maybe they should clue in Obama et al?
Stranded in Sonoma
November 5th, 2012
This Old Hoax.
simply enraged
November 5th, 2012
The obamas – kennedys with a deep tan and less money. Otherwise, no discernible difference.
RANDO
November 5th, 2012
@ Norm– I had to look it up. Something about siphoning, or suction.
Somehow it all fits…
dba_vagabond_trader
November 5th, 2012
Who in their right mind would buy such a cursed place.
Papadoc
November 5th, 2012
The only Kennedy worth anything was a womanizing, rum-running crook. The old man. The rest since him have been little more than parasites.
J Frank Parnell
November 5th, 2012
Another hit for The Dead Kennedys.
cfm990
November 5th, 2012
They sure got a funny way of redistributing the wealth.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
November 5th, 2012
Is mooching a family tradition with these people?
How embarrassing.
Commissar M
November 5th, 2012
Ah, the party of the “common man”, “the worker”. Good to see them showing what they think of the proles.
bitterclinger
November 5th, 2012
Want justice, you dummy union members? Get all your thug buddies who provided the work and materials and go in together and rip it out. I can’t imagine any jury faulting you or the family wanting this to get out.
Moe tom
November 5th, 2012
Marvin Windows and Doors were shaken down: “Richardson called Al Franken (D Minn.)…and asked him to force the company to donate the windows.”
Note. Last week Mitt Romney gave a speech in front of a large Marvin Windows sign and was well received in Minnesota. Hope and change.
Necrophidius
November 5th, 2012
Hopefully she will spend her time on that lot until the sun burns out.
scr_north
November 5th, 2012
Most of the Kennedy’s past and present are dogs and when you lie down with them… I have no sympathy for the contractors but wouldn’t it be nice if the Minnissota window maker came out with confirmation that Franken used his office to coerce him into giving the windows away.
jus maybe
November 6th, 2012
“*You don’t get rich by spending money!*
Maybe they should clue in Obama et al?”
Nah, ya git it by bullying your way into a 99 year exclusive distributorship for chivas regal for the entire country of America
“THANKS, JOE!!”
Carlos The Jackal
November 6th, 2012
At least they’re not cheapskates; Marvin and Pella windows are the best you can buy…Uhh, that is when you BUY them!