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Posted on 07/30/2008 7:21:49 AM PDT by rface
In case you missed the recent media frenzy, my Republican opponent and Fox News conservative Bill O'Reilly have questioned my commitment to Florida and my qualifications to represent my district in Congress. Let me set the record straight......
My wife, Laurie, and I purchased property in Maryland so our family could be together, and I established my residency at my in-laws' home in Delray Beach. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a federal official working in Washington automatically keeps his Florida residency while serving. There is no requirement to own property to serve in Congress....
O'Reilly, in particular, has a "vendetta against" me because I forwarded an e-mail to my supporters criticizing Fox News for its biased reporting......
.....As a result, Laurie and I have decided to lease a residence of our own in my congressional district......in Florida.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
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Gives me the creeps.
“There is no requirement to own property to serve in Congress....”
A true lie. You don’t know to “own” property in you stae of residence to serve in Congress, you can rent a residence. Wexler does neither. What a dissembling POS.
I thought he had a man-crush on Scott McCellan.
Clinton has taught us all to “parse” such phrases carefully. You might call it lying with an irrelevant truth.
Thus, one of his commonest sayings while he was president, in response to any charge against him, was: “There is no evidence.” Meaning that he had carefully shredded it.
Good for BOR. If only he was as hard on Obama. Hey, BOR Obama ain’t coming on your show so give it up and stop kissing his arse.
The other night, BOR was defending Obama’s decision to workout at the Ritz rather than visit wounded soldiers..what a putz.
I hope the voters in that District toss him out on his ear in November. You don’t even care enough about your constituents to live in the same District with them.
Hit the road, Jack.
This is the typical Democratic response to being caught: don’t admit that you did something wrong/sleazy and make ammends by correcting it. (of course thereby acknowledging that it was wrong/sleazy in the first place, but who’s gonna notice?)
Wexler is a worm.
1. Is Wexler paying any of the property taxes for the property he owns in state of Maryland.
2. Does the Florida ruling affect his Maryland residence?
3. Technically, his in-laws own the residence in Florida, is there a lease agreement showing Wexlers as a resident of the property?
4. If he represents your district, shouldn't he live there instead of 1500 miles away?
This is just the begining of this issue. Wexler, by admitting he is now leasing a residence in Florida, has basically admitted he is doing something wrong, or at the very least unethical.
I hope the voters in that District toss him out on his ear in November. ........................ Unlikely, most are from NYC and they love him because when he speaks to them they don’t need a hearing aid. LOL
The comments to the article raise some interesting points as well.
Typical Dem: “One rule for me, another for thee.”
By his logic, I could establish my parent’s home in Florida as my legal residence. I could stay here in NC, but not have any tax obligations, other than the property tax on the home I own here, and sales-tax on my expenditures. COOL! I’ll have to look into this!
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Wexler = typical cynical communist.
And like all worms he’s very good at crawling in a stinking hole and hiding. The filthy rat only lets you email him if you prove that you live in his district. Rep. Bill Young from my district, as a counter example, has a standard house email address that he leaves open for all to see and use on his website. I could call the rat’s office on the phone, but a nicely written email would be so much more eloquent and satisfying.
Worms are insulted you compared them to Wexler. Worms are useful, unlike Wexler!!
He's one of the worst-of-the-worst left-wing scumbags in D.C.
*clicks heels three times*
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That’s an excellent job snipping that story. Wexler whines and whines about his innocence, but then comes that last line. Perfect.
FRegards,
LH
Fellow Floridians, throw this bum out of office now! How can you represent an area of a state where you have no residency. Note he claims to be from the infamous al gore vote stealing geography of southeast Florida. Is he registered to vote in both states as well, no doubt?
I would say what I realy think but MOD would delete.
But, but,.....he lived in Florida before he didn’t! Wonder what part of “scumball” Wexler can spell? Dude is lower than whale manure and is a poor example of a real congressman.
When a politician “agrees” to do what’s necessary to give the impression of following the law, it’s tantamount to a complete confession of guilt. Time to turn up the heat.
This “concession” doesn’t obviate the need to prosecute the weasel for 12 years of fraud, false statements, grand theft, etc.
This guy needs to be run out of the state on a rail. His whole argument (or at least as much as I could stomach) sounds so weasally, it could have come from Bubba Clinton.
I can guarantee you that Wexler has not been paying the steep MD taxes because he has been claiming FL has his residence even though he owns no property or claims no homestead.
Furthermore, if Wexler truly thought he was on firm legal ground, why go out and prove he is a FL resident by now renting an apartment?
State v. Dennis also says - “An inhabitant has been defined as one who, being a citizen, dwells or has his home in some particular town where he has municipal rights and duties and as subject to particular burdens; and this habitancy may exists or continue not that absence is not so long or such a nature as to interrupt pr destroy the
municipal relations previously formed.” Dennis v. State, (1879) 17 Fla. 789.
Does he sleep on the couch?
How many nights has he stayed at the home in the past 5 years?
How did he even come to call Florida his home? Is he another carpet bagger politician?
I wonder if I could run for Congress in Maine while I live in Hawaii. (I could have the best of both worlds — Hawaii.. and being a CONGRESSMAN.)
If he were a republican the ACLU and 50 other attorneys would be challenging his eligibility and prosecuting for vote fraud
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Wexler, at 47, is 8 years TOO YOUNG to be a resident of a 55-and-older gated community.
He’s a democrat politician, therefore he lies. (Other pols are PROBABLY lying)
Uh, this is my parent's congressional district, centered on Boca Raton, and taking in north Broward/southern Palm Beach County. If HITLER ran as a Democrat, he would win in this district.
PAGING the IRS....Sounds like he has a TAX EVASION PROBLEM ALSO!
As a matter-of-fact, I think Hitler had a summer home there.
That POS crawls out of whatever hole he claims as a residence whenever he has the opportunity to do mischief. I understand he said he pays taxes in MD which would seem to make him a legal resident of Maryland who, somehow, represents a district in Florida. I do not understand how this is legally possible and why this isn’t considered a criminal act. Parhaps some FR Floridians who know something about the law, US and Florida, can comment. Isn’t it possible for the State of Florida to invalidate his election and remove him from office? I’m incredulous at his brazenness and the seeming lack of anger and action about his behaviour.
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