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The union has failed to provide an audit required by its internal rules for at least three years. When questioned by a member in a private Facebook group about the union’s failure to provide the audits, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates attacked the member, claiming asking for an audit mandated by CTU’s own rules was a racist “dog whistle.”
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The only way to deflect criticism away from her incompetence is to play the race card, that be raysisss works everytime.
Stacy Davis Gates is a racist all day every day. Take that dog whistle and blow it!
Janus decision lets Chicago Teachers abandon this terrorist organization. CTU are neither teachers nor a union so anyone who willingly remains a member of this pack of thieves deserves to suffer and has a special corner in hell.
Don’t worry Stacey your cell is being prepared, you are a dead giveaway to CTU’S position,