They corruptly look after their own – always have, always will:
While many Chicago parents took formal routes to land their children in the best schools, the well-connected also sought help through a shadowy appeals system created in recent years under former schools chief Arne Duncan.
Whispers have long swirled that some children get spots in the city’s premier schools based on whom their parents know. But a list maintained over several years in Duncan’s office and obtained by the Tribune lends further evidence to those charges. Duncan is now secretary of education under President Barack Obama.
The log is a compilation of politicians and influential business people who interceded on behalf of children during Duncan’s tenure. It includes 25 aldermen, Mayor Richard Daley’s office, House Speaker Michael Madigan, his daughter Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun…
…The list was maintained by a top Duncan aide, David Pickens, currently chief of staff to the president of the Chicago Board of Education. Pickens said he created the log at Duncan’s behest to track the flood of calls pouring into district offices from parents, politicians and business leaders trying to navigate the system’s mysterious and maligned application process.
But Pickens acknowledged the list was kept confidential. The vast majority of parents who follow the system’s school application process never knew they could appeal to Duncan’s office for special consideration.
“We didn’t want to advertise what we were doing because we didn’t want a bunch of people calling,” Pickens said.
Translation from the liberalese: “bunch of people” = “you and me, dear regular citizen”.
This is the way they work; they want equality, but some people are more equal than others. After all, we can’t expect that the selfless, dedicated leaders of liberalism to slog through the bureaucratic nightmare, can we? Do you really think it right that an Alderman’s daughter be placed on the same footing as a plumber’s daughter? After all, who is more socially useful: they guy who can fix your sink, or the guy who can propose new government spending?
I’m telling you, fellow Americans, if we don’t stop ObamaCare and roll it back, there will one day be lists for the best health care, too. And you won’t be on it – not if your child is at risk of death will you get on that list…but a hangnail on the child of an elite liberal will get seen right away. Its in the nature of things when we have people deciding how others live.
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