Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel discusses the decision to remove him from the ballot. (Credit: CBS)
Reporting Craig Dellimore
UPDATED 01/24/11 5:30 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Illinois Appellate Court has tossed mayoral front-runner Rahm Emanuel off the ballot, reversing the decision of a lower court.
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Appellate judges Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise Marie Hall ruled against Emanuel, while Justice Bertina Lampkin voted in favor of keeping President Obama’s former chief of staff on the Feb. 22 ballot.
Emanuel’s lawyers filed an emergency motion Monday asking the Illinois Supreme Court to stay the appellate ruling and to hear an appeal as soon as possible. Lawyers also asked the high court to tell Chicago election officials to keep his name on the ballot if it starts to print them. But after the lower court decision, Langdon Neal, chairman for the Chicago Board of Elections, said the ballots will now be printed without Emanuel’s name.
“We’re going to press with one less candidate for mayor,” he said in a statement. Neal said the elections agency would react accordingly to any supreme court decisions.
Emanuel, for his part, kept campaigning aggressively. He said he believes the people of Chicago “deserve the right” to pick whom they want for mayor, and that he believes the law is on his side.
“I think fundamentally, when a president asks you to serve the country, as his chief of staff, that’s part of serving your country, and I have no doubt that we will in the end prevail at this effort,” Emanuel said. “As my father used to say, nothing’s ever easy in life.”
Emanuel said it’s a hopeful sign that the appellate court’s dissent opinion was “pretty strong.”
Meanwhile, in editorials, Chicago’s two major daily newspapers blasted the 2-1 appellate court decision. The Chicago Tribune urged the Supreme Court to get Emanuel back on the ballot.
One of Emanuel’s opponent said he was surprised by the decision but said it won’t change the focus of his campaign.
“We are going to run on the issues,” Gery Chico said. “We going to talk about better schools, jobs and safe neighborhoods.”
Carol Moseley Braun echoed a similar theme.
“Today’s decision is a major milestone for our campaign,” she said. “But the decision doesn’t make one neighborhood safer, one senior more secure, one child better educated, or give one unemployed person a job.”
“This opens things up,” a third major candidate, Chicago City Clerk Miguel del Valle, said. “And for those who thought Rahm Emanuel’s election was a foregone conclusion, now the voters are really going to have an opportunity to choose the next mayor of the city of Chicago.”
Opponents have been trying to get Emanuel removed on the grounds that he did not reside in Chicago for a year before the upcoming February election. He moved to Washington, D.C., two years ago to work for President Barack Obama.
But Emanuel’s legal team has argued that he always intended to return to Chicago, noting that he maintained ownership of his Ravenswood home.
The Appellate Court concluded that Emanuel’s claims of intent to return were not enough.
“Based on the foregoing analysis, we conclude that… a candidate must meet not only the Election Code’s voter residency standard, but also must have actually resided within the municipality for one year prior to the election, a qualification that the candidate unquestionably does not satisfy,” the court wrote.
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 Emanuel’s team has argued that exceptions can be made for national service.
The court agreed that Emanuel’s reason for leaving Chicago constituted “business of the United States,” but argued that this still did not qualify him for the ballot.
“In our view, the exception… applies only to voter residency requirements, not to candidate residency requirements,” the court wrote.
A hearing officer, the full Chicago Board of Elections, and a Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled earlier that Emanuel is eligible to run for mayor.
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.”
In ruling in favor of Emanuel earlier this month, Cook County Circuit Court Associate Judge Mark Ballard agreed that Emanuel kept his residency in Chicago, ruling that “it didn’t matter” that he went to D.C. to work for Obama.
Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez, no fan of Emanuel, called Monday’s ruling a taste of Emanuel’s own medicine.
“Rahm Emanuel’s been one of the most cutthroat political operatives ever seen in the United States of America, and he used the same system for himself. He thought it was good then, and it’s good today,” Gutierrez told CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine.
A recent poll showed Emanuel leading the pack of mayoral candidates with 44 percent support, compared with 21 percent for Moseley Braun, 16 percent for Chico, 7 percent for del Valle, and 9 percent are undecided.
Emanuel has also received the support of heavy-hitters such as former President Bill Clinton.
The Sun-Times Media Wire and Associated Press contributed to this report.
