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West Boca Makes News With Romney

West Boca Raton has vaulted into the national news thanks to a Romney fundraiser held at the Leder home in Long Lake Estates. Apparently this $3M mansion (which is really only upper middle class by Boca standards) was not used by Leder for sex parties in the past.
Here’s a satellite shot of the neighborhood, with the house in question (we think this is the one) at lower left:
House where the Romney fundraiser was held
While the news media is making a big deal of all this, from what we can tell speaking to residents this is not important to them. And this is a swing area in a swing state. That, however, does not explain Leder’s swinging parties.
Here’s a brief video report from the always neutral MSNBC:

And to be fair to Mr. Leder, here are a couple video interviews with him and he seems like a pretty competent guy, unfortunately caught in a vicious news cycle: