MERCURY NEWS: Internal Affairs: Just where does East Bay Rep. Pete Stark live, anyway?

San Francisco Chronicle:

The issue for voters in Stark’s 13th Congressional District is whether he remains in sufficient touch with their communities and concerns when he considers his “home” to be 3,000 miles away.

There is an upside to being represented by the gentleman from Maryland. The next time Stark unleashes one of his notorious tirades (such as suggesting that troops were being sent to Iraq to “get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement,” as he did in 2007) or ends up on Esquire Magazine’s list of 10 worst legislators on Capitol Hill (as he did in 1988) … residents in Alameda, Castro Valley and other parts of the East Bay district can blame their erstwhile homeboy’s bad manners on his East Coast address.

Plus, in the Courier-Journal:

If New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank are going to try to make public the names of bonus recipients to help mobs demonstrate in front of individuals’ homes, perhaps Maryland’s tax authorities could do the same for out-of-state politicians who’ve turned the state into their personal Liechtenstein.

No doubt millions of average Joes living in such tax hells as New York and California would love to work on the taxpayers’ dime in Washington and live in a low-tax jurisdiction nearby.

Indeed.