O come on, Emanuel:
While you can’t count me as one of Rahm Emanuel’s fans, I am annoyed at the people who have been pushing ever-so-hard through the courts the idea that the man can’t run for mayor of Chicago because he’s a non-resident. He votes here (as does the President), he has a house here (as does the President), and so on. But now the whole thing is going to go to the State Supreme Court; Susan is pointing out that whoever won at the appellate court level would have found themselves dragged to the Supremes, and she’s right.
I don’t live in the city, and I wouldn’t vote for him, but this rationale is more (IMHO) a last-ditch move to get him off the ballot by any means. I have no idea, short of pure ego and ambition WHY Rahm or anyone else would want the job. The way I see it, once Daley leaves office, it’s going to become blindingly clear how Daley was treading water for years and ginked the city’s longer-term future in order to bail out the present. Once whoever wins gets the job, they’re going to be faced with having to deal with the fiscal results, and the ends of that I cannot see aside of a World Of Pain.
If your strong desire is to have Carol Moseley-Braun be the next mayor, I imagine that that could be amusing from a great distance, but not terribly useful.