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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 08:29 PM Aug 2012

Tea Party Opportunist Attacks Chicago Teachers for Exposing His Anti-Union Work with Mayor

In a recently released video, Chicago Teachers Union shows the games played by wealthy elites to smear the Union in the midst of heated contract negotiations. Chicago Teachers Union has maintained that it will not bargain in the press over a fair contract, but associates of Mayor Rahm Emanuel have used backroom deals in Springfield, paid protesters, and even members of the Michigan Tea Party to distort the public's image of the Union.

In the video, Chicago Tea Party activist and blogger Andrew Marcus boasts about working with Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel to discredit "the unions in this town."

Those were his words, from his mouth, caught on tape. Apparently the Tea Party -- much like the Rahm Emanuel -- does not believe in transparency because today Marcus issued a press release attacking Chicago teachers, however never denying that he is a Tea Party activist against President Obama.

It's a surprise that Emanuel would want anything to do with him. Video after the jump.

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more . . . http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/22/1123033/-Tea-Party-Opportunist-Attacks-Chicago-Teachers-for-Exposing-His-Anti-Union-Work-with-Mayor
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Tea Party Opportunist Attacks Chicago Teachers for Exposing His Anti-Union Work with Mayor (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 OP
recommend. Starry Messenger Aug 2012 #1
... proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 #2
Good morning! Starry Messenger Aug 2012 #5
K&R Reader Rabbit Aug 2012 #3
Well hey, people who want to break up the unions will climb in bed with anybody, MadHound Aug 2012 #4
If they ever do regret proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 #7
K & R AzDar Aug 2012 #6
Rahm Emanuel. LWolf Aug 2012 #8

Reader Rabbit

(2,624 posts)
3. K&R
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 09:14 AM
Aug 2012

Maybe if more people see this, they'll realize that the education "reform" movement is primarily about union-busting and privatization.

 

MadHound

(34,179 posts)
4. Well hey, people who want to break up the unions will climb in bed with anybody,
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 09:16 AM
Aug 2012

The regrets will only come later.

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