Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-funders underwrite Rahm's post-strike ad campaign

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-funders underwrite Rahm's post-strike ad campaign:

Hedge-funders underwrite Rahm's post-strike ad campaign

by Mike Klonsky

DFER Board member Whitney Tilson is chief of T2 Partners and Tilson Funds . DFER is underwriting Rahm's anti-union ad campaign.

After a devastating political defeat at the hands of Karen Lewis and the CTU in last week's teachers strike and with public opinion moving strongly to the teachers's side. the mayor of Chicago has unleashed a mult-million-dollar damage-control ad campaign. 
From the Chicago Tribune

In a political-style TV and radio ad blitz launched Wednesday, Emanuel says "change is never easy" but declares the outcome "the right deal for our kids." The ads are being paid for by a nonprofit arm of a political action committee started by Wall Street hedge fund managers who