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QUESTION: Will Rahm Emanuel's Man's Country Membership meet the residency requirement and save his bid to be Mayor of Chicago?
Rub-a-dub-dub: Could this Chicago bathhouse really save Rahm Emanuel's Mayoral bid?
Could Rahm Emanuel be thumbing his nose at his opponents with this Man's Country residency loophole?
According to various sources, the legal requirement to run for Mayor of Chicago is to “maintain a Chicago residence” for one year before the election.
The Mayoral election is scheduled for February 22nd, 2011.
Rahm Emanuel has not lived in the City of Chicago since he moved to Washington to become Obama’s Chief of Staff back in 2009. To meet the residency requirement in its strictest interpretation, Emanuel should have been living in Chicago from February 22nd, 2010 through February 22nd, 2011…and we all know that is not the case.
The Democrat Machine in Chicago, which seems eager to do all it can to help Emanuel, claims his voter registration remained in Chicago and that he voted absentee in the recent primary elections, so that he has “established the intent to be a resident of Chicago”, which the Machine claims satisfies the residency requirement.
Attorney Burt Odelson, a residency requirement expert, believes Emanuel’s eligibility for this election will be challenged successfully in court, however. He states that once Emanuel leased his Chicago home in September 2009 (and has not been back since) that he could no longer claim to be a Chicago resident.
Being a “resident” of a city does not mean owning property there; you are a “resident” if you rent so much as a room in Chicago, and can prove that you have such a room ready and waiting for you whenever you need to put your head down onto a pillow here to catch some ZZZs (among other things).
Thus, another residency argument Rahm Emanuel can make is his lifetime membership to Man’s Country, a male bathhouse on Clark Street in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood – where Chicagoans for years have spotted both Obama and Emanuel when the two men lived here.
Man’s Country sells lifetime memberships for $10. Once a man becomes a member, he is allowed to show up anytime he wants (the place is open 24/7) to rent a room for 8 hours (he can also rent just a locker in case he doesn’t plan on sleeping and instead just wants to “hangout” or “play basketball” the way Obama used to with Kal Penn or Reggie Love until too much attention was drawn to their antics). The rooms have a small cot, a single pillow, a sheet, and sometimes a TV. Man’s Country is made up of a warren of these little rooms, with no ceiling, in what looks like a Halloween haunted house of twists, turns, nooks, and crannies. Watch out for ghosts!
Could Emanuel’s Man’s Country membership, coupled with his voter registration, qualify him to run for Mayor of Chicago?
We believe it could, because it meets all the requirements as we understand them:
* The voter registration, according to the Democrat Machine, means Emanuel had “the intent to become a Chicago resident” at some point in the future
* Since he owns a house in Chicago, but does not live there, his “intent to become a Chicago resident” is bolstered by the fact he did not sell his house so an argument can be made that he further intends to live in this house at some point in the future when the tenants who have leased it vacate
* Because he has a lifetime membership to Man’s Country, Emanuel can further argue that he not only has further “intent to become a Chicago resident” because of his lifetime membership in a Chicago bathhouse, but he also has at his disposal a room to sleep in whenever he is in town, if he so chooses
* Man’s Country is Emanuel’s landlord whenever he’d return to town, with his rent payable whenever they see him next. Since it’s around $20 for 8 hours to “sleep” at Man’s Country, this makes this a very expensive place for Emanuel to “live” full-time (at the rate of $20/8hours, that’s $5/2 hours, for over $21,000 a year!).
* Clearly, someone willing to spend over $21,000 to “live” in Chicago as a resident is someone who loves this town (and Man’s Country) enough to run for Mayor
All it will take to clear this whole residency requirement business up is for Rahm Emanuel to take to the airwaves and ask any men he’s met at Man’s Country to vouch for him, let the world know how often he’s been there, and tell everyone about how much he’s enjoyed “sleeping” there in the past.
Since past is precedent, all of the above establishes solidly that Emanuel is a lifetime member, formerly frequent user, and Man’s Country renter with not only the intent to become a resident of Chicago in the future but the delusional belief we will be our next Mayor.
