Residency Rule Halts Chiles’ Run for Governor
The son and namesake of former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles Jr. dropped out of the 2006 governor’s race because he did not meet the state’s residency requirement.
Lawton Chiles III, 51, said in Tallahassee he had not been aware the constitution required a gubernatorial candidate to live in the state for the seven years before an election.
“I’m clearly a Floridian,” Chiles said. “Me and my family are Floridians and always have been and always will be. Yet there’s this pesky little constitution and it says what it says.”
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