Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts Doesn't Actually Live In Kansas

[ProSense]

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts Doesn't Actually Live In Kansas

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) does not have a home in his home state of Kansas and, when he needs an address in the state, uses one that belongs to two donors.

According to The New York Times, Roberts, who is facing a primary challenge from tea party favorite Milton Wolf, uses the address of donors C. Duane and Phyllis Ross for voter registration and a place to sleep occasionally when he travels to the state.

"I have full access to the recliner," Roberts told the newspaper of the home in Dodge City, Kansas. "Nobody knows the state better than I do."

Roberts and his wife, a real estate broker, own a home in Alexandria, Virginia.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pat-roberts-house-kansas

Oh my!




Edited original to correct the state abbreviation.

[chollybocker]

1. Oh my! Who spilled tea on the carpet bagger?!

[kelliekat44]

38. Is this the "voter fraud" the Tea Party talks about so much? nt

[yeoman6987]

42. Oh Great

Now we will get another Tea Party jerk to join the others.

[RKP5637]

2. He's F'ed up his own state so badly he can't stand the stench he has made in KS.

BTW - they made an error, Kansas is KS not KY. KY is what the politicians use in Kansas to shove their policies up their constituents butts.

[valerief]

21. That's untrue. They don't lube first. They just shove. nt

[RKP5637]

22. Yep, no K-Y for KS! They've got some tough butt holes there in KS! n/t

[valerief]

23. Plenty of assholes anyway. nt

[Berlum]

3. Don't republicons do anything the honest way?

Must they lie and cheat about every-freaking-thing?

Their state of soul corruption is just staggering. What a drag they are on America and decency.

[RKP5637]

4. They never have a damn thing to offer to benefit humanity, so the only way they can

get anything done is to lie and cheat. Dishonesty is the mainstay of the GOP!

[kairos12]

7. The fact the rethugs do nothing honestly is referred to as Republican Excuseinalism.

[hue]

19. "Don't republicons do anything the honest way?" No.

[yuiyoshida]

40. This plus 1000

[okaawhatever]

5. Ommm...they list Pat Roberts (R-KY), KY is the abbreviation for Kentucky. I would be excited

except that it only means he'll lose to his tea party opponent. In a state with a more sane population I would think that would bode well for the future, but in Kansas it likely just means that there will be a tea bagger in for a long time.

[ProSense]

6. Yeah, I was hoping TPM would edit that immediately.

I was trying to decide whether to change it or edit it out. Sheesh!

[Cha]

8. Kansas not good enough for them? Like that BLUE STATE

BETTER?!!!!!11111

[libdem4life]

9. My first thought was...who can blame him? What's worse, Kansas must not know, or care.

[Coyotl]

10. FELONY to register to vote like that.

[ProSense]

12. Yeah, from the party that loves to yell "voter fraud." n/t

[underthematrix]

27. Yep. That's what I thought. I think we all need

to tweet darrell issa so he can get right on it.

[kentuck]

11. I'm pulling for his Tea Party opponent.

Roberts is a snake in the grass.

[greymattermom]

13. driver's license is the key

I sorta do this too, because who really wants to live in Kansas, but, I do have a cheapo apartment there in my name. The problem is registering cars and getting drivers' iicenses. You have to show proof of residence like a utility bill in your name, and you have to have a driver's license to get plates for your car. So, where is his driver's license? Probably not Kansas. Mine isn't.

[greymattermom]

14. photo id?

So, can he vote in Kansas? Unlikely, I think. He'd have to show a photo id.

[TexasProgresive]

15. I guess he learned to do that from George Herbert Walker Bush

Bush 41 claimed residence in Texas. The address was a hotel room that he and Barbara would reside when in Texas otherwise it was rented to whoever had the bucks to pay.

This ploy enabled Bush to be a resident of Texas without paying any property or school tax. They are masters of deceit and will do anything to avoid paying taxes.

[George II]

16. Same thing with DICK Cheney - his legal residence was Wyoming until he was picked....

...to be baby bush's puppeteer.