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It won’t stick; but how nice it would be if it did.
January 24, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Ballerina boy hardest hit.
January 24, 2011 at 12:16 pm
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Next ObamaCare! Bwahahaha! LOL! LMAO!
January 24, 2011 at 12:16 pm
We’ll he needs to appeal it to the IL Supreme Court; that’ll be the final say.
January 24, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Finally! A court that upholds the LAW! What’s happening to Chicago’s political ooze?
January 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm
The law? In Chicago? Hahahaha.
Thanks for the laugh dude.
January 24, 2011 at 12:48 pm
About time that a court finally woke up and held to the Law in Illinois that states YOU MUST LIVE HERE FOR ONE YEAR not that you intended to live here!! That’s just nuts. as far as paying taxes here. hell you can live in any other states and still pay taxes on a home here, .. so………again has nothing to do with you LIVING here. and I don’t care if you worked for the king of the middle east…. you were STILL NOT LIVING HERE!! DUGH!
January 24, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Good call, make sure you tell that to every single serviceman coming back from overseas.
:/
January 24, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Why? Is every single serviceman running for mayor of Chicago. It’s hard to see how moving to Washington for a government job constitutes the business of the United States. If it were an elective office, maybe, but it’s not. If he went to Washington to become a security guard for the parks department his argument would be exactly the same, but would it convince anybody? His case would be stronger if he hadn’t rented out his house, but he did. He’s not a Chicago resident.
January 24, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Yeah!!! The legislature has finally done something the people want!!! Watch out politicians..we are watching
January 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm
YEAH!!!! The judges re totally part of the legislature! And you TOTALLY had direct impact on this case!!! And people in the burbs have tons of say about Chicago politics!!!! THE SYSTEM WORKS!!!! WOOO-HOOO!!!!
January 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Just when I think that activist judges can’t get sink any lower, they go and do something like this………………..AND TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES.
January 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm
so the other candidates couldn’t beat his politics so they did they only thing they could, become a bunch of pansies and get him thrown off the ballot.
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Man, that sounds exactly like a prior Chicago politician’s method. Hey, it was Obama who did that a couple times.
January 24, 2011 at 12:48 pm
That’s the Chicago way…its the same thing Obama did to get his State Senate seat…look it up. Waaaaa.
January 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Yeah. how dare someone go to the courts to uphold the law?
It didn’t work for Gore, but he wanted the courts to change the law.
January 24, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Yo, Scott. Rahman isn”t eligible. What’s the problem understanding this??
January 24, 2011 at 1:16 pm
that’s exactly what happened. another low down dirty tactic between the low down dirty politicians. These people are not interested in serving the people of chicago, they are only out to serve themselves. wake up chicago. the same mess over and over and over……….
January 24, 2011 at 5:47 pm
+1000
January 24, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Jason, thank you. That’s the best laugh I have had in a week.
January 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm
ROFLMFAO!!! The Chicago machine ain’t working the way it’s supposed to!
January 24, 2011 at 12:20 pm
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January 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Please keep him off the ballot, all he wants is to be like Daley, let’s get somebody who cares about Chicago.
January 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
yeah enjoy Braun you loser. I’ll be laughing from my home in the burbs watching that bozo run the city to the ground.
January 24, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I think the same consertative wing-nut posted all the above messages under different names.
January 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
So typical of a hate-filled, irrational liberal -. Avoid the topic at hand, and instead call other people names, who have made legitimate points and arguments.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Yeah…just like left wingnuts do.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Did you say ‘consertative wingnut’? yeah. that’s just more stupider, aint it?
January 24, 2011 at 12:53 pm
How stupid are Chicagoans. They had a Democratic party mayor for how long? and is the city better off today? are the schools, streets, taxes, anything better today? NO!!!!! Democrats control most of the largest city in the Union and they are full of crime, despite the idiotic anti-gun laws, schools are a disaster full of poorly educated teachers which obviously translates to poorly educated children. Cook Count and Chicago have some of the highest taxes in the USA, people complain about it, yet they keep on electing individuals that will raise taxes. Rahm Emanuel is one corrupt individual and he will make Chicago even worse than what it already is. Let’s hope he stays off the ballot for good!
