Posted on 08/28/2014 4:27:33 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
NEW ORLEANS — In Washington, Sen. Mary Landrieu lives in a stately, $2.5 million brick manse she and her husband built on Capitol Hill.
Here in Louisiana, however, the Democrat does not have a home of her own. She is registered to vote at a large bungalow in New Orleans that her parents have lived in for many decades, according to a Washington Post review of Landrieu’s federal financial disclosures and local property and voting records.
On a statement of candidacy Landrieu filed with the Federal Election Commission in January, she listed her Capitol Hill home as her address. But when qualifying for the ballot in Louisiana last week, she listed the family’s raised-basement home here on South Prieur Street.
The New Orleans house, which Landrieu claims as her primary residence, is a new flash point in one of the most closely contested Senate races in the country. Republicans are considering taking legal action to question Landrieu’s residency in the state, arguing that since winning her seat in 1996 she has become a creature of Washington.
For Landrieu, there are hazardous parallels to other recent cases in which residency questions have dogged incumbents. Former senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) lost reelection in 2012 after reports that he stayed in hotels when he returned to Indiana, while Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) is drawing flack this year for not having a home of his own in Kansas and listing a donor’s house as his voting address.
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mary is quite the “clever” criminal.
This is all very troubling and it would be advisable for the RNC to not only look into Landrieu’s home ownership and living arangement in New Orleans, but also every other Democratic House and Senate members across the country.
They all go to DC to get rich if they’re not already rich. If they are, they go to get richer. There is no valid reason for a senator to build a $2.5 million mansion in the DC area. There is no reason for any of them to own houses in the DC area.
GOP can’t really do anything after the Roberts fiasco
Yet she has the nerve to run an ad against her opponent_a doctor_ because he “favors tax cuts for MILLIONAIRES!” Like she`s poor and working class and doesn`t “vote like a politician!” The Landrieus are dynastic politicians and have been sucking at the public trough for generations!
real piece of work there
Term limits for Congress...that is what we need...
Hopefully, the masses have reserved a light pole for her back home.
Maybe she came claim that as an address.
Agreed. If they own a small condo or something similar in D.C., that makes sense. But to have a D.C. residence that’s bigger and better than their residence in their home state should be a big red flag to the constituents that they need to lose the next election. And if they don’t even have a real residence in their home state, they should be exposed and shamed into resigning.
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