Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Rahm, Edelman and Rauner got played for suckers. « Fred Klonsky

Rahm, Edelman and Rauner got played for suckers. « Fred Klonsky:


Rahm, Edelman and Rauner got played for suckers.


Rahm’s big bucks pal, Bruce Rauner. Running for governor but played for a sucker.
CapitalFax’s Rich Miller writes in the Southtown:

The Chicago Teachers Union, Edelman bragged last year, “will never be able to muster the 75 percent threshold necessary to strike.” He also claimed that the CTU took the deal without realizing the implications.

One can’t help but wonder what Edelman was thinking last week as thousands of Chicago schoolteachers walked picket lines.

And not only did the teachers defy Edelman, so did the Chicago public.

After three days of the strike, I commissioned a poll to find out what Chicagoan



Here’s the deal.

Why read the contract? Two words: Parking meters.
Whether a contract is satisfactory or not is ultimately for the members to decide.
It makes no difference if some sideline critic in New York or California thinks the tentative agreement is great or











Ten minute drawing. Lewis for Mayor.