Is this your take on the residency situation for Rahm Emanuel as well?
What think you?
Rub-a-dub-dub!
Three or more men in a tub!
There's always room at Man's Country!
Amen to that!
Leave Vera Baker Alone. She Did Not Have An Affair With Obama.
One of the more bizarre things we got dragged into on this site was the whole “Vera Baker, Mystery Woman” episode during the close of the 2008 general election campaign.
The GOP was convinced that Vera Baker, a former campaign fundraiser for Obama’s Senate race, had an affair with Obama and was then sent to Martinique to hide out during the election. Reportedly, Michelle Obama was so jealous of Baker that she “wanted to scratch her eyes out”, which is something she said about President Clinton as well. Michelle wants to scratch all sorts of people’s eyes out, none of whom have had an affair with Dr. Utopia.
AND, as Desiree Rogers proved, Michelle doesn’t have to think a woman is having an affair with anyone to start hating her and push her out. If a woman is prettier than her, she does not want that woman around. Rogers and Baker are both far prettier (and nicer) than the current First Lady. You do the math.
Because we’re in Chicago, and know a lot of the people that were involved in the Obama Senate campaign, especially the fundraising side, we were asked to look into Baker, find pictures of her, and try to establish the fact that she did indeed have an affair with Obama.
We never believed Obama had an affair with a woman, because Obama does not appear to like women.
As American Standard recently wondered, there are no former girlfriends, either on the scene or noted in any of the books William Ayers or Jon Favreau wrote for Obama. No high school girlfriends. No college sweethearts. But, there sure are plenty of men he’s spent an odd amount of time with.
Baker was a red herring in the campaign — but it was strange she disappeared to Martinique. We have no idea what she was doing down there, but she’s one of the top fundraisers for black political candidates in the world. She’s smart, she’s the best there is in her field, and she’s actually a very nice lady.
In the spring of 2009, one of us accidentally had lunch with Baker, at a little sandwich shop in Bronzeville called Munchie’s. We were there to brainstorm fundraising and visibility ideas for a black candidate we like very much — and we had no idea who the woman sitting next to us was. But, we shared a pot roast pizza with her, and at the end of the lunch meeting, everyone exchanged emails and she looked at ours, we looked at hers, and it was like that scene in Batman Returns where Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle were dancing and realized who each other really was.
“Oh, we need to talk,” is what Baker said.
And, so we did.
We are 100% convinced this wonderful young woman had no romantic relationship with Obama.
Because she is a woman, for one, but also because she’s happily married, and has a darling baby too.
There’s been a huge uptick in searches for “Vera Baker” on Google in the last two days, and we could not figure out why — until we saw that Globe magazine is running the old Obama affair story again. There’s nothing new to report — Globe’s just rehashing the same story from 2008, but now alleging Baker was given a job with Roland Burris as some sort of hush money to keep from talking about an affair with Obama.
That’s ridiculous.
Baker works for Burris because she’s damn good at what she does, is incredibly bright, and Baker’s well-connected with Burris’ team in Chicago. And, we repeat, she did not have an affair with Obama
This is all really suspicious, though, because during the campaign we truly believe the Obama team pushed the Baker affair story because they wanted people not to talk about Obama’s gay relationships.
Larry Sinclair, Reggie Jones, Kal Penn, Donald Young, nameless men at Man’s Country. You name it.
Who’s pushing the Baker business now, and why? Is there a himbo eruption coming for the White House, so they want to preemptively start rumors the current president is such a stud he’s bedding down a woman like Baker?
Could this have anything to do with the fact that, surreally, even people like Maureen Dowd have been hinting at a sexual relationship between Obama and his “basketball buddy” and “body man” Reggie Love…or is it linked to Kal Penn’s firing?
Is Penn threatening to talk?
Was he really robbed at gunpoint coincidentally in Dupont Circle, or was someone sending Penn a message not to talk about what went on with Obama?
It wouldn’t be the first time a man romantically linked to this president found himself in front of the business end of the gun.
Curiouser and curiouser.
