Allen [Un]Settle[d]?

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Councilman Allen Settle responded recently (Friday, April 18) to the Tribune's news article and editorial that I discussed in the below post. As Settle points out, "I legally reside in San Luis Obispo."

An alert reader will note the use of the qualifying word "legally" in that statement. While most of us could easily state that we reside in SLO, Settle qualifies his statement the way we have come to expect from many politicians and lawyers.

Settle goes on to write, "This is where I am registered to vote, tax returns are filed, homeowner’s exemption is held; where automobiles are registered, garbage service is used, utility bills are sent, my mailing address, telephone location and directory listing are located. It is where I live and temporary absences are just that, temporary. By law, all of the above are determinative of domicile."

We are expected to believe that after a hard day's work, he returns to his wife and a house full of students for a quiet meal, a little TV, and a good night's sleep.

To make things clear to us, Settle wraps it up with, "Nearly every day, I do all the items you listed such as shop, talk to citizens and drive and walk the streets in the city of San Luis Obispo. When finished with other activities, I return to my San Luis Obispo residence."

For someone who likes to qualify his statements, it's odd that he did not say his SLO City residence. Could he have meant his SLO County residence?