Posted on 11/21/2012 11:09:58 AM PST by Zakeet
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will announce his resignation from Congress today in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Jackson's brother Jonathan Jackson said.
He spoke to the Chicago Tribune by telephone.
The congressman could not be reached for confirmation. Boehner's office also could not be immediately reached.
Jackson, 47, a South Side Democrat, has been treated for bipolar depression and has been on a medical leave from Congress since June. He has been under investigation by federal authorities for alleged misuse of campaign dollars and also has faced a congressional ethics probe.
Although he did not wage a campaign, Jackson won re-election on Nov. 6 to another two-year term in the House by defeating a Republican and independent challenger. Under Illinois law, Gov. Pat Quinn, a fellow Democrat, would call a special election to fill Jackson’s 2nd District congressional seat, which extends from Chicago’s South Side to Kankakee.
He is the son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, and the husband of Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, 7th.
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LOL, I wrote “the the the”.
Jackson’s seat, in the new term, can be vacant because he resigned, yesterday.
I thought that Clerk Orr would know the law, but, maybe, I was incorrect.
This is from an article on the WLS-TV site: “According to law, Gov. Pat Quinn has five days following the resignation to set the date for a special election to replace Jackson in Congress.
“That five days would expire on Monday and by Monday we’ll have the schedule prepared,” Gov. Pat Quinn said Wednesday.
The election has to be held within 115 days of the Governor’s announcement.”
The WGN-TV site states that Clerk Orr hopes that the elections will be held on Feb. 26 and April 9, but those dates would need to be approved by a judge, since that date, for the general election, would violate the state law, since it’s later than the limit, in the law.
Well I’m sure they can find a judge to agree with whatever they want since they don’t care about the law.
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