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Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot
    #13841597 - 01/24/11 11:28 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

The Illinois Appellate Court has tossed mayoral frontrunner Rahm Emanuel off the ballot, reversing the decision of a lower court.

The Appellate Court reached a 2-1 decision to remove Emanuel.

Appellate judges Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise Marie Hall ruled against Emanuel. Justice Bertina Lampkin voted in favor of keeping President Obama’s former chief of staff on the Feb. 22 ballot.

“It’s a surprise,” said Kevin Forde, the attorney who argued on Emanuel’s behalf.

In today’s ruling, Hoffman wrote: “We … order that the candidate’s name be excluded (or if, necessary, be removed) from the ballot from Chicago’s Feb. 22, 2011.”

Illinois state law says a candidate for mayor is required to have lived in the municipality where he is running for at least one year prior to the election. But exceptions are made for national service. Attorney Burton Odelson, who led the charge to get Emanuel removed, argued that “national service” would only apply to military service, not serving in the White House as Emanuel did.

A recent poll showed Emanuel leading the pack of mayoral candidates with 44 percent support, compared with 21 percent for Carol Moseley Braun, 16 percent for Gery Chico, 7 percent for Miguel del Valle, and 9 percent are undecided.

Emanuel has also received the support of heavy-hitters such as former President Bill Clinton.





http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/01/24/breaking-court-tosses-emanuel-off-ballot/

:rofl2:



WOW and i thought LAWS were only for US LITTLE PEOPLE!


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: lonestar2004]
    #13841821 - 01/24/11 12:20 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Video of Rahm's official response:





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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: lonestar2004]
    #13847085 - 01/25/11 10:41 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Obama thinks that emanuel should not have to go by the same laws that the peasants have to obey.


"Apparently, the White House has forgotten the lesson of the Beer Summit and the fallout from Obama’s ignorance in his SCOTUS SOTU Scolding last year. That lesson should have been that the President should either wait to see the evidence and the law before opining on legal matters outside of his jurisdiction, or better yet, keep his mouth shut altogether. Valerie Jarrett tells George Stephanopoulos this morning that President Obama thinks the Illinois appellate court got it wrong, and that Rahm Emanuel should have been left on the ballot despite not having lived in Chicago for the required year:"

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/25/jarrett-obama-thinks-illinois-court-acted-stupidly-or-something/


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: lonestar2004]
    #13847092 - 01/25/11 10:43 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

what movie is that?

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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: Kinko]
    #13847140 - 01/25/11 10:52 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Kinko said:
what movie is that?



The untouchables, quite an appropriate clip for poor ol Rahm :laugh:

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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
    #13847196 - 01/25/11 11:02 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Why can't these assholes just shut the fuck about things that are beyond their comprehension?  Like legos and etch-a-sketch.


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: zappaisgod]
    #13847524 - 01/25/11 12:04 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

He's baaaaack
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Rahms--114578764.html

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The Illinois Supreme Court has granted Rahm Emanuel partial stay. Which means he's back on the ballot for now.

“Emergency motion for stay pending appeal is allowed in part," the order reads.

And not a moment too soon. Ballots are being printed today.

According to the motion, “Board of Election is directed that if any ballots are printed while this court is considering the case the ballots should include the name of petitioner Rahm Emanuel as a candidate for the mayor of City of Chicago."




"In part".  So far this just means they have to print his name on a ballot.  They haven't touched the eligibility issue which they are going to have to get to pronto.


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: zappaisgod]
    #13847568 - 01/25/11 12:11 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Obama was right the Law doesn't apply to him....


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: lonestar2004]
    #13847777 - 01/25/11 12:42 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

I can understand this decision.  The ballots are due to be printed this week and, absent any final declaration regarding eligibility, leaving him off would pre-decide the case.  There is a remedy for wrongly leaving him on the ballot.  There is no remedy for wrongly removing him.


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: lonestar2004]
    #13847829 - 01/25/11 12:51 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

> Obama was right the Law doesn't apply to him....

Heeelllloooo... this is Chicago we are talking about.  Obama's old stompin' ground... land of the politically corrupt.


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: Seuss]
    #13847849 - 01/25/11 12:55 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Chicago has been fucked since long before anybody named Barak Hussein Obama ever set foot in it.  It makes Trenton look positively ethical.  (New Orleans is still a contender).


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: zappaisgod]
    #13847977 - 01/25/11 01:19 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

zappaisgod said:
Chicago has been fucked since long before anybody named Barak Hussein Obama ever set foot in it.  It makes Trenton look positively ethical.  (New Orleans is still a contender).



The Daley dynasty comes to mind.  I find it quite suspicious that Daley stepped down after meeting with Rahm.

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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: zappaisgod]
    #13849393 - 01/25/11 05:44 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

> Chicago has been fucked since long before anybody named Barak Hussein Obama ever set foot in it.

Exactly.  Obama had to cut his teeth somewhere.  I wonder how many political favors he is paying back by helping out his good old pal Rahm?


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: Seuss]
    #13849474 - 01/25/11 05:58 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Let's not forget how he got his start
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-29/politics/obamas.first.campaign_1_obama-campaign-barack-obama-chicago-politics?_s=PM:POLITICS

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In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.

As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.

The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.

"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."

Obama's challenge was perfectly legal, said Jay Stewart of the Chicago's Better Government Association. Although records of the challenges are no longer on file for review with the election board, Stewart said Obama is not the only politician to resort to petition challenges to eliminate the competition.




Sometimes there's rules and sometimes there aint.


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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: zappaisgod]
    #13849821 - 01/25/11 07:02 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

So he used the rules to his advantage?  Ok...

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Re: Court Removes Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral Ballot [Re: Chespirito]
    #13852170 - 01/26/11 03:50 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

> So he used the rules to his advantage?  Ok...

Used... abused... who knows, as the records no longer exist.


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