Chicago isn’t Detroit yet, but, gosh darn it, they’re trying. The president of the Chicago Teacher’s Union is considering a run for mayor, and according to polls, she would probably win.
The current mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, is a standard issue corrupt Chicago Democrat; Lewis is a straight-up radical. Lewis’s main beef with him is that, in response to the fact that the population of Chicago is declining, and the population of school-age children in Chicago is declining even more, Emanuel closed a bunch of unnecessary public schools; and of course that meant layoffs for teachers and administrators, and that meant fewer dues-payers to support Ms. Lewis’s quarter-million-dollar annual Teacher’s Union president salary.
In the Chicago Public Schools’ run by Ms. Lewis’s Teacher’s Union:
- Four out of 10 freshmen don’t graduate
- 91 percent of graduates must take remedial courses in college because they do not know how to do basic math and other schoolwork
- Only 26 percent of high school students are college-ready, according to results from ACT subject-matter tests.
And the average salary for a Chicago Public School teacher was $76,000 per year in 2012 when teachers went on strike to demand more money, which was not only the highest in the country, but $3000 more than teachers in New York City.
She also obviously has not been participating in Michelle Obama’s school lunch program.
I normally try to ignore a person’s appearance and focus on what s/he is saying but that woman is every bit as hideous and her ideology.
If Chicago elects her – they deserve what they will get.
If the food stamp card went down it would get real bad in every democrat controlled city, so if it does run for your lives.
Maybe is Chicago didn’t have 500+ murders a year the population wouldn’t drop as fast.
The going rate for fake gay weddings is holding steady
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11114356/Gang-offers-to-arrange-sham-gay-weddings-for-immigration-cheats.html
Seriously look at how ugly the guys are that people are paying to marry.
Is the soundbite saying “Get in mah belly!”?
The happiest day of our lives was September 14, 2007, the day we retired and moved out of that cesspool, Chicaog! Thirty years of living and working in Chicago was enough!
Obese, black, and entitled. Gee, there are people like that in Chitown?
People eventually get the government they deserve. Good luck there, Chicago. It was nice not knowing you…
I just don’t want to pay for it.
As someone who actually lives in the city (the 312), the appeal of Karen Lewis is that she makes Rahm look polished and polite. Quite frankly, Ebola would beat Rahm in a race.
Murders may be dropping slightly (maybe) but there’s more shootings, less police and money being thrown at stupid projects like the DePaul stadium and the use of TIF money is a rehash of the Daley II dynasty but with less panache.
Karen Lewis has 3 homes, but she’s the “working class hero.” But don’t bring up performance of Chicago Public Schools under her watch because that’s racist, obviously.
The root cause is the inept City Council, who merely rubber stamps everything that Rahm does with no challenges.
The root cause is the inept City Council, who merely rubber stamps everything that Rahm does with no challenges.
The way Obama wishes Congress would work.
With 50 Alderman on the Council there’s little accountability.
People get the government they deserve.
You vote them in, you live with the consequences.