Court Boots Rahm Emanuel From Chicago Mayoral
Ballot
by
Wes
Barrett | January 24, 2011
FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2011, file photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm
Emanuel speaks at a news conference at the Better Boys Foundation in
Chicago. On Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, the Illinois Appeals Court has ruled
that Emanuel's name can't appear on the ballot for Chicago mayor because
he didn't live in the city in the year before the election. (AP Photo/M.
Spencer Green, File)
An appeals court in Chicago ruled Monday that
Rahm Emanuel doesn't meet the residency requirements to run for mayor
of Chicago and ordered his name be pulled off the ballot. The three judge
panel voted 2-1 against Emanuel.
In a major blow to Emanuel's campaign, Monday's ruling overturned a Cook
County Circuit Court ruling that upheld a Chicago Board of Elections
decision to let Emanuel run in the February 22nd election.
The court agreed with Emanuel's contention that he met Chicago's voter
residency standard but added that wasn't enough to allow his run for
mayor.
"...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 ruling
stated.
And the ruling may well keep Emanuel's name off the ballot.
"We're going to press with one less candidate for mayor," said
Langdon D. Neal, the chairman of the Board of Election Commissioners for
the city of Chicago.
The residency questions stem from Emanuel's time spent living in
Washington while he served as President Obama's chief of staff. He
resigned and moved back to Chicago in October of 2010 and almost
immediately announced his candidacy for mayor.
Click here to read the ruling.
Read more:
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/24/court-boots-rahm-emanuel-chicago-mayoral-ballot#ixzz1CF9n8DTX
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