Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner, candidates to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacant Congressional seat in Tuesday’s special election, debated Thursday on New York’s channel NY1. In her report on the debate NY1’s Grace Rauh mentioned that the candidates were “forced to defend where they live.”
Weprin does not reside in the district and cannot vote for himself on Tuesday.
“My mother lives in the district, and I’ll be happy to go with her to vote,” said Weprin.
He would not, however, commit to moving into the district should he win the race.
Turner, meanwhile, lives in Breezy Point, a private community in Queens. It’s in the district, though it’s 99 percent white.
Apparently Democrats favor “inclusion” so strongly that they’re willing to include their nominee in their district even though he doesn’t live there now and won’t move there if elected simply because some of his neighbors are the same color as those who in the past were often excluded from things. Meanwhile Ms. Rauh, the NY1 reporter, begrudgingly recognizes that the Republican’s neighborhood is in the district, even “though it’s 99 percent white.”
I wonder if she would so snippily qualify the residence of a black candidate whose neighborhood was 99 percent black. And didn’t Robert Kennedy and Hillary Clinton at least have to pretend to be residents of New York by rapidly establishing residences there before they sought to represent New Yorkers?
