Rahmbo the Victim
Just when we thought we had only one victim in today's national politics - the venerable Sarah 'Joan of Arc' Palin, another of this country's most ruthless politicians, Rahm Emanuel, is alleging a cunning 'conspiracy' to keep him from becoming Mayor of Chicago.
How can this be? Emanuel ditched his role as Chief of Staff to the President of the United States just before the disastrous (for Democrats) midterm elections after he learned that Richard J Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, would not run for another term.
Emanuel lived in Chicago and was elected as a Representative to the House of Representatives from Alderman Richard Mell's* district until he took the White House job. He rented his Chicago house out to tenants on a long lease and continued to pay taxes on it out of the revenue.
He was a resident of D.C. until October 2010 when he flew to Chicago in October with over $10 million in corporate, foreign, Wall Street and Hollywood money to stake his claim to the Mayor's office.
From the moment he arrived, Emanuel zealously worked the 50-Ward Chicago constituencies one-by-one despite his repeated condemnation and interference in Howard Dean's successful 50-State campaigns in 2006 and 2008 when Dean was Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Since Dean's grassroots-way worked, Emanuel quickly led the polls of a large divided field of candidates and was widely touted as a shoo-in to represent a City whose population is about 40% White, 40% Black, 17% Hispanic and 3% Asian.
Interestingly the rich banker brother of the current Mayor, William Daley, was appointed by the President to succeed Emanuel as his Chief of Staff providing a nice quid quo pro.
Everything looked like a done deal with the 'Pretender' Emanuel showing his usual contempt for his fellow candidates by skipping debate meetings with the narrowed field of serious contenders Carol Mosley Braun, Gery Chico and Miguel Del Vallee.
Emanuel is on the ballot for now, but was knocked off and then temporarily reinstated.
The City has been ordered to stop printing ballots for the February 27 election and early voting which starts January 31.
So what went wrong?
Lawyers challenged Emanuel's right to run for Mayor based on the municipal code which requires candidates to "reside in" the City for a year before running for office.
Emanuel resided in Washington, D.C., for 18 months until October 2010 and paid residency taxes in D.C. until he decided to run for Mayor of Chicago.
He clearly does not meet the municipal statute requirement.
Politics being what they are in Chicago, the Board of Election Commissioners gave Emanuel a green light to run. The decision was appealed to the Circuit Court which let the BEC decision stand.
Then the plaintiffs appealed to the Appellate Court and Emanuel was pollaxed by its decision.
Two of the three judges issued a majority opinion that "resided in" actually means "live in" the City and that Emanuel met no 'exceptional' criteria to be granted a waiver of that requirement.
The Court also ordered his name be struck from the ballots.
The one dissenting judge issued a shokingly intemperate attack on her fellow judges in a minority opinion backing Emanuel's position that he always intended to return to Chicago and he voted from Chicago; therefore, he is a resident.
Emanuel immediately appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court for a 'stay' on removing his name from the ballots and for a review of the Appellate Court judgment - on an 'expedited' basis.
The 'stay' has been granted and the Court will review materials submitted to and from the Appellate Court allowing no further pleading.
No one knows how the seven members of the Court will vote. About 75% of those polled think Emanuel will win.
Of course, many of that 75% voted with bitterness believing that Chicago and Illinois are corrupt and laws don't apply to the likes of the well-connected Emanuel.
The President put serious pressure on the Illinois Supreme Court when he sent his most trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, on national television to emphasize that the President wanted Emanuel as Mayor and that he expects the Supreme Court to decide in favor of Emanual.
It all does look like a conspiracy, but is it the 'conspiracy' that Emanuel claims or is it the more obvious Obama/Daley/Emanuel fix?
Emanuel insists that he will go to the United States Supreme Court claiming a 'conspiracy' and interference with his First Amendment rights if the Illinois Supreme Court does not rule in his favor.
Emanuel should have a lot of luck there with five Conservative justices.
He and his team have singled out Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for endless media attacks demanding she recuse herself from the review.
He is also waging a relentless attack on her husband, Alderman Edward Burke of the 40th Ward and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, claiming Burke is supporting Gery Chico for Mayor and not Emanuel.
