Rahm Emanuel

So what I've done is I foster executive power.

I did something, A, no mayor done, and B, I pushed her back against the wall and her members either, either you're going to stand up or you're going to commit.

There was no, I put her in a fork in the road, which was unnecessary.

So fast forward to the negotiation.

We end up with the first teacher strike in 30 years over two things, education that I wanted.

One, the full school day.

I got the kids an hour and 15 minutes and two additional weeks every year for their entire education.

An hour and 15 minutes more, so the kids got seven plus hours of classroom time, plus two more weeks.

And I got kindergarten to be universal across the city.

So 40,000 more kids were getting full day versus kids basically only on the north side.

Not only lost it, I made the rest of my first term miserable.

A miserable living hell.

I get reelected.

My first phone call is- Despite yourself.

Despite everything I did to try to stop it.

I call, the first call I make is that night.

I can tell you exactly the room in the Plumbers Hall.

I call Karen Lewis, the president of the teachers union.

I said, Karen, you and I can keep doing this for four more years.

You're my first phone call on my reelect.