By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) At City Hall, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn used the public comment portion of the City Council meeting to openly defy Mayor Emanuel face-to-face.
Quinn’s been circulating petitions for a binding referendum in November to limit Chicago mayors to two terms. If it would pass, Rahm couldn’t run again.
So, some of the mayor’s aldermen have tried to block the referendum by crowding it off the ballot with the limit of three non-binding referendums of their own.
With Rahm up on the mayor’s rostrum, Quinn defied him during public comment at the city council meeting, saying “The mayor is terrified of this referendum. We all know that and they’re doing everything they can to keep it off the ballot. We’re not gonna let them do that.”
Quinn is confident the state constitution prevents Rahm’s aldermen from crowding his binding referenmdum off the ballot.
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