It may or may not come as a surprise to the majority of Indiana voters who appear poised to put Dan Coats back in office, but it seems that the former Senator (and likely future Senator) has had his eye on moving out of the state for a while now.
Nope, not Washington, DC.
Coats apparently had purchased a $2 million house in North Carolina and was planning to move himself and his wife there to retire near her aging parents. Then Evan Bayh announced he was going to retire and a Senate seat opened up.
Here’s the story from the News & Observer…
Coats, a former senator and former U.S. ambassador to Germany, purchased a $1.8 million house in Wilmington to be near his wife’s aging parents in 2006.
Coats spoke to the North Carolina delegation at the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul, suggesting that Wilmington would become their permanent home.
“If you don’t tell the good people of Indiana, Marcia and I decided that there might be a better place where some of these older bones can absorb, so we have joined her parents in North Carolina,” Coats told the Tar Heel delegation.
“We have a home down there that we use as a second home, but it will be our first home,” he said. “And then I’ll be able to register and vote for your two senators and congressmen and be a North Carolinian.”
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