Documents raise questions about Johnson’s residency
Courts documents raise questions about the residency of State Rep. Connie Johnson, who is also running for State Senate.
Johnson had been staying with her ailing mother in a house in the city’s West End neighborhood.
During that time, Johnson was renting out her own home in the North Point neighborhood to a pair of tenants she later sued, accusing them of not paying the rent.
In a sworn affidavit submitted in that case on Feb. 7, Johnson lists her address as being in the 5800 Block of Maple Avenue - which is outside both the House district she represents, and the Senate district she is seeking to represent.
Johnson said she was taking care of her 63-year-old mother, who suffers from lupus. She said she was only using the Maple Avenue address for a corporation she owns that was the official plaintiff in the rent dispute.
City records show that, at the Maple address, at least some of the utilities were in Johnson’s name.
Johnson provided letters that she says she wrote to the tenants saying she would “not be at home very often” and would only be at the house “mainly on the weekends, sometimes, not even then.”
Senate candidates are required to live in the district they want to represent at least a year prior to the elections. Johnson’s election would be in November.
The director of the city Elections Board, Scott Leiendecker, confirmed that the agency has begun an inquiry into Johnson’s residency, which will be forwarded later this week to state election officials.
Johnson, meanwhile, insists that she “doesn’t owe anybody an explanation.”
“This is about petty personal politics,” Johnson said in an interview. “This is not about the issues facing the 5th Senatorial District.”
Read more about this in tomorrow’s Post-Dispatch.
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Thanks to Kit Bond the standard for establishing residency are extremely low. Based on this report, it looks to me like Rep. Johnson will be fine.
There have been court rulings since the Kit Bond case. Particularly the Pam Bosley residency case where the board ruled such a flemsy argument. Truth is that Johnson had no intention of filing for this seat until it was learned that Villa was not going to run. Up until then she had no intention of ever moving back to the 27th ward or 61st district. In fact, she doesn’t even own the property in the district, it belongs to a corporation she owns and was to be used as investment property. She still does not have control of the property. The people living there have not been served with the court order to vacate the property and Johnson has not evicted them. She is a liar.
What, a lying politician? Why, I’ve never heard such a thing! What is this world coming too?
Is she Democrat or Republican?
So her Mother had her when she was 10?
Max, that would be Democrat: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2008/02/former-edwards-backers-maxwell-and-johnson-join-clinton/
It would be easy enough to prove you’re right, stlvoice. Go to that address, knock on the door, and see if Connie Johnson lives there. Why don’t we wait until the SOS and the Election Board sort it out before making wild accusations that you can’t even back up?
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Wasn’t Connie Johnson one of the reps against allowing police officers to live outside the jurisdiction they work? Yet she apparently doesn’t meet the residency requirement and feels she “doesn’t owe anybody an explanation.” Interesting.
She is a Dumocrat and thank goodness these morons rule our city.