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Rahm Emanuel (D), a former White House chief of staff
Rahm Emanuel might not qualify to run for mayor after all.
Rahm Emanuel's residency fight just took a turn for the worse. The Illinois Appellate Court ruled 2-1 to overturn a Chicago Board of Elections decision to allow Rahm Emanuel on the mayoral ballot. Rahm's Attorney Kevin Forde says "its a surprise."
*** UPDATE *** Here's the court's opinion.
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Good! I did not what to trade in a short chubby tyrant in for a short skinny one.
Chicago politics at it's finest. Good thing we do not allow that style politics at the national level....
But Gary, we do allow it all the time.......
How many Republicans are on the appellate court?
Quick, how fast can I take this to the Illinois Supreme Court? This is sure going to hurt fundraising.
Well... this'll bring out the mob side o' Rahm.
Funny thing! They won't allow him run for mayor, but they'll let Obama be President without a US Birth Certificate. Am I missing something here?
He must not have greased the right palms.
good thing the lake is frozen....it will be hard for rahm and his buddies to "suicide" the court and toss them in....
This is good news for Chicago as long as they don't put another pro-mob individual in office.
Somehow this is Sarah Palin's fault.....
Well Ron, since you are from Indiana, I think you taking it to the Illinois Supreme court will take a while. You may need to get Illinois residency which does not mean renting out a house in Illinois while you reside somewhere else. Just ask Rahm.
I am glad that someone challenged his residency, but he will appeal it to the highest court. Technically, he isn't eligible because he was in Washington for 2 years and his family lived in Washington. Now, if he had kept his wife in Chicago, then that's another matter.
I wish that damn lake was frozen!! (I live on the other side of it in Michigan and have 3 feet of "lake effect" snow in my front yard and another 4 inches of new snow I have to shovel when I get home this evening!
Yeah, your brain.
Time to return the $ 11,000,000 donations he has received, or will this money wind up in a foreign bank account ?
Emanuel's response: "&8^%$ *&^ $#@#$ #@*( dirty ^%$^ $# ^ %$#@" !!!!
Maybe he could mail them a dead fish. That seemed to work for him in the past. . .
Damn, damn, damn no joe.
You beat me to it. lol
Looks like the rahmEN is in the hot water!!!
Check this out:
The rat left the sinking ship TOO soon! Think he'll get is old job back? NOT!!
Hah! Well let's see who's the next crook to through his hat into the ring.
Why? You expecting more republicans to Jump in?
El_Whapo - learn how to spell!!
Through != throw
El_Whapo - It's throw, not through.
Dont worry Rahm, Barack will fix things for you.
You mean Rahm may have to get a real job and actually work for a living??
How could he have fallen so low?? Must be a shovel ready job available in the great state of Illinois.
Must be a shovel ready job available in the great state of Illinois.
Of course. The mobsters have to have something to bury those bodies with.
slimsignet
Must be a shovel ready job available in the great state of Illinois.
Of course. The mobsters have to have something to bury those bodies with.
Sorry but we in illinois have currupte politicans, the mobsters are all in New York, remember the arrest of 100 mobsters they were all from New York. We in chicago have a hard enough time making sure the politicans are paid off, let alone having to worry about mobsters.
Jeff
lol
My mistake.
slimsignet
Jeff
lol
My mistake.
hey no problem, you must admitt I'm right. you know at least with currupte politicans once you vote them out, there not like mobsters where you have to continue to pay them. they unlike mobsters get a pension.
Since I don't live in Chicago, adnt his affects me in no way, I wonder how much of a comment I should contribute here today?
No need for you to Comment. The Angry Redhead and Bev will chime in Soon to Scream Racism.. Wait for it. Wait for it.
This will affect you when the Federal government jumps in to bail out the debt of Chicago and Illinois... which they will. Meanwhile, they continue spending as usual.
yeah.buddy
This will affect you when the Federal government jumps in to bail out the debt of Chicago and Illinois... which they will. Meanwhile, they continue spending as usual.
