Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm.

by Fred Klonsky

From the Southtown.

That brilliant chronicler of the verities of Chicago’s corrupt politicians, Mike Royko, would see Rahm Emanuel, the Dimunitive Despot, as a columnist’s dream come true.
The scenario of a former suburbanite and D.C insider, whose campaign was well funded by charter-school lobbyist money, destroying the Chicago Public Schools and the careers of dedicated teachers for political gain, would be prime grist for Royko’s journalistic mill.
As a native, blue-collar Chicagoan whose family members are CPS graduates and as a high school teacher of 35 years, I am absolutely repulsed by the public relations “framing” by the mayor of the discourse surrounding his school reform agenda.
The operative principle that all his school budgetary and personnel cuts are predicated on is the