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When Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th) signed on to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s City Council leadership team, she did not agree to forfeit her independence or sever her deep roots at the Chicago Teachers Union.
“That’s right, mother-f---er!” Garza said, raising her fist in the air.
After describing herself as the first CTU member ever to win a City Council seat, Garza shouted, “Queen Mother of God, I see people ready to strike. Right out here.” On Wednesday, Garza acknowledged she “got carried away” introducing Bernie Sanders and probably should not have used profanity.
“It wasn’t appropriate. But I’m not gonna say I regret it. … I was at CTU. That’s my place. That’s my house. That’s where I got my fighting chops. Well, I got my fighting chops from my dad. But, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing,” Garza said.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Garza’s father was a big union guy in the south side steel mills back in the rough 1970’s. I’d wager her thoroughly old-school dad would take one look at today’s CTU and see them as entitled children.
He’s best known for telling Penthouse magazine in an interview that that he didn’t think people were meant to work in smelters and hoped the day would come when they didn’t have to. In other words, automation is the future.
Go ahead and strike. Why should we care when the kids aren’t bothering to show up in class ??
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-edison-high-school-attendance-truancy-20190925.html