Thing is, he’s “a New York hero in those working-class boroughs.”

Hey, in working-class boroughs and neighborhoods all over the land. I heard it from my Chicago precinct door-knocker: She’s all in for local Dems, but presidentially speaking, forget about it.

All it took was a plain-talking son of a b—h to win  loyalty of people sick of parsers and articulators from the educated class. He makes them look so phony.

Source: Trump May Win New York, DESTROY Dems White House Hopes – Conservative Intelligence Briefing

Asked about it, he knows what to say: “McCarthyism” and “witchhunt.”

Source: Chicago Teachers Union VP Busted Participating in Midwest Marxism Conference – Breitbart

Usually it’s children first. This time not so much.

“I would submit that we have an obligation to side with the majority,” CTU vice president Jesse Sharkey said on a conference call with members before last week’s delegate vote.

“If you personally disagree, you have to stick with them … it’s something we all have to do together.”

I’d say he means “stick it to them.”

Source: Teachers Who Don’t Join CTU One-Day Strike Will Be Kicked Out Of Union – Englewood – DNAinfo.com Chicago

 

Mihalopoulos of Sun-Times back at it about the charter network with the mostest clout — an Illinois Blues moment.

Even as they ran a network of charter schools for thousands of students in low-income neighborhoods across Chicago, United Neighborhood Organization leader Juan Rangel and other UNO officials were piling up big bills at fancy restaurants and for travel on the taxpayers’ dime, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

The records:

Despite being almost entirely government-funded, UNO leaders fought to keep the spending records secret, arguing that they didn’t have to comply with the state’s Freedom of Information Act because UNO is a private organization.

But they ultimately released the records in a recent legal settlement with the Sun-Times.

It’s an Illinois Blues moment in that UNO came up in a July, 2013 town hall meeting in Oak Park. Sen. Don Harmon was asked about UNO.

. . . with reference to a sizeable public-money grant for a charter school in Galewood in 2009. There had been much spending on a post-announcement celebration — all of it widely reported, especially in detailed Sun-Times accounts.

Harmon responded carefully: “I have no knowledge of money being wasted.” This in the face of major news stories, suspension of UNO funding, buck stopping at UNO’s top man (he was to resign later), and the rest, about which he apparently had not felt prompted to inquire.

He pleaded ignorance, said no more. No one questioned him further on the point.

It’s reported in my new book Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters. The beat goes on.

Source: THE WATCHDOGS: UNO’s secret spending spree | Chicago Sun-Times