Harold Ford Wants to be NY's Senator, but Hasn't Paid NY Taxes

Why is it that NY Democrats go outside to get candidates to run for Federal office? First Hillary and now Ford, a possible tax cheat. Having paid NY taxes for many years although living in NJ, I have a problem with this, why don't NY Democrats.

Excerpt: Ford claims to have moved to New York three years ago, and says paying "New York taxes" makes him a New Yorker. But his spokeswoman confirms to Gawker that he's never filed a New York tax return — meaning that he's never paid New York's income tax, despite keeping an office and a residence in New York City as a vice chairman of Merrill Lynch since 2007.