Nekritz is just awful. Awful.
It is early, very early Thursday morning.
I’m leaving for Niles in a little while to catch the bus to the Springfield pension rally. It’s a 6:30AM bus.
And I got home last night at about 10:30PM from the Jobs for Justice meeting at East Aurora High School organized by Jobs with Justice folks and their leader John Laesch.
I was on the panel that was there to present the lesson of the evening to Representative Elaine Nekrtiz. Nekritz
Nekritz: Dick Ingram’s “Why Wouldn’t We Do That?” reprise at the end of your speech.
From Glen Brown:
Dear Elaine Nekritz:
It is easy to construct victims with a dubious call for “sacrifice.” Of course, by “sacrifice,” you and Dick Ingram, Civic Committee members and their ilk, and many other Illinois legislators mean only public employees. Surely, you can see that to victimize teachers again and again is reprehensible.
We are told that to fix the Teachers’ Retirement System teachers need to compromise through “consideration” and make additional sacrifices. We know you are aware that the “sacrifice” you call for entails changing the public employees’ constitutionally-guaranteed pension by way of a bill that