. . .  quizzed by CLAIM (Committee for Legislative Action, Intervention and Monitoring) parents, as recounted in Chapter 8, “Legislators go to school,” of Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters.

The first CLAIM questioner sailed a softball, asking the legislators how they had supported President Obama’s program for education, without specifying any part of that program, which I must admit, I would have been hard pressed to elucidate. Were they up to snuff on what was directed by that man in the White House?

The first to respond was Kimberly A. Lightford, a senator from nearby Maywood since 1998, Democrat like the others, longtime member and currently vice-chair of the Senate’s education committee — a qualifying factor in the circumstance, she being the only one of the four who represented no street or alley of Oak Park.

She was clearly a senate heavyweight — assistant majority leader and member of at least five other committees: Labor, Education, Executive, Financial Institutions, and Redistricting, plus chair of the Senate’s Black Caucus.

She was also a special friend of public schools, having led a successful push to lower compulsory schooling age from seven to six and striving to reduce it to age five. Some parents objected to the six, she said, but it’s a “perfect time” for early-childhood schooling, she said. She also happily noted that there had been “no deep-freeze” in public-school funding in that year.

Harmon said nothing to contradict her but injected a caution: “We all like early-childhood education, but it’s a fight every year because of budget pressures.” He was sitting at a table with three legislators whose comments and records demonstrated no great concern for budget pressures.

Rep. LaShawn Ford was next. . . .

More more more to come  . . .

Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters is available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Etc. It’s here in Kudlow’s

Reopening Email Case
Alters Election Atmosphere
With But Ten Days To Go

With Lester, Arrieta and Hendricks lined up, Cubs still have hope

Ya gotta believe.

Really?!

Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside

He took charge of the politico-prosecutorial extremely important development.

Let us hear it for a great lede:

The ivy is beginning to change from green to red, an awesome autumnal attribute the public has rarely, if ever, seen. The corner of Clark and Addison is bustling with activity in the final days of October, some people simply gawking at the old yard that is still blissfully open for business, others lined up on the off chance an unclaimed ticket should rain down from the heavens or, less majestically but still successfully, from the ticket booths. Over at the Harry Caray statue at Sheffield and Waveland, they’ve placed green apples at the legs of the beloved broadcaster, a nod to his long-ago promise that “sure as God made green apples, someday the Cubs are going to be in the World Series.”

Play ball!

via 71 years later, Wrigley welcomes World tonight! | MLB.com

Well they did bust a very important rule before they themselves were busted.

Leftists do have ideas about themselves and their causes. See selves as sort of aristocratic?

In sermons or anywhere else, isms don’t work,  as used by a preacher in commenting on Paul in Ephesians saying husbands be good to wives, masters be good to slaves etc.: don’t be sexist, racist, etc.

Rather, say do not act as if you own people (you don’t) — as the homilist also said — but as if (in fact they are) your neighbors. (Like our landlady who calls us her neighbors and acts the part.)

In general, racism, sexism, god-knows-what-isms are not helpful, have lost their meaning, involve social analysis which is arguable in ways that treating people kindly and respectfully is not.

They’re a rockin’ bunch, I’ll say that for ’em:

As promised by The National Enquirer, the Clinton “Fixer,” in an in depth interview, revealed documents from the past 24 years that show that both Bill and Hillary Clintoncolluded to cover up sexual adulteries and how those in the White House were complicit inthe cover up.

Zowie. They should have free love in their platform.