A Call For Transparency
Executive Director Sarah Brune was quoted in this article.
Via- NPR
“Making resolutions for a new year is a popular tradition, and better late than never is a familiar expression. With that in mind, here’s a suggestion for Illinois lawmakers as they return Springfield four weeks into the new year:
Why not resolve to strengthen the state’s ethics laws, in particular the economic disclosure that all candidates and officeholders must file? Beefing up the current weak requirements shouldn’t cost anything, while making more detailed information available would allow the public to have a better sense of what potential conflicts of interest exist for a particular politician. Voters surely would approve on both counts.
To give credit where due, more meaningful economic disclosure was among several new year’s resolutions offered by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform as 2018 began. But the idea has been around for decades, all the way back to adoption of the 1971 Constitution, which required statements of economic”
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