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Mayoral candidate Troy LaRaviere pledged to “be a candidate of the people.”

Troy LaRaviere, President of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, attacked Mayor Rahm Emanuel as the mayor of CEOs, bankers, school privatization proponents and “vulture capitalists,” saying they have organized to take “great control” of the federal, state and municipal governments.

“We end up having to select from the people who are in the pockets of those who mean us no good,” he said. The goal of his campaign is thus to create a movement “to give everybody a mayor.” He pledged not to take donations from corporations or those “trying to do business with the City.”

“All of those things that we need that we don’t have, we need because there are not resources for our school system or the resources are being diverted toward the funders of the corrupt gangsters,” he said, identifying corruption as the central root of Chicago’s ills.


*if this guy is true, yay.