Powers makes residency an issue

Debo Powers candidate for state representative is making residency an issue in the upcoming primary election. In a Flathead Beacon article she said "it's important for candidates to live in the district they are running."

Her opponent does not. According to law he does not have to.

In that same article she said that she moved to Polebridge full time in 2011.

According to Florida records she voted in Leon County Florida in 2016. She then admitted that she did not register to vote in Montana until she got her first Montana drivers license on April 20, 2017. When questioned about the discrepancy she was quoted in a Hungry Horse News column as saying "I claimed residency and began paying Montana income taxes in 2017."
So for six years she had no Montana drivers license — was not registered to vote here and paid no Montana state income taxes.
So why has she maintained repeatedly over the years continuing through that Flathead Beacon story earlier this year that she was a full-time resident of the North Fork since 2011?

Nothing that she has done would disqualify her for running for office here after 2017, so why has she let this controversy continue? Why is she obsessive about this?

Makes me wonder that if she can't be honest about little things like this if she can be trusted to be totally honest about the big things she would face if elected to this office?

— Joe Novak, Polebridge