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Rahm Emanuel kicked off Chicago ballot by court

By | 01.24.11 | 2:59 pm

Rahm Emanuel is not a legally viable candidate for the Chicago mayor’s office, according to a Monday ruling from an Illinois appellate court. The panel decided on a 2-1 vote that Emanuel did not meet the residency qualifications.

Emanuel, a former congressman for part of Chicago, served as President Obama’s More…

Chicago Lawyer Says Rahm Not Eligible to Run for Mayor

By | 09.30.10 | 8:41 am

ABC is reporting that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could announce as early as Friday that he’s leaving the administration to run for mayor of Chicago, but its local Chicago affiliate is casting some doubt on whether he’s legally eligible:

Giuliani Says 9/11 Never Happened

By | 01.08.10 | 10:35 am

When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on “Good Morning America”:

“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did – one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on

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‘Are You [Expletive Deleted] Me?’

By | 11.24.09 | 1:22 pm

This New Orleans mayoral campaign ad, via Daily Kos, really is one of the more head-turning political TV spots of the cycle. (It gets a bit less interesting after the first 15 seconds.)

Palin’s Inner Thoughts, on the Back of a Budget

By | 10.06.08 | 6:00 pm

On a trip up to Wasilla, Alaska,

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Wasilla: Let’s Hire a Lobbyist to Get ‘Weapons,’ Etc.

By | 09.03.08 | 4:20 pm

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday I picked up a stack of cds that hold all of the meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and legislation from Gov. Sarah Palin’s time as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla. Apparently, Sen. John McCain’s campaign hadn’t thought to do the same before tapping Palin.

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Palin on Running Wasilla: “It’s Not Rocket Science”

By | 09.02.08 | 7:08 pm

WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman‘s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.

I’m reading an article from October 1996, More…

Live Updates from Wasilla

By | 09.02.08 | 5:32 pm

Laura McGann is twittering live from a press conference with Sarah Palin’s successor as mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller. First, a little background on Keller: when Palin was completing her term as mayor in 2002, she backed Keller to replace her over her husband’s stepmother, Faye Palin, who supports abortion More…

The Latest from Wasilla

By | 09.02.08 | 2:13 pm

Quoting Laura McGann’s twitter feed out of Wasilla, AK:

“Walmart employs 4 times as many people here as the city of Wasilla.”

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Another fun fact: Palin beat her opponent in the 1996 mayor’s race 616-413.”

A true metropolis.

Palin: The Iron-Fist Mayor?

By | 09.01.08 | 8:49 pm

WASILLA, Alaska — Earlier today, First Lady Laura Bush urged us to remember Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of her hometown from 1996-2002 when assessing her experience. I agree.

Driving around this city today, I decided it looks more or less like a string of strip malls, 45 More…