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If you believe she’s not a resident, then you’re pretty well insisting that members of Congress have to be wealthy enough to pay for 2 homes in order to serve. That’s just silly. I treat this just like I would military personel stationed overseas. They’re residents of whatever jurisdiction they were in until they establish residency in another US location. She’s a Lousiana resident until she leaves Congress, in my opinion, unless she establishes a residence outside of the DC area.
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This is the kind of self-inflicted wound that has done in many senators and representatives over the years. Landrieu is an idiot to allow this to happen. It ended Santorum’s career, might end several this time. It is not that difficult to keep a place, and I have no sympathy for them if they do not do so.
Se. Roberts Tea Party primary opponent did the exact same thing in Kansas. Roberts opponent posted graphic x-rays of gun-shot fatalities to his facebook page, and said it was to relieve stress. Roberts won pretty easily, but the claim that he did not actually reside in Kansas did strike a nerve. His general election won’t be nearly as easy now. Thanks Tea Party! Another Republican bites the dust.
Hey, Republicans. How does it feel to be a disliked MINORITY???
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Millions of people are now living in their parents homes. millions more than before the people who fund the tea party collapsed the economy, College graduates who can’t find a job, middle aged people who lost their jobs and their house, kids who’ve moved back home to take care of a parent who’s dying or suffering from dementia or just not doing well. All of them would be shocked to discover that, by Teanut logic, this means they aren’t residents of their own state.
The irony here, of course, is that teanuts are the same people who insist that college students shouldn’t be deemed citizens of the state where they go to college but, instead, should only be allowed to vote in whatever state their parents live in.
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Well, there was another issue. He complained about public schools and endeared himself to wingnuts when he said his children were home-schooled. After the family moved to Virginia, he enrolled them in a PA online school that offered free computers, internet service and classes. It cost $38,000/year, and they were part of the program from 2001-2004. The PA taxpayers picked up the $100,000 tab.
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Apples and oranges. There were a lot of other non-residential factors in play in Santorum’s case – not the least of which was that Santorum was/is as crazy as a shithouse rat!
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Does this mean we can go back and unelect Cheney since he was actually a full-time resident of Texas when he was elected VP and broke the rule of the president and vice president being from the same state?
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Another desperate moron…probably runs the brain trust at the T.P.
I disagree, Nick. This is her parents’ house, which she grew up in — a bit different from listing contributors as landlords (like Roberts) or a PO Box (like another Republican incumbent did a couple of years back).
Regardless of party, my reaction to this kind of thing is the opposite from yours: It’s such non-substantive issue. Yeah, PO boxes and contributors house – that’s pretty cynical. But everyone in Congress lives in Washington most of the year – or else they’re not doing their jobs. Voters can decide for themselves whether a member is out touch of touch, but don’t tell me that it’s determined by how good a job he or she does of faking that they go “home” every night.
Shoot, wasn’t it Nick Danger himself who asked the question: “How can you be in two places at once when you aren’t anywhere at all-l-l? Dun-dun-dun-dun.”
So…does she sleep overnight there at anytime when she’s back in the district? I mean, she never stays with her parents when she’s home? She stays only in hotels, or what?
Does it really matter? Who cares where she sleeps when she’s back in her hometown? WHO she sleeps with is an entirely different question, but I’m not even interested in that.
As per this article, there’s no such rule barring same state Pres/VP couples.
True. The restriction is on the electors of a state, not on the candidates:
US Constitution, Amendment XII
The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves
However, since Bush and Cheney were both residents of Texas, that means that the electors of Texas would only be able to cast their votes for one of them. However, the election was so close (271 to 266) that if Cheney had been denied the 32 electoral votes of Texas he would not have had the majority of the electoral votes required for election. Since none of the Texas electors would be likely to vote for the Democratic candidate, none of the candidates would have a majority of all the electoral votes and the election of the Vice-President would have gone to the Senate in accordance with the 12th Amendment.
Since the Republicans controlled the Senate in 2000, Cheney would have eventually been chosen Vice-President anyway. However, a federal judge ruled that Cheney was actually a resident of Wyoming instead of Texas where he had lived for the past 10 years so the country was spared this additional spectacle in the debacle that was the presidential election of 2000.
Don’t be any sillier than you can help. Keeping a bachelor pad in the home district is a token at best.And since is costs money it makes it more difficult for all but the very wealthy to serve in Congress. Having a place with Mom and Dad when a great deal of time has to be spent in DC if you are going to do your job should suffice. It is far more important that she uses that rent money for touring the district and keeping in touch with her constituency.