Politics

There is a doctor on tv by the name of Mehmet Oz. He is a Turkish-American tv personality who in my view spent more time being in the public eye than being a practicing doctor. As far as I know his medical career started at the New York's Presbyterian Hospital and he is still practicing in New York.

Now it appears that this Doctor Oz got bored with his career in medicine and with the tv lights and decided to become a US senator. Not just a representative but he is going for the top. And, not in New York but in Pennsylvania. Why did he pick PA? 

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer he lived in New Jersey but registered to vote in PA last year using the address of his in-laws. I am sure what he is doing is legal, but it still looks funny. It looks like he looked around to see where he could find an empty senate seat and how could he prove residency and just went for it. Right now he is fighting for the Republican nomination and at this time it looks like he won with a tiny margin.

Hillary Clinton did the same in 2009. Her and her husband were Arkansas residents until he became president. Then they settled in DC, but when his presidency was over they never went back to their home state but chose New York State. Not true residents but good enough to keep good old Hillary occupied and permit her to seek the senatorship.

Mitt Romney, the senator from Utah was born in Michigan then was the governor of Massachusetts and now he represents Utah.

It proves to me that politics is a real dirty business. These people have no loyalty to their home states, all they want is the prestige and power that come with holding high office.