Elections matter, and being an informed voter matters. If voters don't pay attention, and don't take a little time to find out things like... for example... where candidates actually live. Well... this is what happens:
From the Evansville Courier & Press
Republican Dan Coats is looking to buy a home in Indiana after winning an Indiana U.S. Senate seat but says he'll keep his Virginia townhome and stay there while working in Washington.
Coats is a former U.S. senator who won a return trip in Tuesday's election.
He's now renting a home in Indianapolis and says he and his wife plan to buy a home in the area. He says that won't happen until they sell their second home in North Carolina.
More after the jump...
After winning his Senate race, Coats apparently felt it was important to at least pretend he cared enough about Indiana to own some real estate or other property here.
I'm still waiting for the local Republicans who were up in arms that Hillary clinton was running for Senate in NY but "wasn't a resident" to criticize him over this... but not holding my breath.
I understand that Ellsworth was far from perfect as a Democratic Congressman. There were many times that I wanted call his office, either in DC or here in Evansville, and scream at him for positions and for caucusing with the Blue dogs. But when push came to shove, most of the time he made the right vote. He voted for the (horrendously watered-down) Health Care Reform Bill.
But it absolutely kills me that people in this state OVERWHELMINGLY voted for a guy who for all intents and purposes wasn't a resident. How can he understand what matters to Hoosiers if he wasn't a Hoosier?
Here's hoping that he'll quickly get tired of the "governing" thing and step down to go back to his lucrative lobbying career?