"of the Republican Party. As of the most recent redistricting it includes part of Cook County, and was represented by Democrat Rahm Emanuel from January 2003 until he resigned on January 2, 2009, to become White House Chief of Staff. On April 8, 2009, Mike Quigley won a special election to fill the seat. George W. Bush received 33% of the vote in this district in 2004. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of D +20. Despite its recent historical preference for Democrats, the district was represented by a Republican for two years after Dan Rostenkowski lost"
"passionate cyclist, he rides a custom-built, state-of-the-art Parlee road bike. Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel (; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, who is the 44th and current mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, and reelected on April 7, 2015. Born in Chicago, Emanuel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Working early in his career in Democratic politics, Emanuel was appointed as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration, where he served as the assistant"
"Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel (; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, who is the 44th and current mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, and reelected on April 7, 2015. Born in Chicago, Emanuel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Working early in his career in Democratic politics, Emanuel was appointed as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration, where he served as the assistant to the president for political affairs and as the senior"
"Representatives in the special election called to replace US Rep. Rahm Emanuel in Illinois's 5th congressional district. O'Connor is a part-time alderman. O'Connor is an attorney in private practice. O'Connor is a Vice President and In-house Counsel to Foster Bank, a bank in the 40th ward. Patrick J. O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor (born 1955) has been an alderman in Chicago's City Council representing the 40th Ward on the North Side of the city since elected in 1983 at age 28. O'Connor was an unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic Party primary election for Illinois's 5th congressional district special election, 2009. O'Connor"
"23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel won the mayoral election, after defeating challenges that he was not a Chicago resident and beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote alone, and was sworn in as Mayor on May 16, 2011. Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan. It is the principal city in the Chicago metropolitan area, situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region. Chicago rests on a continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, connecting the Mississippi River and"
"Rahm Emanuel, who would be resigning from the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as President Obama's White House Chief of Staff. Several weeks later, she withdrew from the race. In July 2013, Alderman Richard Mell, Deb Mell's father, retired from the city council after nearly 40 years. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was charged with appointing his successor and settled on Deb Mell. The appointment was announced on July 24 and confirmed by the city council later that day. Mell is openly lesbian. She was married to Christin Baker from 2011 to 2014. She was one of four openly LGBT members"
"his seat because of the Congressional Post Office scandal. On a national level, the scandal helped prompt the Republican Revolution of 1994. Emanuel's predecessor was Rod Blagojevich, who was elected Governor in 2002. Blagojevich was impeached, convicted, and removed from office by the Illinois legislature in 2009. He was convicted in 2010 of one count of lying to federal investigators. Mike Quigley was challenged for the seat by Republican nominee David Ratowitz and Green Party nominee Matt Reichel in the 2010 congressional elections. , there are four former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 5th congressional district"
"announced the previous September. Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician serving as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. Corbyn was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North in 1983. Ideologically, Corbyn identifies as a democratic socialist. He advocates reversing austerity cuts to public services and welfare funding made since 2010, and proposes renationalisation of public utilities and the railways. An anti-war and anti-nuclear campaigner since his youth, he broadly supports a foreign policy of military non-interventionism and unilateral nuclear disarmament. Corbyn began his career"
"William Emanuel William Emanuel is an American lawyer and government official who currently serves as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Prior to assuming his current role, he was a shareholder at the law firm Littler Mendelson. Emanuel received his A.B. from Marquette University and his J.D. from Georgetown Law. He has spent most of his career as a labor law attorney based in California. His clients have included trade associations, hospitals, school districts, and transportation, logistics, and manufacturing companies. In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Emanuel to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board."
"Rahm Emanuel won the race for mayor with more than 55% of the vote. He was inaugurated on May 16, 2011. Six candidates appeared on the February 22 ballot: Nominating petitions were filed for 20 candidates in November 2010. In the initial review of the petitions by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners on December 6, 2010, three candidates, Ryan Graves, M. Tricia Lee, and Jay Stone, were removed from the ballot for submitting insufficient numbers of signatures or duplicate signatures, although they had the right to seek reconsideration of the decision. Rob Halpin, businessman and tenant of Rahm Emanuel,"
"made steady progress in recovering his political support. He initially announced in October 2017 he planned to run for a third term, but on September 4, 2018, Emanuel reversed this decision and stated he would not seek a third term due to personal obligations. Emanuel's grandfather was a Moldovan Jew who emigrated from Bessarabia. The surname ""Emanuel"" (Hebrew: ), which means ""God with us"", was adopted by their family in honor of his father's brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem. Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician at Michael"
"for the Democratic nomination, which would almost assure being elected to Congress. In fact, over 12,000 more votes were cast in the Democratic Primary than there were in the general election. [[Category:Special elections to the 111th United States Congress|Illinois 2009 05 2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election A special election was held in Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. On April 7, Democratic nominee Michael Quigley defeated Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green nominee Matt Reichel. Quigley was sworn in on April 21 and will serve out the current congressional term."
