Antonelli for Congress
For Immediate Release
Facing a lack of transparency from his opponent, and with less than two months before the general election, Texas 4th District Congressional candidate Lou Antonelli asks how Pat Fallon plans to represent a district he doesn’t live in.
Many
of the prospective candidates who spoke at the Republican district convention
in Sulphur Springs Aug. 8 referenced Fallon’s residency. Fallon lives in the
Denton county portion of Prosper, an outer suburb of Dallas, which is just
outside the 4th's boundaries.
Even
Wikipedia, the largest and most popular general reference work on the World
Wide Web, notes Fallon’s position: “Fallon's state senate district includes
much of the eastern portion of the congressional district.”
However,
regarding the 4th Congressional District, Wikipedia continues: “While
candidates for the House are only required to live in the state they wish to
represent, longstanding convention holds that they live either in or reasonably
close to the district they wish to represent.”
The Libertarian Party candidate in the election,
Antonelli said “A number of candidates who lost to Fallon in the district
convention seem to feel his victory was due to arm-twisting by himself and
Senator Ted Cruz, and they resent it and have told me so,”
“The residency requirement for the U.S. House is in
the Constitution, so Fallon has done nothing illegal,” said Antonelli. “But
Texas deserves congressional leaders who do better than just skirt the law.”
Antonelli issued a challenge Sept. 8 to Fallon to
debate but to date has received no reply.
“If he showed up, perhaps he could address the
subject of his candidacy,” said Antonelli.
In related news, Antonelli met with campaign
supporters at the Two Senoritas restaurant in Mount Pleasant Thursday night,
Sept. 10.
Afterwards he announced the appointment of three county campaign chairmen: Kate Prather for Franklin County, Garrett McGraw for Hopkins County and Madlen Krause for Camp County.
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