‘We will prevail,’ Emanuel says after court boots him off ballot
Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago Monday by an appellate court panel. But Emanuel — who has led the other candidates in fund-raising and in public opinion polls — cautioned he won’t get off the ballot without a fight.
“I have no doubt, at the end we will prevail at this effort,” Emanuel told reporters at the Berghoff Restaurant.
The Chicago Board of Elections planned to start printing ballots without Emanuel’s name unless Emanuel’s lawyers can get a “stay” of the appellate court ruling. Emanuel’s lawyers filed their request for a stay just before 5 p.m. Monday.
“We ... order that the candidate’s name be excluded (or if, necessary, be removed) from the ballot,” Judge Thomas Hoffman wrote in the opinion upholding the requirement under the state’s municipal code that candidates for mayor in Illinois must have “resided in” the town where they are running for a year before Election Day — in this case Feb. 22. Hoffman was joined by Justice Shelvin Marie Louise Hall.
Judge Bertina Lampkin wrote a muscular dissent, saying, “An opinion of such wide-ranging import and not based on established law but, rather, on the whims of two judges, should not be allowed to stand.”
Emanuel attorney Mike Kasper said he plans to use that dissent to try to convince the state Supreme Court to take the case and reinstate Emanuel to the ballot. He expects to file the appeal on Tuesday.
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http://www.suntimes.com/3469419-417/emanuel-court-election-ballot-chicago.htmlThis is huge news in Chicago. Rham is way ahead in the polls. I'm voting for Miguel de Valle who is much more liberal.
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