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Oh, please. First of all, Charlie Kyle deserved to be outed to the taxpayers who pay his salary. He said what he said, namely that the Clemente LSC was worthless–his exact word–and that he saw little way the school board could avoid reconstituting the high school. Then Kyle had a hissy fit when he learned that his actual opinions (rather than his carefully cultivated “public” opinions) were published in a muckracking piece I wrote for Chicago Ink on the Sun-Times smear of the Clemente LSC. I’m not surprised that Kyle, an unsuccessful candidate for the Clemente principal’s position, wants to “leave it at that.” Bring on the lie detector test. I stand by the accuracy of my quote.
Second, Miner also chastised me for my lack of honesty in not noting that one of the sources for my article happens to be my lover. Gee, Mike, the last time I looked, I had not turned into a Stepford wife. I see absolutely no reason not to quote Dick Reilly, who has a history that goes back years in issues related to the Puerto Rican community. Last I checked, he had not committed himself to slavish obedience to my will, nor had I committed to serve as his chattel slave till death do us part. Significantly, Reilly is neither an automaton nor a public relations flack–and in addition, he is but one of many sources I quoted in the course of the article. Unlike several Clemente staff people who made virtually identical observations, Reilly was willing to be quoted by name, because he does not currently live in fear of losing his job for supporting a diversity of opinion at the high school, one of the happy outcomes of the Sun-Times’s toxic coverage. Sue me.
Chris Geovanis
