With Mike Madigan gone from the Speaker’s seat for almost a year, recent fundraising reports give us some hints about what’s changed and what’s stayed the same in a post-Madigan era. What’s the same. Legislative leaders are still abusing the…
Read MoreReform for Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, spoke with the Center for Illinois Politics’ Daniel Vock about House Democrats starting to “stand on their own two feet” without Madigan controlling the party’s fundraising efforts. Read the article here.
Read MoreThe recent revelation that an FBI sting caught a Cook County Board of Review employee counting thousands of dollars in alleged bribes in his car, saying he was going to “split [the cash] up between everybody” is a cinematic example…
Read MoreReform for Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, spoke with the Chicago Tribune’s Dan Petrella about the fate of SB539, which failed to muster the necessary votes to accept Governor Pritzker’s amendatory veto in the Illinois House. “The narrative about the…
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan joined Bishop on Air to discuss feeling “surprised and disappointed” by Governor Pritzker’s amendatory veto of the ILGA’s ethics bill. Listen here.
Read MoreGreg Bishop of The Center Square outlined the path forward for the General Assembly’s ethics bill after Governor Pritzker’s amendatory veto. Reform For Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, was quoted as saying that the revolving door provision has a loophole…
Read MoreRick Pearson and Dan Petrella of the Chicago Tribune covered Governor Pritzker’s amendatory veto of the ethics bill, including criticism from groups like Reform for Illinois and CHANGE Illinois that the bill doesn’t go far enough. “This is not a…
Read MoreGreg Bishop of The Center Square covered the resignation of Legislative Inspector General Carol Pope along with RFI’s statement on her announcement. Read the article here.
Read MoreYesterday was the deadline for Illinois political committees to submit their quarterly reports detailing campaign contributions and expenses. They give us a picture of where the party committees, legislative leaders, and candidates in contested races stand with just under a…
Read MoreGovernor Pritzker should use his amendatory veto power to demand stronger measures Yesterday, Carol Pope announced she was resigning as Illinois’ Legislative Inspector General, the position charged with investigating ethics violations in the General Assembly. Citing the legislature’s lack of commitment to…
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