I was appalled to read that my alderman (yes, Mary Ann calls herself an alderMAN) introduced the naval recruiting and miseducation plan for Senn.

Smith needs to learn that she will pay a high price for her chosen avocation of "Navy junkie."

“I think they basically offer an option. A different kind of discipline, a different kind of camaraderie, a look at a slightly different kind of world,” Smith said.

What Smith calls "a slightly different kind of world," leads to the killing fields of Iraq. It leads to working class youth being Shanghaied to fight for the rich, for Haliburton and Bechtel. This is the function of the "discipline and camaraderie" of the Navy: training for killing for the profiteers.

This posture is in keeping with a most craven Daley loyalist. That the boss is out to tame or break the Chicago Teacher's Union with his "Renaissance 2010" scheme ought to be obvious.
The military and naval recruiting schools are part of the plan.

Smith is also a darling of the real estate developers and has helped them with numerous teardowns of architectually and historically important buildings. Not to mention displacement of working people from the ward.