LA street artists hit Maxine Waters at her Hancock Park mansion. Hancock Park is outside the congressional district Waters represents in Congress but she lives there anyway. Because it’s nicer there, duh. Yes, this is illegal but, let’s face it, accusing a Democrat of doing something illegal is a futile exercise in redundancy.
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I hate to say anything positive about Mad Maxine but I must correct the erroneous assertion that it is illegal not to live in the district she represents. It is not illegal nor is it required that candidates for federal office live in the district they represent. State office holders are usually required to live in the district they represent, but FEDERAL office holders are NOT. There are 3 requirements to hold the office of Representative to Congress:
1. You must be 25 years of age.
2. You must be a U.S. Citizen for at least 7 years.
3. You must reside in the STATE you represent on election day.
That's IT. Shockingly low requirements but that's all that is required.
For the US Senate you must be 30 and a citizen for 10 year and #3 rule
also applies. There are no other requirements.
By the way, I knew this. I was just checking to see if the rest of you were paying attention. Yep.
LOL!!
I did not know that. Thanks, Teri. So apparently it's merely tradition that congresscritters reside in the district they represent. This reminds me of the Brits, who were famous for buying and selling seats in Parliament, the seats often ending up with representatives who could barely find their district on a map. I recently read a biography of Edmund Burke who represented Bristol for quite a while and the book mentioned that he often went years without even visiting Bristol... much to the consternation of the merchants in Bristol who were paying his campaign expenses. Seems like a dysfunctional system to me.
JP, where some of the confusion may come in is within states. In Kalifornia, you have to live in the district you represent when your in the Kalifornia Assembly or Senate, on the national scene, you don't. I don't know about other states but a lot of them have "at large" voting. Where I grew up in North Dakota both senators and the House members are at large. So you could have two from the same city.
Yeah, a friend of mine was involved in a controversy here in Grand Rapids recently, involving a candidate who did not reside in the district. But like you said, that was the state legislature.
At large? More like livin' large.
While he constituents have to live on Red Bull and Cheetos....Paid for by EBT.
It would have to be EBT. Red Bull is too expensive.
Old hag doesn't like the neighborhood that she's supposed to represent so she just moved. Thats a dim wit lying bitch for you. All the laws and rules apply to the little people and not her. Hey all you folks who are supposed to have Waters representing you. How does it feel to know that she looks down upon you and loathes you? She won't even live in the district that she's elected from. Only a dim wit and one from California can get by with this one. Even Jackson-Lee can't pull this one off and that is saying something.
You are wrong. She is NOT REQUIRED to live in the district although traditionally they do.
I'm willing to bet the NAACP and the NBPP are looking for this guy, you can't diss one of their heroes like that.
What??? Does this mean a Commucrat is a hypocrite?? Why who ever thought?
Maybe like Landrieu she gots herself an empty lot in her district to call home...
Just another racist low IQer that blacks keep voting in to power because of tribalism.
Aunt Esther?
http://www.adamcarolla.com/wp-content/gallery/2012-02-10-dr-drew/07-aunt-esther-vs-maxine-waters.jpg
At least Aunt Esther lived in the place she represented.
It's NOT required that she live in the district. I know this because I did not live in the district I would have represented had I won the general election and had the pleasure of making my Democrat opponent look like a fool over it. When he pointed out I didn't live in the district, I was able to say that I was shocked that he did not know the requirements to hold the office he had been in for 22 year and embarrass him in front of the crowd. It is a common misconception along with the one that you get the salary for life after serving one term. You must serve 20 years to vest for a Congressional pension.
True.
As A side note, I loved the background music so much I had to look it up. His name is Uncle Lucius, and I have a new favorite band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5wK8PHdtUA
Well, he has already been paid a visit by the S.S. so the next step must be the I.R.S.
This is the same artist the Secret Service interviewed for anti-Obama art?
I'm surprised they haven't broken his fingers.