January 24, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Been asking myself that for years!!!! How stupid are the voters of IL?? Look at this moron they elected gov.!!! Plain and simple (and sorry) facts are that ANY state, city, with strong ties to “extortionist” labor will vote democratic. Look what happens in DC with the unions!!!
January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Great post! Totally agree… And I’m a Chicagoan!
January 24, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Delusional? You need help!
January 24, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Now, all that millions in money his co-horts including “the bj.” klinton, and “the donald” trump raised in support of his election, uh, Who gets that?
January 24, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Agreed Todd. To all those Bush-loving, teapartyers in the suburbs – stop posting about our mayoral election!
January 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
But Todd is claiming it was only ONE person above Susan.
God liberals are DUMB!
January 24, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Susan wants the gov’t to give her money out of our paychecks. Why are liberals so lazy? Why are they always trying to take other peoples’ money?
January 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm
I think “Todd” and “Susan” is the same, progressive, left-wing nut-job posting under different names.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
It just depends on which personality is in control at that particular time.
Why can’t these people with multiple personalities ever have ONE sane personality?
January 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Todd gets the blonde wig on even days…..Susan (Sybil) gets it on odd ones. It’s the redistribution of glamour that libs long for.
January 24, 2011 at 3:47 pm
What about their right to free speech. Susan? Oh, silly me, I forgot. Liberals only natter about free speech when somebody is saying something agrees with their point of view.
January 24, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I agree totally! Liberals only natter about free speech. Well put…good boy….now go back to your room in your parent’s basement, and learn to construct a complete coherent sentence.
January 24, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Linz, you might be shocked to know that “natter” is actually an honest-to-goodness word, and that Cubbie used it correctly.
Now, to which of Cubbie’s parents’ basements were you referring–and how do you know they don’t live together?
January 24, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Linz,
I’d hate to see you be an ass who jumps to conclusions alone so I’ll do it with you. Be a good girl and go back to rubbing your daddy’s junk.
January 24, 2011 at 8:42 pm
No.
January 24, 2011 at 12:48 pm
60622 and Lovin’ It, Suzy.
January 24, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Looks like the rahmEN is in the hot water!!!
Check this out:
http://rahmenemanuel.tumblr.com/
January 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
HAHAHA Thanks for sharing – that site is hilarious! It also shows what a bully he is
January 24, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Jay Levine will need a new @$$ to kiss!
January 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Great post!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
January 24, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Carol Mausley Brown must be having a field day today!
January 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm
If she is, I hope it’s on the level of how to use proper grammar, keep the weave out as a Mayoral potential and last, to stop being outright “GHETTO” when someone talks to her. Attitude is something that Carol need to have adjusted!
January 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm
“It’s a surprise,” said Kevin Forde, the attorney who argued on Emanuel’s behalf.
Yeah, ’cause “Da FIX was in!”
January 24, 2011 at 12:26 pm
What I don’t understand is why can’t the public decide? We’re wasting tax money on court battles, let the citizens of Chicago decide. If we don’t want him as mayor, we won’t vote for him. If we do, we sill, it’s that simple. This is such political BS and the courts have no business being involved. This is simply the perversion of law, fostered by those who can’t have they’re way.
January 24, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Jerome, the legislative branch in Illinois passed a law — the court is simply making sure it’s followed. If you don’t like the law, then change it. Really simple. Rahm has been living out of the state for the past year.
January 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm
As I said, this is a waste of time. If the people didn’t want him, they wont elect him. Plain and simple.
January 24, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Because, Jerome, look what happened when the public decided.
January 24, 2011 at 12:42 pm
you cry like a little girl when you libs can’t have your way….well get use to it. The law is the law. But you have been breaking since you were a little one I bet!
January 24, 2011 at 2:59 pm
He is not qualified! It would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat.
January 24, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Yeah, you all know best. Let the ignorant self indulged woman win!
January 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm
HOORAY FOR JUSTICE OUTSIDE OF THE CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC MACHINE!!
Chico is the BEST choice for mayor. Look at his track record and experience.
January 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm
There is no Rham in the mayor’s race!
January 24, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Yez gonna sleep wit da fishes yez greasy bastage.
