Posted on 08/31/2014 2:38:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
This election has been most difficult for U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) with one mistake after another taking her off message. First it was discovered that she was charging taxpayers for at least four campaign flights. Her embarrassing mistakes were not something Louisiana voters should expect from a Senator with so much experience. Mary Landrieu has been in political office since 1979 and has served in the U.S. Senate since 1997. It is inexcusable for Landrieu not to know that taxpayers should not be charged for campaign air travel.
Her latest stumble involves residency. When qualifying for re-election, Landrieu used her parents' house on South Prieur Street in New Orleans as her official address. This home is where her parents have lived for decades. It is a house that is jointly owned by Landrieu's mother and a family corporation, but it is not owned by the Senator.
The reality is that Mary Landrieu lives in Washington D.C. in a $2.5 million mansion. In a report with the Federal Election Commission, Landrieu listed her Capitol Hill home as her official address.
Not surprisingly, her GOP opponents have made her residency a major issue in recent days. It was first exposed by GOP challenger Col. Rob Maness who filed an official complaint with the Louisiana Secretary of State. Today, Maness filed additional complaints with four District Attorney offices across Louisiana. It is doubtful that Louisiana District Attorneys, many of whom are Democrats and in the midst of re-election campaigns, will take action against Landrieu.
Nonetheless, her questionable residency will be damaging for Landrieu with voters. It shows that the Senator is much more connected to Washington D.C. than she is to her hometown. While her Senate colleague David Vitter comes back to Louisiana every weekend and clearly lives in Metairie, outside of New Orleans, Landrieu is rarely seen at her “home.” According to one of her neighbors, Fontaine Wells, “I don’t think she lives there (the South Prieur home). She might come visit, but come on now — she lives in D.C. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her.”
In this election, residency questions are another reason for Louisiana voters to oppose Landrieu. She has supported unpopular President Barack Obama 97% of the time. She also voted for Obama's liberal judicial nominees and has supported causes such as gun control, abortion, amnesty for illegal aliens, and higher taxes, all of which are unpopular with most Louisiana voters. She cast the deciding vote on the horrendous Affordable Care Act, which is forcing thousands of Louisiana citizens to pay higher health insurance premiums. Finally, for the coup de grace, she is trying to mislead voters about her residency.
While the Senator is registered to vote in New Orleans, what address does she have on file with the IRS or on her driver's license? Does she even pay state income taxes in Louisiana? These issues need to be investigated. There is a good reason her neighbors have never seen her, Landrieu does not live there.
Landrieu, who is already very vulnerable, is now more vulnerable. According to the Senator, “I have lived at my home on Prieur Street most of my life, and I live there now, when not fulfilling my duties in Washington or serving constituents across the state.”
Her statement is ridiculous. Along with her husband, Landrieu does own real estate in Louisiana, but not a home. How often is Senator Landrieu at her parents' home? Does she sneak in late at night when no one sees her?
As Col. Maness noted to the Washington Post, “A U.S. senator shouldn’t be living with their parents.”
More importantly, a U.S. Senator should not be lying to her constituents.
Former Senator Tom Daschle did the same thing..listing his mother’s house in Aberdeen, SD as his official South Dakota residence while he actually lived just outside the beltway with his well paid lobbyist wife. He would only show up in South Dakota for an occasional photo op and when he was running for re-election.
I still remember that phony sugar story that got her elected at the last hour a number of years ago.
BUT shes a democrat and has a “get out of logic” card..
Her voters do not do “facts” they do “emotions/feelings”..
AND.. Suck the heads of crawfish or some other “thing”..
Louisiana needs to dump Miss Piggy
Landrieu is a political slut and will never be anything else.
So-is this story catching traction anywhere in the MSM? Or are they doing their usual “See no evil-report no evil” for anyone with a D next to their name?
Interesting article and raises questions for sure. A few I have include
What establishes residency for purposes of being a senator?
Does it require home ownership?
What address does she use for her drivers license, income tax filings [both federal and state],
residency address for voting,
Landrieu should come clean and let the voters of LA know.
Don’t forget the residential revisionism of the current mayor of Chicago.
If you do not own a house in the district or state, you are not qualified to represent the district or state.
On a British cop show on PBS, one of the main characters is a 49 year old female detective that's getting divorced.
She suggest to her mother that the mother should buy out the soon to be ex's half of the house, and move in her and the teenage kids, solving a number of problems.
The detective's partner says that now she could claim that the mother is living with her.
Next scene is the partner telling the new sergeant that the detective "lives with her mother"...
With a little bit of planning...
Reminds be of Barney Frank. He was living in Boston when the Pope told Rep. Fr. Drinan (D) (of Watergate notoriety) to get out of politics.
Frank rented an apartment in Drinan's district and successfully ran for Congress. Members of the Kennedy family do that a lot too.
If you do not own a house in the district or state, you are not qualified
to represent the district or state.
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Can you point me to that citation regarding home ownership?
Thanks
“Landrieu is a political slut and will never be anything else.”
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Roger That!
“Can you point me to that citation regarding home ownership?”
I’m not all that familure with Louisiana law as their legal system are based on Napoleonic Code, but I have never heard if a case of a congressman, senator or president not owning a home in their home district or home state.
If there is no residency requirements, then people could be elected to senate seats if states they have never lived or never even visited.
The Louisiana Queen of DeathCare and Obama Cohort, ya think?
Where did you find this bit of nonsense?
Here's what the Constitution says:
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. [U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 3]
Of course there is that certain segment of the population in La that will vote for her no matter what.
But, to me, these stories bring home all the debates about what Congress does/doesn’t do. Many say that the members of Congress get paid good money and take advantage of the numerous perks and that they do very little work for it. Question, have they done anything right over the last few decades? Barring a few examples, the whole body of Congress has been rather destructive.
I say, make their work schedule even shorter. Adjust their pay accordingly. Give them government housing. And then force them to be home with their constituents. Let them have to work like us normal folks, as the Founders intended, and adhere to the same policies they author and vote on.
If the law states that she needs a residence in La., and she doesn’t have one, then she gets kicked off the ballot being unable to qualify. Or better yet, let the voters decide and send her fatass packing.
But that does not answer what Louisiana law states about residency requirements for US senators.
If it was not a violation of state law, Col. Rob Maness would not use the issue against her.
Now watch all the “paid witnesses” start coming forward and telling they see her in New Orleans every Saturday.
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