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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 06:44 PM Dec 2013

Dana Rohrabacher Is Dirty




Congressman turned $1 million Costa Mesa home rental into pigsty

By R. SCOTT MOXLEY Thursday, Dec 19 2013

When Congressman Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher moved into a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, million-dollar Costa Mesa rental home on April Fool's Day 2010, the immaculate, 6,300-square-foot property could have been featured in a glossy real-estate magazine. Built in 1948, the two-story, Orange Avenue home had been updated in recent years for comfort and style. The carpeting was new, appliances worked and walls were spotless. Thriving flowers, plants and grass adorned the idyllic back yard less than 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

But it's now understandable why Orange County's senior, career politician secretly changed the locks and refused to allow homeowner Robert Polyniak inside for annual inspections. When he moved out in August 2012, Rohrabacher left behind a shockingly horrific pigsty, a dump worse than a college fraternity house of unhygienic slobs unfamiliar with the most basic tools of cleaning. Darlene Whitsell, Polyniak's longtime girlfriend, entered the home shortly after the congressman's departure and wept at the scene.

"It was disgusting," she said. "It was unbelievable. Who lives like that?"

Massive black stains and muck covered the carpet throughout the home. Sticky grime encased damaged, rusted appliances. Denied water, once-thriving outside plants and grass dried up and died. Blinds were cracked. Black dirt ruined the appearance of once-sparkling tile floors. Walls inexplicably contained odd holes, nail polish, wax and some smelly substance that may have been feces.

Every toilet seat in the house was broken. The ceilings showed smoke damage. Light switches had been cracked. Clumps of hair and remnants of what may have been balloons or some other rubbery material clogged sinks. Cracks scarred doors. Thick, solidified grease rendered the air-suction vent above the kitchen stove useless. Bathroom towel bars were missing, and vanities suffered water damage.

http://www.ocweekly.com/2013-12-19/news/moxley-confidential-dana-rohrabacher-robert-polyniak/
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Dana Rohrabacher Is Dirty (Original Post) MrScorpio Dec 2013 OP
Juanita Jean had some fun with this story Gothmog Dec 2013 #1
If Congressman Rohrabacher sat down on the steps of Congress Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2013 #2
WTF? PCIntern Dec 2013 #3
Cowabunga! Brother Buzz Dec 2013 #4
I'm not about to defend this clown but... seveneyes Dec 2013 #5
I lived in an apartment for one year...and got my deposit back angstlessk Dec 2013 #8
I rented many places for a period of about 9 years BootinUp Dec 2013 #9
With all that grease on the rugs Politicalboi Dec 2013 #6
What do you have to do to break toilet seats? TwilightGardener Dec 2013 #7
You've heard of Road Rage BootinUp Dec 2013 #10

PCIntern

(25,568 posts)
3. WTF?
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 06:55 PM
Dec 2013

This makes the faux-damaged keyboards of the Clinton WH transition to Bush look like a joke...we need a Special Prosecutor here...

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
5. I'm not about to defend this clown but...
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 07:06 PM
Dec 2013

They could show better pictures than an oven range pulled out from its cove and dirty carpets. Do most renters replace their carpets and pull out appliances when leaving a rental? I know I never did.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
8. I lived in an apartment for one year...and got my deposit back
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 07:22 PM
Dec 2013

with a note that the apartment was cleaner when we left than when we moved in...

NOT EVERYONE IS A PIG...

BootinUp

(47,168 posts)
9. I rented many places for a period of about 9 years
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 09:20 PM
Dec 2013

Always got 100% of my deposit back. I should credit my mother. She has far more strength and endurance than I ever did.

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