Posted on 07/01/2010 9:00:01 AM PDT by Kansas58
"If I were Wink Hartman, I'd use the tornado defense.
Hartman, 64, is the front-runner for an open congressional seat in south-central Kansas.
He's an oilman who has made his mark in Wichita, where he built a sports arena and owns a popular restaurant.
But he's also a guy who is getting a tax break this year by claiming that the waterfront Florida home he and his wife own in Highland Beach is their primary residence. He has a valid Florida driver license, is still listed as a Florida voter, and has a Florida polo league named after him.
These are inconvenient facts for a Kansas candidate who went on Wichita radio this month to say that campaign talk about him spending time in Florida is bunk.
A certified homesteader
"To be very direct with you," Hartman said on the radio show, "I've never left Kansas and I never did move to Florida."
Did I mention he's a conservative Republican who wants tougher border enforcement and is "100 percent against amnesty in any way"?
So even though Hartman doesn't look Mexican, somebody in Kansas ought to ask for his papers. Then we can discuss what sort of amnesty is appropriate in his case.
Hartman's papers would show that he left Kansas for Palm Beach County in 2005, where he bought a $4 million house and called it home, which allowed him to receive a property-tax reduction.
When the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's Office sent out a renewal notice for the homestead exemption this year on Hartman's Highland Beach home, it came back with a sticker that said "temporarily away."
(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...
Wink Hartman ran silly commercials about his own, manufactured, "clean campaign" pledge, with only HIS signature on the "pledge" --- Now Hartman is spending his money attacking Pompeo over nonsense!
Please do what you can, to help Mike Pompeo. Mike is the true conservative, in this race.
Wink Hartman is such an idiot, Hartman his running TV spots quoting a “supporter” who has already contributed to Obama and Ravjeev Goyle, who is the DEMOCRAT in the SAME DISTRICT!
Hartman may wish he hadn't said that he never moved to Florida. If so I don't think he's eligible for the Homestead Exemption. Florida will get him for that :-)
Well, because Hartman runs TV and radio advertising claiming to be a “life long Kansan”, maybe?
Funny, when Hartman got arrested for Drunk Driving, in Kansas, he even used a Florida driver’s license!
Hartman VOTES in Florida, I wonder if Hartman is a Charlie Crist supporter???
What in the heck is a guy who got a DUI doing running for office? I think that if you have any record you should be banned from running for office. I don’t believe for a second that this guy is conservative. DUI??? That definitely does not look good in God’s eyes...no way! Why can’t we find normal conservatives without baggage? If these folks are representative of the area they represent then they definitely should not run....there is no way that a majority of people get or have DUIs.
LEFT OF CENTER!
I kid you not!
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