With state legislators trying to force the mayor to spend hundreds of millions of TIF dollars on the schools, it looks like the mayor’s taking a page from the George Bluth book of money management.
The banana stand being—aw, forget it, just watch the show.
That put Emanuel in a bind. It’s hard to ignore a bunch of kids who say they love the librarian who fostered their appreciation for reading. Especially since the mayor swears up and down that he’s a voracious reader who routinely consumes impenetrable tomes the way I race through episodes of old sitcoms—like Arrested Development.
Claypool: You got it, boss!
And so it was that an anonymous donor appeared out of nowhere to contribute an unspecified amount of money that was precisely the amount CPS needed to keep Sayigh on the payroll!
‘Cause it’s not just librarians’ salaries that miraculously appear from the mayor’s banana stand. Sometimes Emanuel finds money for developers too, in the biggest banana stand of them all: the tax increment financing program.
