No more 'wait til next year'

Clout City talks about Rev. James Meeks (who's also a State Senator) Wrigleyville protest during Game 1 of the National League Division Series (NLDS). Heh, here's a good quote:

James Meeks's latest school funding protest was hastily conceived and started an hour behind schedule, but it turned out that the timing was right, or at least close enough—the Cubs had fallen behind for good and the fans inside Wrigley Field had gone quiet when he began blasting Governor Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Richard Daley, and the voters of Chicago for being more worried about a 100-year title drought than the state’s broken system of school funding.
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“We’re tired of waiting until next year!” he said. “So we have decided that if the General Assembly cannot figure out how to fix this problem, then we will just show up at every public event in Chicago until somebody figures out how to fix something.”

If you want to know the Cubs lost 7-2 last night in Chicago. The White Sox will be in Tampa Bay to start their ALDS this afternoon!

Oh and here's more from CPR:

More than 25 busloads of people gathered outside Wrigley Field yesterday But they weren’t there to support the Cubs.

11-year-old Khalilah Manson was there with others from around Chicago. They were using the backdrop of the Cub’s game to call attention to a lack of resources in some Illinois schools.

KHALILAH MANSON: When you come during a game, there’s more cameras around.

The man behind yesterday evening’s event, state Senator James Meeks, was again calling for more equality in education funding.

MEEKS: How can you be more concerned, Chicago, about a batting average than you are about a reading score.

Last month, Meeks led student boycotts to push school funding reform. He said yesterday’s protest was an attempt to bring education funding before a national audience through media focused on Wrigley Field. The message may have missed some sports fans.

MAN: Something about equal funding for schools, but I’m just focused on beer and women.

Interesting, very interesting.