Unfortunately, we get more than our share of brain-dead flat-landers moving here to run for office. Bernie, the socialist from Brooklyn, started that trend. I recall seeing that filthy commune reject sleeping on a park bench in Burlington in the late 1970’s. Then the Supreme Court allowed students to vote where they attended school, and that propelled him to local, then national, office. But he was savvy enough to keep out of the gun control debate - that would have sunk him.
I'm sure you have heard the term "Massholes".