According to a report in yesterday’s Yellow Sheet (subscription required), State Representative Adam Driggs failed to pay the property taxes on his home for nearly two years, resulting in a tax lien being filed and eventually sold to an investor. The Yellow Sheet also noted that Driggs paid off the lien the same week that he told the Yellow Sheet that he was “99%” certain he would be running for Congress in CD3. Driggs’ defense was that “…the unpaid taxes were little more than a misunderstanding, and one that was cleared up almost immediately.” and he added “”I didn’t realize that until [we received a notice] that said, ‘You’re late.’ As soon as I found out, I went down and paid it immediately.”
Voters in LD11 will know that Driggs had earlier attacked his opponent Rich Davis for claiming a tax exemption on a property he no longer lived in. News that Driggs was a tax delinquent himself will strike more than a few voters as hypocritical.
