Tlaib’s father says she lied on election forms

State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first term legislator from Detroit who has made a name for herself by taking on Matty Moroun and his plan to build a second span of the Ambassador Bridge in her district, is now under attack from her own father, who says his daughter lied about her residency in Detroit at the time she filed to run for office. The Detroit News reports:

Now Tlaib’s father is piping in. He said his daughter misrepresented her residency when she signed an election affidavit in 2008 with the Wayne County Clerk claiming she was a citizen of Detroit.

According to that affidavit, Tlaib claimed she lived at 9123 Rathbone in Detroit. That house is owned in part by her father, Harbi Elabed, and he now says she did not live there and he was only recently made aware that she had claimed so. “She lied,” said Elabed, 61, an immigrant from Jerusalem and father of 14 who prides himself on Old World values of parental fealty. “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.”

Dearborn is not a part of the 12th House District that Tlaib was elected to represent.

Her brother, however, is weighing in on his sister’s side, telling the News that Tlaib lived in that house with him for a year and saying, “My father’s crazy.”