Bizarre Unionization Stuff In Illinois

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March 4, 2008

Jonathan Gyurko, the charter school czar at the United Federation of Teachers, wants to know what advice this blog has for Illinois Senator Barack Obama regarding the somewhat creepy story in the Daily Herald about the forms allegedly handed out to teachers by an Illinois charter school that supposedly sought to denounce a unionization drive at the school.

For those of you unfamiliar with the rules of the blogosphere, the UFT by contract gets to tell other bloggers what they are supposesd to comment upon on their blogs, so I'm forced to outline my three-point plan below to avoid having a costly and time-consuming grievance filed with The Blogfather.

So, Senator Obama, acting on the instructions of the teachers union which has been spending a small fortune trying to knock you out of the Democratic Primary, I present my plan for dealing with the situation: