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https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/better-solution-minimum-wage-debate/
Via Crain’s Chicago Business This fall, Illinois voters will consider a nonbinding referendum on whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10 an hour from its current $8.25. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked whether an even higher city-specific…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rauner-releases-plan-battle-cronyism/
Via 1470 WMBD (AP) Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner’s plan for ethics reform released Wednesday includes a temporary ban on state officials becoming lobbyists and broadening recall powers, ideas government watchdog groups called a step in the right direction but difficult…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/rauner-takes-lead-spending-polls-illinois-costliest-gubernatorial-race/
Via The Redline Project The 2014 Illinois gubernatorial race between incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner is shaping up to be one of the most competitive — and costly — in the country. The two campaigns spent…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/politics-pot/
Via Chicago Tonight Bruce Rauner has one message for Governor Pat Quinn. “Governor, the jig is up,” he said in a press release Tuesday. “The application process for medical marijuana should not be held in secret where insiders win and…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/campaign-finance-board-city-council-respond-unprecedented-outside-spending/
Via Gotham Gazette Not only are the 2013 New York City elections memorable for moving the city into the post-Bloomberg era, they stand out for the unprecedented levels of outside spending, or independent expenditures, by non-campaign organizations that vied to…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/montgomery-county-campaign-finance-bill-empowers-small-donors/
Via The Washington Post By Editorial Board September 13 MARYLAND has long offered candidates for statewide office the option of public financing for their campaigns, but candidates at the local level have to raise money the old-fashioned way. More often…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/mike-madigan-pulls-358000-one-weekend/
From Crain’s Chicago Business Unlike Illinois Republicans, he doesn’t have a sugar daddy with super-deep pockets to depend on. But Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan doesn’t need one. As if there ever were any doubt. Campaign disclosure reports filed over…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/governor-candidates-focus-business-hiring/
From the Pantagraph Associated Press Governor candidates focus on business, hiring By SOPHIA TAREEN
Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ gubernatorial campaigns clashed over business dealings and state hiring Monday, with Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s running mate accusing Republican businessman…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/minimum-wage-hike-finds-hope-u-s-heartland/
Via Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s push to raise the minimum wage, which has largely found success in liberal-leaning coastal states to date, could make headway in the conservative heartland in the November elections. Voters in the…
https://www.reformforillinois.org/blog/chicago-needs-one-real-watchdog/
Via Chicago-Tribune Mayoral operatives. Political rivals. Angry constituents who were denied a parking sticker. There’s a long line of people, we’re told, who’d like to whisper falsehoods about Chicago aldermen in the inspector general’s ear. For decades, the City Council…