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SUNDAY: Largent says townhouse misunderstood

133 C Street SE -- It is located half a block east of the Cannon Building and right behind the Madison Building on Capitol Hill in Washington./TOM ALEXANDER for the Tulsa World

By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
Published: 7/18/2009 4:17 PM
Last Modified: 7/18/2009 4:41 PM

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Steve Largent believes the media spotlight triggered by back-to-back scandals have left a number of misconceptions about a Capitol Hill townhouse that Sen. Tom Coburn and other lawmakers use as their home away from home.

Largent, who lived in the C Street townhouse for several years when he represented Oklahoma in Congress, conceded residents and those associated with the group that owns it could have been more forthcoming about what goes on there.

“That’s what should happen,’’ he said. “Some of it is our own fault. I admit that.’’

Coburn, R-Okla., declined to comment.

And calls to those listed on a 990 form filed with the Internal Revenue Service by the group known as the Fellowship Foundation went unreturned.

The tax-exempt foundation is believed to be something of an umbrella group that covers the ownership of the C Street house.

Questions have been raised previously about what some see as a code of silence that residents at the townhouse observe, but the scandals involving Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., and Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., have made the townhouse somewhat renowned.

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