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He’s Back! Did a Mob Protest & Teamsters Endorsement Keep Rahm on the Ballot?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 25th, 2011 at 04:30 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Well, this didn’t take long at all. Less than a day after an Illinois appellate court knocked the ever-present Rahm Emanuel off of the Chicago mayoral ballot due to his lack of residency in the City, the previously undeclared Teamsters endorsed Rahm for mayor.

“It is clear that Rahm Emanuel is the only choice for the Teamsters in this election,” Teamsters Joint Council 25 President John Coli said Tuesday during a news conference with Emanuel at the city’s wholesale produce market. “In light of yesterday’s attempt to remove our candidate from the mayoral ballot, the Teamsters want to pledge our full support to Rahm Emanuel and the validity of his candidacy.”

[snip]

Coli accused the two appellate court justices who ordered Emanuel off the ballot in a 2-1 ruling Monday were “subverting democracy.”

Emanuel stood quietly as his newly minted ally attacked the unfavorable ruling. He avoided questions about his legal strategy to try to reverse the decision, saying only that his lawyers filed an appeal to the state’s high court earlier Tuesday.

Then, no sooner did the Teamsters endorse Rahm than an angry mob spontaneously appeared to protest his removal [via Rebel Pundit]

Message received.

The Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear Emanuel’s case on Tuesday and, just to ensure that they didn’t send out the wrong message, ordered Emmanuel’s name to be put on the ballot while they considered the case:

Earlier Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to put Emanuel’s name back on the mayoral ballot while it considered Emanuel’s appeal of Monday’s Illinois Appellate Court ruling that Emanuel did not meet the one-year residency requirement to run for mayor of Chicago.

The Supreme Court said it will not accept any new legal briefs or even hear oral arguments on the case. Instead, the court will rely on the briefs already filed.

“This Court is taking the case on the briefs filed by the parties in the appellate court,’’ the Supreme Court’s order reads. “No additional briefs will be filed in the Supreme Court. Oral argument will not be entertained.

A fish’s life was apparently spared on Tuesday, as all it took to get the Supreme Court’s cooperation was just a little applied persuasion.

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  • renny

    like Al Sharpton’s were as parodied in Bonfire of the Vanities.

    • izoneguy

      Judges are getting more expensive to pay-off as well.
      And judges really don’t like dead fish.

      Donald Trump even kicked in 50K….

      Just walking around money for Rahm.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Nothing new.

  • rblack198

    He’ll be “on the ballot” and all these silly issues like not being a resident won’t matter. You’ll see his supporters on the streets since his name was “on the ballot” afterall. Even if a court rules against him people will still check his name and disregard the court ruling.

    I suppose its nice to go through life knowing what the end result is without having to go through all the pesky effort.

    • Scope

      the voters having to know how to spell Emmanuhell, kinda like morecowski.

  • drfredc

    Rahm Wormtongue Emanuel survives another day.

    He really is looking more and more to be like Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. Wormtongue effectively became the leader of Rohan, shaping policy from his shadowy position at King Theoden’s shoulder. And once he left Theoden made some sort of a ‘recovery’ to lead the charge agaisnt the evil GOP (or was that orcs…?) at the Battle of Pelenor, saving Middle Earth for another day…

    No telling why Chicago wants Wormtongue so badly, other than the Privileged (Unions, Greens, Attorneys) that are the core of the Democrat class society have been doing their job selling their scam to the peasants they suck the life energy from.

    • acat

      Chicago cannot balance its’ own budget without a large infusion of ca$h from the rest of Illinois.

      Illinois cannot balance its’ budget anymore, so will have to make cuts.

      Rahm is a genius in the world of bare-knuckle politics-by-intimidation. By making him Hizzoner, Chicago hopes to keep the money, its’ lifeblood, flowing by intimidating downtstate corn farmer legislators.

      Somehow, I think the days when this would have worked have passed, and Rahm will, within a couple years, be synonymous with Michael Bilandic.

      Mew

    • wrenhal

      Theoden WAS the GOP . He was turning into a RINO until the Tea Party led by Gandalf showed up and shooed the bad WormTongue away. And even though it seems that everything is dark on the battlefield in front of the Black Gates. The Ring Bearers (our 2012 presidential nominees) need to not fail in throwing the Ring of destructive government, I mean Power, into the Crack of History, I mean Doom. LOL

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    Sorry, don’t mean to condone violence against evil folk. New Tone, New Tone!

    • wrenhal

      twas a lowly Hobbit that smote the first blow on the King of the Wraiths. Small, quiet and overlooked until the moment of testing when he rose up to show all of Middle-Earth what the Hobbits were really made of. LOL

      Just so you know I am on page 970 of 1008 in the complete Lord of The Rings. So all of this battle stuff is fresh in my mind.

      • rickbull

        since the ring (read gavel) of power was once hers, but now has been found by Bilbo Boehner, who will eventually–and reluctantly– pass it on to to his adopted nephew Paul Frodo Ryan. But Gollum Nancy will continue to stalk the ring(gavel) until it and Pelosi are destroyed in the fires of Mount Potomac.

        (You do realize that I could carry this on for hours?)

        J. R. R. Rickbull

  • Deskpilot

    To have ILSC (SCIL?) toss his candidacy for lack of elegibility:
    1) Make him liable for all court costs since inception.
    2) Order that he PERSONALLY pay for EVERY media source in the REGION, including billboards and buses, to announce, (not through PSAs) that his candidacy is NULL AND VOID; Announced every half hour until election day.
    (Court shall receive all billing and invoice and payment records of said transactions.)
    3) ANY and ALL ballots cast with Emanual chosen as the candidate are NULL AND VOID, inclusive of candidates in other races.

    A RedStater can dream, can’t he?

  • grandma

    he was tossed off the ballot. PLUS, before the IL Supreme court spoke, he was able to make a pitch to negate the rule of law.

    He publicly said to keep him on the ballot and let the people decide. The appellate court handed him a million bucks worth of publicity.

    I’ll eat my 40+ year old mink stole if the IL Supreme Court upholds the appellate.

    • rickbull

      is a Chicago native. We know how they do things “the Chicago way.”