Democrat Legislative Candidate Doesn’t Actually Live In District She’s Running To Represent

There’s something interesting going on in the District 42 (Grand Forks area) legislative race. One of the Democrat candidates, former UND Student Body President Kylie Oversen, doesn’t appear to actually be living in the district she’s running for.

According to her candidate information filed with the Secretary of State, Oversen lives in an apartment on Garden View Drive in Grand Forks. But her current address would have her living in District 43, which won’t hold legislative elections until the next cycle. Oversen is running in District 42 on a ticket with two Democrat incumbents (Rep. Corey Mock and Senator Mac Schneider).

Apparently, this is legal. A quirk in North Dakota law only requires a candidate to have residency in the district he/she is running in 30 days before the election. Which means that Oversen has until October to move.

ND Democrats have a proud history of this sort of carpetbagging. Former Senator Byron Dorgan, and soon-to-be former Senator Kent Conrad, spent years claiming as their “official residences” two apartments across the hall from one another in a building owned by Conrad (and financed by a Countrywide VIP loan at one point) even as they lived in lavish residences in Virginia and on the beach in Delaware, respectively.

Oversen is just keeping up the proud Democrat tradition of meeting the bare minimum of residency requirements in furtherance of political ambitions.

Meanwhile, a source at the University of North Dakota tells me that when she was student body president Oversen presided over the expenditure of thousands of dollars in student fee funds on drag shows. Given the controversy over the sky-high cost of higher education, of which student fees are a big issue, that decision illustrates a disquieting willingness to spend other people’s money on frivolity.

Which means, if elected, she fit right in with the rest of the spendthrifts in the ND legislature.