The media would be crucifying her if she was a conservative leader.
Via EAG News:
We like to believe that the people in charge of our public schools – administrators and labor leaders – care about students and what’s happening in their community.
In Chicago, what’s happening in the community is not good. The city had been plagued in recent years with a frightening increase in shootings, including many incidents that involve school-aged children.
Somehow Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, finds that funny.
Lewis appeared at the recent conference of Labor Notes, which bills itself as a “Troublemakers Union.”
It’s essentially a Big Labor agitators’ convention, and there’s no more appropriate keynote speaker for such a group than Lewis, who is still riding the wave of fame created from the 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike.
In part of her remarks, Lewis was explaining how elected leaders are providing supposedly false pension reform choices to education unions.
“’Take this cut or nothing’ – that’s not a choice,” Lewis said. “You gonna shoot me here or here?” she said, pointing to different parts of her body.
“I’m still shot! And this is Chicago!”
The crowd roared.
Update: Hilarious?
(NBC Chicago) – At least nine people were killed and more than 35 others wounded in shootings around Chicago from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.
The weekend’s latest fatal shooting occurred at about 1 p.m. Sunday when shots were fired upon a Lincoln Navigator. Police said the driver of an orange Hummer blocked the Navigator head-on at the corner of 28th Street and Sawyer Avenue. Two people with guns then stepped out of the Hummer and fired nearly a dozen bullets at the Navigator, right under a police “blue light” camera. […]
One shooting left five children injured in what witnesses said was a drive-by near East 67th Street and South Michigan Avenue, in the city’s Park Manor neighborhood.
The kids were coming from a park near Brownell Elementary School at about 7:30 p.m. when witnesses say a car pulled up and someone in the car asked them a question. The group fled but someone in the car opened fire, striking four girls and one boy, witnesses said.