This is an Amusing Turn
The thing keeping most people out of public office is that's is just so damn expensive to run. Rahm has a war chest of several million raised from all sorts of sources in and outside of Chicago. Someone else just tapped into a pool of cash though:
- The head of the American Federation of Teachers says the national union is ready to spend $1 million to help Karen Lewis unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel if the Chicago Teachers Union president decides to run.
“I did say privately to Karen and at our executive council meeting that if Karen was to run, we would be all in,” AFT leader Randi Weingarten told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview Tuesday. “In a race like this, spending $1 million would not be unprecedented for the AFT.”
Weingarten said Emanuel “has shown a deep disrespect for what public education is all about.”
Might this be the boost that pushes Lewis into the race?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
44 Comments:
Nice!!!!! :)
So our choices for mayor are a communist teacher and a carpetbagger socialist suburbanite? Great.
So is FOP gonna put any manpower or cash in the election?
Or does the membership that does not vote honestly think that endorsements win elections.
Time to start picking sides...
It's amazing where money comes from when there's an agenda to push. Heaven forbid money ever appeared to shore up pensions.
No question Karen Lewis is formidable leader for her causes. She is intelligent, well spoken and dynamic for the groups she represents. I welcome her comments when they are based on public policy, and not race. However, her comments far to often seem to have racial undertones. Chicago is the "City of Big Shoulders." It is not a Black city, or Brown city. The City of Chicago is a community of diversity that includes Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Whites. Diversity should be welcomed. Mrs. Lewis' comments far to often seem to be about fractions and division, instead of addition and multiplication. I hope she changes her message to be more centrally based. Further, she is a union leader. I have major issues with a union leader being the CEO of the City. Government change not be all things to all people.
Signed,
Not a Friend of Rahm
Education certainly isn't about the AFT, nor is the AFT about education.
The middle class would be fucked if Lewis won the election.
The middle class would be fucked if Lewis won the election.
8/20/2014 01:24:00 AM
The middle class is fucked already. Lewis might be the more union friendly choice of the two however
Any Republican candidates out there? Gotta strike while the irons hot. Now is the time.
She would be worse than Rahm as a mayor. She'd spend like Daley yet only the middle class, upper class and business community would have to pay for it. And guess what, it wouldn't be long before the middle class, business class and business community has enough and decides to move on to someplace else.
She's a socialist of the highest order. Don't let the fact that she's a union person sway your support. Think of all the times she's made every issue about race. It's pretty obvious how she feels about anyone who isn't black or brown.
12:19....
What do you expect here? a bonafide conservative? Wake up.
Rahm wants to stick it in your ear, vote against him.
This really shouldn't be that hard to understand.
AFT only has a million bucks in the bank? Or does their idiot leader not really know the meaning of "all in"?
Karin Lewis is a fat Coleman Young in drag. Chicago will end up like Detroit. No winners.
Sadly, Lewis would not be a better choice.
If she runs, she needs help from the fashion police---STAT.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
YOU DO NOT NEED A LOT OF MONEY TO DEFEAT RAHM!!!
He is so unpopular right now that 80% of the public would vote for an opponent - almost any opponent. Even a Republican such as Kirk Dillard could win an election vs. Rahm. Run Kirk Run.
The last thing Karen Lewis is, is well spoken. She is practically a communist who would destroy this city. I hate Rahm as much as anyone but Lewis is a nut case. No way in hell she would be good for the city.
I'll take Lewis over scumbag Rahm at this point, anyday!
Rahm is worse than Daley!
Anonymous Mt Greenwood Hillbilly said...
The middle class would be fucked if Lewis won the election.
8/20/2014 01:24:00 AM
Oh, it isn't like the middle class is fucked now or anything. How is Karen Lewis any worse then Rahm? Typical Mt Greenwood Hillbilly.
I can't stand Rahm but Lewis, come on, she'd be just as bad.
Good luck, Chicago.
Lewis says she will institute a financial transaction tax and a commuter tax to fund the city. How many businesses will flee the city if that happens?
1.) Amazing to see how many Rahm supporters are on here!
2.) There seems to be a vacant seat on the FOP Board now. Wait and see who gets appointed. Bring Shields back!!!
God help Chicago. What have things come to when a rich Marxist like Karen Lewis looks like a better choice? (And I say this as a teacher.)
The Unions haven't fully yet chimed in...that's serious dough. Labor partially sided with Rahmf. SEIU & Labor backs Quinn. Every state & local teacher union is too. If these unions back her and when businesses get on board, Rahm will finally pack up his wedding dress for good. Unless he can find his Epton soon, he's done.
Anonymous Mt Greenwood Hillbilly said...
The middle class would be fucked if Lewis won the election.
8/20/2014 01:24:00 AM
As if we aren't now, under Rahm?
