Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reporter asks Rahm: Will your assault on CTU turn Chicago into another Wisconsin?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reporter asks Rahm: Will your assault on CTU turn Chicago into another Wisconsin?:

Reporter asks Rahm: Will your assault on CTU turn Chicago into another Wisconsin?

by Mike Klonsky

Rahm Emanuel at Tuesday's news conference at Cesar E. Chavez elementary school. (Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune )

Rahm's anti-union spin machine is spinning in reverse. Eventhough his pals now own the Sun-Timesand even with a big-bucks propaganda campaign bankrolled by corporate "reformers", nothing seems to be spinning the mayor's way.

S-T political reporter Fran Spielman, can't quite hide her disdain for Rahm's assault on the CTU.

Emanuel pushed for a change in state law that raised the strike authorization threshold to 75 percent, a benchmark so high, at least one education advocate [SFC's Jonah Edelman--mk] with ties to the mayor predicted that it could never be met. Instead, the Chicago Teachers Union roared