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Monday, July 23, 2012

No late night phone calls this time, Senator Kotowski. « Fred Klonsky

No late night phone calls this time, Senator Kotowski. « Fred Klonsky:


No late night phone calls this time, Senator Kotowski.


Last May, Park Ridge Democratic Senator Dan Kotowski meets with District 64 teachers and promises to protect pensions.
I have previously shared the story of a late Friday night phone call from Senator Dan Kotowski who attacked me for publishing a post saying he had voted for last year’s pension cutting bill, HB512.
I had published no such story.
Teachers at one of our schools had found a list of senators who had voted for HB512 when it was a shell bill, an empty bill to be filled in later, which Kotowski had voted in favor of. The ethics of all that I will leave for others to debate for now.
When sixty Region 36 teachers went to Springfield on May 2 to lobby for our pensions, Kotowski came out to