Posted on 04/22/2016 7:06:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
With the city facing the threat of a teachers strike, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis focused attention on Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday in an incendiary speech that likened the Republican governor's actions to terrorism.
"Rauner is the new ISIS recruit," Lewis said during an address at a packed City Club of Chicago luncheon, using a term that refers to the Islamic State terrorist group.
"Yes, I said it, and I'll say it again," Lewis continued. "Bruce Rauner is a liar. And, you know, I've been reading in the news lately all about these ISIS recruits popping up all over the place — has Homeland Security checked this man out yet? Because the things he's doing look like acts of terror on poor and working-class people."
Rauner's office quickly denounced Lewis' comments.
"This kind of rhetoric has no place in American public discourse and sets a terrible example for our kids," Rauner spokeswoman Catherine Kelly said in a statement.
Lewis' remarks highlighted a day of political showmanship over the troubled state of Chicago's schools.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool made a bid for moving contract talks with the CTU to binding arbitration. House Speaker Michael Madigan called for higher taxes on wealthy residents to prop up education funding. And busloads of CTU members, joined by allied labor unions and supporters, descended on Springfield for a march on the Capitol and the Executive Mansion to call for more education funding.
Lewis' City Club speech came four days after the union rejected contract recommendations of an independent arbitrator, opening the door to a strike as soon as next month. Lewis said the city is heading toward another teachers strike, but that no decision has been made on when a walkout might take place.
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They need to all be fired!
The CTU is a criminal organization.
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Isn’t she under indictment for embezzlement?
Karen Lewis, she’s the one that makes Mr. Creosote look like a victim of anorexia.
CTU home of the donut annihilators, shared a hotel with them in Springfield, basically a cult for fat women to harangue the membership at the behest of the “leadership.”
Counter Terrorism Unit , Jack Bauer.
Will someone show her pic. That’s what GUILTY is all about on this site.
must be her brain tumor kickin in.
ALL public employment needs to be non-unionized immediately. It is a corrupt and incestuous relationship between the unions and the politicians supporting them.
She’s the muscle to the twerp Madigan. The mouth piece. I’m laughing cuz her silly antics won’t work on Rauner.
Good man, and her extortion attempt will not work.
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