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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is Rahm falling from White House grace?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is Rahm falling from White House grace?:

Is Rahm falling from White House grace?

Following up on my post from Saturday, I'm told that Nancy Pelosi had a come-to-Jesus talk with Rahm Emanuel following her Saturday appearance at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH. It looks from here like Rahm, the autocrat, has been taken down a peg by the party bigwigs and told in no uncertain terms to heal his rift with Jackson. .

It was only a little more than a week ago that Rev. Jackson openly sided against Rahm and with the CTU and community activists, who had packed a CPS board meeting to protest the board's decision to close more neighborhood schools and hand them over to a politically connected, privateturnaround company, AUSL.

Jackson and CTU President Karen Lewis openly denounced the policies of Rahm's hand-picked board as "education apartheid," a move which immediately re-framed the whole reform discussion and put Rahm and his