It will go to the Supreme Court, its already being appealed.
My favorite bit from the dissent: "It is patently clear that the majority fails to even attempt to define its newly discovered standard because it is a figment of the majority’s imagination."
People outside Chicago seem to be having a field day with all this, which is strange since regardless of who wins, it will have little effect on their day to day lives. Whereas it will have a very real effect on if my trash gets picked up, streets get plowed, trains run on time, etc.
The other candidates are FAR worse than Emanuel. Watch any debate, he is the only one who even seems to have a clue. Carol Mosley Braun? Holee ****. That would be an absolute disaster. Literally an absolute worst case scenario. Absolute crooked base scum Chicago politician of the highest order. Gery Chico is WAY more of a Daley insider than Rahm ever could be. Will not touch pensions. Has spent the past 20 years entrenching himself in the machine. De Valle is probably an OK guy, but as city clerk I seriously doubt has the vision or experience to lead a city of this size. Thats it, folks.
The fact is, 44% of Chicagoans support him as of the last poll. Residency rules are bull**** to begin with, and if this isnt hasn't shown how outdated and pointless they are I dont know what will.
This is part of the corrupt Chicago tradition of keeping potential challengers off the ballot and has been written about in the Chicago media for some time. Heck, the Chicago Reader did a story on the assessors race last year covering this very issue (Berrios was trying to get his challengers off the ballot). These laws should be drastically reformed to allow most serious candidates on the ballot.
It is funny to watch people who can't stand the Chicago Democratic Machine bend over backwards to support a set of laws that has been one of their major weapons for the last 50 years. "The Machine sucks! But this law is working out for us pretty well this time around. Boo Rahm!"
I will say if nothing else,
the fake Rahm twitter has been hilarious to follow.