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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

UPDATE “Al Llorens was there.”: Ten minute drawing. Illinois Democrats and IEA bureaucrats. « Fred Klonsky

Ten minute drawing. Illinois Democrats and IEA bureaucrats. « Fred Klonsky:


Ten minute drawing. Illinois Democrats and IEA bureaucrats.


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Chicago’s a union town. It was Labor Day and not a Democratic Party politician in sight.

There were 20,000 union members in red gathered in the Loop yesterday for Labor Day.
AFSCME, the SEIU, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Chicago Teachers Union. I even saw a guy with a t-shirt from the Sprinkler Fitters Local 281.
There were two groups missing in action.
I’ve already let my unhappiness with the IEA no-show be known.
The other obvious absentee group was


“Do you hear us, Rahm?”



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