Via Fox News SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Associated Press) – The Illinois Senate will consider a proposed property tax freeze when the chamber reconvenes for the first time since the regular legislative session ended May 31. Democratic Senate President John Cullerton announced Friday the…
Read MoreVia CBS News According to the legislative director for New York’s League of Women Voters, there’s a lot of gray area when it comes to what candidates in the state can use campaign finances for. “Tickets to the Super Bowl, tickets…
Read MoreVia Crain’s Chicago Business There is so much wrong with the Dennis Hastert story that it’s hard to know where to begin. Much already has been said about Illinois’ culture of corruption and how this latest scandal undercuts public faith in…
Read MoreVia TIME Sen. Michael Bennet, former leader of the Democratic Party’s Senate campaign arm, is sponsoring a bill that would make his successor’s job even harder. Under Bennet’s leadership, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee accumulated nearly three times as much…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times The political epitaph for recently defeated Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn aptly summarizes Illinois’ rich history of corruption. He may have been ineffective, local wags said, but at least he was never indicted. Executive innocence is not to…
Read MoreVia New York Daily News ALBANY — A good government group urged state election officials Thursday to investigate how deep-pocketed donors use the so-called LLC loophole to circumvent contribution limits. Citing examples that included corporate giant Cablevision and mega real…
Read Morevia the Washington Post If ever there were a cycle that seemed poised for a serious argument over what to do — if anything — about the torrents of money sloshing through our politics, you’d think it would be this one….
Read Morevia the New York Times WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush is under growing pressure to acknowledge what to some voters and a number of campaign finance lawyers seems obvious: He is running for president. The lawyers say Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor,…
Read Morevia Crain’s Chicago Business Gov. Bruce Rauner today took his first formal steps to respond to the unbalanced fiscal 2016 budget approved by the Legislature, effectively killing the proposed Illiana Expressway and suspending funding for a variety of programs, including new…
Read Morevia the New York Times Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other court decisions and now favor a sweeping overhaul of how political campaigns…
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