"on the South Side of Chicago. Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency. He previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008). Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community"
"former US Representative Rahm Emanuel's seat in Illinois's 5th congressional district special election, 2009. In the primary election on March 3, 2009. Fritchey finished second to Mike Quigley in the 12-way race for the Democratic Party nomination. Quigley bested Fritchey in Fritchey's home district, the 11th Illinois Legislative District, and in Fritchey's home ward, the 32nd. In the summer of 2003, long-time 32nd Ward committeeman and former 32nd Ward alderman Theris ""Terri"" Gabinski announced he was stepping down from the committeeman post. On the day of the filing deadline, December 15, 2003, Fritchey filed to run, but later withdrew, and"
"by Rahm Emanuel. Oberman currently resides in Lincoln Park, a neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. Justin Oberman was born and raised in the 5th district, attending Francis W. Parker school in Lincoln Park. His father, Marty, was the dean of independent aldermen in the Chicago City Council for 12 years fighting waste, fraud, and abuse and on behalf of working men and women in the city. His mother, Bonnie, leads a non-profit organization in Chicago dedicated to enhancing curriculum in our public schools and teaching our kids about the perils of prejudice and racism. His sister, Maren, is"
"Jewish mayor. An August 2014, ""Chicago Tribune"" poll reported Emanuel had a 35% approval rating as mayor of Chicago. In 2015, Emanuel won 56 percent of the vote in the run-off election against Jesús ""Chuy"" García held on April 7, 2015. He had been hurt by sharp neighborhood criticism of his decision to shut down 50 public schools in black and Latino neighborhoods, and his installation of red light cameras, together with anger at the high level of gun violence on the streets. On the other hand, he was supported by the business community and most elements of the Democratic"
"that he would not seek reelection for a seventh term as mayor. On December 26, 2010, Daley became Chicago's longest-serving mayor, surpassing his father's record. Rahm Emanuel is the current mayor, having won the 2011 election with 55% of the vote to 25% for his closest opponent, Gery Chico. Emanuel was sworn in on May 16, 2011. In an April 7, 2015 run-off election Emanuel won re-election with 55.7 percent to challenger Jesus ""Chuy"" Garcia's 44.3 percent. By charter, Chicago has a ""weak-mayor"" system, in which most of the power is vested in the city council. In practice, however, the"
"of the 1983 Shakman Decree, which bars city officials from making political considerations in the hiring process. Rahm Emanuel faced a great deal of criticism for his handling of the October 20, 2014, police shooting of Laquan McDonald. The dash-cam video of the shooting was initially withheld, and only was released after a judge ordered it on November 24, 2015. After the video release, Emanuel was condemned for covering up the incident and allowing Chicago police to use excessive force against minorities. ""Chicago Tribune"" columnist John Kass wrote that the Emanuel administration withheld from the public the police dashboard camera"
"Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician serving as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. Corbyn was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North in 1983. Ideologically, Corbyn identifies as a democratic socialist. He advocates reversing austerity cuts to public services and welfare funding made since 2010, and proposes renationalisation of public utilities and the railways. An anti-war and anti-nuclear campaigner since his youth, he broadly supports a foreign policy of military non-interventionism and unilateral nuclear disarmament. Corbyn began his career as a representative for"
"Although the deal was reached before Emanuel took office, tax breaks must be negotiated every year. It was later revealed that the festival received its tax exemption for 2011 in the final days of the Daley administration. In 2012, Lollapalooza paid taxes for the first time in seven years and extended its contract to host in Grant Park through 2021. | colspan=10 |U.S. House, 5th District of Illinois (General Election) !Year !Winning candidate !Party !Pct !Opponent !Party !Pct !Opponent !Party !Pct Emanuel and his wife, Amy Merritt Rule, have a son and two daughters. The family lives in the Ravenswood"
"Ebrahim Rasool Ebrahim Rasool (born 15 July 1962) is a South African politician who also served as the South African Ambassador to the United States. between 2010 and 2015. He was replaced by H.E. Ambassador Mninwa Mahlangu who presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on Monday, 23 February 2015. Ebrahim Rasool was the Premier of the Western Cape province from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of the African National Congress. Whilst he was Premier Rasool launched an aggressive series of anti-gang policies that targeted gang members economic interests and stepped up police investigations into alleged gang leaders."
"Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency. He previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008). Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he"
"underserved communities, a program to provide breakfast bars to elementary school students, and a campaign for public-sponsored in-school dental care. Royal and his wife have three children. Roderick Royal Roderick V. Royal (born October 4th, 1965) is a former Birmingham City Councilman who served as the President of the Birmingham City Council. Royal served for two months (November 2009-January 2010) as the 32nd Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama occupying the office in the absence of former mayor Larry Langford who was removed following a criminal conviction in a federal corruption case. Royal took over the post of acting mayor from Carole"
"Health. Emanuel is the son of Benjamin M. Emanuel and Marsha (Smulevitz) Emanuel. His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine. He provided free care to poor immigrants and led efforts to get rid of lead paint due to its negative consequences for children and as of 2010 lived in a suburb of Chicago. Emanuel’s mother, Marsha, a nurse and psychiatric social worker who was raised in the North Lawndale community on Chicago's West Side, was active in civil rights, including the"
"Tom Emmer Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. (born March 3, 1961) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2015. The district includes most of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, as well as St. Cloud, Minnesota. Emmer served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 until 2011 and was the Republican nominee for governor in the 2010 election. He represented District 19B, which includes portions of Wright and Hennepin Counties and the cities of Otsego, Albertville, St. Michael, Rockford, Delano, Montrose, and Waverly. On June 5, 2013, he announced he would seek the 6th Congressional"
"Third Party ! Party ! Votes ! ! Third Party ! Party ! Votes ! ! Year ! Republican ! Votes ! ! Democratic ! Votes ! ! Third Party ! Party ! Votes ! ! Third Party ! Party ! Votes ! Jim Sensenbrenner Francis James Sensenbrenner Jr. (; born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who has represented in the United States House of Representatives since 1979. He is a Republican. Wisconsin's 5th district, the state's most Republican, includes many of Milwaukee's northern and western suburbs, and extends into rural Jefferson County. It was numbered as the"
"member of a Legislative Counsel and Government Affairs team for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011 and later served as its director from April 2016 until January 2017. She was the Campaign Manager on the 2014 re-election campaign of Dick Durbin to the United States Senate. In 2015, she was a Senior Advisor for Rahm Emanuel’s re-election campaign. She was appointed as City Clerk in December 2016. In the fall of 2016, $1 million was set aside in the City Clerk's budget for Chicago's Municipal ID program which will allow all residents the ability to apply for a government-issued ID."
"Ralph Norman Ralph Warren Norman Jr. (born June 20, 1953) is an American real estate developer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he was a South Carolina House Representative from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 until 2017. In February 2017, Norman vacated his seat to launch a U.S. congressional bid. Norman won the 2017 5th congressional district special election, assuming office in the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2017. He was born in York County, South Carolina, and currently resides in Rock Hill, where he is a real"
"would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2018 election for District 5. The primaries will be held on June 12th, 2018. Incumbent Ralph Norman is unopposed for the Republican nomination. Special election candidate and former Goldman Sachs employee Parnell has the most fundraising of the four democratic candidates as of June 9th. He was opposed by former York County Councilwoman Sidney Moore, professional clown Steven Lough, and Mark Ali, a former undocumented immigrant. Parnell's campaign has been overshadowed by the resignation of many of his campaign staff after the discovery of allegations of domestic violence committed by him in 1973."
"a special election to replace Obama. Durbin noted that Illinois has a need to call a 2009 House of Representatives special election to replace then-Representative and White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel in Illinois's 5th congressional district. Both Illinois Senate President Emil Jones and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan stated that they would call a session of their respective chambers to consider legislation to establish a special election to fill the Obama Senate seat vacancy. Bills were introduced in both houses that would have revoked the Governor's statutory authority to appoint a senator, and would have required a special"
"Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist, and Rahm Emanuel, the current mayor of Chicago, and former White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, and a member of the House of Representatives, representing a Chicago-area district. ""The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By"" by Ari Gold is a memoir and self-help guide ""that's about as legitimate and motivational as any book written by a fictitious character can get."" Published by Hachette Books, the book is framed around 18 rules (including ""Either You Know it All or You Blow it All"" and ""Keep a Scorecard for Favors"") with accompanying anecdotes about how"
"Emile Rahme Emile Rahme () is a Maronite Lebanese member of parliament representing the Baalbeck/Hermil district. He is the leader of the Solidarity Party and is part of Sleiman Frangieh's Marada bloc also called Free and Unified Lebanon Bloc. He was elected for the first time in 2009. Emile Georges Rahme was born on March 1, 1952 in Deir el Ahmar. Rahme attended the Sharkieh School in Zahlé where he was aspired to follow his degree studying Private Law at the Lebanese University. Rahme did not wait long to start with his political and reform career. During his last university"
"Raymond E. Basham Raymond Edward Basham (born May 24, 1945) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was a Democratic member of the Michigan Senate, representing the 8th District from 2003-9. His district was located in central Wayne County. Previously he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002. He currently serves as a member of the Wayne County Commission. Raymond Basham has lived in Taylor for nearly 40 years. Raymond and his wife Iva have two children: Brian, age thirty-eight and Tracy, age thirty-one; and four grandchildren named Zach, Jacob, Karlie,"