answered three of his messages.

"I've sent e-mails to other (members of Congress), and I don't get a thing," Cook said. "He's responsive."

Gosar, a former dentist, was first elected to Congress in the 2010 "tea party" wave, defeating U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, a Democrat, in the 1st District. Rural Republicans, and some conservative Democrats, opposed Kirkpatrick for backing the president's sweeping health-care law.

If Gosar had stayed in that swing seat, he would have faced a serious challenge from a Democrat every two years. But redistricting offered a safer option: the 4th District, where a third of his constituents ended up after lines were redrawn.

Republicans had controlled the conservative stronghold nearly uninterrupted since 1967. Prescott, an area key to Gosar's first election, anchors the 4th District.

A victory would nearly guaranteefuture re-elections. When Gosar announced he would run there in 2012, the questions about residency began almost immediately.

In a 10-minute video at his campaign launch with Prescott eNews, he repeatedly ducked the question. He finally said his wife would open an antique shop and he would buy a second home in Prescott once his daughter graduated from high school.

He didn't follow through. Instead, Gosar now plans to keep the Flagstaff home to be close to the daughter, campaign spokeswoman Apryl Marie Fogel said, since she enrolled at Northern Arizona University nearly a year ago.

"When he said (he'd buy a house in Prescott), he had every intention of doing that," Fogel said. "I think the voters will understand the circumstances around his daughter going to college in Flagstaff, and