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Paul Vallas is nothing but a throwback to the Vrdolyak 29's racist resistance to Black governance under the great Harold Washington. From 1988:
lib.niu.edu/1988/ii880412.… Image
Some of the names change, though not as many as you'd expect, but Chicago's powerful remain united in their opposition to governance by the working class and marginalized communities.
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Tim & | Mastodon: @ampersoned@cityofchicago.live Profile picture
Apr 2
Paul Vallas was instrumental in launching a far-right campaign against COVID restrictions, Black history, and LGBTQ Inclusion in IL Schools, in support of school privatization. PART 1 (background)🧵
(credit: @cholent_lover for contributing research) Facebook post: Kati Byrne S...Facebook post: Paul Vallas ...Facebook post: Illinois Par...Paul Vallas speaks at a ral...
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Apr 1
Paul Vallas went on Dan Proft's radio show on 6/1/2022, calling for the next mayor to privatize CPS in the 2-year window before the elected school board is in place, backed by a counter-CTU coalition. Image
Vallas described his coalition as parochial and private school parents, parents "upset with CPS," conservative unions like police and fire, and "the vast majority of taxpayers without kids in CPS."
Does that sound like someone who cares about all of Chicago? Image
You can really see how destructive Vallas's agenda is. School privatization has fed on past displacement and then created the constituency of "taxpayers without kids in CPS" to facilitate more destruction.
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Apr 1
Just a fascist newspaper playing the hits
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Mar 31
Paul Vallas playing nice with organizers of the Capitol insurrection while subbing for Dan Proft makes sense when you realize that he spent much of 2020-2021 organizing far-right school board campaigns and MAGA rallies to reopen schools through the same Dick Uihlein-backed orgs
And I mean, Proft has been backed by Uihlein too, e.g. through the Illinois Policy Institute and likely more. Salem Media Group, which syndicates his show, is likewise part of the Council for National Policy. All of their guests come from that network.
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Mar 30
This is just the 35 year old agenda written by his business partner and fellow school administrator, Michael Bakalis, with Heartland Institute and United Republican Fund of IL, both bankrolled by Barre Seid, the Chicago billionaire behind the far-right Supreme Court takeover, no? Image
"Steven Baer, a longtime friend and former adviser to Seid, said the businessman has long been “the major patron” for the Heartland Institute, a small Chicago-area think tank which for decades has attacked mainstream climate science." Steven Baer, a longtime fri...
"Described as a 'true believer' conservative, [Seid] subsidized the Chicago-based URF to the tune of $887,580 in just 29 months. But he turned the spigot off when Baer quit as the group's leader in 1991."
lib.niu.edu/1996/ii960230.… But, in a show of personal... Indeed, Baer has been a pi... The '80s also saw a rise i... Barre Seid, who lives on C...
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Mar 27
🚨Vallas has a new $200K gift from Hackberry Endowment Partners, which shares a Highland Park address with the Sacks Family Fdn. of Michael Sacks. This would be one of the first gifts from Rahm's more "liberal-labor coalition" type donors and joins big gifts from laborers unions.
It's possible that the gift could belong to another current or former director of Sacks's Grosvenor Capital Management. Stephen J. Malkin is listed as a manager of Hackberry.
Looks like Malkin is still a director of GCM.
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