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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.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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