If a man's home is his castle...

"We have flowers and flower beds back there," Paul Veselovsky said. "I mow the lawn every two weeks."

Imagine Vesolovsky's surprise when a picture of his house showed up on a political ad.

"It showed our house and huge title that said 'neighborhood ruined,'" he said.

Needless to say it upset the family.

"I got home to my wife crying for three hours and an eight-year-old who thought we were going to be kicked out of the neighborhood for having such and ugly house," Veselovsky said.

The flyer, paid for by the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, is supposed to denounce Drain Commissioner Pat Lindeman's Rain Gardens project in the Towar neighborhood.

"It shows the horrible condition of the weeds in these ditches," Chamber spokesperson David Doyle said.

But the Vesolovskys said the ad only shows their forsythia bushes.

"f you're going to make a political point about rain gardens, why not show the rain gardens, why pick on our house?" Veselovsky asked.

Doyle stands by the ad, but apologizes for any hurt this has caused.

"The home isn't singled out." Doyle said. "We tried to make it look like the neighborhood. We made sure not tell people who's home this is, you don't know the street."

The family said that's not enough.

"They picked on us," Veselovsky said. "In the political war that's going on, we became collateral damage. In one blow we went from proud homeowners to people with the house that ruins neighborhoods."