{"id":187927,"date":"2011-01-24T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/24\/oops-15\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:30:00","slug":"oops-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/24\/oops-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 170px;\">Two potential reactions:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img94.imageshack.us\/img94\/8104\/ohsnap8401184.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img94.imageshack.us\/img94\/8104\/ohsnap8401184.gif\" \/><br \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Whoever suggested that he rent out his house<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img213.imageshack.us\/img213\/9622\/nelsonhaha8413165.jpg\" width=\"160\" \/><br \/>My Reaction<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Rahm Emmanuel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE70N56D20110124\">has been struck from the ballot for the Chicago Mayoral race<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A state appeals court on Monday threw the Chicago mayor&#8217;s race into turmoil by ruling that front-runner and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel did not qualify for the February ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel immediately responded that he would appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and urged quick consideration. The ruling on Monday overturned decisions by a lower court and a Chicago elections board that allowed him on the February 22 ballot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that there is an exemption in the law for elected officials, but not for staff, and the fact that he had rented out his house was a major contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I think that it is likely that it will be overturned on appeal by the Illinois Supreme Court, though I would prefer if the ruling stood, and Rahm has the&nbsp; backing of the machine, so he still has a good chance of winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two potential reactions: Whoever suggested that he rent out his house My Reaction Rahm Emmanuel has been struck from the ballot for the Chicago Mayoral race: A state appeals court on Monday threw the Chicago mayor&#8217;s race into turmoil by ruling that front-runner and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel did not qualify &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,972,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-justice","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}