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UPDATE: Where’s Waldo … err, Senn?

Commentary by Andy Brack | The crazy case of where GOP Senate District 41 candidate Sandy Senn actually lives has taken even more quirky turns.

Not only has a state judge issued an injunction postponing a hearing on a challenge to Senn’s residency, but a letter has turned up that seems to make it even more confusing about when she actually moved from a home outside the Senate district to a townhouse inside it.

It’s enough to make you do a triple take.

by Andy Brack · 06/09/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

BRACK: Squishy residency law challenged in Senate District 41 race

Commentary by Andy Brack, editor and publisher | GOP District 41 Senate candidate Sandy Senn seems to have thinner skin than Donald Trump.

You may recall a May 16 commentary in which we called on the state legislature to fix squishy campaign residency laws so candidates couldn’t cherry-pick districts to move into near elections to try to win legislative office. In the column, we highlighted how Senn, a Charleston attorney, “lived in Folly Beach until the fall, when she took an in-district townhouse in West Ashley, now listed by candidacy records as her residence.” Property records show she owns a house in a gated Folly Beach community about four miles outside the Senate district.

The column went on to emphasize that Senn, who said she had been gerrymandered out of a district she had lived in for years, had done nothing wrong by changing residences. She faces three opponents in the June 14 GOP primary.