CHICAGO – Momentum is growing for Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis as she contemplates a run for mayor against Rahm Emanuel.

Lewis recently received prodding from fellow far-leftists Congressmen Bobby Rush and Danny Davis.

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“I’ve had conversations with her and I just indicated that I think she has a great deal of what the City of Chicago can make use of,” Davis, who ran for mayor in 1991, told the Chicago Sun Times.

“When the leaders of my city, when the mayor stands proudly and takes credit for closing 54 public schools that are mostly on the South and West Sides of the City of Chicago, there is nothing but a continuation of the decades-long disinvestment in good-quality schools,” Rush said, according to the Sun Times.

And Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County board, officially declined to run, seemingly paving the way for a Lewis candidacy.

The Sun Times reports:

“It certainly is a huge change,” Lewis said on Tuesday in a phone interview. She acknowledged it’s one that would benefit her own candidacy should she run. 

However, Lewis said Preckwinkle’s decision would not influence her own game plan. “I’m not going to allow somebody to back me into a decision. I’m going to make this decision when I’m ready to make it.”

It’s not surprising Davis and Rush are urging Lewis to run. They were supportive of the union’s 10-day strike in 2012, denouncing Emanuel and marching with Lewis and the CTU. And they’re more ideologically aligned with each other, with Rush being a former member of the Black Panthers and Davis cavorting with the Democratic Socialists of America.

EAGnews has exposed many of Lewis’ obnoxious blunders, most notably when she strutted around a stage at a “social justice” teachers’ conference and mocked Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s lisp, reminisced about smoking pot in college and fantasized about sitting on a prison toilet.

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