Divide and Conquer Part II

As predicted here yesterday, Rahm exploits the opening:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday touted his administration's success in getting three Chicago elementary schools to agree to extend their day by 90 minutes and urged other schools to follow suit.

  Teachers at the three Chicago Public Schools campuses who agreed to opt out of their union contract in exchange for 2 percent bonuses "voted right for our children's future," Emanuel said during a news conference before the 14th Chicago Football Classic at Soldier Field.

  "The teachers did right by their profession and they did right by the children that they teach," Emanuel said while surrounded by several schoolchildren in cheerleading outfits and band uniforms.

At roughly $800 per teacher, Rahm gets priceless publicity, a chance to tell the world, "Won't someone think of the children?!?" and an opportunity to break the teacher's union.



And it's going like clockwork.