{"id":1804127,"date":"2023-01-12T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804127"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:35:55","slug":"lightfoots-campaign-asks-teachers-to-urge-students-to-help-her-re-election-for-class-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lightfoots-campaign-asks-teachers-to-urge-students-to-help-her-re-election-for-class-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightfoot\u2019s Campaign Asks Teachers To Urge Students To Help Her Re-Election \u2014 For Class Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flightfoots-campaign-asks-teachers-to-urge-students-to-help-her-re-election-for-class-credit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s re-election campaign emailed some Chicago Public Schools teachers on Wednesday encouraging them to urge their students to volunteer to aid Lightfoot\u2018s re-election in return for class credit.<\/p>\n<p>The email came from Megan Crane, a deputy campaign manager, and was received by teachers\u2019 Official email accounts for work<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExterns are expected to devote 12 hrs\/wk to the campaign,\u201d It was stated in the email. \u201cStudents are eligible to earn class credit through our volunteer program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re simply looking for enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,\u201d The email, which was obtained from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2023\/01\/11\/lightfoot-campaign-asks-cps-teachers-encourage-students-help-her-win-reelection-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTTW News<\/a>, added.<\/p>\n<p>WTTW was first given information about the Lightfoot campaign by a spokesperson. \u201cto provide young people with the opportunity to engage with our campaign, learn more about the importance of civic engagement and participate in the most American of processes\u201d  \u201cdone using publicly available contact information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But following WTTW\u2019s revelation regarding the email, Lightfoot\u2019s campaign stated it would \u201ccease contact with CPS employees\u201d Out of an \u201cabundance of caution,\u201d Then came a third statement that said, \u201cAll [Lightfoot for Chicago] campaign staff have been reminded about the solid wall that must exist between campaign and official activities and that contacts with any city of Chicago, or other sister agency employees, including CPS employees, even through publicly available sources is off limits. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colleen K. Connell (executive director of the ACLU of Illinois) <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2023\/01\/12\/lightfoot-campaign-emails-cps-teachers-may-violate-federal-law-aclu-illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So called<\/a> The email \u201cinappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns. The Supreme Court has made clear that government officials cannot use their office or power to coerce participation or to punish for lack of participation in political campaigns. \u2026 Because the mayor has the ultimate authority over the Chicago schools, teachers may feel coercion in this ask from the mayor\u2019s campaign or fear negative consequences for lack of participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Davis Gates of Chicago Teachers Union called the email \u201cunethical\u201d and echoed the ACLU\u2019s concern that teachers and students who refused to cooperate might be targeted. The teachers\u2019 union has endorsed Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot won the 2019 election for mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/nation-world\/2019\/04\/03\/lightfoot-wins-chicago\/AP%202019\/AP%202019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>, \u201cTogether we can and will make Chicago a place where your zip code doesn\u2019t determine your destiny. We can and we will break this city\u2019s endless cycle of corruption and never again \u2014 never ever \u2014 allow politicians to profit from elected positions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s re-election campaign emailed some Chicago Public Schools teachers on Wednesday encouraging them to urge their students to volunteer to aid Lightfoot\u2018s re-election in return for class credit. The email came from Megan Crane, a deputy campaign manager, and was received by teachers\u2019 official work email accounts. \u201cExterns are expected to devote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1183181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4087,6123,6178,6202,5637,8607,3618,4072,4605,4927,6195],"class_list":["post-1804127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-campaign","tag-class","tag-credit","tag-daily","tag-lightfoots","tag-re-election","tag-riot","tag-students","tag-teachers","tag-urge","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}