Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the recent closed-door City Hall meeting in which Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool pretty much called Tenth Ward alderman Susan Sadlowski Garza a liar.
Everyone in the room was shocked to hear a mayoral appointee essentially call an alderman a liar. It violates the general order of things for an alderman to be so blatantly disrespected, even by an aide who’s close to the mayor. (Claypool and Rahm have been friends since their days as aides on Senator Paul Simon’s 1984 campaign.)
In contrast, Garza’s southeast-side ward just across the border from Indiana is largely made up of poor and and working-class people who don’t have a lot of clout at City Hall. Especially these days.
Soon 24th Ward alderman Michael Scott tweeted the hashtag “#dunkedonbruh.”
Hey @ClaypoolCPS don’t mess with @SSadlowskiGarza you will get dunked on bruh. https://t.co/bcIPB56zdh
— Martin Ritter (@MartinLRitter) September 14, 2017
#dunkedonbruh 😂😂 https://t.co/Spmih9h8bl
— Ald. Michael Scott (@aldermanscott24) September 15, 2017
Claypool didn’t respond to a request for comment. But I think the only way to really settle this beef is for him to get out of his downtown office and tour the classrooms of the southeast side with Garza. I mean, Forrest, if you’re gonna call Garza out, you’ve got to back it up.
