Last week, Dane County’s Young Republicans challenged the campaign papers of U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin, alleging that she had improperly listed her Congressional office as her home address (and declaring that she was likely residing outside her district).
I received an email copy of the Republicans’ press release. The release surprised me, because Baldwin has validly listed her office address before, on prior filings. Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has reasonably allowed her to list that address, for safety, because of threats she’s received.
The listing doesn’t mean she doesn’t live in the district, it simply means that she’s been given permission to withhold her address from that public filing. There’s nothing new about this; anyone who’d bothered to look as past filings would have seen the same listing. The GAB would have been able to explain the use of the office address easily, eliminating the need for a challenge, and the embarrassment of a false one.
At a hearing on the matter, the challenge to her campaign papers was dismissed. See, Baldwin Kept on Ballot After Board Nixes Complaint.