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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.
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.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | You, like most people, probably figure that candidates who run for state House and Senate are required to live in the district in which they run.
You’d be pretty much right. But there’s a big loophole: You only have to live in the district on election days and on the day you file for the office.
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