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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Can someone verify how much Rahm Emanuel’s Cook County property ...

While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel’s residence on the Illinois State Board of Elections’ website, there seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on this home. ...

1 comments:

Rob said...

Why is this lie about Rahm Emanuel's property taxes getting airtime again?

This was all debunked the same day the erroneous conservative blogger posted it.

Whatever conservatives may think of Emanuel, nobody has a right to flat out lie about the guy. He paid more than $13,000 in property taxes - about double what his neighbors pay because he has a larger sized lot.

See here (including the online copy of his actual tax filing, which is a public record):
http://progressillinois.com/2008/11/07/rahm-emanuel-property-taxes

And my own take on this bizarre fib here:
http://illinoisreason.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/anatomy-of-a-con-smear/