Rahm Emanuel's Residency Hearing: Day Three To Focus On Plan To Return From Washington

Making the Case on Rahm Emanuel's Residency
Chicago - After three days of Testimony over Income Tax records, boxes in a basement and the location of a Wedding Dress, lawyers on Thursday laid out legal arguments over whether Rahm Emanuel should appear on the ballot for Chicago mayor. The leading attorney against Mr. Emanuel’s bid, Burt Odelson, said that local case law had found that a Candidate must have a “physical presence” in Chicago for a year prior to an election. He argued that Mr. Emanuel, who worked as President Obam

Emanuel awaits board's decision on residency challenge
Deliberations have started in Rahm Emanuel's mayoral ballot challenge hearing and are expected to conclude next week.  That's when the former White House Chief of Staff will learn whether he overcame the objections to his eligibility for the Feb. 22 mayoral primary ballot.  At issue is whether Emanuel meets the one-year residency requirement to appear on the ballot. 

Emanuel's attorney, Kevin Forde, told the Chicago Board of Election officials that the former congressman always inte

Were Emanuels tenant demands for $100K related to residency case?
* The plot thickens… The Real Estate manager who helped Rahm Emanuel buy his North Side home testified in a residency hearing today that Emanuel’s renters wanted $100,000 to end their lease early when he returned to Chicago this fall to run for mayor. […] Levy said he passed the $100,000 figure to Emanuel, who called it “ridiculous.” The counter offer was $5,000 a month for every month early the Halpins left, Levy said. The lease is set to expire in mid-2011. * An...

Rahm Emanuel Residency Hearing Turns Circus-Like
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (Credit: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Ordinary Chicago citizens questioned Mayoral Candidate Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday -- but some of their questions were far from ordinary. At a daylong hearing before the Chicago Board of Elections, Emanuel answered questions on everything from the first name of the current mayor to his familiarity with the phrase, "smiling like a butcher's dog." The hearing was part of an inquiry into whether President Obama's fo...

Chicago hearing: Does Rahm Emanuel qualify to run for mayor?
Rahm Emanuel faced questions Tuesday on whether he has been a Chicago resident - a requirement for a mayoral run. Mr. Emanuel served as White House Chief of Staff until October....

Renter Testifies at Emanuel's Residency Hearing
(Chicago) — A friend of Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel's wife testified Wednesday that she helped pack away their family heirlooms and other mementos for storage before Emanuel moved to Washington to become President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Mee Kim-Chavez spoke at a Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel's bid for the city's top job. She said she helped Emanuel's wife, Amy Rule, store 20 to 30 boxes in a crawl space under a home add...

Renter Testifies at Emanuel's Residency Hearing
(Chicago) — A friend of Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel's wife testified Wednesday that she helped pack away their family heirlooms and other mementos for storage before Emanuel moved to Washington to become President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Mee Kim-Chavez spoke at a Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel's bid for the city's top job. She said she helped Emanuel's wife, Amy Rule, store 20 to 30 boxes in a crawl space under a home add...

Rob Halpin tried to shake Rahm down legally for $100,000
First it was reported that Rob Halpin refused to get out of Rahm Emanuel 's house when Rahm decided to leave Washington, D.C. as President Barack Obama 's Chief of Staff to concentrate on a run for mayor of Chicago after Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he was 'outta there.'  Though the law says a person may be out of the city to be a federal public servant, the trouble began for Rahm concerning elibigility to run, Naturally, Halpin's refusing to get out of Rahm's home assisted two dozen no...

What's in Emanuel's basement?
The fight over Rahm Emanuel's eligibility to run for mayor turned into a debate Wednesday over what's in the basement of his Chicago home. On day two of a rambling hearing into claims that Emanuel doesn't meet the one-year residency rule for Candidates, Testimony focused on his contention that his family left prized possessions stored in their North Side house when they went to Washington for his job as President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Emanuel's attorneys argue that that shows he intend...

Witness: Emanuel's renter wanted $100K to move out
CHICAGO (AP) - A hearing over residency challenges to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral bid grinded on Thursday with a witness testifying that Emanuel's tenant wanted $100,000 to move out of his Chicago house when the former White House Chief of Staff came back to run for the city's top job. Paul Levy, a friend of Emanuel's who has advised him on Real Estate matters, said he reached out to businessman Rob Halpin and his family about breaking their lease early so Emanuel could move back into his home after...

Rahm's crawlspace: Center of the Board of Elections hearing
Day two of Rahm Emanuel ’s Board of Election’s residency hearing turned into a debate about what is and what isn’t in Emanuel’s basement.  Laurie Halpin , wife of Robert Halpin who momentarily ran for Chicago mayor and temporarily refuses to move out of Emanuel’s House which he has been leasing on Hermitage Avenue, challenged Testimony given the day before by Emanuel.  On Tuesday, Emanuel spoke of family treasures being stored in the basement of which Lau...

Emanuels Chicago residency hearing enters 3rd day
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are focused on showing that he always planned to come back to Chicago after he finished working for President Barack Obama. A Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel’s mayoral bid enters its third day Thursday with more witnesses expected to testify. More than two dozen opponents say he doesn’t have a legal right to run because he lived for nearly two years in ...

