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RFI Senior Policy Advisor David Orr comments on Mayor Johnson’s campaign committee paying a consulting firm to help with fundraising while it also lobbied City Hall

In an article by the Chicago Tribune, RFI Senior Policy Advisor David Orr spoke about Mayor Johnson’s campaign committee paying Mercury, a consulting firm that helped with fundraising, while it also lobbied his administration on labor and economic causes.

Orr suggested that the Chicago Board of Elections, or another government watchdog, should issue an opinion on the situation with Mercury. He said, “I think it needs to be looked into or explored,” Orr said. “We don’t want to find (that) because we’re not being aggressive in exploring some of these things … that we’ve opened up another can of worms.” 

Read the article here.


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