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Our View: Let voters decide fate of term limits

Via Northwest Herald Republican candidate for Illinois governor Bruce Rauner and supporters of term limits for Illinois lawmakers have asked the Illinois Supreme Court to quickly decide whether a proposed constitutional amendment can appear on November’s ballot. The Committee for…

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Report slams IDOT political hiring

Via the Chicago Tribune Gov. Pat Quinn failed to rein in patronage abuses at the state transportation agency after replacing now-imprisoned Rod Blagojevich, and Quinn’s directors repeatedly hired politically connected workers in violation of the rules, the state’s top ethics…

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Super PACs make mockery of campaign finance reform

Via ctpost When a candidate for office gets handed $6.5 million in public money to run a campaign over about four months, it seems that should be enough, right? But no. Both of the major party candidates for governor of Connecticut…

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Rauner loses another round in term limit referendum bid

Via the Chicago Tribune Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner lost another round in his bid to get a term limit referendum before voters today when an appellate court upheld a Cook County judge’s ruling that kept it off the November…

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Blagojevich, state corruption feature in ruling

Via State Journal Register By The Associated Press CHICAGO — A federal appeals court has taken on the issue of pay-to-play corruption in Illinois under disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit by…

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Ethics Commission to investigate Palumbo, Solomon

Via WPRI PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – State Rep. Peter Palumbo and Providence City Council President Michael Solomon will be the subject of separate state Ethics Commission investigations after complaints were filed against both men earlier this month. The commission now…

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