Iowa

rurallib

(64,517 posts) Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:25 PM Dec 14

What Iowa congress member no longer lives in her congressional district?

https://laurabelin.substack.com/p/miller-meeks-no-longer-registered?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email.

Miller-Meeks no longer registered to vote in IA-01

Sarah Watson had the scoop for the Quad-City Times: U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks no longer officially lives in Scott County, or anywhere in Iowa’s first Congressional district. In July 2025, she changed her voter registration back to the Ottumwa home she shares with her husband.

Aspiring candidates and campaign strategists could learn a lot from how Miller-Meeks has handled questions surrounding her residency over the past four years. It’s hard to believe an experienced politician could botch this issue so badly.

A SIMPLE PROBLEM WITH AN EASY FIX

Miller-Meeks was elected to Congress for the first time in 2020, in what was then Iowa’s second district. But the new political map adopted in October 2021 placed Wapello County in the third district, dominated by the Des Moines metro area. Most of the southeast Iowa counties Miller-Meeks was representing were part of the new first district.

That was not an unprecedented or complicated problem.

Although members of Congress are only required to live in the state they represent (not their U.S. House district), most would agree it’s a bad look not to have a home where you’re running for office. For that reason, Iowa’s nonpartisan redistricting process has often prompted U.S. House incumbents to move.

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What Iowa congress member no longer lives in her congressional district? (Original Post) rurallib Dec 14 OP

Don't like it but there is a remedy: at the ballot box. marble falls Dec 14 #1

I am thinking that option will be exercised rurallib Dec 14 #3

Some politicians rent a house/apt to pretend they live in their district. Norrrm Dec 14 #2

This is so infuriating progressoid Dec 14 #4

She had a rented apartment just a couple blocks away from my house. Itchinjim Dec 14 #5

marble falls

(70,480 posts)

1. Don't like it but there is a remedy: at the ballot box.

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:30 PM

Dec 14

rurallib

(64,517 posts)

3. I am thinking that option will be exercised

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:51 PM

Dec 14

Miller-Meeks is probably the most vulnerable sitting member.

Norrrm

(3,874 posts)

2. Some politicians rent a house/apt to pretend they live in their district.

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:43 PM

Dec 14

Tommy Tuberville?
Oz?
Oz, who has dual citizenship, served in the Turkish military but refused to serve in America's military service.
Herschel Walker is so smart that he became a carpetbagger in his own home state.

progressoid

(52,502 posts)

4. This is so infuriating

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 01:03 PM

Dec 14

"Miller-Meeks could have been investigated for voter registration fraud and voter fraud "

It seems that only applies to a certain strata of our population. And being a white wealthy person, she gets away with it.

Or maybe not? Maybe her primary challenger will make it a big enough issue that people pay attention.

Of course from what little I've read about him, he's worse than she is.

I might have to subscribe to a wine club to make it through the next few years. :eyeroll:

Itchinjim

(3,177 posts)

5. She had a rented apartment just a couple blocks away from my house.

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 01:14 PM

Dec 14

Only I never saw her around the neighborhood because she never lived there. Typical GOP bullshitery.

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