Ken Previti. Dillardrauner vs Raunerdillard: The strategy of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
- Ken Previti is a retired Illinois teacher now living in Florida. He blogs at Reclaim Reform. The teachers in Illinois, and elsewhere, are facing a FUD moment. (FUD is the acronym for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. This is the vile marketing-propaganda strategy for causing confusion and harm to competitors.) When two or three identical products or candidates use FUD to damage competitors and peop
The latest on pension thief, Elgin’s Representative Keith Farnhum.
Following the General Assembly’s vote on pension theft I ran a few mug shots of some of the pension thieves. One was Representative Keith Farnhum of Elgin. Will there soon be an actual mug shot? Today’s Trib: Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday at state Rep. Keith Farnham’s home and district office in Elgin and Homeland Security asked state authorities to help secure the lawmaker’s
It’s not just about the endorsement. It’s also about the right to dissent.
Glen Brown In the discussion over the IEA, the IFT and the AFSCME endorsement of ALEC’s Kirk Dillard, what has emerged is not so much the issue of who we should vote for. It’s also about the right to dissent from arbitrary, top-down decisions by the union leadership. And their vision of what our unions stand for. What seems to upset former IEA Presidents Haisman and Swanson is not so much the s
Did union members’ PAC donations go to this crap?
It is reported that a number of our unions, including the Chicago Federation of Labor, have given money to the pro-Dillard PAC that is attacking Bruce Rauner for not being against against women’s reproductive rights enough. Protect the unborn says the mailer paid for with union members’ donations. Who asked us if this was okay?
Daley’s stipend for sitting in on Coke board meetings would pay the pension of five city workers.
When Richie Daley, facing polling number in the single digits, announced he was leaving the 5th floor to Rahm Emanuel, he was offered a job by Coca Cola CEO Muhtar Kent. It should be noted that Coke CEO Kent was paid $29,115,573 in 2011 and $30,460,186 in 2012. Richie was given a job on the Coke Board of Directors. The job required Daley attend a few meetings a year for which he receives compensa
3-13-14 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.: Illinois in financial trouble. Too many old people. The Civic Federation’s Larry Msall Every time the Illinois General Assembly assembles, which isn’t all that often, there will likely be a story about how Larry Msall of the Civic Federation says that the state’s financial collapse is near. And that