CHICAGO – Big Labor is waving a million dollars in front of the “Godfather’s” face, but it’s not for him.

The American Federation of Teachers so despises Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, they’re willing to spend $1 million to defeat him in next year’s election.

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports AFT president Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten told the paper, “I did say privately to Karen and at our executive council meeting that if Karen was to run, we would be all in.

“In a race like this, spending $1 million would not be unprecedented for the AFT.”

Indeed, the AFT and its local affiliate, the United Federation of Teachers, proudly claim credit for electing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Weingarten added Emanuel has “shown a deep disrespect for what public education is all about.”

She wasn’t done:

“Look, Rahm is a particular kind of Democrat, but there are lots of Democrats who want to invest in public schools,” Weingarten said. “To run now takes a great amount of money, and too many Democrats are focused on what rich donors are saying, not what the working people are saying. I would have never called Rahm a friend of working people, not even 20 years ago.”

This is all coded language, of course, for unions.

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They’re not interested in high quality schools, but rather unionized ones they can control. If they’re good, so be it, but that’s not their concern.

Lewis is on the executive council of the AFT, which could set up ethical and conflict-of-interest issues as the union is supposed to be independent of candidate committees. Lewis could theoretically be voting to give her own campaign support. In most places, that would be a violation of law, but this is Chicago.

Lewis has previously said there’s a “50-50 chance” she’ll challenge Emanuel, whose popularity is crumbling.

She may have a million more reasons to do just that.