January 24, 2011 at 12:33 pm
to “Never Waste” – I have an idea. Let’s give tax cuts to the rich!!! Wait a minute though. Only the filthy rich. Hmmmmmm…..liberals are the ones who are dumb? You should probably look your ideas in a mirror.
January 24, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Sucks being you guys doesn’t it. Remember, if you can’t laugh at yourselves, at least let us laugh at you. BWUHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
January 24, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Stop crying twit,
You can PROPAGANDIZE tomorrow.
TODAY, we do the “BALLET of Joy”
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Wait? Who got tax cuts this year?
Soon enough, the music will stop playing and your screeching will hurt the ears of those that once thought you had any talent.
Reality sucks, but you need to deal with it at some point.
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
“You should probably look your ideas in a mirror.”
How remarkably eloquent. Completely incoherent, but eloquent.
January 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Never waste an Opportunity to Gloat
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
-Brooklyn, NY
I LOVE that…
January 24, 2011 at 12:33 pm
What I don’t understand is why can’t the public decide? We’re wasting tax money on court battles, let the citizens of Chicago decide. If we don’t want him as mayor, we won’t vote for him. If we do, we will, it’s that simple. This is such political BS and the courts have no business being involved. This is simply the perversion of law, fostered by those who can’t have their way.
January 24, 2011 at 12:33 pm
The public already made the decision… they want the mayor to be a from the community. Rahm being unemployed follows those wishes.
January 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm
If the people didn’t want him, he would not be in the lead, That tells me they want him. The courts made the decision, despite the first rulings. The appellate court felt different on the matter. That does not fall in line with the peoples wishes.
January 24, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Nation of laws, not men.
January 24, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I’m just saying West Town, the Chicago Board of Elections and the Circuit Court found in favor. Now the Appellate Court, say it different. The law is not black & white, it’s open to interpretation. However; I maintain, it the people don’t want him, they won’t elect him. This is being pushed by other candidates that aren’t as popular of advanced in the polls. If it were truly the people’s will, he would still be on the ballot. But The IL Supreme Court will decide that matter.
I still say, this is a waste of tax-payer money.
January 24, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Why is it that I am not surprised a resident of Chicago doesn’t know what a “law” is?
If you don’t like the law, change it. But do not believe you are exempt from it simply because it suits your personal needs.
January 24, 2011 at 12:56 pm
He is not qualified! It would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat.
January 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Now we jsut need to get his ex boss kicked off the 2012 ballot
January 24, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Why doesn’t he run for mayor where he lives, that is, in Washington DC?
January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
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January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Rahm is NOT able to run for mayor. That is the best use of tax dollars i have seen in a long while, maybe since trying to impeach Clinton.
January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Well looks like Obama’s reach isn’t as long as he might like. Lets see how long it takes for him to get in the middle of this and strong arm the ballarina in.
January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Uh Oh, looks like Rahm’s buddies in the mob got arrested at the wrong time. How will he ever be able to pull this off without them now??
January 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm
If he leaves, Chicago would be shooting themselves in the foot. Carol Mosely Braun as Mayor? Howly Cow, how horrible would that be?
January 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Rahm is not qualified! It would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun.
January 24, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Just hang on ……………..Obama will come to the Rescue !!! LOL
January 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm
no wasting this opportunity either…bye bye rahm
January 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Not a shocker, but the Illinois Supreme Court will have the final say.
Plenty of people work in one city, yet maintain a primary residence in another.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Most states consider primary residence to be the place where you spend more than 6 months of your time.
January 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Plenty of people rip off others from multiple locations. Rahm is not qualified! It would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun.
January 24, 2011 at 6:39 pm
True but there are no laws to prevent them from doing so. The law is pretty clear in this case, Emanuel has not met the residency requirement.
January 24, 2011 at 8:47 pm
The two most popular options are Emmanuel and Mosely-Braun? This is why I’m glad I left Chicago and am never coming back.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Good riddance. No one wants you here. Have fun in the burbs.
January 24, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Don’t be surprised if the Dept. of Justice gets involved. He is Obama’s boy and was sent back to Chicago to rig the election for Obama.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Just great he not on the ballot, but did you notice who was leading the pack without him. Carol Moseley Braun. That’s even worse!!!
