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Friday, January 6, 2012

The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck. « Fred Klonsky

The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck. « Fred Klonsky:

The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck.

Fresh from his video appearance promoting yahoo Kyle Olson and Islamophobe Juan William’s Anti-public Schools Week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel went back to work and closed down Chicago’s libraries. Or at least closed them on Mondays.

Remember, it was just a month or so ago he got into it with the Chicago Teachers Union over longer school days.

Get it? More hours in school. Fewer hours in libraries.

Then, if you’re a true fan of irony, the Mayor removes all the chairs from the 5th floor of City Hall so that the elderly and handicapped who are sitting-in outside his office to keep some public schools open have to sit on the