Coats planned N.C. retirement, according to video: Ex-senator says he expects to sell home there

[LiberalFighter]

Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

WASHINGTON – As recently as the fall of 2008 Dan Coats planned to retire to North Carolina, according to a video of a talk he gave to Tar Heels at the GOP convention. Coats is taking preliminary steps to run against incumbent Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.

But Coats said Friday afternoon that he's put aside his plans to retire and will sell that house.

"We do have a second home in North Carolina," he said in an e-mail, "and had plans to spend more time there after retiring. Obviously, I now have no plans to retire, so it's likely we will be selling our North Carolina second home."

The video is being circulated by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which began playing hardball politics within hours of news leaks that Coats is thinking about running for Senate in Indiana.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. The Beltway morons known as DSCC referred to Hoosiers as 'Indianians'

which shows how much out touch they are with real people.

Here is an update to your OP:

Ex-Indiana Sen. Coats may sell home in North Carolina

Fort Wayne - Former Republican Sen. Dan Coats says he may sell his family's second home in North Carolina while preparing to challenge Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana in November.

Coats' statement Friday in an e-mail to The Journal Gazette came after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released footage of Coats in 2008 saying he planned to move from Virginia to North Carolina after retiring.

A message seeking comment was left Saturday at an office for Coats.

Coats retains strong name recognition even though he's not an Indiana resident now. He would bring a high profile to the race, where Republicans believe the two-term incumbent may be vulnerable.

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11945819

Coats' residency is an important issue. If Coats were a college student, he would be considered an Indiana resident if he had "continuously resided in Indiana for at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the first scheduled day of classes of the semester or other session in which the individual registers in the University." Clearly Coats would have to pay out-of-state fees were he a college student.

more here: http://creativeservices.iu.edu/resources/bulletins/policies.shtml#residency

[LiberalFighter]

2. I saw Ron saying he would vote for Coats.

If I was going to post a response to him I would say, "Then move to North Carolina so you can".

[LiberalFighter]

3. Maybe they intentionally didn't want to refer to him as a Hoosier.

Possibly another indication that he wasn't planning on returning to Indiana is the donation of his papers to Wheaton College in Illinois.