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Support Ellen Rosenfeld for Chicago Board of Education - Don’t Split the Vote
I’ve published my voting recommendations for this election, and I want to highlight the importance of voting for Ellen Rosenfeld for the new elected Chicago School Board.
Ellen is smart, tough, and knows alot about the Chicago Public Schools from her decades of work with Bell Elementary as LSC Chair, her four kids’ attendance at Bell and several selective enrollment high schools, and her work at CPS as an advocate for local school councils. She is running to keep school choice and to defend our excellent schools.
I agree with Ellen that “Mayor Brandon Johnson should not control the School Board, and the Chicago Teachers Union should not be on both sides of the negotiation table.” She is “the only candidate independent enough to listen and champion the needs of students and parents in the 4th district, not the Mayor and CTU.”
The Chicago Teachers Union has been sending highly negative mail about Ellen. CTU has accused her of being a Trumper and other assorted lies. Ellen says, “As a lifelong pro-choice Democrat, it’s egregious that my opponent and her key supporters are trying to tie me to Trump’s extreme agenda. My team and I are doing everything in our power to refute these dirty claims spun by the Chicago Teachers Union.”
While there are other candidates on the ballot, I encourage you, if you want independents on the Chicago School Board, to vote for Ellen Rosenfeld so as not the split the vote and allow the CTU candidate (Karen Zaccor) to win.
If you’d like to help Ellen win by handing out literature on Election Day and at the Early Voting sites, click here.
Last Chance to Help in the National Races
With only a week until Election Day, there is still a chance to volunteer to help bring out the Democratic vote in Wisconsin and Michigan. If you’d like to help in those states, sign up at Operation Swing State or Indivisible.
Women’s March Rally November 2nd, Federal Plaza, 210 S. Dearborn, 10 a.m.
Join Women’s March Chicago to declare that “We are Not Going Back” and encourage everyone to vote this Election Day. More details here.
Hope to see you out there, and thanks for all the volunteering and donating you have been doing to help get our national ticket elected.