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
But if we are to believe the polls and Emanuel is kicked off by the IL SC, there is a huge bloc of people who will be looking for someone to support, I think that helps Chico or Del Valle more than Braun. After her shenanigans as a US Senator she does not deserve to ever hold public office again.
January 24, 2011 at 8:49 pm
The only thing worse than Rahm Emanuel is Carol Moseley Braun. God must truly hate Chicago to allow those two pieces of human garbage to be the top candidates in the mayoral race. No matter which one wins, corruption reigns supreme.
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
i can hear it now, “Blame Bush.”
January 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Sometimes a crisis doesn’t get used in quite the way you expected, hey Rahm?
January 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Now that he is tossed from the ballot, I guess there is nobody good to vote for.
January 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm
There never was Carol, there never was.
January 24, 2011 at 8:50 pm
To bad all the alleged “liberals” here aren’t sophisticated enough to realize that Rahms removal is the work of Obama. Just like Keith Olbermanns removal. The jokes on you, FAKE democrats.
Google: “ulsterman obama”
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
So does this mean that any military person who leaves their home state has no right to run for office either? This decision seems very wrong.
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
NO, iF HE WAS IN THE MILITARY THERE WHOULD HAVE BEEN NO PROBLEM.
BUT IN THIS CAUSE HE WAS NOT IN THE MILITARY.
HE HAD A GOVERNEMENT JOB IN A DIFFERNENT STATE & RENT HIS PRINCIPLE RESIDENT IN CHICAGO. THE LAW STATED THAT A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR MUST LIVE IN CHICAGO 1 YEAR PRIOR TO THE FEBRUARY 22, 2011 ELECTION. REMEMBER HE RESIGN THE RENT AGREEMENT WITH THE RENTOR IN THE MONTH PROIR TO MAYOR DALEY STATEMENT OF NOT RUNNING AGAIN. I THINK THIS IS THE REASONING BE HELD HIM BEING REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT.
January 24, 2011 at 12:59 pm
He paid his property taxes to Chicago and to Illinois, he paid his income taxes to Illinois…he is an Illinois resident and a Chicago resident. Being in the military is National Service. Serving your country in a “public servant role” is National Service.
I’m sure this will be overturned and Rahm will become Mayor. Problem is…a lot of taxpayer money is being spent on this argument because all the other candidates are afraid as hell if he’s on the ballot.
Sorry, this argument is stupid. Just like the “Birther” movement and Obama!
January 24, 2011 at 1:08 pm
No, Military stationed elsewhere can still maintain there residency for voting, just like Rahm did. However the law has a second and equally important requirement to be candidate for mayor, 1 yr prior to the election you must reside in the municipality. So a military person who just got back from service would have to wait until they have established this second prerequisite to run for mayor. Both military and Rahm voluntarily left the state to serve.
January 25, 2011 at 7:28 am
idiot
January 24, 2011 at 12:40 pm
So they couldn’t beat his politics so the other candidates did they only thing they could, cry and whine to get him thrown off the Ballot.
January 24, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Or they bought a judge or 2 ;-)
January 24, 2011 at 1:15 pm
RahmE is not qualified! It would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun. Wake up and look at Rahm’s connections.
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Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin.
January 24, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I have noticed that politicians in general seem to be sticklers for the bureaucratic detail of “The Rules”, except when the rules work against THEM.
January 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm
YES!!! THERE IS A GOD!!!!
January 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm
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It’s just this simple. If you can’t prove you lived there for a year you can’t be on the ballot. He is not qualified. Case closed.
Same for Obama, if you can’t prove you were born here you can’t be on the ballot. He never has proved he was born here, can’t find the birth certificate or it is from Kenya. Who cares, can’t prove it not qualified. Case closed. Impeach Obama for failure to meet the constitutional qualifications for President
January 24, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Oh Jethro…you are “one of those” people (Birther movement).
I don’t know if you’ve been reading the paper or watching TV RECENTLY (I mean like a year and a half ago)…
The birth certificate has been provided and has been proven genuine, they had a delivery room nurse interview, they even showed the local hawiian newspaper clipping with the annoucement of his birth (like most our local papers did “back in the day”).
Dude…find another argument…let this one go! Geeez
January 24, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Too bad…if it had been his birth certificate he had to show, he’d still be a candidate.
