Most communities elect their school boards. In Chicago, the Daley machine controls everything and they don’t trust the voters enough to pick the machine candidates for the school board. Rahm Emanuel, just like the school board, is a very obedient tool of the machine.
I live in Glendale Heights for a couple more days. After that, we’re moving. We are no longer in Peter Roskam’s House district — the Democratic Party’s redistricting put us in Joe Walsh’s district for about 19 months, but now Tammy Duckworth is our congress creature and I find that completely unacceptable.
I hope that your new town will be represented by many Republicans. In Dec., I had a republican congressman, Joe Walsh; republican state senator, Dan Duffy; and republican state rep., Ed Sullivan. Because of the new maps, I have a democrat congressman, Brad Scheinder; democrat state sen., Terry Link; and democrat state rep., Carol Sente.