[Thinkingabout]

26. Cheney was a resident of Texas but had to change it in order to run as VP.

[George II]

28. Ooops, you're right! Got that mixed up.........

.....I got that one mixed up...

I remember he snuck up to Wyoming for an overnight stay to change his residency.

[George II]

17. Doesn't this constitute election fraud?

[hue]

18. He lives in the Emerald City behind the curtain--not in Kansas anymore!!

[valerief]

20. Shouldn't that disqualify him from being senator? nt

[DeSwiss]

24. I believe it does.

- Well at least it was back when we were still pretending to be a nation of laws......

Qualifications

Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for senators: 1) they must be at least 30 years old, 2) they must have been citizens of the United States for at least the past nine years, and 3) they must be inhabitants of the states they seek to represent at the time of their election. The age and citizenship qualifications for senators are more stringent than those for representatives. In Federalist No. 62, James Madison justified this arrangement by arguing that the "senatorial trust" called for a "greater extent of information and stability of character."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#Qualifications

[sofa king]

35. Sadly, in practice, it matters not.

Recall that the Constitution also specifically states that a Presidential candidate and his running mate may not be from the same state, yet America was destroyed by Texans Dick Cheney and George Bush.

In a preview of the election theft of 2000, the Supreme Court made the unusual decision to accept Cheney's bullshit claim of Wyoming residency, at least as flimsy as this one, as evidence that Cheney was not also a Texan.

Both Hilary Clinton and Robert Kennedy exploited lax residency laws in New York in order to run for the Senate in that state, and both won. Rumor had it Don Young hadn't been to Alaska in ten years. George H. W. Bush claimed residency in Texas when he was campaigning in stupid states and claimed to live in Maine when he campaigned in the smart ones.

The fact of the matter is that the rule of law in America is as imaginary as your civil rights. Residency never mattered to the ruling classes and it never will. It's just a construct to keep you and me out and to easily let them in.

[DeSwiss]

25. Not only is he not in Kansas anymore.....

....he never was in Kansas to begin with!

- Except to visit his ''constituents'' and raise money.

K&R

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[quakerboy]

29. Is that legal?

You could make the argument that he moved into that recliner in order to meet the residence requirement to be a senator there, maybe, but to remain registered to vote there when he doesn't keep residence, especially considering he does have a primary residence elsewhere, is that legal? If he has voted subsequent to that, wouldn't that be a prosecutable offense? I also wonder about taxes. Does he pay any state taxes? Which state, and are they in line with his legal obligations?

[greymattermom]

30. voter id laws

Don't you think all of the voter id laws apply here? It's time for payback.

[bluestate10]

31. The only voter fraudsters for the last decade plus have been republicans.

Voter ID laws are a smokescreen by those bastards to restrict voting by Black and Brown people, the Young and Single women.

[greymattermom]

32. proof of residence required

He needs to show some sort of proof of residence. I also never understood how Romney claimed to live in Massachusetts.

[KansDem]

33. HEY!!!

[packman]

34. He probably figured - in his Tea Party Logic

If the President is from Kenya, hell- he could be from just about anywhere and run for office

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

36. Oz, maybe?

[vinny9698]

37. You would think with Lugar losing his seat because of residency issue, they would have responded

http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/320487/how-the-residency-issue-sunk-sen-lugar.thtml
Some one on Lugar's campaign should have gotten a heads up, with Lugar losing because of residency.
How stupid can you be?

[donco]

39. Hhmm…perhaps

they have found a way to gerrymander across state lines.

[butterfly77]

41. Where's the media?

[LynneSin]

43. That's just bull

I respect the fact that most DC politicians who live outside the Mid-Atlantic region of the country would have a difficult time trying to live full time in their home state. But I think the least that these folks could do is keep some sort of residence and pay taxes to their home states. To say you have a 'recliner' in a donor's home doesn't cut the cake!

[bkanderson76]

44. Time For Elected Officials....Not Politicians

[KamaAina]

45. What's the matter with Kansas?

Someone needs to ask him that at his next presser.