January 24, 2011 at 12:46 pm
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To Not in Chicago:
Military have NO choice where they are sent to serve. Rahm had the option to live in Chicago and commute to DC.
January 24, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Oh please Ozinnh…the public (taxpayers…you and me) would have to pay that! National Service…is National Service!
January 24, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Clearly a legally correct decision. Now, can it hold against Chicago style political intervention?
January 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm
IF IT STICKS AND CANNOT RUN WHO IN THE WORLD IS CHICAGO GOING TO HAVE RUN FOR A MAYOR NOT ANY OF THE IDIOTS THAT ARE ON THE BALLOT NOW! THEY COULDN’T RUN A GAS STATION LET ALONE RUN THE CITY SO WHO ? JAY CUTLER ? LOVIE SMITH MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR A JOB AS WELL ?
January 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Rahm is good at running things, he would run every Chicagoan into the poorhouse. RahmE is not qualified! His running would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun. Wake up and look at Rahm’s connections.
January 24, 2011 at 6:55 pm
One, there are no laws in Chicago. And two, if there were, they certainly wouldn’t apply to politicians, especially union-connected Democrats.
January 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I betcha Chico paid off the two judges…corruption once again and all that’s left are still unqualified!!
January 24, 2011 at 12:53 pm
That’s exactly what I’m thinking…guess I’ll have to write in my vote.
January 24, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Rahm is good at running things, he would run every Chicagoan into the poorhouse. RahmE is not qualified! His running would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun. Please wake up and look at Rahm’s connections.
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January 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm
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I sure as hell don’t want Carol Moseley Braun for mayor!
January 24, 2011 at 1:01 pm
RahmE is not qualified! His running would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun. Please wake up and look at Rahm’s connections.
January 24, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Now what, O’,Bomb came to lunch with Dailey, Here’s the deal, You dont’ run, I send Ram O, and for that Ill put brother Bill in a great paying job!! Ok says daily, and here we are… Now will Ram O go back to DC and Bill return to Chi??? What now Chico has sold out to the Police Union for ther support, Mostly have to reward voters with tea bags, and now one else iremains!! Bid Problem!!
January 24, 2011 at 1:02 pm
This is exactly what Obama did to his state senate opponent… got him disqualified from the ballot. How sweet to see the same thing happen to Rhamit. Now it will take a whole lot more money from him to bribe the state supremes.
Here’s the rub… Emanuel is probably the best of the pack to keep Chicago from sliding totally down the toilet. Carol Moseley Braun is reeking Marxist, worst than Emanuel. She does have a set of balls, but balls without brains makes Carol a dim girl.
January 24, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Rahm is good at running things, he would run every Chicagoan into the poorhouse. RahmE is not qualified! His running would affect the proper result as should be expected by the qualified candidates. Or maybe we should let Bill Clinton and the Donald decide. Please don’t let them Rahm it up your @ss or to use the Clinton method, Rahm it down your throat. Chico or Del Valle will beat Braun. Please wake up and look at Rahm’s connections. Please!!!
January 24, 2011 at 7:01 pm
It is good that they kicked Emanuel off the ballot. If he was really serious about being mayor of this city. Then he would have decided to run before Daley decided to retire. He now talks about how the politics here are not working for the citizens of Chicago. I guess it worked before the current mayor decided to retire. Emanuel is full of it. We don’t need him and most don’t want him. I don’t care what the polls said.
January 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Oh, and another thing. Chicago may as well get ready to be like Arizona and don’t let the flood gates open for Del Valle and Chico…Murders are already up and we don’t need anymore!!!
January 24, 2011 at 1:09 pm
This is merely theatrics. The ruling will be overturned by the Supreme Court. In the meantime, Emanuel will enjoy all this free publicity. And in the end, the angry little people who believe that there are actual, substantive differences between Democrat and Republican politicians will have another imaginary issue to argue amongst themselves.
Rahm Emanuel has already been elected mayor of Chicago. It’s a done deal.
January 24, 2011 at 1:13 pm
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Did he know that there was a requirement that he actually lived in Chicago for 1 year before running for Mayor?
If yes, he has no case.
If no, he’s too stupid to be Mayor.
“But Emanuel’s legal team has argued that he always intended to return to Chicago,”
I tried that in traffic court once before, it didn’t work.
