Editorial: Just release the full audits to your members, CTU

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It’s past time for the Chicago Teachers Union to come clean on its finances.

One of the oddest long-standing issues in Chicago politics has been CTU’s stubborn resistance over the past several years to sharing full audited financials with its own members, as the union’s bylaws seem to require. The union’s secretive ways, naturally, have prompted plenty of conspiracy-theorizing.

What could CTU be hiding? From its own members, no less?

The union reacted to these complaints at first by largely ignoring them. But as the drumbeat grew louder and the union was taken to court by several of its own members over the issue, CTU’s protestations took on the sort of tone we now too often associate with CTU’s leadership: ad hominem attacks.

Case in point