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Friday, May 16, 2014

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: It's the new, improved Rahm. 'Doesn't believe in personal insults...'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: It's the new, improved Rahm. 'Doesn't believe in personal insults...':



It's the new, improved Rahm. 'Doesn't believe in personal insults...'

Here's Blaine Principal Troy LaRaviere laying it all out on Chicago Tonight.





PARTY LINE...You can always tell when the line comes down from the 5th floor at City Hall. It's picked up quickly and echoed down the halls and through the cubicles at Clark Street -- "That LaRaviere guy and those other principals are in league with Karen Lewis and the teachers union."

But by the time flack Sarah Hamilton's message reaches the end of the line, it doesn't always come out the way it was intended. Yesterday it was first mouthed clumsily by Rahm's attack dog, John Kupper who came right out and called CPA Pres. Clarice Berry, "a CTU shill". Yes, and that was the message coming from Hamilton's newly-created version of the warm, fuzzy ("I welcome principals' concerns and ideas") Rahm.

After Berry fired back with both barrels, Rahm made Kupper apologize.
“I regret my reckless remark and offer Dr. Berry my public apology,” Kupper Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: It's the new, improved Rahm. 'Doesn't believe in personal insults...':