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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Joravsky explains it to Proco, the Hipster Alderman. « Fred Klonsky

Joravsky explains it to Proco, the Hipster Alderman. « Fred Klonsky:


Joravsky explains it to Proco, the Hipster Alderman.

Ben Joravsky in the Chicago Reader:

Back in the fun-filled early days of the teachers’ strike—before Mayor Emanuel brought in his lawyers and everyone decided to go back to school—it was still possible to get a laugh or two out of the comments of some of our local politicians. Like First Ward alderman Joe Moreno, who on September 10 went on Fox News to discuss public education—god help us all.

After attempting to out-Fox the anchor, who was bellowing about blowing up the 



Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Corporate funders spent a million bucks just yesterday in spinning the strike as a Rahm win.

Ed Reform Now, a group with overlapping funders with Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) bought a million dollar ad buy on Chicago television YESTERDAY.
A million dollars in one day.
Here’s what they bought.
Popout.
Remember, this is the day after the Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates voted 98% to suspend the strike. This ad buy was just about spin.
Who is Ed Reform Now?
They are an umbrella anti-union corporate reform outfit.
The have the usual