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If you're going to represent a district, shouldn't you live there?By Nick, Section News
 Seems like a question with a pretty obvious answer. But this is politics and most folks can parse and argue and cajole themselves into buying anything if they're wearing their party-colored sunglasses.For a few weeks now Michigan Democrats cheerily ate up the suggestion that 62nd House District candidate Greg Moore shouldn't be eligible to seek the Republican nomination because, low and behold, he didn't actually live in the 62nd District. Pot, I'd like to introduce you to the kettle. Up in Alpena, in the 106th District former legislator and bureaucrat Andy Neumann is taking a run at one more term in the House of Representatives (he's served two since the advent of term limits but stepped away a few years back to take a stab at the state Senate... he lost...). Only problem is, it turns out Andy, a Democrat, doesn't live in the 106th District. In fact, there's no evidence the man's owned any property in the area for the last three full years. The Alpena address he listed on his affidavit of identity belongs to some cat named Michael Hamilton. Brother-in-law? College pal? Boyhood friend? Don't know. And because I can already hear you asking, no, Andy probably doesn't live in Mike's loft or sleep on the couch either. At least not until recently. The man has been a part of the Lansing status quo for the last umpteen years (he's worked at the Capitol for the last six, if you really want to get specific) and just last March bought a neat little residential condo on Brookline in East Lansing.
I commuted myself for years from Grand Rapids to Lansing each day. I'll tell you what, that's only about an hour plus and it really bit into the day. Can't imagine what seven-plus hours in the car five times a week would feel like. Plus, Andrew, if you wanted to convince us you were eligible to run because you were crashing with somebody back in Alpena, making that new condo your primary residence last year probably wasn't the smartest move.
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I whipped out the old "Streets and Trips" and punched in the addresses to see just how big a jaunt old Andy claims to make between his primary residence in East Lansing (you know, just outside the state Capitol where he's worked all these years) and Mr. Hamilton's swinging half-way house in Alpena. As you can see on this handy map, it's a bit of a stretch. That's a solid 225 miles if you use all of the freeways you can find. A trip that clocks in at nearly four hours. Each way.