Rahm Emanuel Not Eligible To Be Chicago's Mayor; Aww
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You think this issue should have been resolved before Rahm Emanuel started running to be the mayor of Chicago. From the Associated Press:
An Illinois appeals court threw former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor Tuesday because he didn’t live in the city in the year before the election.
The decision cast doubt over Emanuel’s candidacy just a month before the election. He had been considered the front-runner and had raised more money than any other candidate.
The court voted 2-1 to overturn a lower-court ruling that would have kept his name on the Feb. 22 ballot.
[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]Emanuel plans to appeal the matter to the Illinois Supreme Court. Early voting was set to begin on Jan. 31.
“I have no doubt that we will in the end prevail at this effort. This is just one turn in the road,” Emanuel said, adding that the “people of the city of Chicago deserve the right to make the decision on who they want to be their next mayor.”
Those challenging Emanuel’s candidacy have argued that the Democrat does not meet the one-year residency requirement because he rented out his Chicago home and moved his family to Washington to work for President Barack Obama for nearly two years.
Emanuel has said he always intended to return to Chicago and was only living in Washington at the request of the president…
I am sure Rahm will find some means to achieve his end goal and become mayor one way or another.
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Old dead-fish Rhambo! He has one last argument up his sleaves. The municipal city code has residency guidelines for mayor such as residing there for one year. The election laws also have residency requirements plus and exemption for being away "on the business of the United States." If he voted by absentee while away, then his residency is in tact to some degree. Since he was away on business for the US working in DC he now needs to prove to the ILL Supreme Court that the state voting residency law should trump a city-code residency law. The question is, will the court buy that argument?
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