Earlier this week Mitt Romney visited Iowa to get in touch with real, salt-of-the-earth farmers and find out what this drought has meant to them. He wanted to roll up his sleeves, shake some weathered hands, get out there in the sun, learn about the real America.
So he went to this guy’s house.
Think Progress reports that farmer Lemar Koethe, who dramatically told Romney when he stepped out of his motorcade onto Koethe’s ailing cornfield, “we need you like we need oxygen,” actually owns 54 soy and corn farms. He’s also a real estate mogul, former concert promoter, and owner of a 24,000 seat arena.
This is his house. It contains a private car wash, art gallery, and elevator up to the panoramic living room suspended 35 feet in the air.
Not that there’s anything wrong with any of this. But it’s just so Romney to choose this guy as a show of solidarity with the struggles of rural America.
Photo: Debra Jane Seltzer via Think Progress
August 10, 2012 at 5:37 pm, David Huset said:
This just gets better and better. I don't think I trust a "farmer" with a manicure.
August 10, 2012 at 6:19 pm, Curtis Berg said:
Time to move back to the farm. I'm wondering why my grandparents left.
August 11, 2012 at 10:34 am, Richard Allen said:
YEA A REAL EVERYMAN.
August 11, 2012 at 8:19 pm, Lorraine Hegi Quesada said:
"Lemar Koethe, who dramatically told Romney when he stepped out of his motorcade onto Koethe’s ailing cornfield, “we need you like we need oxygen,” actually owns 54 soy and corn farms. He’s also a real estate mogul, former concert promoter, and owner of a 24,000 seat arena."
August 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm, Connie Headrick Crawford said:
You have to see this – living in a rural area as I do know, maybe I should take some photos of the "Farmers Houses" down here. They don't look like that & the crops are dying in the fields! http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/187008/heres-the-house-of-the-farmer-mitt-romney-visited-to-get-in-touch-with-rural-plight/
August 12, 2012 at 12:56 am, Dave DeWitte said:
I wonder if he can see all 54 of his farms from his elevated view 35 feet in the air.
August 12, 2012 at 1:39 am, Gabby Evans said:
Oh yeah, this farmer is suffering. Bet he can see all of his farms from the view he has, as probably did Twit.
August 12, 2012 at 1:41 am, Nova Starr said:
Really?
August 12, 2012 at 2:31 pm, Kandee Storrs said:
Whuuut? He's just a poor old "dirt farmer", eekin' out a livin' like all the rest of us.
August 12, 2012 at 5:19 am, Robert P Mueller said:
1. First of all this picture is fake. It takes a stupid Democrat to believe something like this on the internet, you are such fools…..absolute FOOLS. I’m not defending Romney, just pointing out how ignorant you are. Have a great day!
August 12, 2012 at 6:18 am, Kara Donaldson said:
Actually it is a real house in Urbandale, Iowa. I drive by it everyday on my way to work.
August 12, 2012 at 6:43 am, Kelly Mc said:
Yes, sorry Robert but this actually exists, you can drive past yourself.
August 12, 2012 at 1:13 pm, Mary Martin Gillman said:
That house is just down the street from me and Lemarr has lived there for years. I knew all about his business ventures and he's got more money than all of the people in my subdivision but I didn't realize he was a farmer, too!
August 12, 2012 at 2:41 pm, Adam Perkins said:
Look who's talking, Robert P Mueller!
August 12, 2012 at 3:10 pm, Scott Saunders said:
The house has been called the UFO or the Men In Black UFO by Urbandale locals for years.
August 12, 2012 at 10:11 pm, Sylvia Popelka said:
Hope that being a "brilliant" Republican with egg on his face will give Mr. Mueller the opportunity to develop the ability to think before he spouts.
p.s. I am having a great day.
August 12, 2012 at 10:21 pm, Mary Martin Gillman said:
You live in Altoona. How could you not know of Lamarr's house??? You find yourself resorting to name-calling? That's too bad. And besides, you're not very nice.
August 14, 2012 at 6:53 pm, Blossom Dearie said:
Does your boss know we know where you work?
August 12, 2012 at 10:42 am, Kim West said:
I race bicycles and used to teach spins classes at the health club once owned by lamarr. he is one of the most bizarre, out-of-touch kooks I have ever known.
a perfect fit with mitt.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw him and mitt roaming in the cornfield together.
August 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm, Dan Frye said:
man that's hilarious… I mean I know he has farms but whens the last time he worked on one?
August 12, 2012 at 6:47 pm, Kim West said:
when he walked around with mittens.
August 12, 2012 at 12:05 pm, Ron H Tankersley said:
What the fuck!
August 12, 2012 at 1:45 pm, Pat Bowen said:
seriously????
August 12, 2012 at 2:17 pm, Maureen Barta said:
did you read some of the comments? unbelievable. mitt being mitt
August 13, 2012 at 1:38 am, Jann Gest said:
pitiful
August 12, 2012 at 3:20 pm, Diane Miller Montefusco said:
Well, birds of a feather…Koethe is a sleaze…just like Romney and Ryan.
August 12, 2012 at 4:56 pm, Nuns Challenge Romney To Spend A Day With Them To Learn About Plight Of America’s Poor | ThinkProgress « Ye Olde Soapbox said:
[...] Here’s the house of the farmer Mitt Romney visited to get in touch with rural plight (deathandtaxesmag.com) [...]
August 14, 2012 at 10:57 pm, Deb McMurry Rosa said:
I'm not saying that the owner of this home is not a farmer, but I know for a fact that it isn't located on a farm! It's right in the middle of Clive, Iowa with houses all around it. Not a cornfield in sight!
August 14, 2012 at 11:17 pm, Jeff Brackin said:
We saw it monday and wondered what it was. Think he had a garden with corn in it. Not good
September 28, 2012 at 4:07 am, Slade Grantham said:
looks just like my house… if I could afford one.