The Chicago Teachers Union looks like it is all in on Brandon Johnson for mayor of Chicago.
, including from undisclosed donors, or what’s known as dark money. The Tribune didn’t identify any dark money donations among Johnson’s contributions.
Villegas, who is supporting García for mayor, said he’d like to see unions like CTU subject to campaign finance limits similar to those placed on companies doing business with the city. Villegas sees CTU’s support of Johnson and several aldermanic candidates as an attempted power grab ahead of the new CTU contract negotiations and school board appointments awaiting the mayor in the coming years.The recent CTU transfers aren’t the first of Johnson’s campaign contributions to draw scrutiny.
Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson speaks at a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Chicago Teachers Union on Jan. 16, 2023, in Chicago. An in-kind canvassing contribution from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s committee was also reported late, meaning her direct assistance to the campaign was not made public until after the primary. A $23,000 transfer from Greater Austin Independent Political Organization — whose sole donor was the Chicago Teachers Union PAC — was disclosed three weeks late. Three donations totaling $7,500 from the Cook County College Teachers Union COPE were reported between four and 26 days late.
That year, Johnson said in a statement, he was running a grassroots campaign with a small staff and volunteers who “made a few honest clerical errors in reporting. We’ve rectified those errors and we’ve paid all associated fines.”that put students out of classes for more than two weeks and two bitter work stoppages over the reopening of schools amid the pandemic.
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