Rahm vs. Arne
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Since leaving the White House in 2010, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has remained a steadfast ally of the president. But buried in Jonathan Alter’s new Atlantic profile of Emanuel is a shot at another Chicago-based member of the Obama team:
Since leaving the White House in 2010, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has remained a steadfast ally of the president. But buried in Jonathan Alter’s new Atlantic profile of Emanuel is a shot at another Chicago-based member of the Obama team:
“Rahm is still steaming about the contracts negotiated by [former Chicago Mayor Richard] Daley and Arne Duncan—who was then running CPS and is now the nation’s education secretary—which gave teachers hefty pay increases and a shorter school year. ‘I know what the teachers got, and I know what the politicians got,’ he says, meaning no strike. ‘But I don’t know what the kids got.’”
The contact that so aggravates Emanuel included a 4 percent annual pay hike for five years,