Truemors
An opponent of U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, has accused the six-term congressman of playing a residency shell game, saying Wexler pretends to keep an address in Florida while flagrantly making his home in Maryland.
Edward Lynch, a Republican running for Wexler's congressional seat, is taking his argument to the Fox News program The O'Reilly Factor at 8 p.m. tonight.
"The house he lists on his voter registration is his in-laws' house in a gated 55-and-older community," Lynch said this afternoon. "Legally, he can't move back with children under 18."
Lynch said Wexler's three children attend Charles W. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md.
A spokesman for Wexler denounced the accusations as "nothing more than a baseless political attack."
"Congressman Wexler moved to Florida when he was 10 years old and he has continually met Florida's residency requirements ever since," wrote the spokesman, Josh Rogin, in an e-mail message. "As Members of Congress have since the founding of the nation, he also keeps a home (in) the Washington area so his wife and three children can be with him while he serves in Congress."
Fox confirmed the issue would be discussed tonight on the program. Host Bill O'Reilly often calls his show the "No Spin Zone," although liberal critics dispute that description.
The outspoken Wexler is the author of the recent memoir Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) In the Contact Sport of Congress.
Lynch, meanwhile, said he intends to file legal papers about the issue in the coming weeks.
"That brings up a bunch of problems with respect to it is not truly his home, and it can't be his home, and he's using that address as his address to vote from," Lynch said.
Lynch faces Wexler and no-party candidate Ben Graber in the Nov. 4 election for Florida's 19th Congressional District.
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at 16:10 on September 4th, 2008
Then let him buy or rent here and stop acting like he's an outsider. He's as phony as a $3 bill. And Cheap. And Immature.
at 16:46 on October 13th, 2008
I feel it shouldn't matter really where you live, or how many homes you live in or at, it is whether or not you can get the job done.
Wexler has done an outstanding performance in his position in Congress.
If Mccain can live in 7 to 8 different homes, and claims he can run the Country, why not Wexler?
I feel the Republicans just want him out of Congress, because he pushes for the middle class, and supports the people.
KEEP AMERICA HEARD, ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS.M.CATANIA OF COCONUT CREEK, FL. 33066-2726