# So, No Thoughts about Rahm Emmanuel Yet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 6, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300 "2010-10-06T22:59:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/21 "2010-12-01T17:53:24Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> Now there seem to be a bunch of challenges to Rahm’s eligibility, based on his lack of residency in our fair city for the last two years. I’ve heard many arguments on both sides of this equation. Does anyone have the straight dope? What exactly \*are \*the residency requirements? And does he meet them? And if he doesn’t, does he have the clout to get approved anyway?
According to WGN News it seems the relevant law has an exception for anyone who has been away for “business of the government of the United States.”
Something tells me working for the President is likely to fall under that rule.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/22 "2010-12-01T22:16:56Z")
The other guy is trying to make the case that this refers strictly to military service, but it doesn’t actually say that as far as I know. I bet the challenge gets thrown out pretty quick.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/23 "2010-12-02T22:58:10Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> Now there seem to be a bunch of challenges to Rahm’s eligibility, based on his lack of residency in our fair city for the last two years. I’ve heard many arguments on both sides of this equation. Does anyone have the straight dope? What exactly \*are \*the residency requirements? And does he meet them? And if he doesn’t, does he have the clout to get approved anyway?
The Master has spoken here:
[http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php)
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/24 "2010-12-03T00:44:43Z")
> [@dhkendall](#):
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> While you’re there, can you convince Him to run?
But then he’d have to show His face.
And if He deserves a capital letter, that may not be a good thing for us mere mortals.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/25 "2010-12-03T00:58:53Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#):
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> The Master has spoken here:
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> [http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php)
Wow, this is like the third question of mine to get the Cecil treatment in the last year or so! I must be one of the leading sources of ignorance in Chicago!
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### Author:  [@dcer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcer)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/26 "2010-12-03T17:01:08Z")
I haven’t researched the first law beyond the snippet posted by Cecil, but it does not appear to require the year of residency to immediately precede the election…
Unless that is what “one year next preceding means.”
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/27 "2010-12-03T21:29:44Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> Wow, this is like the third question of mine to get the Cecil treatment in the last year or so! I must be one of the leading sources of ignorance in Chicago!
Congrats, **Tim** , and when folks come knocking at your door to take your picture for the Guiness Book of Whirled Records, remember NOT to give them a credit card. 🙂
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/28 "2010-12-23T01:31:14Z")
Rahm’s group filed a friend of the court brief. Includes signatures from various legal heavyweights. Including two former Illinois attorneys general.
> **[Emanuel's Mayoral Campaign Enlists Legal Heavyweights](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704138604576029882792929402)**
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> Rahm Emanuel's campaign filed a friend of the court brief on Saturday signed by a team of Chicago legal heavyweights arguing that Mr. Emanuel shouldn't be kicked off the mayoral ballot.
Sure sounds like the law is on his side.
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### Author:  [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/29 "2011-01-15T00:32:43Z")
Considering this board veers nearer to the Democratic end, and has a strong link to Chicago, I’m rather amazed that so far there has been no thrilled triumphal rejoicing over the fact that as one chief of staff returns to Chicago ready to become mayor, his replacement not merely comes from Chicago, but is a son of her most famous mayor.
The symmetry is perfect.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/30 "2011-01-15T07:08:21Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#):
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> Considering this board veers nearer to the Democratic end, and has a strong link to Chicago, I’m rather amazed that so far there has been no thrilled triumphal rejoicing over the fact that as one chief of staff returns to Chicago ready to become mayor, his replacement not merely comes from Chicago, but is a son of her most famous mayor.
> The symmetry is perfect.
I believe I pointed that out in the Carol Mosely Braun thread. But you are right, it is an example of the universe enforcing near-perfect symmetry…TRM (who was not “rejoicing” at the development)
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### Author:  [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/31 "2011-01-15T12:18:51Z")
Apologies, as you know vBulletin searches are infamously imperfect…
However there is one striking difference between the two men: Mr. Emanuel worked for Goldman Sachs. Mr. Daley worked for J. P. Morgan Chase.
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### Author:  [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/32 "2011-01-24T18:19:56Z")
[http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101202.php)
> [@Cecil Adams](#):
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> Is it possible? In Bizarro World, which Chicago admittedly resembles at times, anything’s possible. In our sector of the galaxy, no.
Apparently Cecil inhabits a different sector of the galaxy than the rest of us.
[Court: Emanuel should be removed from mayoral ballot](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-court-rules-against-emanuel-on-01242011,0,4083659.story)
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/33 "2011-01-24T19:29:55Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#):
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> [Court: Emanuel should be removed from mayoral ballot](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-court-rules-against-emanuel-on-01242011,0,4083659.story)
> [@](#):
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> When he left for the White House, Emanuel rented his North Side home to Rob Halpin.
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> Halpin refused to move out when Emanuel returned to Chicago and briefly staged his own run for mayor.
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> Halpin applauded the ruling. “Now I feel vindicated by the court,” Halpin told WGN-AM radio.
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> Residency, Halpin said, is “one of the rights that goes with the rent payment.”
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> Halpin said “it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
I’m not sure how this whole thing will end up shaking out (though my money’s on the Illinois Supreme Court ruling in Rahm’s favor), but one thing I know for sure is that this Halpin guy is an asshole.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/34 "2011-01-24T19:40:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> Halpin said “it’s very clear that only one resident” could be attached to a single residence, “unless it was some sort of hippie commune.”
What an idiotic thing to say! It’s very common for more than one person to be resident in one residence, e.g., husband, wife and perhaps adult children.
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### Author:  [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/35 "2011-01-24T19:48:50Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> What an idiotic thing to say! It’s very common for more than one person to be resident in one residence, e.g., husband, wife and perhaps adult children.
Clearly you’re a hippy.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/36 "2011-01-24T19:53:02Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#):
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> Clearly you’re a hippy.
I thought that one of the distinctive characteristics of hippies as that they didn’t have a husband or wife, even though they might have children. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/37 "2011-01-24T19:55:48Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> I thought that one of the distinctive characteristics of hippies as that they didn’t have a husband or wife, even though they might have children. 🙂
Good point. I think he really means that non-hippies have their spouse and kids sleep outside.
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### Author:  [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/38 "2011-01-24T20:26:18Z")
Assuming today’s ruling w/regard to RE’s name not appearing on the ballot holds up, what does it do to his chances of getting elected?
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/39 "2011-01-24T20:47:27Z")
> [@SanDiegoTim](#):
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> Assuming today’s ruling w/regard to RE’s name not appearing on the ballot holds up, what does it do to his chances of getting elected?
I assume you are just making a sly quip about the state of politics in Chicago. But on the off-chance you are asking if he could win as a write-in (which I’ve heard some people suggest), I suspect the ruling would knock that option out for him as well.
Although, in the end, my money is on the Supreme Court ruling in favor of his candidacy.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-no-thoughts-about-rahm-emmanuel-yet/556300/40 "2011-01-24T21:00:32Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> I assume you are just making a sly quip about the state of politics in Chicago. But on the off-chance you are asking if he could win as a write-in (which I’ve heard some people suggest), I suspect the ruling would knock that option out for him as well.
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> Although, in the end, my money is on the Supreme Court ruling in favor of his candidacy.
So far as I understand it, if he’s not eligible to be on the ballot, he’s not eligible as a write-in, either. Or rather, he’s eligible as a write-in, but not eligible to take the office.
It seems like we’re in [a gray area.](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/could-rahm-emanuel-run-as-a-write-in/70099/)
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