Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on Wednesday criticized the teachers striking in Chicago, instead throwing his support behind the Windy City’s mayor and questioning why more Democratic mayors weren’t vocally supporting Rahm Emanuel in his standoff with the teachers.

“I don’t understand why people aren’t rallying around him … Kudos to Rahm Emanuel, keep it up, maybe do more,” Fenty said on the Diane Rehm Show on radio station WAMU.

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