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He's fulfilling the LETTER of the residency requirement, but he's completely ignoring the INTENT of the residency requirement.

He's on record multiple times as saying carpetbagging is wrong, and yet he's carpetbagging. That's making himself a liar.

I'm not campaigning against a good senatorial candidate. I'm campaigning against an INVALID person who shouldn't even BE a candidate (at least not for the office he's gunning for). There is absoultely no way that out of the 2.5 MILLION registered Republicans in Illinois there are no good candidates, that is the lie of the Illinois GOP. And if they're telling the truth then there's problems there Keyes sure can't fix. This whole thing is a train wreck, Keyes validates Hillary, by picking him the Illinois GOP has just thrown in the towel for at least 6 years, it's not going to slow Obama down a bit, and it takes away Keyes from campaigning nationally. All around a stupid idea that both the Illinois GOP and Keyes should have been above.

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One more time: the intent of the residency requirement is found in its language. Exegesis vs. eisegesis.

Saying that there must have been another good, resident at the time, candidate doesn't say that conservatives were allowed to make any other winning move. It got down to a choice between Keyes and a Democrat voter and contributor favored by the party's State Chairman and her RINO insiders. It took Keyes' gravitas to prevent that.

Carpetbaggers during the Reconstruction, got their bad rap for being motivated by personal opportunities. Keyes is not an opportunist. As you have agreed, his motive was to save lives (and to serve).