Governor Quinn is silent but his hands are dirty.
Progress Illinois, the SEIU website, reports that Pat Quinn has been silent during the strike except for a few non-statements about being “for the kids.”
But his hands are quite dirty in all of this.
The teachers’ strike is often framed as a clash of two colorful personalities: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTU President Karen Lewis. But as Progress Illinois has examined, it was the mild-mannered Quinn that signed in 2010 the