From Joe Manchin to ComEd, it’s hard to escape speculation about the role of corporate money and special interests in environmental and energy policy. On Thursday, December 9 at 7PM, join Reform for Illinois for an in-depth look at what’s really going on with three…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/letter-to-the-editor-from-rfi-ed-about-billionaire-politics/
RFI ED Alisa Kaplan wrote to The Chicago Tribune about billionaire politics and their “extraordinarily corrosive effects” on society. Read the letter here.
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/political-conversations-shouldnt-be-left-to-billionaires/
RFI ED Alisa Kaplan joined WGN Radio’s John Williams to share her thoughts on billionaires in politics. Listen here.
https://www.reformforillinois.org/member/sarah-brune/
Sarah Brune is the Director of Public Policy for Neighborhood Housing Services, an organization that works to increase access to the wealth-building opportunities of homeownership for borrowers of color across Chicagoland. She was Executive Director of Reform for Illinois until…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rfi-ed-weighs-in-on-bgas-milking-medicaid-investigation/
RFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke with the Better Government Association’s David Jackson about conflicts of interest and the revolving door for insurance executives at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), which oversees Medicaid. “When the relationships between…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/new-dark-money-bill-raises-serious-constitutional-questions/
The Daily Line’s Joel Ebert covered SB 536, an omnibus elections bill that would prohibit judicial candidates from accepting contributions from out-of-state donors or from entities that do not disclose their donors. RFI ED Alisa Kaplan’s take? While Reform for…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/
With Mike Madigan gone from the Speaker’s seat for almost a year, recent fundraising reports give us some hints about what’s changed and what’s stayed the same in a post-Madigan era. What’s the same. Legislative leaders are still abusing the…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rfi-executive-director-talks-fundraising-without-madigan/
Reform for Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, spoke with the Center for Illinois Politics’ Daniel Vock about House Democrats starting to “stand on their own two feet” without Madigan controlling the party’s fundraising efforts. Read the article here.
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rfi-in-action-september-property-tax-town-hall/
The recent revelation that an FBI sting caught a Cook County Board of Review employee counting thousands of dollars in alleged bribes in his car, saying he was going to “split [the cash] up between everybody” is a cinematic example…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/tribune-rfi-weighs-in-on-ethics-bill-failure/
Reform for Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, spoke with the Chicago Tribune’s Dan Petrella about the fate of SB539, which failed to muster the necessary votes to accept Governor Pritzker’s amendatory veto in the Illinois House. “The narrative about the…
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