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 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.
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 don’t 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 don’t think I’ve 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, Mary’s younger brother and the city’s 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... She’s been in the Senate for — I’ve 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]
So then, she still lives with her parents?
George H.W. Bush rented a hotel room in Houston for years until he retired. Those people go to cash in, not to serve.
This pig was also one of the last votes to put Obamacare over the top. This is her first election since then. I hope people remember that.
Even if this idiot loses, she’ll just move to K Street and join the hundreds of influence peddling ethical prostitutes infesting the Hill.
Here’s what the experts had to say on the matter:
“No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained
to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”
So she owns a $2.5 million home. I wonder what the average income is for “her” district?
If owning a home was required to vote then a large portion of the population
wouldn’t qualify. Now that may not be all that bad.
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The Second Louisiana Purchase...
Democrat US Senator Dick Clark was found not to own any real estate in Iowa and I believe a judge somewhere ruled he didn't have to own any.
He was defeated in his reelection bid.
“Maybe that means she will relocate somewhere she will be appreciated - maybe Chicago. We don’t want her for sure!!!”
I was thinking Iran.
Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.
The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."
THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (Scumocrat-LA) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare. But not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.
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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The $4.3 billion handoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and how tax dollars were laundered to help elect more lock-stepping Democrats.
“I’m sure they can find a Federal Judge who will rule she doesn’t need a house in Louisiana. “
Not uncommon with our “ruling class” in DC. They live in DC; but keep an address out in the sticks that they “represent”.
I assume it’s legal. The voters keep re electing them; and get what they deserve.
There are some good guys and gals who are in DC that truly live in their districts back home.
Democrats - Above the law. More likely than finding a judge, they will go to the folks who did The Emperor’s Long Form Birth Certificate, and will produce a lease agreement for a condo in Baton Rouge. Don’t need to own, you see, because she leases a place...
LANDRIEU SUCKS-UP FOR LATINO VOTES---chats w/ latino USSC justice.
Landrieu, Lugar, Roberts do not represent the exceptional mindset, but rather the rule. Perhaps worse, they are too pompous to make it appear they actually have roots in the province they supposedly inhabit.
Article V.
Just like Maryland’s third Senator Fast Eddie Markey(D-MA)
Mom and Dad's place---where she's registered.
I was thinking Iran.
Ooooh, better yet.
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