Reply #24: regarding voting status. and the law you cite about voting (30 day residency requirement) [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

says nothing about the president.


but since you have the law at your fingertips, please cite the requirements to run for MAYOR OF CHICAGO, because that's what's under disussion.

Not residency requirements TO VOTE IN ILLINOIS.

Sunday, Rahm Emanuel announced in a video posted on a website that he is preparing to run for mayor of Chicago. But two of Chicago’s top election lawyers say the state’s municipal code is crystal clear that a candidate for mayor must reside in the town for a year before the election.

That doesn’t mean they must simply own a home in the city that they rent out to someone else. They must have a place they can walk into, keep a toothbrush, hang up their jacket and occasionally sleep, the lawyers say.

“The guy does not meet the statutory requirements to run for mayor,” said attorney Burt Odelson. “He hasn’t been back there in 18 months. Residency cases are usually very hard to prove because the candidate gets an apartment or says he’s living in his mother’s basement. Here the facts are easy to prove. He doesn’t dispute he’s been in Washington for the past 18 months. This is not a hard case.”

Illinois municipal code requires that to run for mayor of a town in Illinois, “You must be a registered voter, and you must have resided there for one year prior to the election,” Nally said.

The only exception to that is for “active members of the military” who return to to Illinois “immediately” upon the end of their service.

So while plenty of political people go to work in Washington, D.C., or business people go spend weeks in New York or other places, they have to come home pretty regularly to qualify under that standard, the experts say.

“When he was a congressman, his wife and family lived here, and he would fly home on the weekends,” Nally said. “He had a place to sit on the sofa, to keep a toothbrush.”

But when Emanuel agreed to become chief of staff, the family moved out to D.C. and the home was rented out to another family that now refuses to break the lease and clear the way for Emanuel to move back in. Emanuel could come back to Chicago to vote, but he could not stop at the house he owns on his way to the polling place, and that does not meet the residency test to run for mayor, Nally said.

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/10/04/per-illinois-code-rahm-emanuel-isnt-eligible-to-run-for-mayor-of-chicago-but-hey-dont-expect-that-to-stop-him-video/



Don't bother trying to come up with more rationalizations. THE FACT THAT RAHM CHANGED HIS TAX FILING AFTER THE FACT PROVES HE KNEW HE WASN'T WITHIN THE REQUIREMENTS.

And most of us already know that RICH PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE LAW.

So spare us the bullshit rationalizations.