“Your Honor, I intended to drive at or below the speed limit, but…”
Judge said “ that’s nice, I intended to give you a break, but….”
Does Emanuel think laws only apply to the “little” people?
I’m sure Olbermann will have a “special” “special comment” on how stupid this Judge is, tonight!
January 24, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Unfortunately, Olbermann is no longer on MSNBC. They cancelled his contract and last Friday was his last night!
January 24, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Good Lord. just let the man on the ballot and let the people decide. Them who want(ed) him out are up to nothing good as well as those who actually kicked him out. But again let the people decide. I agree with Lori Thompson this might be another Arizona-headed state. I hope those in the Appellate court are ready for what’s next.
January 24, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Umm, this would make Chico the front-runner. What does this have to do with Arizona?
You need to have more respect for the law, Rahm is not allowed to run.
January 24, 2011 at 1:45 pm
You know’ it’s sad. some of the post on here are soooooo disrespectful and outright ignorant. Despite political party affiliations, ideologies and choice of candidate, to speak about Former President Bush, Former President Clinton and President Obama in such a denigrating way, is uncalled for. It’s sad there’s no political civility left in America. The political arena is so volatile, the future looks bleak at best.
January 24, 2011 at 1:17 pm
I’m pleasently surprised this happened. I never did like or trust that arrogant shifty eyed gonniff!
January 24, 2011 at 1:17 pm
I choose to believe that God has just begun. :0)
January 24, 2011 at 1:18 pm
I don’t particularly care for the guy, but having served active duty, this concerns me. I was stationed all over the US and overseas. I was always able to maintain residency and citizenship in my home state by registering my vehicles and paying taxes there. I would be upset if I returned home after serving my country only to be denied the same privileges as others. Luckily, I was able to attend college paying resident rates and buy resident hunting permits. I know those things have time in state rules, but either they make exceptions or no one thought to ask.
January 24, 2011 at 1:19 pm
This absolutely stinks…..mostly Braun is an absolute crook….chico is not fit to be mayor….to all of us emmanuel supporters start protesting…you want Chicago to turn into Detroit….with Chico or Mostly Fraud that is what you are going to get.
January 24, 2011 at 1:25 pm
i’ll see your hahaha….ha and raise you a lololololol (:
January 24, 2011 at 1:32 pm
The law gives an explicit exception for military duty
January 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm
You can’t be a resident of two cities for the same reason you can’t vote in two cities. if I own a house in Wisconsin and Chicago, and only stayed in Wisconsin during the summer, I still couldn’t vote there.
January 24, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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…all come on now this is ILL. …all this means someone didn’t “find” that bag of cash toosed over the fence or “dropped by their car door win wink…so the “donation” WILL be in place for the next court to be paid for in advance…..he is ironing his tutu and getting ready to prance into city hall singing “fiddler on the roof”…..oy
January 24, 2011 at 1:47 pm
This is simple: What do you want for a mayor? Do you want Chico lying through his teeth to the FOP, promising 55 years of age retirement for police so he can secure their vote (false promises Gery)? Do you want Mostley Brown, who failed at every political office she has held and cannot run a small business? Do you want De Valle, seriously? Even Danny Davis got out as he realized that he’ll lose all his connections in DC. Is the selection better now than Rahm is off? No. Is it worse? Hell yes!
January 24, 2011 at 1:58 pm
To quote bella legosi aka san fran gran nan, ‘it’s time to drain the swamp’ little did she know, the swamp is her home. Good for Chicago, now get cleaning the rest of those maggots out of office and become a legitimate leading city again.
January 24, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Love it – Rambo Dead Fish
Actually who care -Illinois sucks anyway
January 24, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Good riddance. Another slithering invertebrate run over by the rule of law.
Buh-bye, Rahm. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving soul.
