RFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke to the Evanston RoundTable about how the launch of small donor matching in Evanston will fight “quid pro quo corruption” in which an entity donates to a campaign with the expectation of something in return,…
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke to The Center Square about how voting for third-party candidates in Illinois can have unintended consequences, helping o support a candidate that “might not be the one you prefer to help.” Explaining how ranked-choice voting…
Read MoreFormer Ald. Edward Burke’s sentencing on corruption charges represents a clarion call for Mayor Johnson and the City Council to take action on ethics reform. The longtime Finance Committee chair, who also chaired the Cook County Democratic Party’s judicial slating…
Read MoreSludge covered a press conference, hosted earlier this week by Ald. Matt Martin (47th) and Reform for Illinois, along with other coalition partners, about the new Chicago Fair Elections ordinance. RFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan described the proposal as “a…
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune covered Ald. Martin’s proposed ordinance to match campaign contributions to aldermanic candidates with taxpayer dollars. Read the article here.
Read MoreWTTW covered a press conference for Ald. Martin’s Chicago Fair Elections ordinance, which would create a small-donor matching public financing system for City Council elections. RFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan spoke at the press conference and was quoted in the…
Read MoreRFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan spoke with The Center Square about the omnibus and its failure to include a provision for deep fake electioneering. “For example, if someone used Artificial Intelligence to create a Joe Biden video saying, ‘stay home…
Read MoreWTTW covered the recent elections omnibus bill and spoke to Speaker Welch about a controversial provision that would remove restrictions on contributions from political party committees to candidates during a primary election. An excerpt from RFI’s recent statement about the…
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The legislature also failed to address election threats from AI-generated “deepfakes” At a time when we are increasingly alarmed by the concentration of money and power in the hands of a few, Reform for Illinois is disappointed that the Illinois…
Read MoreReform for Illinois Executive Director Alisa Kaplan spoke with The Center Square about how political polarization and the high cost of running for office could contribute to the lack of competitive primary races this cycle in Illinois. Read the article…
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