Rahm Emanuel should not appear on the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot, according to a ruling issued by a state appellate court today.
In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate panel said Emanuel does not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Chicago for a year prior to the election. The judges reversed a decision by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, which had unanimously agreed that Emanuel was eligible to run for mayor. (Read the ruling here.)
“We conclude that the candidate neither meets the Municipal Code’s requirement that he have ‘resided in’ Chicago for the year preceding the election in which he seeks to participate nor falls within any exception to the requirement,” the majority judges wrote.
via Court orders Emanuel off mayoral ballot – chicagotribune.com.
January 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm
What’s that I hear??? Somebody found my teeny tiny violin!
January 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I thought he was “da boy.” What happened?
January 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Crybaby is going to appeal.
January 24, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Of course he is going to appeal! No way can he go back and live on the “modest” incomes provided by the White House.
He wants his OWN city/fiefdom and the adulation (and kickbacks) that go with.
January 24, 2011 at 12:54 pm
True PMM, nothing short of a fiefdom will do for Rahmmy boy. Someone else said, “send him back to his ballet roots!” hahaha
January 24, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I think they’re playing “The End.”
January 24, 2011 at 2:27 pm
January 24, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Very appropriate.
January 24, 2011 at 2:52 pm
heh, especially since Morrison’s father was was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
January 24, 2011 at 2:58 pm
but you have to admit, there ain’t much can compare with the Comtesse de Polignac (the Strad, not the aristocrat).
January 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Loving this
January 24, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I’m sure you are Anthony!
January 24, 2011 at 1:19 pm
What? An independent judiciary? And in the most corrpt sate in the US?
May this ruling be a harbinger of the fall of the obamacrats.
January 24, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Is it too early to begin singing, Happy Days Are Here Again?
January 24, 2011 at 4:08 pm
It probably is too early as I am certain the case will go to the Supremes where they will send it back saying it is a “local matter”.
However, the ballots are to be printed on Thursday (this week) and there is already a plan to have Rahm run as a write-in candidate. (per current news radio)
January 24, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I would not be surprised in the least leslie. Rahmbo is not giving up. I don’t think it will fly.
January 25, 2011 at 11:44 am
I just posted this at John Smart:
Rahm is back on the ballot.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/01/emanuel-lawyers-file-ballot-appeal-with-supreme-court.html
I wonder what he/obama/whoever? had on the judges.
January 25, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Someone obviously got a horse head in their bed last night.
I was posting this as you were commenting. lol
January 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Hahahahahahahahaha!! That’s all I have to say. Well, that and if someone donated money to his “cause” will they be getting it back anytime soon?
January 24, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Rahmmy is buying up all the dead fish that he can get his hot little hands on right now.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAl, Roger that is hysterical!
January 24, 2011 at 2:11 pm
KARMA, KARMA, KARMA Chamleon….lmao
Will they be halting that move of the WH staff to Chicago now?
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
January 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Indeed PssttCmere, indeed.
January 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Rahmmy needs a new home.
January 24, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I won’t rule out the possibility of Rahm becoming the modern day Meyer Lanksy, who after trying to seek asylum in Israel was turned away because of his criminal record …
The appetite for leftist propaganda has taken a big hit there as well as here in the US given that the Labor Party has all but been emasculated…
All these crooks will prolly wind up in various and sundry safe houses in China one day. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit…
January 24, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Rumblings of Olby running for office. The world is upside down and all we can do is watch.
January 25, 2011 at 8:08 am
I ain’t gonna be watchin’ diddly squat… All this stuff is just flat out governtainment…
January 25, 2011 at 10:04 am
lmao
quite appropriate