The mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson had words on Tuesday not only about President Trump, but also former mayor Ram Emmanuel.
Mayor Johnson blames both men in the current financial crisis in Chicago.
Johnson, who made sharp comments to Emmanuel before, compared Tuesday “tyrant”-like the current White House's work to the former mayor and his approach to government administration.
Johnson also took the goal of Emmanuel's future plans, which involve signs that he might want to run for positions again.
Johnson said: “The book of played by Donald Trump is the play that was executed in the city,” Johnson said. “We did not get here because we encountered that we have a tyrant in the White House. We have come here because someone gave him the text. Close schools, release black women, and the privatization of our general education system is the reason that the system has been raised as it is today.”
The year in which Ram Emmanuel took office, 2011, the year in which Johnson, a teacher in public schools in Chicago, became an organizer of the Teachers Union in Chicago.
In 2012, Johnson helped organize a huge blow to teachers. In 2013, Mayor Emmanuel closed 53 CPS schools – mainly on the southern and west sides.
Johnson said: “Emmanuel administration had a tremendous contempt for public education – especially for black, brown and poor children – and was frank on this topic,” Johnson said. “Twenty-five percent of children will not become anything”-those his words were directly to (former CTU president) Karen Lewis. ”
Johnson met Emmanuel in the first few months of the current mayor in his position.
And according to what Emmanuel consulted with the mayor before Johnson's last certificate In front of a supervisory committee in the US House of Representatives – mayors in the city of barbecue.
But it seems that any lost love now as Emmanuel, who left his position as the Ambassador of Japan at the end of the Biden administration, has recently indicated an interest in returning to the General Office.
In early March, Emmanuel was asked about what was described as a “straight question” in Chicago Economic Club – Do he think of running again for the mayor of Chicago?
Emmanuel answered at that time: “I said that before, and I will say it again – I have not finished the public service, and I hope that the public service will not be accomplished with me.”
Johnson took overwhelmed by the same idea.
Johnson said: “Now he is progressing all over this country, people are asking to reconsider it,” Johnson said. “It is not only frustrated. It is outside the attack.”
CBS News Chicago contacted Emanuel Tuesday to comment, but it hasn't heard again.
Mayor Johnson is asked about Beers's dealings with Artgton Heights
In another matter, things continue to become serious between Bears and Northwest Suburban Arlington Heights. The village participated in a $ 200,000 consultant to make sure that the draft dollars of the project with what the bears expect – the money that the bears will do in the end.
Mayor Johnson was asked if he believed that progress in Arlington Heights was a play by the bears to make it look very serious in choosing the suburb over the Chicago site for a new stadium – to press it.
Johnson replied, “I don't see this pressure.” “I am not messing with and playing this type of devastating approach to governance.”
The possibility of moving to the previous property of the Armington International race in Arlington is due to 2021, when the team was first offered to the property. Bears In the end, he bought the site for 197 million dollars In February 2023. The runway and other structures were finished on the site in October last year.
For some time, it looked as if the new Bears Stadium in Arlington Heights was every deal that was completed. But the team went to Put the Arlington Heights plan on the back stove In favor of building their new stadium along the Chicago Lake.
In April 2024, Tanks announced a plan of $ 4.7 billion For a new article Al -Buhaira stadium complexIncluding green -added spaces and other amenities on the museum's campus and their current home in Soldier Field only to the north of the proposed new stadium. But in recent months, Arlington Heights has returned to the photo as a possible location of the stadium.
The mayor of Arlington Heights Thomas Hayes believes that the bears are working in good faith, and that this is not a play in Chicago.
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