WI-07: Half the candidates for Wisconsin House seat recently lived outside district or state
Voter registration records show four of the eight candidates running for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District recently listed primary voting addresses outside the district — and two lived outside Wisconsin.
When Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany of Minocqua announced his run for governor in September, the list of candidates entering the race for the soon-to-be-open congressional seat began to swell. Records show three Republicans and one Democrat in the race switched their voter registration records to indicate they live inside the 7th Congressional District.
Congressional candidates aren’t required by law to live in the district they hope to represent. They need only be at least 25 years old and live in the state. And it remains to be seen how voters in the rural, northern Wisconsin district will feel about the recently changed residency.
Cook Political Report editor Erin Covey, who specializes in House races for the site, told WPR that “whether or not voters care about ‘carpetbagging’ has been endlessly debated.”
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