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Jon Husted Looked Up From His Computer in UA Last Night To Curse

September 22, 2009 at 9:56 am Matt

Late last night, SoS Jennifer Brunner broke a tie and confirmed that Sen. Jon Husted doesn’t live in his district. The only shocking news here is that residency rules apparently matter if you’re a Republican. It wasn’t too long ago that the media was laughing off the legitimate story that then-Congressman Ted Strickland’s official residence was a tiny shack above his campaign headquarters. His defense is that he pays rent, gets mail, and has furniture Lisbon. And Husted even has a stronger case as, unlike Ted Strickland, Jon actually paid taxes in his home district.



When Professor Steven Huefner of OSU’s law school wrote a column defending Strickland’s residency, he took into account the same into the tax exemption (almost mentioned in the video above) that Brunner used to disqualify Husted.

His blog is no longer online, but when Matt Dole sent the story to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s letter to the editor email address, the unsigned response said the story was “lame.”

Also, apparently no one cares that Pat Tiberi’s challenger Paula Brooks didn’t even live in the district at the time of her announcement.

I am no defender of Jon Husted. But it will never cease to amaze me how the same Democrat party which wants to give the homeless the right to use a park bench as their voter registration address challenged Husted’s voter registration at a house he legitimately owns and maintains.

If the court didn’t force her hand, Brunner would have gladly dragged this situation out forever. But this is all good timing for the Democrats, considering the Ohio GOP just endorsed Jon Husted’s candidacy for Secretary of State last week. Maybe they should have waited?

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  • Jhonny Whosted

    Nevertheless, this couldn't have happened to a worse politician. Absentee State Senator Jon Husted should go home permanently…wherever that is.

  • The Constitution Rules

    The residency requirements for members of Congress are found in Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. There are no “district” residency requirements to run for a seat in the House.

    So Paula Brooks can live wherever she wants, it is NOT the same for State office holders.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=12409065 facebook-12409065

    It is still a residency question and a legitimate campaign issue.

  • http://www.rightohio.com Matt

    It is still a residency question and a legitimate campaign issue.

  • Anonymous

    It is still a residency question and a legitimate campaign issue.

  • http://www.rightohio.com Right Ohio

    It is still a residency question and a legitimate campaign issue.

  • http://www.buckeyerino.com/ Daniel Jack Williamson

    Let's not forget the residency contortions of Capri Cafaro, either. For the Ohio General Assembly, there is a residency requirement of one year prior to taking office in the district one seeks to represent. Within the year that Cafaro was appointed to the State Senate, she had changed residence outside that state senate district in order to compete as a resident candidate in the 13th Congressional District's Democrat primary, which was won by Sutton, who, herself, didn't reside in the 13th District at the time.

    I think it's appropriate for Husted's Kettering residency to be challenged, but I think the legislature needs to provide unambiguous legislation on residency matters, and I think the residency standards should be uniformly applied, not just to members of one party.

    I think Brunner is a total hypocrite in her ruling, when she set the bar so low for residency requirements for voter registrations with same-day early voting. Didn't we see video of people being recruited to register and vote all at once from the Greyhound bus terminal in Columbus, only to see these people return to their home states by Greyhound bus the very same day? Brunner just games the system any which way for partisan advantage, and that's all there is to it.

  • http://www.buckeyerino.com/ Daniel Jack Williamson

    Let’s not forget the residency contortions of Capri Cafaro, either. For the Ohio General Assembly, there is a residency requirement of one year prior to taking office in the district one seeks to represent. Within the year that Cafaro was appointed to the State Senate, she had changed residence outside that state senate district in order to compete as a resident candidate in the 13th Congressional District’s Democrat primary, which was won by Sutton, who, herself, didn’t reside in the 13th District at the time.rnrnI think it’s appropriate for Husted’s Kettering residency to be challenged, but I think the legislature needs to provide unambiguous legislation on residency matters, and I think the residency standards should be uniformly applied, not just to members of one party.rnrnI think Brunner is a total hypocrite in her ruling, when she set the bar so low for residency requirements for voter registrations with same-day early voting. Didn’t we see video of people being recruited to register and vote all at once from the Greyhound bus terminal in Columbus, only to see these people return to their home states by Greyhound bus the very same day? Brunner just games the system any which way for partisan advantage, and that’s all there is to it.

  • http://wellsy.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/no-sympathy-for-husted-here/ No sympathy for Husted here « Wellsy’s World

    [...] to come this guy’s defense in the face of material worthy of some serious head-shaking. Right Ohio brings up some valid examples of Democratic residency issues, but the larger point is this – [...]

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