The Chicago Teachers Union is suing a former top adviser to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a “Jane Doe” over their alleged interference in the May election of union officers.
Lisa Schneider-Fabes and the unnamed defendant “deceptively sought to influence the outcome of that election for an improper purpose — namely to attempt to put in place at the Chicago Teachers Union a leadership that has a friendlier relationship with city leaders,” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court.
When asked if Jane Doe is the mayor herself, CTU attorney Michael Persoon said, “We think that there’s a conspiracy to intervene unlawfully and interfere with the normal democratic processes of the Chicago Teachers Union, and we’re going to take all efforts to discover the extent of that conspiracy. Whatever the results of that investigation are, we’ll follow that, just like any prosecutor, like the U.S. attorney would do.”
