Gore "Victim" Refuses Offer of Hotel Stay While Repairs are Made--Would Rather Stay With Husband in Truck, Put Furniture in Storage, Send Kids to Live With Relatives
And she's not being paid to create a poltical ruckus--nooooo. Every sane person would rather live in a truck, store furniture, and send their kids off to relations than stay in a hotel because--see quote below--"it ain't worth the aggravation."
ROTFLMAO. No, it's so much less annoying to live in a truck!!!!!!! What a charade! (story below)
Gore Promises Repairs to Tenant
The Associated Press
Monday, June 5, 2000; 8:13 p.m. EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Al Gore said Monday he'll follow through on a promise to fix plumbing problems in a home he owns after tenants complained that management had ignored their pleas for repairs.
"I heard there was a problem. I took action to make sure that it will be solved and it will be," Gore told reporters on his way to a presidential campaign stop in New York City.
Gore, the likely Democratic nominee, said he hadn't talked to the tenant, Tracy Mayberry, since Saturday when he "had a very nice conversation" with her. He said the problems came to his attention after she called the local TV news. He has offered to put the family up while repairs are made.
Mayberry said Gore apologized Saturday after she called him a slumlord. On Monday, she said someone she thought was Gore telephoned again to tell her to stop "bad-mouthing him."
Gore said he did not make any follow-up call on Monday, and his campaign said the woman must have been the victim of a prank.
Mayberry and her family pay $400 a month for a four-bedroom house near Gore's home in Carthage, 50 miles east of Nashville.
Gore's property managers told Mayberry she would have to leave the home because the water would be turned off for repairs.
Mayberry says she is putting her furniture in storage, sending her children to live with relatives, and she and her husband may live in her truck. "It ain't worth the aggravation," she said. |
