Rev. Meeks moves protest to The Cell.
Southside Jerry falsely accused me of failing to mention the White Sox on this blog.
Well, I don’t want to disappoint The Soutsider. So here I go again.
Senator James Meeks, who rallied 1,500 students around Wrigley Field for the opening of the division championship games against the LA Dodgers to protest Illinois’ punitive school funding laws is moving his protest to the White Sox’s Cellular Field on Sunday when they play Tampa.
The leader of the protest, state Sen. James Meeks, D-Calumet, says there will be a similar one Sunday when the White Sox take the home field against the Tampa Devil Rays.
“We want the world to know,” he says, “that Illinois has a good baseball team and a terrible record at funding education. We’re 49th out of 50th and we’re not going to take it anymore.”
Meeks is pushing for a complete retooling of the system funding public schools in Illinois, including a possible tax swap that would switch funding from local property taxes to state income taxes.
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