Thread by @ChiParentsAct

📢 TWEETSTORM - Media has underreported Vallas' record of harming POC & working class people, & downplayed the threat he represents w/ his racist & right-wing supporters. As part of an independent group of Chicagoans, we are sharing critical info about @PaulVallas. #StopVallas 1/

We've seen how @PaulVallas never produced "results." He’s a right-wing ideologue who failed education in Chicago, Philly, NOLA & Bridgeport w/ privatization of schools that made corporate backers rich & destroyed public ed for mostly Black & brown students. #StopVallas 😡👎 2/

As CPS CEO, @PaulVallas pushed a racist approach to public ed reliant on prioritizing standardized testing (grounded in eugenics) & privatization (that makes $$ for wealthy at the expense of youth of color). We must #StopVallas because #PaulVallasIsARacist. 🍎✊️ 3/

.@PaulVallas didn't "reform" CPS. Vallas treated schools like a "business." In 2001, Vallas & CPS BoE Prez Gery Chico resigned after test scores declined, reversing promised gains they assured privatization would bring. 🤔 We must #StopVallas b/c #PaulVallasIsIncompetent. 👎 4/

Before @PaulVallas took over CPS, teachers’ pensions were funded 90%+. He worked to change law so district could skip pension paymnts for 10 years. Vallas created pension crisis & higher property taxes we now pay to fix it. We must #StopVallas because #PaulVallasIsIncompetent. 5/

.@PaulVallas took over Philly schools & turned 45 schools over to private managers, restructured 21 more & district ultimately faced a $42 million deficit. Penn. Budget Sec. said Vallas “failed to monitor books properly.” We must #StopVallas because #PaulVallasIsIncompetent 😬 6/

And @PaulVallas also became superintendent of Bridgeport Public Schools in 2012. After less than 2 years, a judge ordered him removed after legal battle about whether he was even qualified for the job in the first place. We must #StopVallas because #PaulVallasIsIncompetent. 🤷‍♀️ 7/

When ex-President Trump referred to Haiti as a "sh*thole country" it's in no small part due to @PaulVallas who obliterated possibility of accessible education for hundreds of Haitian youth just to line pockets of the rich. In solidarity w/ Haiti in Chicago, we must #StopVallas 8/

While CEO of CPS, @PaulVallas transferred over $1.5B from our public schools to the wealthiest individuals & banks on Earth. He's now backed by corporate interests like execs at firms/banks that benefited from his time at CPS. #StopVallas b/c Chicago isn't for extraction. ✊️ 9/

.@PaulVallas issued $666M worth of “payday loan” bonds & interest payments totaled $1.5B. But bonds Vallas issued became 3x more expensive - creating the exact budget shortfall Rahm said justified his closing of 50 schools in Black neighborhoods. 😡👎 10/ levernews.com/how-vallas-hel…

With a record of proven failure, how is @PaulVallas in the runoff? Corporate & white-dominated press like @chicagotribune editor board ignore his horrible career because of their racist notions about who is competent & who deserves to run Chicago. We must #StopVallas 😡 11/

.@PaulVallas & media orgs like @ChicagoTribune frame @CTULocal1 as a “machine” but don’t question other unions like FOP involved in politics because they think CTU – made up of a majority of women – should just "shut up & teach." It's racist, sexist & why we must #StopVallas 12/

.@PaulVallas' only solution for issues is "more cops." Public transit, affordable housing, economic development, etc. Vallas says more cops is the answer b/c Vallas isn’t concerned w/ social progress, just social control. We must #StopVallas b/c #PaulVallasIsIncompetent. 👎 13/

.@PaulVallas ascended to runoff by preying on racialized fears of crime in wake of pandemic crime spike. Ironically, Vallas’ white base is least affected by crime but the loudest about it. It’s not crime they want to disappear, it’s communities of color. 😡👎 #StopVallas 14/

We must #StopVallas b/c Chicago is a sanctuary for queer people. As anti-trans & anti-drag laws & hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people rise, we cannot have a mayor like @PaulVallas who has support from anti-LGBTQ orgs, anti-LGBTQ donors, and Proud Boy cops. 😡👎 #StopVallas 15/

.@PaulVallas isn’t an LGBTQ+ ally despite what Daley machine crony & rubber stamp alder @TomTunney44 says. While CEO of CPS, Vallas banned April Sinclair’s novel Coffee Will Make You Black about a Black teenage lesbian. We must #StopVallas because #PaulVallasIsAHomophobe 😡👎 16/

And @PaulVallas says he is a “lifelong Democrat” but doesn’t have a single Democratic legislator in Springfield endorsing him. (Johnson is endorsed by 12 State Reps & 9 State Senators.) Vallas doesn’t have that because everyone knows #PaulVallasIsARepublican. #StopVallas ✊️🗳

.@PaulVallas is willfully ignorant on multiple issues, which is why it’s no surprise that his donor base consists of right-wing anti-vaxxer extremists that he happily accepts money from. He never mentions the pandemic. 😡👎 #PaulVallasHatesFacts #PaulVallasLovesCovid #StopVallas

.@PaulVallas isn’t backed by people. Over 60% of campaign funding is from 31 private mega donors giving over $50k. The rich expect Vallas to look out for their interests, not the working class communities & communities of color. We must #StopVallas b/c #PaulVallasHatesPoorPeople.

This #StopVallas tweetstorm brought to you on behalf of @hoodoisie and activists in the communities that will be negatively impacted the most by the capitalist vulturism of @PaulVallas. Please vote #NoVallas and yes to @Brandon4Chicago! ❤️✊️🗳 Let's go, Brandon!!