January 24, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Michael I fully agree with you on this, BUT the INTENT to come back to chicago doesn’t give him rights to just come in and buy his way into office, as Obama did. He was NOT born here in the U.S and yet people with Money backed him and pushed him in, why?? cause he was the first black guy? I think that more than anything else. Yet the Governor of California can never serve as preisdent casue HE was not born here, so what makes BHO any different? It’s cause he is black! Getting off this. Funny how when we don’t pay our bills we are getting all sorts of calls form bill collectors and our houses are being lost, but politicians can go around spend spend spend and they are not held accountable for it. And they want to know why we in Illinois are so broke! and why our jobs are leaving??? HUMMMMM
January 24, 2011 at 2:38 pm
He hasn’t bought anything….he told the President when he took the job that it would be for a partial term….the press reported it…which means he was coming back to Chicago….I and the majority of voters haven’t received anything . You don’t know what you’re talking about Brooke….You are a fool Donna.
January 24, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Carol Moseley Braun
Wow Detroit is start’n to look good
Bwahahahahahahaha
January 24, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Then go.
January 24, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Welcome to the Back of The Bus White Boy.
January 24, 2011 at 2:48 pm
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I think you guys are misinterpreting my original response. I believe Obama was born in the US…in Hawaii! It’s been proven…I am not one of those “Birther movement” people)
I was merely stating that this is yet another “birther type” argument. In the end…Rahm will be let on the ballot!
January 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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Hi,
I was wondering what would happen if people of Chicago did a write in vote
for Rahm Emanuel. Thank you for your answer.
Thelma
January 24, 2011 at 3:06 pm
It will probably not be needed, but if it comes to a write in , it will count and we will do it …all fifty percent of us!!!!
January 24, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Please consider this info.
This is all a game, the fix is in..This is a plan to bust Chicago then Illinois. Its a “new age land grab” thru high and higher taxes. This war on the American people is different than others but all wars are about control of resources and land. When people cant pay their property taxes the gov will move in. At some point the Gov will want to unload. By then others ( friends if you will) will be in place to slide into handling this..If Im wrong why give a cushy Washington gig up for a mayoral spot? No my friends, this is like a well hined pool shark plotting moves in advance.
Once this machine is in place and working it will spread through out the country. Chicago will be the hub.
January 24, 2011 at 3:08 pm
What a SAD Day, The other Candidates must be afraid that he will win. If your running for an office, your suppsose to have faith in yourself. I guess they don ot. Court should not be involved. The people in Cook County know what they want and will vote who they want. Have Faith in Cook County people.
But you got to admit, Illinois keep us amused.
January 24, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Jay Levine is beside himself right now. Been sucking up to Rahm for so long, all for naught.
January 24, 2011 at 3:33 pm
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OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 24, 2011 at 8:45 pm
gee.
who is Jay Levine going to deck now?
January 24, 2011 at 9:08 pm
I guess the dead of Chicago will have to vote for someone else!
January 24, 2011 at 9:23 pm
As of this day Emmanuel has a majority of the voters over fifty percent…he will overcome this bump in th road in the Supreme Court…..Carol Mostly Fraud, Chico and Del Valle don’t buy your party cake yet…you are going to lose….We the voters will demostrate and write Emmanuel in if we have to…we won’t be denied our vote…Emmanuel cares about Chicago…these other three just want to line their pockets, especially carol mostly fraud.
January 24, 2011 at 9:42 pm
This is simply not fair. Just because he didn’t live in Chicago shouldn’t matter because he REALLY wanted to live in Chicago. He went to Washington for awhile so he could serve MORE Americans as Chief Of Staff and now he’s disqualified?!? That’s not right! He’s Obama’s man and those rules should not apply to him! I think he should qualify by “reconciliation, or “deem and pass”, or something like that…Barack could explain it to him I’m sure– there’s a way to cheat and get away with it by God!
January 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm
This is one mother of a political hyphocrisy ! George Ryan, Blago , Dan Walker ,John Burge are all 100% residents of Chicago, and Chicago would had been better off if they never existed. Along comes an honest man and he’s booted out for this stupid reason ? Most of the contenders for this office have passed the last 25 years kissing up to Richie, now that the spot is open, they’re charging in, you can see the hunger for power in their eyes. If Emanuel’s not in the ballot, I’m sure as hell ain’t voting.
January 24, 2011 at 10:31 pm
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Finally, the rule of law appears to prevail, but it isn’t over until it’s over. The liberal bias of the 2 Chicago newspapers blasting the appellate court’s decision is the reason that they are headed for the ashheap of history. People have finally had enough of this “lamestream media”!
January 25, 2011 at 11:46 am
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