CTA chairman Dorval Carter Jr. says he thinks push to fire him is personal
CHICAGO -- The president of the Chicago Transit Authority faced the music in City Hall Thursday, spending hours for a quarterly meeting with the City Council.A majority of Chicago alderpeople want to see CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. fired. But Carter was clear Thursday that he feels the criticism he is facing is unfair and unwarranted.Carter said he has made significant improvements for Chicago's transit system, but only hears a constant stream of negativity.
'In past year, I've had to deal with harassment, personal threats, with racial epithets - all directed at me because I've been turned into a caricature; turned into something less than a human being,' Carter said. 'I can tell you as an African American male, that bothers me a lot.'Carter has led the CTA for almost a decade—appointed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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