Elgin’s Senator Mike Noland. Bought by Stand for Children? Targeted by pensioners. « Fred Klonsky

Elgin’s Senator Mike Noland. Bought by Stand for Children? Targeted by pensioners. « Fred Klonsky:

Elgin’s Senator Mike Noland. Bought by Stand for Children? Targeted by pensioners.

by Fred Klonsky

Noland, who sits on Quinn’s pension panel told pensioners, “I’m on your side.”
Elgin’s Democratic State Senator Mike Noland couldn’t figure out why pensioners would be demonstrating outside his office.
He ended up blaming the teachers’ union.
Noland, endorsed by Jonah Edelman’s Stand For Children, also is a member of the Governor’s pension

Stand ON Children First: New AstroTurf from Teacher in the Box

Just Like Michelle Rhee's Students first only BETTER

Astroturf lobbying refers to political organizations or campaigns that appear to be made up of grassroots activists but are actually organized and run by corporate interests seeking to further their own agendas. Such groups are often typified by innocent-sounding names that have been chosen specifically to disguise the group's true backers

Just Like Michelle Rhee's Students first Astroturf lobbying (only Better)