Posted on 03/15/2012 11:06:48 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, who is facing a highly competitive GOP primary challenge, today was ruled ineligible to vote in his home precinct, the Indianapolis Star reported.
The Marion County Election Board voted 2-1 along party lines that Lugar and his wife, Charlene, who own a home in Virginia, had effectively abandoned their residence in the county and therefore could no longer vote there. Only the panel’s lone Republican voted to let the Lugars keep their eligibility.
The newspaper, however, cited election board attorneys who said the Lugars could resubmit voter registrations using an address of a family member or possibly the Lugar family farm. Lugar had been using an outdated address for a home he no longer owns in Indiana. Lugar has been dogged for months by the revelation that he has been staying in hotels when returning to Indiana for state work.
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Dicks shouldn’t be allowed to vote anyway.
“Dicks shouldn’t be allowed to vote anyway.”
There is a lawsuit from some Indiana citizens about that, as well.
“When is Lugar’s Senate primary election?”
It’s May 8.
This is priceless. Indeed, Richard Lugar’s residency problems can be seen as a symbol of everything that is wrong with Congressional politics today.
I left Indiana in 79.
Have not voted there since I left.
I only returned for my parents, since last May they are gone.
My shadow will not darken that state again.
They cannot even afford corn.
This will defenitely hurt RINO Lugar in the Republican primary, and perhaps the general election as well.
Always knew there was something about Dick. My dad did some work for him back in the 70’s when he was Mayor of Indy. His campaign guy?? Mitch Daniels. And Dick can’t say he forgot. He has a photographic memory.
The entire Congress needs to be assessed and fumigated.
The Senate is the final judge of its own members' qualifications (Art. I, sec. 5, cl. 1), and the Senate seated Lugar, so he can't be removed. I assume this was to embarass him when he runs for re-election.
Here’s another thread. Richard Lugar has been claiming a false address for some time and is not eligible to vote in his own primary.
The primary is on May 8. I hope you vote for Richard Mourdock that day.
http://www.richardmourdock.com/1977/
Heh heh...
Of course, we shouldn’t laugh too much, many of us may be denied our voting rights in November.
Thanks Clintonfatigued.
Mourdock, the state Treasurer, would be the prohibitive favorite in November against Congressman Donnelley.
Joe Donnelly is only running because he barely won in 2010 and redistricting moved the district east, dooming his reelection prospects. He might not even campaign actively if Lugar wins the primary.
If Lugar voted in Indiana, then it appears he also committed a fraud.
If Lugar is not considered eligible to vote, he should be disqualified as a candidate since this would mean he is not a resident of IN. If by some dreadful chance he wins renomination, Mourdock should sue to have him removed from the ballot (perhaps he should now).
The sole residency requirement for U.S. Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Constitution is that the person be an inhabitant of the state *when he is elected*. There are state laws, of questionable constitutionality, that impose longer residency requirements for U.S. congressional candidates; I don’t know what Indiana law provides, but surely Lugar can establish residency before the primary, not to mention far before the election.
Lugar’s residency kerfuffle is a great political issue, but a lousy legal issue. Mourdock should just keep hammering away at Lugar for being out of touch, not conservative enough and a Beltway insider, and beat him in the primary, or else we’ll be stuck with Lugar for 6 more years.
This could be what enables Richard Mourdock to break through. So often, it’s the local and parochial issues that cause turnover more than national trends.
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