No we can bail our selves out, we don't need the feds for that, we just passed a income tax increase that still has our income, and corporate tax lower than Wisconson and Indiana after the increase. this has nothing to do with rahn being told he can't run for mayor, as a chicagoian i"m glad, Now we need to figure out a way to carol Braun out of the race, so gery chico former head of the school board to become the first hispanic mayor of chicago.
Jeff-1541632
I hope this tax increase does the trick. If it does, Illinois has something to be proud of. I don't expect a similar effort by California, though. Eventually I expect the Feds to get into the bailout business with several states and many more cities. That will cost us all many billions of dollars.
Oh snap!
I know- "Drive-By, learn to type, ya bastich!"
I wasn't aware that any electoral laws applied in Chicago politics.
Steve. You would love Utah, they gerrymandered the state so much that they essentially have disenfranchised anyone who is not republucan. I guess they like the way one party states like China work.
That is sad. But absolutely correct
"Court: Rahm not qualified to run for mayor"
Best news Chicago could ever hear. Elect an honorable person, - whether they be Democrat or Republican.
Honorable mayor in Chicago? Thats impossible. There has NEVER been such a person, and no politician in Chicago is honorable
"honorable?" In Chicago, no way, you wouldn't get elected to the PTA!!
Mike-1643354
Yea, I know.... I was just hoping that "Hope and Change" could transend into Illinois politics.
Rahm not being qualified to run for mayor and not being eligible to run for mayor are two different things. He's neither, but today the court was only considering the question of the latter, not the former. :-)
Right, imbecile, because someone who has represented Chicago in the House for many years isn't qualified.
why not
It's a residency issue. He moved his family to Washington DC to serve as chief of staff. And he rented his house out. The Chicago Board of Elections approved his eligibility because he was absent on business of the United States, and had not abandoned his residency. The Cook County Circuit court approved that decision. Now, the Illinois Appellate Court has overturned those guys, and Rahm is about to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court.
I don't know anything about Illinois politics, but it seems to me that when you go do D.C, to work for the Federal government, you don't abandon your Chicago - ness.
Nahh,
The truth of the matter, is that Rahm isn't black enough. Think I'm wrong?? Watch who runs, watch who wins.
I don't know. Here's the current demographics of Chicago -
42.0% white
36.8% black
4.4% Asian
0.4% Native American
0.1% Pacific Islander
13.6% other races
2.9% two or more races
26.0% Hispanic of any race.
I feel bad for the guy! He gave up quite an honorable position to be un-employed. He seems like the tough go-gett'er type, and may have done a good job!
The people of Chicago have made their choice obvious. Yet a court believes it has the right to deny the sovereignty of the people. I starting to understand why the Teabaggers are so pissed off.
Now you just need to understand that we live in a constitutional democracy. We don't get to vote on everything. Like the Teabaggers, you are clueless.
The sovereignty of the people is moderated by the courts to protect against a mad demos and the tyranny of the majority. We are NOT a democracy; we are a democratic republic. In a republic, there is a separation of powers, but that power is still available to any one (hence the ADJECTIVE "democratic"). Be a real patriot and learn about your government instead of repeating like a parrot lies thrown your way.
A laywer once told me that my principle residence is wherever I say it is.
On to the Illinois Supreme Court. He's certainly more qualified to run for mayor than that republican who lives in Florida but ran for the WV Senate seat. It is my understanding that the election rules state clearly than when a person leaves to take a post in service of his country, military or political, that person retains his/her Illinois citizen status. Maybe there's other things that undo that, I don't know. He voted absentee in Illinois. What all the challenges say to me is the other candidates aren't up to winning on their own abilities.
The internet is misbehaving here, having trouble with First Read and posting. Couldn't get this to post on the Obama Promises thread so I'll try here. If by chance it did show previously, apologies for the repeat.
