Chicago Mayoral ally makes no apologies for rally video in which she swears, advocates for teachers’ strike

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

When Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th) signed on to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s City Council leadership team, she did not agree to forfeit her independence or sever her deep roots at the Chicago Teachers Union.

That much was painfully obvious this week when Garza, Lightfoot’s hand-picked chairman of the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development, introduced Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a CTU rally called to rev up a rank-and-file casting a strike vote.

The provocative video circulated on social media shows Garza stepping to the podium and promptly using profanity.

“That’s right, mother-f---er!” Garza said, raising her fist in the air, after being introduced by Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th).

After describing herself as the first CTU member ever to win a City Council seat, Garza shouted, “Queen Mother of God, I see people ready to strike. Right out here.”

The daughter of longtime Steelworkers Union President Edward Sadlowski, Garza goes on to introduce Sanders as a man who has “fought to give working people a voice” and “stood in solidarity with ordinary Americans across this county to build a better, a fairer and more just society.”

When unions send one of their own to city council.