Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Byrd-Bennett under wraps? Rahm supports the 'thrust..."

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Byrd-Bennett under wraps? Rahm supports the 'thrust...":

Byrd-Bennett under wraps? Rahm supports the 'thrust..."

by Mike Klonsky

“I support the thrust of what Barbara said. We’re 100 percent hand-in-glove ...

The glove metaphor is an appropriate one. Barbara Byrd-Bennett is under wraps again, like she was a year ago. We've hardly heard a peep from her since her comical and embarrassing comments which followed months of school closing hearings. You may remember, 20,000 Chicagoans spoke in one voice at those hearings---"Fix 'em. Don't close 'em!"

But BBB somehow interpreted that as: ""Everybody got it that we really needed to close schools..."

The buffo pronouncement followed her call to ban the popular award-winning book, Persepolis, from the city's