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Friday, October 28, 2011

The despicable Mike Antonucci. « Fred Klonsky's blog

The despicable Mike Antonucci. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

The despicable Mike Antonucci.

Mike Antonucci is a right-wing blogger who spends his time attacking teacher unions. Almost exclusively.

On his Wednesday blog (I never have and never will link to it) he wrote:

Meanwhile, in Oakland:

Many in the community, including the Alameda Labor Council and many unions as well as community organizations, have supported Occupy Oakland. The California Nurses Association staffed the camp’s first aid clinic, and the Oakland Education Association funded the porta-potties.

The jokes write themselves, folks.

I tweeted:

Following the shooting of Iraq vet Scott Olsen by the OPD, union hater Mike Antonucci, “The


Friday fillips.

News from Matt Farmer. BREAKING: CPS CEO J.C. Brizard will offer pizza parties, ice cream vouchers, and amusement park tickets to CPS students who back his “Chicago School Patriot” program by agreeing to wear “Juan Rangel T-shirts” to school every Friday. (In related news, CPS will also pay UNO $62 million for using Rangel’s likeness on those T-shirts.)

From Ben Joravsky and Mike Dumke. (Mayor Emanuel) still found an hour to slip away for breakfast at the exclusive Chicago Club with a couple of millionaire bankers—Bill Downe, the CEO of the Bank of Montreal, and Mark Furlong, the CEO of Harris Bank.

The IEA has issued a Call to Action on the pension killer bill. Blink and