-By Warner Todd Huston
The man that is renting Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago house announced today that he’ll drop his bid to run against the former White House chief of staff.
Emanuel tenant Rob Halpin told reporters that the financial burden — as well as the legal hurdles — of running for mayor was simply too much for him to incur.
The board of elections also removed three candidates from the ballot due to the candidates not having enough ballot signatures to satisfy the minimum requirement of 12,500 signatures.
The three removed were M. Tricia Lee, only had 700 valid signatures; Jay Stone, had a mere 246; and Ryan Graves had duplicate signatures.
With Lee’s removal from the ballot, that puts Rahm Emanuel in the second spot on the ballot.
Certainly many more will be removed as time rolls onward, but here is the list as it stands now:
Mayoral Candidates
Carol Moseley Braun – Former U.S. Senator, Hyde Park resident
http://carolforchicago.com
Gery J. Chico – Former President of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Public Schools, Downtown Chicago (Loop)
www.gerychicoformayor.com
Danny K. Davis – Current U.S. Representative 7th District, Austin Neighborhood
http://dannykdavis.com/
Wilfredo De Jesus – Senior Pastor of New Life Covenant Church in Humboldt Park, Logan Square
www.dejesusformayor.com
Miguel Del Valle – Chicago City Clerk, Belmont
www.delvalleformayor.com
Rahm Emanuel – Former U.S. Representative 5th District, West Town, White House Chief of Staff
www.chicagoforrahm.com
John Hu – Real estate broker, Rush and Division
http://citizenmayor.net/index.html
James T. Meeks – Current Illinois State Senator 15th District, West Pullman
www.jamesmeeksformayor.com
William Walls III – Community Activist, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington, Galewood
http://wallsformayor.com
Patricia Van Pelt Watkins – Community Activist, CEO of Target Area Development Corp., E. Garfield Park
www.patriciaforchicago.com
Fredrick K. White – City Employee, Logan Square
www.fredrick-k-white.com
Roland W. Burris – Chatham, Former Senator
Tyrone Carter – Austin, Music Producer, Author
Tommy Hanson – Real estate broker, River North
Fenton C. Patterson – ??, Englewood
Howard Ray – ??, Humbolt Park
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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