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Fresh Intelligence November 10 2005: spills the beans: “Global warming crusader Laurie David may be an expert when it comes to lecturing others about the evils of SUVS and the redemptive power of energy saving light bulbs. But when it comes to conserving her own backyard, it seems she’s still a little green. Sources say David—a Martha’s Vineyard summer resident and the wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David—recently found herself on the receiving end of an indignant eco-critique after angry locals on the tony island accused her and her husband of endangering protected wetlands.”
So what crimes against nature did the Beautiful Couple commit that incurred the wrath of their equi-liberal neighbors? They, who scold the rest of us for not driving the Prius, erected a 26-foot-long barbecue, stone-and-concrete bonfire pit, and an outdoor theater on an environmentally sensitive patch of their landed estate. They removed protected native vegetation in order to plant a fertilizer-guzzling lawn and invaded sacred swampland.
As always, with the Rich and Famous, it is never their fault, as their misdeeds can be ever conveniently blamed on the “hired help”, and that is exactly what the Davids did. In a letter to the commission, the Davids explained that their encroachment onto wetlands was the fault of their “former” property manager, Michael Halbreich, a trained lawyer and environmentalist. He has now been “canned”, thereby exonerating the Davids from any wrong-doing, as Larry David explained: “Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the person (actually a friend) whom I hired to oversee installing a barbecue area (among other things) on Martha’s Vineyard, was completely negligent in obtaining proper permits, which he assured us and others numerous times he had. In short, we were scammed.”
Why would such devoted zealots risk their reputation as do-gooders with such unnatural acts against Mother Earth? Their next door neighbor explained. Jacqueline Mendez-Diez claims that there was not enough time to jump through the legal loopholes and still have their planned project finished for the arrival of VIP and environmentalist know-it-all Robert Kennedy Jr. Mendez-Diez said: “There was a frenzy of building before he came. You couldn’t drive past the house because trucks would be spilling out into the road, and everyone was talking about what was going on there, wondering if the King of England was coming or something.”
Martha Vineyard’s conservation officer, Rusty Walton, who cited Mrs. David, wrote in his notes: “Mrs. David was seriously upset … . The discovery of problems on her property was therefore embarrassing, as it gives an appearance of hypocrisy.” Tinkerty Tonk has also described the environmental disaster and ruined vacation paradise of the Hollywood left and Rodham-Clintons that was formerly the pristine Martha’s Vineyard. Linked at basil’s blog “Open Trackbacks”.
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I am Laurie and Larry David’s next door neighbor on Martha’s Vineyard. I live here full-time; they are summer residents.
Laurie David, who is well known for yelling at Hummer or SUV drivers, also yells at anyone who publicly criticizes the ostentatious and environmentally damaging construction by the Davids on the Vineyard.
I have publicly spoken out against the ceaseless building by the Davids. They are now adding 2 antique barns, an ice house, and a new road to their lastest revamping of our Chilmark landscape. For my daring to speak agaInst them, I have been threatened, through the Davids’ attorney, for allegedly damaging the Davids’ reputations.
If I had built a 26′ long BBQ center on ecologically fragile land, and with each use during a very dry summer, I was burning the overhanging environmentally protected tree, I would have the well-deserved reputation as an eco-idiot.
The Davids don’t need me. They have done a fine job themselves of showing their neighbors, the community, and the world exactly who they are.
Mrs. David has stated that people should be allowed to build whatever they want on their own property. That’s quite an attitude from an environmentalist– one who endangered other people’s property with fire all summer.
Laurie David can yell and scream all she wants. The Davids are indeed what they do, not what they say.
Comment by Jackie Mendez-Diez — December 13, 2005 @ 11:08 am
You seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Laurie David.
Didn’t Al Gore win a Nobel Peace Prize for that film which she produced? Methinks she has little to prove in that regard. Somehow, wailing about “26-foot long barbecue” pits seems hysterical.
Comment by Joe — May 31, 2009 @ 12:33 pm