Wild smears from Emanuel staff include claims that Burke paid the Republican lawyer, who filed that residency challenges, to destroy Emanuel's chances and that the judges who ruled against him were recommended to the Court by Burke (actually all three judges were recommended given his role as head of the CC Democratic Party Chairman) and that they were carrying out Burke's orders in the negative judgment.
The law and the legislature's intent when the law was written, not what it might have intended over 100 years later, is what matters.
The law decides if Emanuel meets the residency requirements to run for Mayor or not. The law as written will have to be twisted to accommodate him as the Appellate Judge Hoffman wrote a clear and brilliantly-reasoned opinion based on the law and precedent.
Pressure from the President and various politicos, blackmail, vicious smears of judges and anyone who opposes Emanuel, threats from the media threats of other types of reprisals have NO PLACE in this election.
Emanuel's team have made it clear that the Burkes 'ain't seen nothin yet'.
Let me own up. I am a fourth-or-fifth generation Chicagoan and I love the City. It is NOT corrupt. The people are NOT corrupt. Some individuals are corrupt and every city has corrupt people.
I fought through the Harold Washington campaign and it was rough, but nothing has ever been as ugly as this in my lifetime.
It feels like Al Capone is back.
This campaign is a disgrace to a great city and people.
This man cannot lead Chicago as Mayor. He has brought it into worldwide disgrace before he is elected.
Just wait for the Blago hearings in April when he, Valerie Jarrett and the President are part of the influence-peddling 'conspiracy' to fill Obama's vacated Senate seat.
Does Chicago need this?
Meanwhile, Emanuel demonizes the Burkes - the couple who love Chicago and would never do anything to hurt the city they have lived in for their whole lives.
Let's not forget it is Rahmbo who is the victim. He might not get what he wants which is Chicago.
If the Burkes are Chicago's salvation, may they prevail. They are not alone in wanting to protect Chicago.
*Emanuel's sponsor/mentor Mell is notoriously well connected to the mob and Mossad.
Susan's Views http://www.racingint.com
How can this be? Emanuel ditched his role as Chief of Staff to the President of the United States just before the disastrous (for Democrats) midterm elections after he learned that Richard J Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, would not run for another term.
Emanuel lived in Chicago and was elected as a Representative to the House of Representatives from Alderman Richard Mell's* district until he took the White House job. He rented his Chicago house out to tenants on a long lease and continued to pay taxes on it out of the revenue.
He was a resident of D.C. until October 2010 when he flew to Chicago in October with over $10 million in corporate, foreign, Wall Street and Hollywood money to stake his claim to the Mayor's office.
From the moment he arrived, Emanuel zealously worked the 50-Ward Chicago constituencies one-by-one despite his repeated condemnation and interference in Howard Dean's successful 50-State campaigns in 2006 and 2008 when Dean was Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Since Dean's grassroots-way worked, Emanuel quickly led the polls of a large divided field of candidates and was widely touted as a shoo-in to represent a City whose population is about 40% White, 40% Black, 17% Hispanic and 3% Asian.
Interestingly the rich banker brother of the current Mayor, William Daley, was appointed by the President to succeed Emanuel as his Chief of Staff providing a nice quid quo pro.
Everything looked like a done deal with the 'Pretender' Emanuel showing his usual contempt for his fellow candidates by skipping debate meetings with the narrowed field of serious contenders Carol Mosley Braun, Gery Chico and Miguel Del Vallee.
Emanuel is on the ballot for now, but was knocked off and then temporarily reinstated.
The City has been ordered to stop printing ballots for the February 27 election and early voting which starts January 31.
So what went wrong?
Lawyers challenged Emanuel's right to run for Mayor based on the municipal code which requires candidates to "reside in" the City for a year before running for office.
Emanuel resided in Washington, D.C., for 18 months until October 2010 and paid residency taxes in D.C. until he decided to run for Mayor of Chicago.
He clearly does not meet the municipal statute requirement.
Politics being what they are in Chicago, the Board of Election Commissioners gave Emanuel a green light to run. The decision was appealed to the Circuit Court which let the BEC decision stand.
Then the plaintiffs appealed to the Appellate Court and Emanuel was pollaxed by its decision.
