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| Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky |
The in box. Medicare Advantage retiree meeting in Buffalo Grove.
Fred, Senator Julie Morrison called late this afternoon to announce that a timely meeting for the purpose of presenting information about the State of Illinois Medicare Advantage Plans has been scheduled in our area. Both Central Management Services (CMS) and United Healthcare will participate. The meeting is a week from tomorrow in Buffalo Grove (please see below). Please help to get the word
Paul Vallas. We don’t want nobody sent.
Illinois’ Bizarro World politics. “We don’t want nobody nobody sent,” is the old Chicago Democratic Machine response to newcomers who are trying to get their foot in the door for a job or political office. It means, “Get lost.” Paul Vallas is no newcomer to Illinois. Before Arne Duncan there was Paul Vallas. But we don’t want nobody sent. I thought the speculation that Squeezy would pick Linda
I’m wrong. Quinn goes with Vallas as his running mate.
Paul Vallas as Squeezy’s running mate. My prediction earlier today that Quinn would pick Representative Linda Chapa LaVia was wrong, continuing my poor record of political prognostication. Rich Miller at CapitalFax says it is Paul Vallas. Vallas faced a problematic job future in Bridgeport, Connecticut where he is superintendent of schools. The Connecticut courts are considering whether he is q
Chapa LaVia as Quinn’s running mate. An open House seat in Aurora.
Northern Illinois Jobs With Justice is active in Chapa LaVia’s Aurora House district. What state political race could I not possibly care less about? The office of Lieutenant Governor. It is an office that only becomes important once the Governor of Illinois goes to federal prison. Which, as we know, happens often. So maybe I should care who is running. The current Governor Squeezy was Rod Blagoj
Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky
Running for our pensions. | Fred Klonsky: I’ve never campaigned to be a delegate to the IEA Representative Assembly before, although I have been a delegate for all but one of the last twenty or so.My old local, the Park Ridge Education Association, could send five delegates. And frankly it was good if most years we had five people willing to spend three days in a large hotel convention room.Some
Who is Bruce Rauner?
Ever since I posted about Bruce Rauner, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor of Illinois, I have been getting emails from Jon Zahm and links to his an anti-Rauner conservative web site. Zahm is convinced that Rauner is a RINO – a Republican in name only. And who can blame him? However, the actual problem is that Illinois Democrats and Republicans are hard to tell apart. Sure.
11-7-13 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.: Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Every CPS parent volunteer will be fingerprinted.Data driven? All the research suggests that the greater the parental involvement in their children’s school the better the students perform. So CPS is requiring every parent school volunteer to be fingerprinted. And local neighbo
