Rahm Emanuel has been ruled ineligible to be on the ballot for mayor of Chicago because he didn’t maintain a residence there while he was serving as chief of staff to the president of the United States. He’ll try to get the Illinois Supreme Court to hear his case, but he could be screwed on a technicality.
“We conclude that the candidate neither meets the Municipal Code’s requirement that he have ‘resided in’ Chicago for the year preceding the election in which he seeks to participate nor falls within any exception to the requirement,” the majority judges wrote.
“Accordingly, we disagree with the Board’s conclusion that he is eligible to run for the office of Mayor of the City of Chicago. We reverse the circuit court’s judgment confirming the Board’s decision, set aside the Board’s decision and … order that the candidate’s name be excluded (or, if necessary, removed) from the ballot.”
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