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Do you think it is a good idea for someone with political ambitions to buy a residence in your state and then declare themselves a candidate for office?
The Clintons did not own a house anywhere when Bill Clinton left office. They sold their Arkansas house any years prior when he became governor and moved into the governor's mansion. They did nothing unethical by purchasing a home in New York.
You live there. You are eligible to be elected there.
I have a problem with out of state donors using their money to influence elections and this is another one of those things that is as bipartisan as it gets.
The Clintons did not own a house anywhere when Bill Clinton left office. They sold their Arkansas house any years prior when he became governor and moved into the governor's mansion. They did nothing unethical by purchasing a home in New York.
Do you think it is a good idea for someone with political ambitions to buy a residence in your state and then declare themselves a candidate for office?
HELL NO!
How can they competently represent a state they've never lived in?
It's like Clinton being a NY senator. Now, when running for President, she has a southern drawl. She was born in frikkin Chicago! (go figure) She went to college in Massachusetts, and then Yale in Connecticut. She's about as southern as a Canadian.
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Originally Posted by middle-aged mom
I have a problem with out of state donors using their money to influence elections and this is another one of those things that is as bipartisan as it gets.
They should be required to live in the state for a certain number of years before representing it.
I do agree that out of state donors are nothing but special interests which subvert our political system for their own ends to the detriment of the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_C...ice_Presidency
A few months before the 2000 election Cheney put his home in Dallas up for sale and changed his drivers' license and voter registration back to Wyoming. This change was necessary to allow Texas' presidential electors to vote for both Bush and Cheney without contravening the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which forbids electors from voting for someone from their own state for both President and Vice President.
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