Nick Kristof and The Moosylvania of Politics

Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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12 Responses

  1. PD Shaw says:

    I believe Rahm Emanuel did not meet the residency requirement for Chicago mayor under similar language to that of Oregon (except Illinois mayors only have to live one year in their city), but the Illinois SCOTUS disagreed and pretty much eliminated residency durational requirements in the state. The appeal to ignoring durational requirements is that they let the people decide — it’s more democratic. And Rahm got over 50% of the vote in the first round, so in some sense the court was vindicated. But its not necessarily more democratic to ignore democratically enacted laws, and I’ll leave it to Chicagoans to evaluate whether Rahm was the indispensable man of the hour.Report

    • Slade the Leveller in reply to PD Shaw says:

      Heh. I didn’t vote for Rahm the first time precisely because he was a carpetbagger. After that I withheld my vote because he was a sh*t mayor.Report

  2. Saul Degraw says:

    Well he was spared the expense of losing the primary.Report

  3. Oscar Gordon says:

    I say politicians can waive residency requirements when students attending a state school can do the same to get the in-state tuition.Report

  4. Burt Likko says:

    We may hope for a similar result in Pennsylvania?Report

  5. Rufus F. says:

    I wonder if Moosylvania was modeled after The Angle:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbuZfC06d8

    There was also an “island” that’s north of Buffalo and part of Canada that I know was once proposed as the site of the UN to be owned by all the nations. Luckily that didn’t happen because border crossings take long enough.Report

    • Burt Likko in reply to Rufus F. says:

      I have vague memories of stories of an island in one of the Great Lakes which the U.S. thought belonged to Canada and which Canada thought belonged to the U.S. but that may be from a movie rather than from history.Report