The writers: John Dillon on Ty Fahner’s evil deeds.
Meyer Brown lawyer and head of the Civic Committee, Tyrone Fahner. Photo: Fred Klonsky By John Dillon. In a recent interview, an avuncular Gov. Pat Quinn bemoaned the penalty Illinois will now face as a result of a recent downgrade in bond ratings by Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s. Unaware of the strong armed interference of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club and its leader Ty Fahner
Rahm’s Chicago chaos: Teacher pensions, political cowardice and broken promises. Like state pensions, it is not a problem resulting from benefits.
Chicago Teacher Pension Executive Director Kevin Huber. If you’re not paying attention, it is easy enough to get the state and the city teacher pension funds confused. They’re not the same. Chicago teachers have one pension system. All the rest of the state’s public school teachers are in another. Both are massively underfunded. They are different funds, but the cause of the underfunding has noth
The Civic Committee’s Ty Fahner. The dance. “I know that’s what I said. It’s not what I meant.”
Caught in potentially illegal and unethical activities, lawyer, former AG and head of the Civic Committee Ty Fahner dances at capitolfax Regarding my comments at the Union League Club in March, I misspoke. First, while I may have said so, I didn’t call the ratings agencies, nor did any of our Civic Committee staff. My response to the questions was very confusing and inarticulate. If you notice, at
Labor coalition calls for investigation of Fahner and the Civic Committee for lobbying credit rating orgs.
The Civic Committee’s Ty Fahner agrees to be irresponsible. We have been reporting here for weeks about Civic Committee head Ty Fahner’s confession that he lobbied the state’s credit rating agencies to lower the state’s bond ratings. His intent was to put pressure on the legislature to pass pension busting legislation, but the results of the lower ratings will cost the state and taxpayers million
ALEC protests begin. Banner drop and arrests at the Palmer House. More to come.
The Chicago Moral Monday Coalition, an alliance of Chicago clergy, lay people, unions and community organizations protested yesterday, Monday, at the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is slated to meet at the hotel this Wednesday for its 40th annual national conference. The Coalition is demanding that the Palmer House rescind its invitation to ALEC. Num
8-5-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: I told Obama to go for single payer. But did he listen? No. Anne and me in 2009. As I probably point out too often, as a local union leader before retiring I participated in contract bargaining at least a dozen times. With the support of our members, our elected bargaining team almost always took the
