Dem Senator Landrieu Insists Her $2.5M Home Is Not a ‘Mansion’

During a stump speech this weekend in Bogalusa, La., Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) bashed her opponent, Republican Bill Cassidy, for owning a large mansion just outside Louisiana State University’s campus.

In an attempt to perhaps paint herself as not part of the so-called “1%,” Landrieu quickly shifted gears to reassure the audience that her own $2.5 million townhouse in Washington, D.C., does not count as a “mansion.”

“They say I lived in a mansion?” Landrieu asked before pulling a friend named “Carmen” up to the microphone to back up her claim that her D.C. residence is not as fancy as a real mansion.

“It’s a town home, which I also have a home in New Orleans,” Landrieu added.

The incumbent Democrat has come under fire for listing her D.C. non-mansion on her statement of candidacy, but using her parents’ New Orleans address when qualifying for the ballot.

According to the conservative America Rising PAC, Landrieu’s home is only 36 feet wide because it is in a historic district of the capital city. Also, it has “7,316 square feet with five bathrooms, four water heaters, and two dishwashers.”

We’ll call it a mansion-like non-mansion townhome. Happy?

Watch below, via America Rising PAC:

[h/t Ellen Carmichael]

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