Posted on 03/19/2009 10:03:27 AM PDT by Steelfish
Why would folks in Alameda County, California want a Maryland resident representing them in Congress?
Yes, it's legal -- but only because the CA office of elections covers their ears and eyes and pretends not to know the 77-year-old Stark doesn't really live with his in-laws.
Posted by Jeff Emanuel March 19th
Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark (Democrat-Californyland) has represented California’s 13th Congressional District since January 1973. In 2007 and 2008, though, he claimed Anne Arundel County, Maryland, as his home, filing for tax exemptions on a waterfront house he claims is his only residence.
A fact sheet provided by the California secretary of state’s elections division (”Summary of Qualifications and Requirements for Partisan Nomination for the Office of United States Representative in Congress“) suggests that any candidate, incumbent or not, must at very least be a resident of the state in order to run for Congress:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Stark is the biggest Ahole in Congress.
Well, one of them.
I say string him up.
ANOTHER Democrat TAX EVADER!!!!
“ANOTHER Democrat TAX EVADER!!!!”
And a pleasant, well-spoken gentleman as well!
Do any of the demsocialists live in the states they claim to represent? Hillary, Stark, Emanuel, Rangel, Wexler, etc., etc., etc.
A California Congressman rooking Maryland by claiming homestead exemption to lower his property tax
shocking
At least we know the value Mr Stark places on his integrity
You stay classy, Fourtney.
How high are taxes in California if you have to use Maryland as a tax shelter?!?!
Dear Mom and Dad,
Thank you so much for not naming me Fortney. Doing so would certainly have caused me, or anybody, to become a total loser.
if his property is assessed at $17 million in MD, he could be “saving” about $800,000 in property tax by claiming to be a resident
chump change for a tax n spend lib
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