Comments on Advance Indiana™: If Charlie White Committed Voter Fraud, Then So Did Evan Bayh

Cato - That's not quite the standard, is it? I...

2011-03-14T06:49:31.820-05:00

Cato - That's not quite the standard, is it? IC 3-5-5-9 is what you're mangling and it puts things the other way around. "If a person moves to another state with the intention of remaining in the other state for an indefinite time as a place of residence, the person loses residency in Indiana, even if the person intends to return at some time."

I wouldn't be surprised to see statements to the press that they're going to stay in Illinois for as long as it takes or other such indications that their time in Illinois is of an indefinite nature, contingent on events happening a certain way in Indianapolis. If they haven't, the Republicans really ought to be prompting them on the record for a definite time for their return.

Now the problem isn't that they would lose their seats. So far as I can tell they would serve out their terms. The problem is the residency challenges that would be issued if they attempt to run again.

My personal preference is that there's some sort of clock. It's ticking. The Democrats in Urbana are informed of it and they come back home before they run out of time. But taking a 2 year time out from the GA while they requalify for holding office would be a not-so-bad plan B that would discourage this sort of behavior in future.

Never, TM. Those Democrats have never formed an in...

2011-03-13T19:59:31.719-05:00

Never, TM. Those Democrats have never formed an indefinite intent to remain in Illinois.

If you really want to toss the cat in among the ca...

2011-03-13T16:11:39.348-05:00

If you really want to toss the cat in among the canaries, ask when the Democrats hiding out in Urbana lose their residency.

He can piggyback on his dad while he's growing...

2011-03-13T13:51:25.829-05:00

He can piggyback on his dad while he's growing up, Paul, but once he became an adult and was living out on his own as he readily admitted was the case, he should not have been allowed to continue using the farmhouse in Shirkieville as his voting address. He actually was driving a BMW with out-of-state license plates and an out-of-state driver's license when he started campaigning for secretary of state. I think White is well within his rights to stay in office and fight the charges if he believes he's innocent. I think the way Evan and Susan made their millions of dollars by trading on his public service is a far greater crime against the public than what White is accused of doing.

That law protecting a Senator from losing his resi...

2011-03-13T13:42:07.867-05:00

That law protecting a Senator from losing his residency because of service shouldn't have applied to Evan Bayh. It was his father who was in D.C. serving in the Senate, not Evan. I didn't recall he bought a condo downtown. I don't know how he was voting in Vigo County, but unlike Lugar the Bayhs continued owning the property.

There are a lot of examples of the law being violated. Charlie White is exactly right that he's being singled out.