Records show the Senate hopeful—who's facing fresh questions about his Georgia residency—rented out his Atlanta home just before launching his campaign.
The exemption netted Walker a $1,500 tax break, but required him to declare his suburban Dallas home as his “principal residence.”Rolling Out“It’s weird. We’ve had this home here for about 17 years. We’ve had this home here in Atlanta about 17 years,” he said.that his wife has actually owned the home for much longer than 17 years, with her name first appearing in 1998, when her then-husband added her to the deed. She kept the house in her name after their divorce.
“What was strange is, I sit on the board of hotels. And so when I’d come back to Atlanta, I hardly ever came back to this house because I’d stay at the hotel because—not that I’m lazy—I didn’t want to clean up,” Walker explained. “You know, you open up a house, you have to fix it up and do all this, and so it’s easier to stay at a hotel and not come to the house. So I said that’s a little better.”
An ex-girlfriend who lived in Atlanta and dated Walker between 2008 and 2011 told The Daily Beast that whenever he came to town, they would either meet at her place or a nearby Marriott hotel. In October, that same ex-girlfriend came forward to say that Walker, an anti-abortion absolutist, had
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