Challenges to Rahm Residency Filed

By Chuck Sudo in News on Nov 26, 2010 3:30PM

The expected residency challenges to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral candidacy are starting to come in. Five were filed at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners Wednesday, according to Early and Often (story is behind a paywall).

Two of the petitions were were identical objection filings from Paul McKinley and Marie J. Wohadlo, a Green Party candidate for Cook County commissioner. Wohadlo, of course, lost her election to Toni Preckwinkle in November. Wohaldo's objection also sounds suspiciously of political gamesmanship.

Wohadlo told Early and Often that she was at the Board of Election Commissioners to file a run for 5th Ward Alderman when she was approached by someone to file the residency objection. When asked to name the person, Wohadlo refused, saying that eventually, "(t)hat person is going to make himself known."

If Wohadlo's comment is to be taken at face value, it hits at the heart of the residency challenges against Emanuel, which aren't intended to kick him off the ballot as much as it is to plant the seeds that Emanuel isn't "one of us."