Candidate for State Assembly Scott Newcomer attempts to clear up the charges that he is a "carpetbagger" and that he may have voted illegally in the 33rd Assembly district prior to his actually moving there.
I want to clear up any confusion surrounding my vote in the City of Delafield, where I purchased a home this summer and where I am building a new home for my family to live next year.
Following a conversation with the State Elections Board, my wife Julianne and I registered to vote in the City Clerk’s office in Delafield on September 26, 2005. We voted in the City of Delafield (and only in the City of Delafield) in the special election on October 18, 2005
The attached letter is a summary of the conversation I had with Board Counsel, George Dunst on September 19, 2005.
Here's some of what George Dunst had to say:
The purpose of this letter is to summarize our conversation on September 19th, 2005 regarding your candidacy for the 33rd State Assembly District, and your desire to change your voter registration from the Village of Elm Grove, where you currently live, to the City of Delafield where you recently purchased a home and plan to move with your family next year.
You informed me that you had recently purchased a house in the City of Delafield which you planned to tear down in order to build a new house. You said the new home would not be ready to be occupied until July or August 2006. I advised you that you could list the address of the Delafield property on your candidate registration and nomination papers and that, if you won election to the office, you would not be required to find temporary housing in the 33rd Assembly district while your new home was under construction.
You also told me that you and your wife Julie wished to change your voter registration to the City of Delafield so you could vote there in the election to be held on October 18, 2005 as well as any elections held thereafter. I advised you that because you owned property in both the Village of Elm Grove and the City of Delafield, you were within your right to change your voter registration to the City of Delafield and vote in that municipality, but that once you changed your registration, you would no longer be eligible to vote in the Village of Elm Grove.
It is therefore my opinion that the votes cast by you and your wife on October 18, 2005 are legal and that you can continue to vote in the City of Delafield.
So according to Dunst, Newcomer was elgible to vote in the district on October 18th even though he planned to move into his home in July or August, 2006.
