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How Much Worse Could Things Get in Chicago?

September 23, 2014 by V the K

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.

 

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She also obviously has not been participating in Michelle Obama’s school lunch program.

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Comments

  1. KCRob says

    September 23, 2014 at 6:52 pm - September 23, 2014

    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.

  2. Steve says

    September 23, 2014 at 8:20 pm - September 23, 2014

    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

  3. Steve says

    September 23, 2014 at 8:21 pm - September 23, 2014

    Seriously look at how ugly the guys are that people are paying to marry.

  4. Kurt P says

    September 23, 2014 at 9:12 pm - September 23, 2014

    Is the soundbite saying “Get in mah belly!”?

  5. sunnyaz says

    September 23, 2014 at 10:57 pm - September 23, 2014

    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!

  6. davinci says

    September 23, 2014 at 11:09 pm - September 23, 2014

    Obese, black, and entitled. Gee, there are people like that in Chitown?

  7. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    September 24, 2014 at 8:21 am - September 24, 2014

    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.

  8. Chicago Nick says

    September 24, 2014 at 9:22 am - September 24, 2014

    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.

  9. V the K says

    September 24, 2014 at 10:47 am - September 24, 2014

    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.

  10. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    September 24, 2014 at 11:59 am - September 24, 2014

    With 50 Alderman on the Council there’s little accountability.

    The presiding officer of the Chicago City Council is the Mayor of Chicago. The secretary is the City Clerk of Chicago.

    Between 1972 and 1999, 26 current or former Chicago aldermen were convicted for official corruption. Between 1973 and 2012, 31 aldermen were convicted of corruption. Approximately 100 aldermen served in that period, which is a conviction rate of about one-third.

    14 of the Chicago’s City Council’s 19 committees routinely violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act over a four-month period, the last four months of 2007, by not keeping adequate written records of their meetings. Chicago City Council committees violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act and their own rules by meeting and taking actions without a quorum at least four times over the same four-month span.

    Between May 18, 2011 and August, 2012, the first 100 days of the first term of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, 2,845 ordinances and orders were introduced to the Council.
    – Wikipedia

    People get the government they deserve.
    You vote them in, you live with the consequences.

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