So now with the new ruling, any elected official can ultimately live anywhere they want for as long as they want as long as they claim it's "temporarily". I'm sure when that law was written, legislators never dreamed any elected official would take advantage of the law like we've seen here. Ultimately, it's going to be up to the state legislature to refine that law to prevent such actions from taking place.

This would be a good time to do the final review of the Hurley case.

In May 2019, Ms. Hurley announced to the world, through social media, that she had bought a new house, out of her district, and was selling her old house. When asked if she had in fact moved, she denied the move. Then she said it was only temporary while having foundation work done on her old house. Then it was just to buy an investment property to flip. Then it was an investment property to lease. The story changed so many times, it was hard to keep up.

According to Ms. Hurley's testimony in court, she didn't know she had moved out of her district but now she lives back at the original 2nd district house. She also said she had only missed one meeting since being elected to commission. By my count, she's missed more than half of all our meetings. That would be like nearly fifty meetings. She just missed a special called meeting last week. She never attends workshops but shows up for some commission meetings having no idea what topics we'll be voting on. This may very well be the kind of representation the voters of the second district want.

Back in 2018 when Ms. Hurley was elected to commission, she only won by 29 votes over a democrat candidate. Ms. Hurley has picked up a qualifying petition to seek re-election in next years election. Voters of the second district will have to decide if this is how they want to be represented.