Anti-Gunner McBath Wasn’t Georgia Resident During Campaign?

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

One of the rules for running for Congress is that you generally have to be a resident of the district you’re running in. After all, how are you supposed to represent a people if you don’t really know the people?

During her campaign, now former-Rep. Karen Handel kept arguing that her opponent, anti-gun activist Lucy McBath, wasn’t a resident of the district and was thus ineligible to run for her seat. This was generally dismissed by the media and by McBath’s campaign as nothing more than a desperate bid to hold office.

However, it looks like Handel was right.

The Georgia residency of freshman Democratic congresswoman Lucy McBath is again in question after tax documents were revealed showing Cobb County does not recognize her family’s local home as a permanent residence and has revoked the homestead exemptions that were granted.

McBath was a first-time candidate for Georgia’s sixth district and was criticized by her Republican opponent Karen Handel for living in Tennessee when she decided she would run. McBath voted in Tennessee during the 2016 election cycle. Handel questioned how her husband, a permanent Tennessee resident, was claiming a homestead exemption in Cobb County when he lived …Read the Rest

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