CBS reported Wednesday evening that Indiana's Democratic Senate candidate Evan Bayh could not do an interview with the network because he was fundraising in another state.
Since leaving the Senate in 2011, critics have charged that Bayh has abandoned his Indiana roots to cash in as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. When Bayh announced that he was running for his old seat in 2016, he said that he will always be a Hoosier. Records show, however, that he has spent little time in Indiana since leaving Congress.
The Washington Free Beacon previously reported that Bayh never used his Indiana condo in his final year as a senator. The Free Beacon also reported in August that Bayh incorrectly stated his condo's address, instead listing an address several blocks away.
Bayh told local radio station WISH-TV on Saturday that his address is 1142 C, Canterbury Court in Indianapolis, adding, "it's on my driver's license." But the address Bayh gave the station is located several blocks away from his actual home, on Canterbury Square, not Court, according to an Independent Journal Review probe of the Democrat's Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicle records.
Bayh also listed both of his Washington homes as his main places of residence, according to a CNN review.
A CNN review of public records since Bayh left office in 2011 shows the Democrat repeatedly listed his two multi-million dollar homes in Washington as his main places of residence–not the $53,000 condo he owns in Indianapolis.
Just three weeks after leaving office in 2011, Bayh changed his address to his $2.3 million home in a leafy neighborhood in Washington, according to Indiana records. And often when Bayh registered his address–whether it was on an Alaska fishing license, a donation to Hillary Clinton, or on the deed to his beachfront property in Southern Florida–he listed Washington as his home.