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For Most Local Politicians, There's One Place Called Home
Unlike most of her colleagues on the D.C. Council, member Carol Schwartz owns three homes.
(Sarah L. Voisin - Twp)
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Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) also owns two houses. He has called his 1896 Victorian farmhouse in Takoma Park home for more than 20 years, and four years ago the family purchased a summer beach house on Cape Cod.
"It's mostly a rental property," said Joseph Shapiro, a spokesman for Franchot.
Del. Brian J. Moran (D-Alexandria), who is running for Virginia governor next year, lives in a three-bedroom house near Landmark Mall and owns "a small cabin he used to go to, to fish out in Shenandoah County," said his spokesman, Jesse Ferguson.
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) did not reply to a request for comment. He appears to own just one house, the Northwest home he bought for $215,000 in 1997.
Then there are public servants.
Such as Peter Nickles, the District's acting attorney general. His home in Great Falls has a stable and a swimming pool, according to public land records. He has an apartment in the District. And he owns part of an island.
Yes, according to the Registry of Deeds office in Maine, Nickles owns one-sixth of Mouse Island, a little rock along the gunkholing paradise that is Maine's coastline.
On the other end of the spectrum are those who own nothing. And proudly admit they live in public housing.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), the former mayor of Baltimore, and his wife, Catherine Curran O'Malley, a Maryland district court judge, put their four-bedroom Tudor in northeast Baltimore on the market last spring, shortly after they moved into the governor's mansion in Annapolis.
For O'Malley spokesman Shaun Adamec, this was a slam-dunk.
"He and his family feel fortunate to have this opportunity to spend time in Government House," Adamec said. "And that's where they are for the time being."
Staff writers Ovetta Wiggins, John Wagner and Sandhya Somashekhar and staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