Yes the democrats condemn and bemoan when a corporation contributes money to a candidate or cause but they never say a word about the unions who contribute millions to their liberal candidates. Karen Lewis might be an intelligent candidate but she heads a corrupt union that protects a failing school system staffed with incompetents whom she protects. If she is elected as mayor of Chicago that will for sure speed the downward path of Chicago. What we need is a statesman, a leader who will stand up to special interests.
Hey Mt Greenwood Hillbilly, wake up, the middle class has already been royally fucked.
There's 3 classes of people today, the poor, the rich and the working poor (former middle class).
How many side jobs do police work to try and give their children a fighting chance in life?
And as much as you may try when it's all over YOU will be poor.
What qualificaties her to run for mayor of Chicago????? She is not a leader, the members decide what is going to be their goal and then ask who wants to stand out front. I say she is not qualified and her followers are just insuring they get the money they need to continue to be a bunch of lazy loafers too stupid to get employment and pretending to be do-gooders.
I will remind you of this SCC Post of SATURDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2012:
Anonymous said...
Left-Wing Teachers Want Convicted Cop-Killer Set Free
The memo has gone out, the date has been saved. This coming Tuesday, radicals of all stripes will descend upon the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. to rally in support of convicted cop killer
Officially known as "Occupy the Justice Department," the event is endorsed by the usual group of malcontents, including "*Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal" - a collection of left-wing teachers from across the country.
Among Mumia's many well-wishers in the K-12 community is Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association President Bob Peterson, the entire Chicago Teachers Union, and the Rethinking Schools crew who produce anti-American lesson plans and teaching materials that are used in countless classrooms.
10/06/2012 03:30:00 AM
Is there any more to be said. I will not vote for tiny dancer, but I certainly won't vote for thisraist either. Hopefully we will have ome type of alternative.
Retired
Karen eats guys like Rahm for breakfast. She has chunks of weasels like him in her stool!
Whatever chance of us receiving a full pension in our retirement years will be lost with the election of Lewis.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
No question Karen Lewis is formidable leader for her causes. She is intelligent, well spoken and dynamic for the groups she represents. I welcome her comments when they are based on public policy, and not race. However, her comments far to often seem to have racial undertones. Chicago is the "City of Big Shoulders." It is not a Black city, or Brown city. The City of Chicago is a community of diversity that includes Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Whites. Diversity should be welcomed. Mrs. Lewis' comments far to often seem to be about fractions and division, instead of addition and multiplication. I hope she changes her message to be more centrally based. Further, she is a union leader. I have major issues with a union leader being the CEO of the City. Government change not be all things to all people.
As is often the case with the Liberal press how much negative press are the liberals hiding from us about Karen.
Karen Lewis always uses the race card when convient
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Lewis says she will institute a financial transaction tax and a commuter tax to fund the city. How many businesses will flee the city if that happens?
8/20/2014 09:56:00 AM
'She' can't do anything unless the City Council votes for it.
Karen Lewis is crazy? What do you guys call Rahm? Rahm, wants to steal my pension and my health insurance. Karen doesn't. It's that simple. Vote your interests. Karen, has my vote.
I am a white, middle class male and I support Karen Lewis for Mayor
1:29 PM
Please define ' qualificaties' and then maybe I can make sense of the rest of your rambling.
I'm asking a simple question. Of course it's rhetorical. Why can Lewis state that if she doesn't run for mayor, she will help find and back a suitable black candidate. How long would any white politician last if he said those exact words substituting white for black. "If I don't run for mayor I will help find and back a suitable white candidate." Amazing how bad the double standards are. Why is this always OK with the average guy and never denounced by the press or public. Racism is racism and certain minority groups are a hundred times more guilty and open about it.
'She' can't do anything unless the City Council votes for it.
8/20/2014 05:57:00 PM
When does the city counsel not vote for something the mayor wants? And, you can go back many years.
Anonymous said...
I am a white, middle class male and I support Karen Lewis for Mayor
8/20/2014 08:31:00 PM
Yes, looks like you are a liberal with a lot of white guilt. Lewis has made racial statements in the past and has openly called for more black teachers and less white teachers. I would not vote for any racist, white or black.
Lewis will be supported by Action Now the socialist organization that leads the Board of Ed' protests, you dont think all of those jobless protestors pay for those T-shirts out of their own pockets. Saddly the deck is stacked against us as there is no 3rd canidate that will move the voters.
+1 Karen Lewis
Anyone, but Rahm! We should change mayors often and aldermen even more. It makes for good government all the way around. Quinn out! Madigan out! Rahm out!
Karen Lewis come on over. We openly supported you during the strike and we will do the same for Mayor; even if I have to as a 10-99. Go Karen Go!
Frank Sinatra? Old Blue Eyes. The Chairman of the Board is back?
Excellent.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
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