President Obama has kept most of his campaign promises and those he could not keep were driven by forces beyond his control. It is no surprise that the public remains largely unaware of what Obama and democrats achieved. Republican legislators were determined to obstruct rather than help fix the Great Recession; too much of the media focused on trivial, controversial, and nitpicking nonsense rather than the substance of what was actually happening.
Proof of the media's spin and how it plays with people's minds. Yesterday, the newspaper carried stories about the Tea Party's efforts in Iowa to throw out every Iowa Supreme Court Justice involved in the legalization of gay marriage. In the center was a short article with the Headline "Poll shows Iowans Split on Impeachment". When you read it, that "split" was 63% opposed impeachment for making a decision the voter disagreed with and 36% supported it. Hardly a split since an overwhelming majority opposed such action.
And the Obama bashing continues, even if it's back door. Speaking of FL, how come the voters elected a CROOK who defauded taxpayers of MILLIONS! They must like governors who do that!
A campaign of disinformation got Rick Scott in office. If corporations weren't treated like people and instead their CEO's stood trial, he'd be in jail instead of Tallahassee.
You are right about "Military" but to best of my knowledge law does not say nebulous term like "POLITICS".
The law says "on business of the United States," and if you don't thin being the POTUS's Chief of Staff counts as business of the US, then you need a vocabulary and civics lesson.
If you read the opinion, the law which refers to being " on business of the United States" applies to an electorate, not a candadite. On to the Supreme Court.
He can join the press dude on the reelection committee.
He looks foreign, you think he was born in the states?
Bobby Jindal looks foreign. I wanna see his birth certificate before he runs for president! <giggle>
Oh Boy...The city of Chicago is getting all kind of great news...first the bears and now Rahm
Poor Rahm the Space Knight. Little man syndrome/Napoleon complex can't get you everything you want in life, I guess.
I say this as a Progressive...GOOD! I'm just glad he thought he could run, because he gave up his job as Chief of Staff. One less corporatist whispering in the President's ear is just fine by me (although I have my doubts about whether the new guy will be any better).
Well, well, well. As soon as you get the decision out of corrupt Chicago, the Chicago Board of Elections said Emanuel was eligible (they'd probably say a ham sandwich was eligible if it was a registered Democrat), the song and dance changes a bit, no? And one can imagine that the state appellate court is anything but conservative in the Bluest of Blue states such as Illinois, and they think this deal is rotten to the core.
There are many corrupt cities in the country, but Chicago is on the short list, the very short list. That city provides us with the very same people running our Executive branch of government. And as Emanuel goes out, another Chicago Daley comes in to replace him. Hope and Change.
Time to step down Rahm, maybe run for Congress. Oh, you can't do that either, you're not a resident!
Be Ready JoAnna.
You are about to be Attacked.. Oh. Nevermind you like the Rest of us. Righties. are used to it.
Does someone have a Kleenex they can give to Steve? Poor guy, anyway. Another 'rightie' getting picked on, and all......
DBO
Perhaps you should send them to Rahm.. He is gonna need them more. I posted on your post Above to keep the Racist Angry Redhead and Bev from posting on this board at all. See how that works.. Maybe you could send some to them also?. Just Sayng..
JoAnnaSmith1
There are many corrupt cities in the country, but Chicago is on the short list, the very short list. That city provides us with the very same people running our Executive branch of government. And as Emanuel goes out, another Chicago Daley comes in to replace him. Hope and Change.
If chicago is on the short list, please tell us where your from so we can determine if where your from should be on the list.
His 11.3 million won't be able to buy this office.
You're much better off, Chicago.
What's he going to do with all those millions he just raised? Use it to pay for an attorney, I suppose.
Maybe Slick Willy can help you outta this one? LOL!
Another "hit" for the people who are trying to make a difference.
who cares? da bears lost!! lol!! I really doubt Rahm spends much time at his Chi-town residence. Is Skokie nearby?
Too bad he quit his other day job as White House Chief of Staff before he found this news out. Bummer dude!