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Friday, March 21, 2014

UPDATE Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Creepy Rauner Dems + SITOS N.Y. hedg-fund 'reformers' spend $3.6M on anti-de Blasio TV ads

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Creepy Rauner Dems:



Creepy Rauner Dems

CREEPY! Rauner Dems
Interesting to see who showed up Thursday for Rauner's photo shoot of “Democrats and Independents for Rauner” besides Mrs. Rauner.Only surprise was that Bruce's buddy Rahm wasn't in this picture, even though everyone knows it should be.

Interesting names on the list include:


Rahm/Daley pal, billionaire James Crown -- President of Henry Crown and Company, he serves on the Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and General Dynamics who sits on the Board of Trustees at the University of Chicago. Crown's the guy who bankrolled Stand For Children's invasion of IL and who sat at the table at Aspen with SFC's Jonah Edelman, bragging about how they had hoodwinked IEA and IFT leaders into backing the horrendous anti-union bill SB7. The very same IEA leaders currently attacking their critics still call the bill, "a model of collaboration".

Lula Ford – Former Chicago public school teacher, principal and CPS bureaucrat under Paul Vallas. She probably should have been named CEO after Arne Duncan, but was passed over by Mayor Daley when he appointed Ron Huberman (BTW, what ever happened to



N.Y. hedg-fund 'reformers' spend $3.6M on anti-de Blasio TV ads
Instead of paying their share of rent for co-occupying N.Y.C. public school buildings, Eva Moscowitz and her hedge-fund friends, have spent $3.6 million over the past 3 weeks, for TV ads attacking Mayor de Blasio.According to the Daily News:Families for Excellent Schools — founded by a deep-pocketed group of current and former financiers — has run a series of ads, including a heart-wrenching spot