Rahm busts a move. Pushes elected school board off the ballot
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| Rahm and "Slow Eddie" Burke |
I just learned that a group of domesticated turkeys is called a rafter.
Thanks this morning, go out to the handful of stand-up aldermen (those very words have a strange sound leaving my vocal chords) who make up the Progressive Caucus. It must be hard to soar like eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys, meaning the rafter of lickspittleswho make up the City Council.
Rahm and his boys pulled another fast one in the Council the other day when he got Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), chairman of the Transportation Committee, to introduce an innocuous resolution placing a non-binding taxi-cab fare hike referendum on the March 18th ballot. Then Ald. Balcer (11th) and "Slow Eddie" Burke (14th) introduced two more resolutions related to gun control.
But what people didn't see what that this filling up of the dance card for March 18th means