Schooling in the Ownership Society: DFER brags: Our money beat Travis

Schooling in the Ownership Society: DFER brags: Our money beat Travis:

DFER brags: Our money beat Travis

Mitchell on the make and on the take.

School privatizers and charter hustlers from DFER are all over Twitter, taking credit forChristian Mitchell's  questionable narrow victory over progressive candidate Jay Travis. The IL branch of the N.Y.-based hedge-fund-started group dropped more than $50,000 into the Mitchell campaign through its newly-activated Chicago school reform PAC.

Instead of boasting, they should be headed back to the drawing board wondering why, with all their money and lots more from the likes of the likes of JPMorgan Chase & Co.PAC, Illinois Energy Association, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce PAC, and California billionaire Eli Broad, an incumbent like Mitchell was is this close to losing his seat to underdog Travis. 

Mitchell, backed by House Speaker Michael Madigan was leading Travis by only a few