At Issue in Emanuel Hearing: Boxes in Basement
Chicago — The contents of Rahm Emanuel’s basement took center stage on Wednesday in an election board hearing to determine whether he can run for mayor. A tenant who is renting Mr. Emanuel’s home here told a hearing officer that she had never seen any of the boxes Mr. Emanuel said he stored in the basement when he left for Washington to work as President Obama’s Chief of Staff. The tenant, Lori Halpin, testified during the second day of hearings over whether Mr. Emanuel meets the

Rahm Emanueuls Chicago residency still open to dabate
Attorneys for former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are focused on showing that he always planned to come back to Chicago after he finished working for President Barack Obama. A Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel’s mayoral bid enters its third day Thursday with more witnesses expected to testify. More than two dozen opponents say he doesn’t have a legal right to run because he lived for nearly two years in Washington. Wednesday...

Rahmstoppers Face Off With Rahm at Hearing
By Dionne Searcey Having spent our formative years of adulthood in Chicago, we at the Law Blog figure we could come up with a list of questions that would settle in a jiffy the kerfuffle over Rahm Emanuel’s residency that is playing out in a hearing there. Hearing officer: Mr. Emanuel, where can you find the best Cheeseburger, best cheese fries, best record store, best band and best tall downtown building to sneak onto the roof of and watch the ice floats along the Chicago River? If he can’t an..

Woman renting Rahm Emanuel's home to testify at residency hearing in his Chicago mayoral bid
Chicago (AP) — A woman who rented Rahm Emanuel's house after he became President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff is scheduled to testify at a hearing about whether his name should be on the ballot in the race for Chicago mayor. Emanuel endured nearly 12 hours of questioning Tuesday from attorneys and Chicago residents who say he's not eligible to run for mayor. The challengers say he does not meet the requirement that Candidates live in the city a full year before the election because he mo...

Victor, Meet Spoils: Weaponeers Peddle Wares to Iraqi Cops
Next year’s supposed to be the big year in Iraq: the final departure of U.S. Troops. But the Iraqi Ministry of Interior wants you to know that it’s got a lot of business opportunities available long after that for the enterprising defense corporation. Come by the Crown Plaza Hotel near National Airport just outside of Washington D.C. on March 3rd and 4th, because that’s when the Iraq Homeland and Border Control Conference will kick off. Sponsored by a business-expo firm calle...

Live from the Rahm Residency Hearing
Rahm Emanuel at yesterday’s hearing. Chicago — During the eleven-plus-hour hearing yesterday to establish Rahm Emanuel’s residency in the city of Chicago—an old state law requires that Illinois Candidates must have lived here for one year prior to campaigning—the former White House chief-of-staff sat humbly at a desk in the crowded, badly lit basement of 69 West Washington Street. Wearing a subdued tie and a modest blue jacket, he appeared more bookish functionary t...

Chicago magazine - A Look at Joseph Morris, the Hearing Officer in the Rahm Emanuel Residency Challenge
Joseph Morris Rahm Emanuel took the stand this morning in a hearing to determine whether he meets the residency requirements to run for mayor, given that he has been living in D.C. for the last two years. The hearings, held at the Loop offices of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, have been something of a spectacle, with crowds of objectors swarming the tiny basement conference room, shouting “indict Rahm”—or worse. Presiding over the three-ring circus has been hearin...

Emanuel testifies in Chicago residency hearing (AP)
Chicago – Rahm Emanuel, who left a powerful job with President Barack Obama at the White House to move back to Chicago and run for mayor, endured nearly 12 hours of questioning Tuesday from everyone from attorneys to a woman named Queen Sister — all intent on keeping his name off the ballot. Testifying before a Chicago election board official during a hearing that was sometimes funny, contentious and downright strange, Emanuel defended himself against claims by opponents who say he...

Rahmshtupper
Washington Times The Chicago Way is under way…again. This week, a Chicago Mayoral Candidate and opponent of Rahm Emanuel, a successful businessman named Tom Hanson, was removed from the ballot. Why? Because the City of Chicago lost his Statement of Economic Interest. According to Hanson, who previously ran against Rahm Emanuel for Congress, he even has the Chicago Board of Elections’ receipt of filing. Regardless, a hearing on Monday determined that he cannot be reinstated. (Are you laughi...

Obama agenda: Aloha?
President Obama will delay his annual trip to his birth state of Hawaii in order to sign the tax bill. The New York Times’s Leonhardt notes that Conservatives’ political attacks against the health-care law are similar to the Conservatives’ (unsuccessful) crusades against Medicare, Social Security, and other expansions of the safety net. "Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, testified yesterday about his wife’s Wedding Dress, family China, and car...

Emanuel's renter testifies in residency dispute
The election hearing on Rahm Emanuel's bid for Chicago mayor resumed today with one of the renters of his North Side home contradicting Emanuel's Testimony that his family kept prized possessions in the house when they moved to Washington. Laurie Halpin, whose husband, Robert, briefly became a Candidate for mayor himself, said she has never seen boxes belonging to her landlords in the home. During an 11-hour marathon session today, Emanuel testified his family has 100 boxes of their most prized...

Realtor says Emanuel planned Chicago return
The third day of a hearing on challenges to Rahm Emanuel's place on the Chicago mayoral ballot began with a new witness, Paul Levy, a Real Estate manager who found the North Side home Emanuel purchased in 1998. The Hermitage Avenue home on the North Side was perfect for Emanuel and his family, Levy said, testifying that Emanuel purchased it and moved in after coming home from a post in the Clinton Administration. Read more in Clout Street. ...

Emanuel keeps cool during 11 hours of residency questions
Rahm Emanuel kept his famously sharp political tongue in check for more than 11 hours Tuesday as a phalanx of indignant Activists and a seasoned election attorney poked and prodded him during a hearing on whether he is eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago. The most serious attack on his candidacy came in the first 90 minutes of the hearing as the lead attorney challenging Emanuel bored in on the issue of whether the former White House Chief of Staff meets the requirement of being a Chicago res...