Monday - January 24, 2011

Off Again, On Again

“You Don’t Really Live here” Illinois Appeals Court ruling implies

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg)—Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff for President Barack Obama, is to be “excluded” from the Chicago mayoral ballot, a divided state appeals court ruled, after saying he failed to satisfy residency requirements.

The Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago ruled last month that Emanuel met the requirement of having lived in Chicago for one year before the Feb. 22 election. That decision was confirmed by the Cook County Circuit Court. The appeals panel, voting 2-1, reversed that ruling today.

Opponents of Emanuel’s candidacy say he has no permanent home in Chicago. The former Chicago congressman vacated his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to accept his White House appointment. Emanuel, 51, and his family moved to Washington in early 2009 and rented their home on Chicago’s north side. He stepped down from his White House post in October 2010.

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 appeals court majority said.

All three judges on the panel are Democrats, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Ruling against Emanuel were Shelvin Louise Marie Hall and Thomas E. Hoffman, who wrote the majority opinion. In dissent, Justice Bertina E. Lampkin called the majority’s reasoning “indefensible.”

“How many days may a person stay away from his home before the majority would decide he no longer ‘actually resides’ in it?” Lampkin asked. “Would the majority have us pick a number out of a hat? A standard which cannot be defined cannot be applied.”

Spare us the willfully blind deliberate dumbass bullshit Lampkin. Your use of the double negative tells the truth: a standard can be defined and can be applied. Even a child could figure this one out: the lowest applicable standard is “more often than not”. That means 50.000000001%. That means 183 out of 365 days.  The Chicago election is on February 22. That’s 53 days into 2011. 183 days before that would be 130 before the end of 2010, which would be the 235th day of the year, which was Monday, August 23rd. By not declaring his intent until October, he missed it by more than a month. From everything I’ve read, he did not spend a night in Illinois before that in 2009 in any domicile he owned or leased. Hotel rooms don’t count, and he was hardly there in one of those either. Next case!!

Emanuel predicted the Illinois Supreme Court will reverse today’s ruling.

“I have no doubt that we will, in the end, prevail at this effort,” Emanuel said at a news conference today. “As my father always used to say, nothing is ever easy in life.”

The appeals court majority declined to certify the case to permit the state Supreme Court to review the decision “in the most expeditious manner possible,” according to Lampkin.

“nothing is ever easy”?? Which means what exactly, Rahmmy baby? That it’s going to take you another couple suitcases full of unmarked bills to buy them off? Maybe that’s why the appeals court didn’t certify it, to keep you from such a temptation. Now shut up and go away.

This is what you get for following the wrong candidate. At least Hillary knows how to be a proper carpet bagger. The Clintons bought that house in NY just hours before the deadline. And then she got herself elected (Bill’s pardons and lots of $$$) This guy not only isn’t that slick, he’s not smart enough to pay attention. Nobody cares if you’re still eligible to vote there. That was never the issue. Stop building strawmen.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/24/2011 at 04:35 PM   
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