NIJWJ. The Illinois Charter Commission.
Dear Fred, Can you spread the word on these bills? We need the support of every progressive person in the State to move these forward. Mary Shesgreen Northern Illinois Jobs With Justice Action Alert and newsletter. This is our chance to fight back against the billion-dollar-backed drive towards the privatization and corporatization of Illinois’s public schools. State Representative Linda Chapa LaV
Now this is a candidate’s position on pensions I want to see. Jay Travis.
Jay Travis is running against incumbent State Representative and lobbyist Christian Mitchell in the 26th District. 1. Revenue. The “pension crisis” was manufactured by big business groups who have successfully avoided paying their fair share in taxes for years. They enjoy an artificially low tax rate that has starved the state of revenue and plunged us into debt. Rather than doing
Dillard’s endorsements are all hat, no horse.
Seconds after posting about the IEA’s decision to offer the failing campaign of former ALEC state chairman Kirk Dillard a small portion of what they handed over to him last time. I received this in the mail from the Illinois Retired Teachers Association (of which I am a member): On February 12, 2014 the IRTAPAC Board of Directors voted to endorse Kirk Dillard for Governor in the Republican primar
Big union ad buy for Guzzardi.
. The price of poker just went up. A piece of interesting election news this morning is that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) just dropped $50,000 on a media ad buy for Will Guzzardi’s race against Machine Democratic Party daughter, Toni Berrios. Berrios has been flooding 39th Representative District mailboxes with bogus claims that Guzzardi defends child molesters. Yep. Chicago p
2-23-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads. Elijah Edwards, AFSCME Local 2858 Vice President (right) and I talk pension theft with Keeanga-Yahmahtta Taylor and Micah Uetricht of Jacobin Radio Chicago. One Newark means firing 700 union teachers, replaced by TFA kids. Finding: Conservative activists are manufacturing the perception