via the Chicago Tribune If Tinley Park Trustee Dave Seaman is voted in as the town’s next mayor by the village board, he will receive longevity bonuses worth about $36,000 above his base mayoral salary. But the longevity bonuses, which are…
Read Morevia the Springfield News-Leader The newest members of the Springfield school board benefited from a string of high-profile endorsements and the campaign donations that followed. The campaign contributions reported by attorney Jill Patterson and college official Francine Pratt constitute nearly…
Read Morevia www.governing.com Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy dealt a speedy setback Monday to conservative advocacy groups that had sought to shield the names of their major donors in California. Without waiting to consult the full court, Kennedy turned down…
Read MoreVia The Southern Illinoisan In the days leading up to a high profile vote in the Illinois House on a politically charged right-to-work law, Gov. Bruce Rauner doled out campaign contributions to Republican lawmakers. State Rep. Bob Pritchard, a DeKalb-area…
Read MoreVia NPR If Congress is all about sausage-making, Washington’s political-money industry has its own specialty: slicing the particular sausage that is campaign finance law, thinner and thinner. The meat of the law is in its definitions. What is a “contribution”?…
Read MoreVia US News & World Report Back before the days of campaign finance laws, there was a safe in the office of the Secretary of the Senate. And there was no secret about what function it served. “Somebody who was a…
Read MoreVia Time The mastermind behind the super PAC has no regrets. “My only regret is the backlash,” David Keating says with a wry smile. Keating is one of the most influential political activists you’ve never heard of. He was the…
Read MoreVia Reboot Illinois I’m not a big R&B fan, but as a good government watchdog I have to appreciate the O’Jays `74 classic, “For the Love of Money,” about the dangers of pursuing “the almighty dollar.” The song could serve…
Read MoreVia the National Journal Darin LaHood is raising money for his 2016 reelection campaign. That’s unremarkable: Just about every incumbent is stockpiling cash for next November. The difference is, LaHood isn’t an incumbent, and if he wants to have a…
Read MoreVia Represent.US Have you ever felt like the government doesn’t really care what you think? Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question:…
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