BBB’s Christmas Party.
From today’s Chicago Sun-Times.
Rahm’s CPS CEO threw a Christmas Party in 2012
Keeping retirement weird. School Wars.Baux sent Byrd-Bennett the proposals with recommendations: “Gary thinks the JW (Marriott) is prettier. Tom and I both like the Union League Club. Everything there is classy.”
The Dec. 21, 2012, party that Byrd-Bennett hosted for top CPS staffers, Chicago Board of Education members and the mayor’s education deputy, Beth Swanson, was cited in the 43-page federal indictment that charged her and the two men in a scheme promising her kickbacks for contracts. She has since pleaded guilty to a single charge and awaits sentencing.
Though Byrd-Bennett paid the $4,108 Union League Club tab with a personal check, federal authorities say Solomon sent her emails in December 2012 agreeing first to pay the expenses for the party and then, instead, to reimburse her for the cost after they realized she’d get a better deal if she booked as a club member.
According to CPS, no taxpayer money was spent on the party, which had servers passing out appetizers and three hours of an open bar at $7 per cocktail for Smirnoff vodka, Beefeater gin and Bacardi Rum, with an option to upgrade drinks individually. Among those, the club logged two Hendrick’s gin and tonics at $10 each. It also charged an BBB’s Christmas Party. | Fred Klonsky:
I am not a big science fiction movie fan. But my daughter and daugher-in-law are in town for the holidays. They love this stuff. It was a no brainer that we were going to see Star Wars yesterday.
Along with everybody else.
The big cultural news is that after countless episodes of the Star Warsfranchise, there is a young woman warrior leading the struggle against the Dark Side. Her name is Rey.
This is not so earth-shaking in Chicago. We have been led by a woman warrior in School Wars, The Never-ending Sequal against the Dark Side for a number of years now. Her name is Karen.
A month ago the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago’s version of The Resistance, took a practice vote on whether to strike. Over 90% of the Chicago Teacher Union members voted yes.
Some local news reporters got all upset and said that the members of the union didn’t know what the were voting for.
Yes, they did.
When the CTU took the official strike authorization vote a couple of weeks Keeping retirement weird. School Wars.
