Via Mike Lux, let’s hop in the way-back machine to 1998, when ex-Sen. Larry Pressler was looking at all his options and thinking that his best bet was definitely not returning to South Dakota. No, he was ready to commit himself wholly to D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former South Dakota Sen. Larry Pressler has told local Republican officials he is considering running for mayor of the nation’s capital. […]
[H]e told Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, that he has written a three-point agenda, including a private-school voucher program and a “real tax cut” to stimulate economic development in Washington.
“I have lived in D.C. since 1971, longer than anyone else who’s running,” Pressler said. Despite hailing from a state that has relatively few blacks, Pressler told the newspaper he could connect with Washington’s blacks. The district is 65 percent black.
“I have a lot of African-American friends,” he said.
He’s like the Republican Harold Ford, sure that he’ll be welcome with open arms wherever he tries to parachute in from. But that bolded part, that’s where Pressler gets into trouble. Because he still claims Washington, D.C., as his primary residence.
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The political ads practically write themselves with this one. Compared to Democrat Rick Weiland, who has visited all 311 towns in the state—twice—Pressler is clearly not in this for the people of South Dakota.
