Senator DeMint Calls Chicago Teachers ‘Thugs’

CBS Chicago reports:

As Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a fifth day, a U.S. senator called the teachers “thugs.”

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made is remarks while speaking Friday at the Values Voter Form in Washington, D.C.

“You know, we have had a lot of bad news this week,” DeMint said. “On my way over I was reading another story about a distant place where thugs had put 400,000 children out in the streets and then I realized that was a story about the Chicago teachers strike.

Making it harder for Rahm to steal some extra money from Washington D.C.