Two of the three judges issued a majority opinion that "resided in" actually means "live in" the City and that Emanuel met no 'exceptional' criteria to be granted a waiver of that requirement.
The Court also ordered his name be struck from the ballots.
The one dissenting judge issued a shokingly intemperate attack on her fellow judges in a minority opinion backing Emanuel's position that he always intended to return to Chicago and he voted from Chicago; therefore, he is a resident.
Emanuel immediately appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court for a 'stay' on removing his name from the ballots and for a review of the Appellate Court judgment - on an 'expedited' basis.
The 'stay' has been granted and the Court will review materials submitted to and from the Appellate Court allowing no further pleading.
No one knows how the seven members of the Court will vote. About 75% of those polled think Emanuel will win.
Of course, many of that 75% voted with bitterness believing that Chicago and Illinois are corrupt and laws don't apply to the likes of the well-connected Emanuel.
The President put serious pressure on the Illinois Supreme Court when he sent his most trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, on national television to emphasize that the President wanted Emanuel as Mayor and that he expects the Supreme Court to decide in favor of Emanual.
It all does look like a conspiracy, but is it the 'conspiracy' that Emanuel claims or is it the more obvious Obama/Daley/Emanuel fix?
Emanuel insists that he will go to the United States Supreme Court claiming a 'conspiracy' and interference with his First Amendment rights if the Illinois Supreme Court does not rule in his favor.
Emanuel should have a lot of luck there with five Conservative justices.
He and his team have singled out Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for endless media attacks demanding she recuse herself from the review.
He is also waging a relentless attack on her husband, Alderman Edward Burke of the 40th Ward and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, claiming Burke is supporting Gery Chico for Mayor and not Emanuel.
Wild smears from Emanuel staff include claims that Burke paid the Republican lawyer, who filed that residency challenges, to destroy Emanuel's chances and that the judges who ruled against him were recommended to the Court by Burke (actually all three judges were recommended given his role as head of the CC Democratic Party Chairman) and that they were carrying out Burke's orders in the negative judgment.
The law and the legislature's intent when the law was written, not what it might have intended over 100 years later, is what matters.
The law decides if Emanuel meets the residency requirements to run for Mayor or not. The law as written will have to be twisted to accommodate him as the Appellate Judge Hoffman wrote a clear and brilliantly-reasoned opinion based on the law and precedent.
Pressure from the President and various politicos, blackmail, vicious smears of judges and anyone who opposes Emanuel, threats from the media threats of other types of reprisals have NO PLACE in this election.
Emanuel's team have made it clear that the Burkes 'ain't seen nothin yet'.
Let me own up. I am a fourth-or-fifth generation Chicagoan and I love the City. It is NOT corrupt. The people are NOT corrupt. Some individuals are corrupt and every city has corrupt people.
I fought through the Harold Washington campaign and it was rough, but nothing has ever been as ugly as this in my lifetime.
It feels like Al Capone is back.
This campaign is a disgrace to a great city and people.
This man cannot lead Chicago as Mayor. He has brought it into worldwide disgrace before he is elected.
Just wait for the Blago hearings in April when he, Valerie Jarrett and the President are part of the influence-peddling 'conspiracy' to fill Obama's vacated Senate seat.
Does Chicago need this?
Meanwhile, Emanuel demonizes the Burkes - the couple who love Chicago and would never do anything to hurt the city they have lived in for their whole lives.
Let's not forget it is Rahmbo who is the victim. He might not get what he wants which is Chicago.
If the Burkes are Chicago's salvation, may they prevail. They are not alone in wanting to protect Chicago.
*Emanuel's sponsor/mentor Mell is notoriously well connected to the mob and Mossad.
Susan's Views http://www.racingint.com
Posted by Susan's Views at 1/26/2011 6:20 PM 
Categories: Chicago, Edward and Anne Burke, Rahm Emanuel, Obama
Tags: Rahm Emanuel Edward Burke Anne Burke President Obama Valerie Jarrett Chicago Richard M Daley
Categories: Chicago, Edward and Anne Burke, Rahm Emanuel, Obama
Tags: Rahm Emanuel Edward Burke Anne Burke President Obama Valerie Jarrett Chicago Richard M Daley
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