Posted on 08/29/2014 9:30:48 AM PDT by Ebenezer
This is not what embattled "Louisiana" Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu wanted to read in the Washington Post -- which, as it turns out, is her hometown paper:
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 Landrieus 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 familys 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 Landrieus 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 donors house as his voting address.
Lugar was dumped by primary voters last cycle (before the GOP frittered away the seat he vacated), and Roberts is only leading by high single digits in the ruby red state of Kansas. Landrieu is one of the most endangered Senate Democrats in the country, representing a state -- from afar -- that Barack Obama lost by 17 points in 2012. Landrieu has gone 'full Beltway.' She lives in her multimillion-dollar DC mansion (remember this tax-related flap?), not in the state she ostensibly serves. The Senator claims that she lives at her parents' house when she's in town, but neighbors, including some of her supporters, aren't so sure:
I dont think she lives there, said Fontaine Wells, 65, pointing at the Landrieu home. She might come visit, but come on now she lives in D.C. I dont think Ive ever seen her. Michael Fitzgerald, 61, has lived around the corner from the Landrieus for three decades. He said he sees Moon and Verna Landrieu regularly, as well as Mitch Landrieu, Marys younger brother and the citys current mayor, who lives in a home he owns nearby. On Election Day, [Mary] is seen at our polling place accompanying her parents. He added, I have not seen her lately... Shes been in the Senate for Ive lost count 16 years? 18 years?
Landrieu votes with Barack Obama 97 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly. The president and his signature legislative item, Obamacare, are hugely unpopular in Louisiana. Landrieu cast the deciding vote for that law, attacking critics for "lying" about its now-evident effects. At the time, she pledged to take '100 percent' responsibility for Obamacare's outcomes. Like these ones. Whether or not the incumbent Senator faces any serious eligibility issues remains to be seen, but the optics are bad. The "out of touch" attacks will only intensify, especially in light of the recent revelation that Landrieu inappropriately used taxpayer dollars to fund private jet trips for campaign events. To that end, I'll leave you with this clever bit of in-person trolling from a Republican group last week:
[Watch video on http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/08/29/uh-oh-mary-landrieu-facing-residency-questions-in-louisiana-n1884583]
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hmmmm....this has all the hallmarks of being thrown under the bus.
Question is by whom?
No ever a summer home in the provinces?
Game on ....
Nope, not even a little ol’ camp down on the bayou.
..........how could this Marxist-leftist, opportunist, carpet-bagger, ambidextrous pay check grabbing deadbeat serve 18 years in the Senate and not be a resident of the state she ostensibly is representing? Hell, I think I will go represent Montana! I like that state but I would rather LIVE in Texas!
What were here previous opponents thinking?
I’m surprised she isn’t registered to vote as a resident of a New Orleans cemetery. That’s where most of her constitutents are.
Do you have to own a home in the state your represent? Or is some other form of
residency okay? I wonder what she uses for income tax filings, drivers license,
voter registration, etc.
Perhaps she should run for Senator from the District of Columbia. LOL
They tried this against Roberts in Kansas and he still won his primary.
We have been trying to get Mary Landrieu out of office for years. We almost had her out but she manages to squeak by. Hopefully we can finish the job this time. I’m glad she doesn’t have a residence in Louisiana. Maybe that means she will relocate somewhere she will be appreciated - maybe Chicago. We don’t want her for sure!!!
A petty thing like this did not stop the “God Father”.
Not even a duck blind!
A: She is a democrat.
B: She is a Louisiana Democrat
C: If you pick on her you hate women - “War on Women.”
D: She is above the law.
Move along...nothing to see here, people will get mad and they will be outraged but at the end of the day our so called leaders (i.e. Reince Priebus) will huff and puff and stomp their little feet and then wet themselves and start looking for ways to “reach around, er across the aisle.”
she lives in her parents’ basement?
Well why not let her remain in the Senate. The putative POTUS is probably an illegal alien!!!!
May Louisiana win!!! and she be gone.
Exactly!
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