Ill. court throws Emanuel off Chicago ballot

can a sitting president appoint someone mayor?

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Originally Posted by hotel4dogs

Obviously you don't live in IL. What the law is, and what happens, often don't bear any relationship to each other.

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Having lived, gone to school, and worked as an Assistant City Manager in Illinois, I do indeed have a sense of Illinois local government and politics.

This will go to the Illinois Supreme Court. Depending on how they rule, it could potentially go to the US Supreme Ct al a Bush v. Gore....though I don't know what the grounds would be for a Federal suit.

There's but a month until the election so the fuse is lit.

Eric

Jmtc, but all I see is that he can't be "on the ballot".

Dick Simpson, a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said if the appellate decision is upheld, Emanuel's only choice might be to run a write-in campaign.
No candidate for mayor in Chicago has ever won a write-in campaign. "It's probably impossible," Simpson said.

With the "name recognition" and other "influential factors" behind him, nothing's impossible.

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Originally Posted by BrianW

Jmtc, but all I see is that he can't be "on the ballot".

Dick Simpson, a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said if the appellate decision is upheld, Emanuel's only choice might be to run a write-in campaign.
No candidate for mayor in Chicago has ever won a write-in campaign. "It's probably impossible," Simpson said.

With the "name recognition" and other "influential factors" behind him, nothing's impossible.

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Lots of dead people vote for Dems in Chicago...

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Originally Posted by huntinman

Lots of dead people vote for Dems in Chicago...

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Texas too. Just ask LBJ.:(

didn't mean to offend, was trying to inject a little humor.

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Originally Posted by Eric Johnson

Having lived, gone to school, and worked as an Assistant City Manager in Illinois, I do indeed have a sense of Illinois local government and politics.

This will go to the Illinois Supreme Court. Depending on how they rule, it could potentially go to the US Supreme Ct al a Bush v. Gore....though I don't know what the grounds would be for a Federal suit.

There's but a month until the election so the fuse is lit.

Eric

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Originally Posted by hotel4dogs

didn't mean to offend, was trying to inject a little humor.

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None taken.

The truth of the matter is that for a write-in candidacy to succede, you need to find enough folks who can read and write. In the inner city, that will be problemmatic. Even the well-established vote stealing techniques would be obvious and likely a flag thrown.

The unfortunate thing is that he was so far ahead, no one paid much attention to the second place candidate. Carole Mosely Bruan would be a disaster.

Eric

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Originally Posted by road kill

Rahm will be the next Mayor of Chicago.


Wanna bet me???



RK

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Nope he is back on the ballot. Good old Chicago.

As Gomer would say....

Surrrrrrr-Priiiiiiize Surrr-PRIZE!!

Looks like he is back in the race.
I

Chicago politics is never boring