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Monday, January 23, 2012

Making waves. Backing good guys. « Fred Klonsky

Making waves. Backing good guys. « Fred Klonsky:

Making waves. Backing good guys.

Will Guzzardi in the 39th House District in Chicago.

The Chicago Democratic Machine has been famous for promoting the theory of, “Don’t make no waves. Don’t back no losers.”

What is surprising is how often those who I would expect to be principled and savvy fall for this.

I’ve posted before about how frustrating it is when IPACE, the political arm of the IEA, endorses candidates out of a sense of pragmatism. And how often it comes back to bite us in the butt – ends up being not very pragmatic