Two candidates in Michigan for the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for Congress to formally censure Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib, based on her father’s claim that she lied about her address—saying she lived in her father’s house—to register to vote and to run for office, allowing Tlaib to represent an inner-city Detroit state House district even though she lived in the suburb of Dearborn.
“She lied big-time to get elected. I never teach her that way. I teach her the right way. It’s my house. She didn’t live there. She lived in Dearborn in her house with her husband and boy,” Tlaib’s father, Harbi Elabed, told reporter Charlie LeDuff of The Detroit News in 2010.
