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Lightfoot: Weingarten's lying -- AFT never worked with us to reopen schools
Hot Air ^ | May 1, 2023 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 05/02/2023 7:03:44 AM PDT by lowbridge

Chicago voters lost Lightfoot, or perhaps better put, Lightfoot lost Chicago voters. The failure to keep children in schools and in effective learning environments undoubtedly played a big role in her political collapse, the worst in recent memory for Chicago mayors. Lightfoot herself counts that as a significant part of the “anger bubble” that pushed her out of office, and that also threatens to end the careers of other mayors of the COVID era.

CNN’s Poppy Harlow points out this morning that Lightfoot went “head to head with the teacher’s union” over school shutdowns. Now Randi Weingarten wants to rewrite history and claim that she worked with mayors like Lightfoot to re-open schools, and Lightfoot scoffs. After spending $100 million to refit schools and meet the demands of the American Federation of Teachers, Weingarten and the local union refused to go back to the schools.

“The union needed to work with us,” Lightfoot declared, “and they never did that.” In the end, Weingarten stiffed Chicago and other major cities:

HARLOW: “Here’s what Randi Weingarten, who heads that union said. Let’s play it.”

[Clip starts]

WEINGARTEN: “We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.”

[Clip ends]

HARLOW: “Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos responded to that accusing her of revisionist history. Do you agree with DeVos?”

LIGHTFOOT: “Well, what I will say is this, that may have been what Randy Weingartner was saying, at the national level, and I believe that to be true, I had conversations with her at the time, that lead me to believe that’s what she wanted to do. That’s not the reality that was happening on the ground.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chicago; lightfoot; weingarten

1 posted on 05/02/2023 7:03:44 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

The headline doesn’t completely reflect the quote. She’s still defending Weingarten.


2 posted on 05/02/2023 7:06:35 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: lowbridge

Weingarten’s testimony was hilarious. Her near hysterical earnestness reminded me of a guilty child pulling out all the stops to defend herself.


3 posted on 05/02/2023 7:15:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: aynrandfreak; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv

Odd. Once a democrat spews something, the rest all usually jump on the bandwagon. But, then again, Lightfoot lost.


4 posted on 05/02/2023 7:21:25 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: lowbridge

Always good when lefties turn on each other - as they inevitably do.

Surprised they didn’t band together and blame the school closures on Republicans and White Supremacists.

Let them eat each other.


5 posted on 05/02/2023 7:24:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: lowbridge

Commies lie? OMG - it can’t be.../S


6 posted on 05/02/2023 7:29:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (John Adams said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”)
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To: lowbridge

Between Weingarten and the failed education and corrosive indoctrination of public schools, we should be able to unite around competition that would crush the public school system in short order.


7 posted on 05/02/2023 7:34:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: lowbridge

Everyone knows the leftie teachers wanted to permanently work from home and never come back. At least until they realized the parents were listening in to their indoctrination sessions and recording them.


8 posted on 05/02/2023 7:34:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: lowbridge

LIGHTFOOT (AKA: PUSSYFOOT): “Well, what I will say is this, that may have been what Randy Weingartner was saying, at the national level, and I believe that to be true, I had conversations with her at the time, that lead me to believe that’s what she wanted to do. That’s not the reality that was happening on the ground.”

That is not exactly calling Weingartner a liar.


9 posted on 05/02/2023 7:36:58 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: lowbridge

The only Lightfoot I’m listening to now is Gordon....RIP


10 posted on 05/02/2023 7:39:10 AM PDT by xp38
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To: lowbridge

All of a sudden, she finds religion. But only when she is packing up her desk. Like she has nothing left to lose, so screw it, she is saying what’s on her mind. Amazing.


11 posted on 05/02/2023 7:52:23 AM PDT by beef (Say NO to the WOE (War On Energy))
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To: lowbridge

Is Weingarten elected or appointed?


12 posted on 05/02/2023 8:00:13 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: lowbridge

The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten

5/1/2023, 11:13:48 PM · by KingofZion · 15 replies
The New York Times ^ | April 28, 2023 | Johnathan Mahler

13 posted on 05/02/2023 8:00:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: lowbridge
Lightfoot herself counts that as a significant part of the “anger bubble” that pushed her out of office...

No, Lori. The reason you were pushed out of office is because you are incompetent. You were in way over your head and people caught on to your ruse.

14 posted on 05/02/2023 8:12:03 AM PDT by econjack
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To: TornadoAlley3

Pretty sure she’s ELECTED by fellow “teacher thug DEMOCRATS”.


15 posted on 05/02/2023 9:19:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 05/02/2023 10:14:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

She has scores to settle.


17 posted on 05/02/2023 10:30:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: lowbridge

18 posted on 05/02/2023 2:45:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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