Political Campaign Expenditures Scrutinized
ICPR Executive Director Sarah Brune is quoted in this article
via Illinois News Network
“A state representative says campaign finance laws should change to limit what kinds of trips politicians can purchase with their campaign funds, but the change could be difficult.
Illinois Times investigative reporter Bruce Rushton reviewed up to two years’ worth of campaign spending documents for the state’s 177 legislators and found some legislators using campaign funds to pay for overseas travel. Republican state Rep. Jeanne Ives tells WMAY Springfield the law should change to discontinue or severely limit that practice.
‘We are simply state legislators, we are not Congress people,’ Ives said. ‘We don’t need to go over to Turkey, necessarily.’
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