Thread: Emanuel Removed From Chicago Ballot

Emanuel Removed From Chicago Ballot
By LAUREN ETTER

CHICAGO—An appeals court said Rahm Emanuel is not allowed to stay on Chicago's mayoral ballot, a blow to the former White House chief of staff who has already raised more than $10 million in his bid for mayor.

The three-judge Illinois Appellate Court, which heard oral arguments last week in the case, issued a split decision Monday afternoon saying that Mr. Emanuel is not eligible to run for mayor. Two of the three judges reversed a lower-court decision that had given him permission to remain on the ballot. One judge dissented.

Lawyers for Mr. Emanuel said last week they will appeal the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court. The state's high court can decide whether or not to hear the case.

Write to Lauren Etter at lauren.etter@wsj.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... TopStories

))))Happy dance((((

i love it, now where is he going to live?

no DC job, his house in CHicago is being rented and you just cant throw someone out on the street over nite.

oh wait, this is an obama flunkie, he would do that

Good News!!!

One of the SLIMIEST guys I have ever seen. He ranks up there with another king slime, Mark Potok of the SPLC...

Yeah, it's tough to lose a job in this economy without another one to go to ... we all learned that, now it's his turn.

I have a feeling that he will jump back on the Obama 2012 train.

"Don't get to happy, Ol' Rahm it seems was a little harder on illegal immigration then the latino's liked!

Politics
Rahm Emanuel Out of Chicago Mayoral Race; Opening for Latino Candidates
By Wil Cruz
Published January 24, 2011

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2010 file photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference in Chicago.

Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff who had been the overwhelming favorite in the Chicago mayoral election, has been taken off the ballot, court officials said – creating an opening for the Latino candidates in the race.

An Illinois Appeals Court ruled that Emanuel's name can't be on the ballot because of residency issues, overruling the Chicago Board of Election and a Cook County judge.

The primary to replace to longtime mayor Richard Daley is scheduled for Feb. 22.

The court ruled 2-1 to overrule the earlier decision. The Associated Press reported that a lawyer for Emanuel will appeal the ruling.

The decision to kick Emanuel – who had raised the most money, had been leading in polls and carried the most name recognition in the race – off the ballot creates an opening for the remaining candidates, including the two viable Latino hopefuls vying for the job.

Chicago mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle speaks at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, at Telpochcalli Elementary School in Chicago.

"It looked like money was going to decide this election," City Clerk Miguel del Valle said. "The voters now have a rare opportunity to shape this city's future."

A spokeswoman for Gery Chico, a former chief of staff to Mayor Daley, said in a statement that the Rahm decision would not affect his campaign.

'Today's news is a surprise but it will not impact how we run our campaign," said Brooke Anderson. "Gery will continue to work for every vote and lay out his plans to take Chicago in a whole new direction."

A Chicago Tribune/WGN poll in December found that Emanuel, who also got a big ticket endorsement from former President Bill Clinton, was most popular among Hispanics in the city. Twenty-seven percent of Latinos supported Emanuel, while only 14 and 12 percent supported del Valle and Chico, respectively.

But now the door is wide open for the votes of the city's Hispanic voters. Latinos make up 15 percent of Chicago's 1.5 million registered voters

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politi ... z1BzEVpXtN

Gutierrez Blasts Emanuel On Immigration
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 19:12
blog post
Micah Maidenberg
Progress Illinois

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, one of the leading advocates for a comprehensive immigration reform bill, said Rahm Emanuel "has not stood up for immigrants."

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez minced no words Friday in blasting Rahm Emanuel's positions on immigration reform in recent years, saying Chicago's mayoral front-runner "took actions to harm immigrants" as a member of Congress and during his tenure as President Barack Obama's chief of staff.

"He has not stood up for immigrants. He has not moved comprehensive immigration reform forward. He has not made the right decisions, he has made political decisions," Gutierrez said. "That's not what the immigrant community deserves in the next mayor of the city of Chicago."

Gutierrez considered a run of his own for mayor before deciding to return to Washington and support Gery Chico's bid for city government's top spot.

The 4th District congressman, one of the leading voices in Washington in favor of a comprehensive immigration reform bill, revisited the tactical maneuverings he said Emanuel deployed when the so-called "Sensenbrenner bill," a piece of legislation that would have effectively criminalized undocumented immigrants, was before the GOP-controlled House in 2005. Here's Gutierrez explaining what happened:

Emanuel voted against the bill, and one of his spokespersons denied that Emanuel told vulnerable Democratic congressmen to vote for the bill, according to past news reports.

But the Sensenbrenner vote isn't the only issue that has immigrants and advocates criticizing Emanuel.

Emanuel has called immigration reform the "third rail" of American politics and argued that last year was not a good one for pushing for reform legislation. Many reformers are also furious with the deportation policy of the Obama administration (which, of course, Emanuel helped to lead); and yesterday at City Council, aldermen adopted a resolution calling for an end to deportations that break up families that include documented and undocumented immigrants.

A comprehensive immigration bill is now unlikely with the GOP in control of the House, Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez's comments came at a press conference where the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) released a scathing new report about the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's "Secure Communities" program in the state.

ICIRR found that 77 percent of all immigrants arrested through July of last year in the 26 Illinois counties that participate in "Secure Communities" have no past criminal convictions.

"Secure Communities" was meant to be a new way for local law enforcement to remove dangerous criminals from the country, ICIRR's report states, by encouraging county jails to check suspects' fingerprints against immigration databases. ICE can then step in and start deportation proceedings.

"The Secure Communities program is badly broken," said Josh Hoyt, executive director of ICIRR, "deporting nannies and busboys instead of truly bad people."

Susana Ramirez, a resident of McHenry County, recounted her brush with law enforcement through Secure Communities, with Hoyt translating:

ICIRR wants the Obama administration to bring Secure Communities "in line with its original intention to identifying convicted criminals, so that ICE and local law enforcement can focus on the truly harmful, and not on immigrants who pose no threat." The organization also called on state officials to withdraw from the program.

Carol Moseley Braun and Gery Chico also expressed support for immigration reform at the ICIRR press conference today, and Miguel del Valle has been in the forefront of the mayoral contenders in blasting Emanuel's immigration positions in the past.

ICIRR's report and Gutierrez's comments came a day after Emanuel's mayoral campaign proposed creating a new fund with business and civic leaders to help so-called DREAM students -- children of undocumented immigrants who have grown up in the U.S. -- go to college.

But Gutierrez said the proposal is "too little too late."

"It's another example of Rahm the candidate's rhetoric not matching Rahm the congressman's record," he said.

http://icirr.org/en/node/5225

I"m not getting my hopes up about the sly little Rham running for Mayor in Chi-town...with a little arm twisting and some more dead fish sent, he'll get what he wants. It's the way things go there....