Kamala Harris hosts big-ticket fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard as high costs force workers, Natives to flee
Fox News contributor Joe Concha provides reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris' concern about Black voter turnout and recent calls for a moderate Democrat to run in 2024.greeted supporters on Martha’s Vineyard Saturday on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign. resort was touted as a"grassroots fundraiser."
Martha’s Vineyard as a result, they say, is now unaffordable for the average person, increasingly hostile to both working-class residents and its Native Wampanoag population, and ruthlessly intolerant of opinions that run counter to hard-woke Democrat talking points. Then-President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, left, look on as Malia, right, fixes her helmet before riding bicycles while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard in 2009.
A sprawling mansion in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 18, 2016. The average home sale on Martha's Vineyard in the first half of 2023 was $2.1 million. Few expenses paired with astronomic real estate prices mean island communities can fund their thin budgets with taxes a fraction of those elsewhere in Massachusetts or around the nation.
Meanwhile, a night out to eat at a casual restaurant for working families, a luxury even in less expensive parts of the country, is nearly impossible on Martha’s Vineyard. Many local eateries close in the off-season and charge exorbitant prices to capitalize on the short three-month tourist season. The 2020 U.S. Census reported that 89.2% of island residents are White, compared with nationwide population that was only 59% White.
"We have a major housing crisis as it is," Rachel Hines, who works for the nonprofit Vineyard Preservation Trust, told Fox News Digital at the time. "We are becoming a third-world country with the haves and have nots," one long-time island resident told Fox News Digital.
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