Herschel Walker Told a Georgia Campaign Audience That He Lives in Texas, Because Of Course

[ShazzieB]

It’s been a long journey for Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign, which will conclude with a runoff election against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock on Dec. 6. A long journey metaphorically, for sure, and apparently also geographically:

“I live in Texas,” Walker said in January of this year, when speaking to University of Georgia College Republicans.

That is a sentence from CNN, which has been doing some good reporting on the question of where Walker lives, including this report which notes that he takes a tax exemption for his Dallas-area Texas home. It is a tax exemption that is only supposed to apply to primary residences.

Here is a visual illustration of the difference between Texas and Georgia:



Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, telling college students and tax officials that he lives in Texas does not necessarily disqualify Walker from counting as an “inhabitant” of Georgia under the state’s laws, which is the only standard the Constitution requires senators to meet.

MORE: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/herschel-walker-texas-raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-runoff.html#cxrecs_s

I didn't realize that he had once proudly announced that he lives in Texas to a college Republican group, but it figures.

[SergeStorms]

1. Walker's best bet...

would be to borrow his benefactor's (Trump's) Sharpie and somehow combine the two states.

Draw from your mentor's experience, Herschel.

[duhneece]

5. Brilliant...

….brilliant idea, my friend.

I hope the holiday season is being good to you.

[SergeStorms]

23. Best of the holiday season....

for you and yours too, duhneece.

[ggma]

9. Good one!

gg

[yankee87]

11. SharpieGate

Oh no, not another sharpiegate. Reality is, republicans don’t care about the law, only against democrats does the law apply

[Maine Abu El Banat]

12. Has he ever held a pen?

[SergeStorms]

24. State Pen?

It surely wasn't Penn State.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Good plan. MS, AL, and LA would have no objections to TX and FL ....

... seizing a land corridor along the coast. It'd be just like Russia appropriating a land route to Crimea. No problem.

[Ilsa]

2. Habitation is the only requirement per state law? Law standard

indeed. I thought you had to be a minimum age of 25 or something to be in the Senate. We shouldn't set the bar so low.

[jimfields33]

4. The age requirement is federal law. State law can have their own laws

as long as they still have the constructional (federal) laws.

[SheltieLover]

3. Kicking for visibility

[Old Crank]

6. How does he meet the inhabitancy standards

for Georgia?
Here is the US Constitution.

Article I, Section 3, Clause 3:

No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

Especially when he claims Texas as his permanent home for tax avoidance purposes?

[stopdiggin]

10. doesn't matter. GA determines whether you are

and inhabitant. (and if there were a legal issue, it would have played out by now)

Which says nothing about the sheer stupidity of Hershel Walker tell his own flock that he lives in Texas. But then - have to figure that was something else already fully established. Fact is, there are plenty of people in GA that are perfectly willing to vote for a certifiable moron. (even if he lives in another state)

welcome to politics 2022

[jcgoldie]

13. "when elected"

This phrase seems to make the legal argument moot. He could just declare he's moving to Georgia next Tuesday no?

[bluestarone]

26. That's how i read it!

[The Jungle 1]

7. Carpet-bagger

carpet-bagger
a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
google

Oz was also a republican carpet-bagger. I bet he is living in NJ again. Ya know cause he is a loser.

[IronLionZion]

8. Texas is like Georgia

same diff

Good people on both sides

Georgians love carpet baggers, right?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Where Walker calls "home" is the least of my concerns about him. ...

... Wasn't Hillary elected a senator from New York, even though she was more at home in Arkansas or Illinois? We didn't complain about her being or not being a "New Yorker", whatever that means.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. she had declared residency in New York, hadn't she?

She may have even established a residence there.

Pretty sure she wasn't avoiding property taxes in Arkansas or Illinois though

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. I think the Clintons bought a home in NY, so they were recent immigrants to the state.

I'd guess they were more "legit" residents than Oz or Walker, by a nose.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. I thought that was the case. They had never owned a home before they bought that one

I think

[uncle ray]

28. I'll let the carpetbagger from Texas word salad his own defense.

[Farmer-Rick]

16. I like the illustration

It really helps explain living in Texas vs living in GA.

So if you don't have to live in the state you are running for Senate in, do you have to live in the state you are voting in? What's good for the goose.

Then you can just hire a bunch of people to go from state to state to vote for who you want. Like gerrymandering only mobile.

[VGNonly]

18. "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta

and there's beer in Texarkana"

[IbogaProject]

19. Further than 600

The mileage Atlanta to Dallas is ~781 miles.

[ShazzieB]

21. Distance from Atlanta to Dallas is beside the point.

The article was talking about the distance between the Georgia and Texas state lines, which Google Maps says is 563 miles. Maybe they decided to round it up to 600, lol.

[marmar]

22. .......

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. K&R