Nice Board Conehead

So the entire Board of Ed resigned a short while ago, allowing Conehead to appoint an entire "temporary" board that will carry out his (or his CTU masters') wishes, namely firing the CPS CEO and borrowing a few hundred million dollars at prohibitively high interest rates backed by taxpayer dollars.

Austin Berg, political gadfly reporter at Illinois Policy, discovered some interesting background on Conehead's appointee (we aren't sure how to link an X/Twitter feed):

• NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s newly appointed president of the Chicago Board of Education Rev. Mitchell Johnson appears to have been permanently disbarred in the state of Ohio for “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”
  
  
  According to court documents, Rev. Mitchell Johnson told one of his clients he needed $1,000 to hire an economist as an expert witness. The client paid Johnson the money. But then Johnson never hired the witness. So the client asked for his money back. But Johnson wouldn’t return it.
  Mayor Johnson appointed Rev. Johnson as president after ousting the entire Chicago school board, which rejected the mayor’s efforts to issue a $300M high-interest payday loan in order to fund contract demands from the Chicago Teachers Union.
  
  
  Mayor Johnson’s new school board is expected to fire CPS CEO Pedro Martinez, who has also criticized the $300M loan.

This on the heels of Mary Ann Ahern's report that:

• As [Conehead] Johnson moves to bring in six new members of the school board, NBC 5 Investigates has discovered one the appointees, Mitchell Johnson, was disbarred in Ohio in 1990.

  In recent years, Mitchell also had a lien placed on his house for non-payment of child support, which was later released. A lien was also issued for non-payment of the water bill at his South Holland home

Gee, another guy named Johnson who doesn't know how to pay his water bill and refuses to pay child support....for a child out of wedlock? Interesting.