{"id":1804154,"date":"2023-01-12T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804154"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:05:23","slug":"political-patronage-chicago-mayor-offers-school-credit-for-students-who-help-her-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-patronage-chicago-mayor-offers-school-credit-for-students-who-help-her-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Patronage: Chicago Mayor Offers School Credit for Students Who Help Her Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fpolitical-patronage-chicago-mayor-offers-school-credit-for-students-who-help-her-campaign%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=1804154&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>Lori Lightfoot (D.), Chicago mayor, is encouraging public school teachers and students to earn credit for volunteering to her reelection campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Crane, Lightfoot deputy campaign manager, asked Chicago public school teachers to encourage students volunteering in an email. &#8220;to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,&#8221; Offering &#8220;class credit&#8221; WTTW News for all those who are part of the program\u00a0<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\">Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re simply looking for enthusiastic, curious, and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,&#8221; Crane wrote the email addressed to teachers&#8217; official work accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The program sparked immediate backlash and\u00a0could spell trouble for Lightfoot, who in\u00a0her 2019 bid for mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/03\/us\/lori-lightfoot-chicago.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised<\/a> To combat the &#8220;Chicago machine,&#8221; Patronage systems that have dominated city politics for many years. They are now regulated with more strict ethics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is unethical and wrong on so many levels,&#8221; the Chicago Teachers Union said\u00a0in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctulocal1.org\/posts\/lightfoot-shakes-down-ctu-members-for-student-campaign-support-in-appalling-failure-of-ethics-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a>. The union <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTULocal1\/status\/1613274373271740417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet<\/a> The scheme &#8220;feels strangely like it&#8217;s straight out of the machine politics the current incumbent ran against\u2014yet continues to use herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The union&#8217;s attorneys believe that the email was sent by a hacker. &#8220;not only violates the city&#8217;s government ethics ordinance but also the ethics policy imposed by Lightfoot when she took office in 2019,&#8221; According to WTTW News<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Public Schools cannot be used by political campaigns to send emails. &#8220;solicit volunteers and donations,&#8221; the district&#8217;s\u00a0ethics guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2023\/01\/12\/lightfoot-opponents-blast-mayoral-campaigns-attempt-to-recruit-cps-students-as-volunteers-via-teacher-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a rule, the district does not coordinate with any political candidates or campaigns. It has not done so to date and will not be doing so,&#8221; WTTW News was informed by a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p>WTTW News was initially informed by a campaign spokesperson that the email was being defended. He stated that the program was not designed. &#8220;to 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&#8221; And was &#8220;done using publicly available contact information.&#8221; However, Lightfoot&#8217;s office responded to a wave of criticism with a second statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>All [Lightfoot for Chicago] Campaign staff were reminded of the solid wall between campaign activities and official activities. Contacts with any city in Chicago or sister agency employees must also be kept secure. [Chicago Public Schools] Employees are not allowed to be accessed through public sources. Period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot is among the nine candidates listed on the February 28 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s exploiting young people for political gain,&#8221; Brandon Johnson is running against Lightfoot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brandon4Chicago\/status\/1613330405910024192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\u00a0Wednesday of the Mayor&#8217;s Actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) is encouraging public school teachers to offer credit to students who volunteer for her reelection campaign.<br \/>\nThe post Political Patronage: Chicago Mayor Offers School Credit for Students Who Help Her Campaign appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1804157,"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":[544],"tags":[4092,4087,4387,6178,4602,4462,14664,3753,3924,4072],"class_list":["post-1804154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-campaign","tag-chicago","tag-credit","tag-mayor","tag-offers","tag-patronage","tag-political","tag-school","tag-students"],"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\/1804154","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}