Democrats swarmed when news broke last year that Mitt Romney had bought a $12 million mansion in La Jolla, California — only to tear it down to build a house on the same land with four times the square footage. Romney bristled at the story, insisting that he was only doubling the size if you don’t count the basement and garage.
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