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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« on: January 24, 2011, 08:58:51 PM »
Quote from: Loonar on January 24, 2011, 08:37:35 PM
Kicking opponents off the ballot, it should be said, is a time-honored Illinois tradition.

This one actually seems legitimate though.
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2011, 04:31:33 AM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on January 24, 2011, 10:07:09 PM
I really don't like Rahm, but I don't feel like this court ruling was quite right.

Why do you say this?  Normally I'd side with letting more people onto the ballot... but the law is pretty clear here.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2011, 01:13:08 PM »
Quote from: The Awful Truth of Loving on January 25, 2011, 12:53:10 PM
Can't say I agree with the ruling, there's really no reason Rahm shouldn't be allowed to run if Santorum was allowed to run in Pennsylvania (I didn't intend that as a jab against Phil. OK, maybe a little.)

And why shouldn't he have been able to run?
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2011, 01:13:34 PM »
Also, the Illinois Supreme Court has issued a stay against the lower court's decision.
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2011, 01:24:52 PM »
Quote from: The Awful Truth of Loving on January 25, 2011, 01:16:13 PM
Quote from: Assemblyman & Queen Mum Inks.LWC on January 25, 2011, 01:13:08 PM
Quote from: The Awful Truth of Loving on January 25, 2011, 12:53:10 PM
Can't say I agree with the ruling, there's really no reason Rahm shouldn't be allowed to run if Santorum was allowed to run in Pennsylvania (I didn't intend that as a jab against Phil. OK, maybe a little.)

And why shouldn't he have been able to run?

I didn't say he shouldn't, just that his situation was the same as Rahm. Santorum really lived in Virginia, not Pennsylvania. He wasn't in Pennsylvania anymore than Rahm is in Chicago.

Different states have different standards for residency.  If you don't like the law, change it... otherwise you kinda just have to live with it.
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2011, 01:55:31 PM »
Plus, there's a difference between moving to VA so that you can live where you work in the position you were elected to and moving to D.C. for another government job and then want to run for office.
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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2011, 02:07:34 PM »
From the New York Times:

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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2011, 05:40:09 PM »
Well, after reading Judge Bertina Lampkin's dissent along with Judges Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise Marie Hall's majority opinion, I think I've reversed my opinion here... Just reading the statute wasn't really enough, without getting some of the details of the circumstances to this case, and I find myself agreeing with Lampkin.  The precedent is on Emanuel's side.
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2011, 07:50:22 PM »
The IL Supreme Court has released their opinion, reversing the appelate court (and really going after them for their decision):

http://www.state.il.us/court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2011/January/111773.pdf

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And in the special concurrence:

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