Posted on 01/27/2011 3:19:12 PM PST by Chicago Lampoon
Did anyone really doubt that the Chicago fix was in all along? The Illinois Supreme Court just announced a 5-2 decision to allow Rahm Emanuel on the ballot for the February 22 Chicago mayoral election. Earlier today, former IL Republican Gov. Jim Thompson and other members of the state GOP establishment came out in favor of giving the former Obama ballot access.
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I simply noted he'd not become a resident anywhere else, still voted in Chicago, had property in Chicago, paid Illinois taxes, and was otherwise considered by everyone in America as just another crooked and corrupt Chicago politician.
I think that covers intent.
The court, in my judgment made the correct decision since every American citizen is, one way or the other, a legal resident somewhere, and actually does "reside in" someplace, and once he's established residency for whatever purpose (a license perhaps, to vote, to run for office, etc.) he must affirmatively reject that residency and get another to lose the one he has ~ and he didn't.
I think some folks were interpreting "intent" as little more than a "state of mind" which can't really be determined since people will lie about it.
The court correctly noted that Rahm didn't do anything that said he wasn't going to come back home as soon as possible.
If you apply this to ILLEGAL ALIENS you'd have the court ruling that since they didn't even bother to get here with a visa that allows permanent residency, they have not yet done anything to REJECT their former residency somewhere in Mexico (for 90% of them).
Same with their babies. As far as we can tell someone with Mexican residency birthed them, so presumably the babies share residency with their parents ~ and that's in Mexico.
American born babies are treated the same ~ they share the residency of their parents.
Shocker! (/sarcasm)
After reading your post I realized he had to have income from Illinois...rental income from renting out his house. Along with his deduction for property taxes (and mortgage interest, if any).
Who knows, Illinois is so corrupt that laws don’t really matter anyway.
Rahm gets to be the next Chicago mayor.
I would be interested if you do hear an answer, maybe you can call in to WLS or Rush ;). I was listening to WLS online when that issue was brought up, but I had to go and didn’t get a chance to hear any of the discussion.
I’m guessing the residency requirement for city employees only applies once someone actually has the job. I don’t think this ruling would change that, especially since this case applied to election laws only.
It will be interesting to see if Rahm’s poll numbers go up or down after this residency battle. It may actually get him some sort of sympathy vote. Can you believe it, sympathy for Rahm? If he does improve in the polls, the next story will be that he was behind the scenes pushing for this issue to go to the courts.
I was under the impression that if he gets on the ballot he will win. Think of the alternative, Carol Moseley Braun.
If you lived in Chicago, who would you chose to run the machine?
Wow, what a corrupt state. No real rule of law in operation. And yet, they can’t figure out why Chicago hasn’t become a mecca for the high tech industry.
On the other hand, it’s pretty easy to see how Obama came to believe it isn’t necessary for him to follow the law either.
They have already started counting the “votes” most likely. Just because they are dead doesn’t mean they can’t vote a few times.
Chicago - where everthing and everyone is for sale.
Oh my. Rahmbo’s a sawed-off Witch-King, the First, albeit the most diminutive, of the Nine. And Chicago will be his Angmar.
Hey, it could have been worse than that!
They might wake up with Emanuel in their bed!
“Don’t know how the black voters felt about Carol Moseley Brown”
If the voters of Chicago think Rahm can bring home more freebies than Carol Mosely, they will vote Rahm.
The unions will tell the folks who to vote for.
Right now, most think Rahm will bring home more pork. Carol Mosely is a has been, and has now power to bring home goodies and freebies (payoffs) from the feds.
“I hope all of these leftwing cities and states “
If you look at an Illinois map, only Cook county is blue. The rest of the entire state is red.
We all suffer here in the state because of the voting power of the city. The vote of illegals, and the busing of other interest groups to polling places, added with just plain corruption in the city and Cook county nullify the rest of the entire state.
Now the people of Chicago can relax: Help is on the way! And they sincerely, sincerely, (as Jack F. Kemp used to say) believe that!
Did you read the appeals court decision?
The law makes a distinction between residency for voting and residency for candidates. Rahm is clearly still a qualified voter in Chicago, but that is only one part of the requirement for candidacy. If only his voting residence mattered, that’s all the candidate law would have specified, but it doesn’t, it requires that the candidate “reside in” the district.
It specifically waives military personnel from the 1-year “resides in” requirement, but it doesn’t waive people “in the service of the United States,” that only applies to voters.
I’m a resident of Illinois, but for the past two years I have been working and living in an apt in Georgia. I go home periodically.
I have as yet not changed my residency, (I might now if Ill income taxes might effect my income, but that would be for next year.)
Here is my point, I am still a registered voter in Illinois.
If Emmanuel did the same thing, work in DC but never relinquished his residency, then WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT....?
NO FIX...JUST THE RIGHT DECISION....
Did you read the appeals court decision?
Being a voter in Chicago is not the same thing as “residing in” Chicago, and both things are required to be a candidate for Mayor, unless you’re in the US military.
You don’t “reside in” Chicago, you “reside in” an apartment in Georgia.
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