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With a few weeks and counting to the epic mayoral showdown, Mick Dumke and I thought we’d apply a little truth serum to the campaign, as part of our February 3 talk show extravaganza at the Hideout.

Lesson for mayoral challengers Fioretti, Garcia, Walls, and Wilson: if you want to raise more money, it helps to take about $17 million from our dead-broke public schools and give it to a bunch of wealthy bankers.

We can also discuss why Mayor Rahm would bother sending me, of all people, a campaign mailer. Since he’s got about as much chance of winning my vote as Rick Santorum.

Also on hand will be Jen Sabella, senior editor at DNAinfo, the online newspaper that happens to be owned by Joe Ricketts.

One night we got smashed on Mai Tais and started doing “Copacabana” at a Barry Manilow sing-along contest in a North Beach karaoke bar.