Via Bloomberg Politics Winning U.S. Senate candidates got a nice boost from groups that don’t fully disclose their contributors. In 10 key Senate contests, the winners benefited from $127 million in outside help from such organizations, according to a report from…
Read MoreVia The Nation There’s a powerful solution for disclosing the secret-money sloshing around in our political system. It does not require an act of Congress or action from any of the effectively toothless campaign-finance watchdogs, like the Federal Election Commission….
Read MoreVia Village News This year, I failed to do my civic duty. I voted, of course. I always vote. But I’ve never regarded the mere act of voting as sufficient. Since the Golden Age of Athens, in the fifth century…
Read MoreVia International Business Times Illinois Governor-elect Bruce Rauner accepted more than $140,000 worth of campaign donations from executives affiliated with firms in which Illinois pension systems have investments, according to documents reviewed by the International Business Times. The campaign donations…
Read MoreVia Politico At least a half-dozen major campaign-finance cases winding their way through the courts have the potential to shake up the political landscape in the vein of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling — or the more recent…
Read MoreVia Business Cheat Sheet It’s not just individuals who feel that they are getting left behind in the political process. With money in politics becoming an ever-hotter issue on the political landscape, small business owners are increasingly feeling that they…
Read MoreVia Austin Weekly News More Austin voters turned out for the midterm elections on Nov. 4, 2014 than they did in 2010, according to voter turnout data from the city of Chicago. Just over 40,000 residents in the 28th, 29th…
Read MoreVia Breitbart Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) is being investigated by the House ethics committee for somehow getting his Chicago South Side congressional offices rent free for 20 years, a violation of state and federal laws not to mention House…
Read MoreVia the Belleville News-Democrat By Brian Brueggemann News-Democrat The candidates and their allies again spent millions of dollars trying to get elected. At the top of the spending chart for Illinois’ 2014 election is the governor’s race, which saw roughly…
Read MoreVia State Journal Register By Sophia Tareen and Kerry Lester The Associated Press CHICAGO — Moments after conceding a close election, outgoing Gov. Pat Quinn vowed to fight for a minimum wage hike before leaving office — but whether lawmakers…
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