City workers not happy to get letter from Rahm Emanuel

Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel has sent a personal letter to the homes of city employees — and to other households, he says — in an attempt to clarify his position on the city’s pension crisis, but the tactic may have backfired.

City employees and union leaders are demanding to know how Emanuel got their names and home addresses.

They’re wondering aloud whether someone at City Hall might have leaked the sensitive information to Emanuel to benefit the mayoral candidate with the closest ties to Mayor Daley.

“It’s an invasion of privacy — kind of like getting your Social Security number stolen,” said Lou Phillips, business manager for Laborers Local 1001, which has endorsed Gery Chico for mayor.

Nobody could question Laborers Local 1001 on the subject of privacy. The Justice Department is quite familiar with their "history".