‘Unprecedented’ Campaign Spending in Illinois
ICPR Executive Director Sarah Brune was interviewed in this article
via NBC5
“Campaign money in Illinois this year is being spent quicker than an Aroldis Chapman fastball. It has reached, according to an expert who monitors money raised and spent, “unprecedented” levels.
Both Democrats and Republicans are handing out sizeable political contributions but no one is doing it more than Gov. Bruce Rauner.
“Gov. Rauner has transferred about $21 million from his committee, Citizens for Rauner, to the Illinois Republican Party this year,” Sarah Brune, executive director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, said in an interview. “Its sort of mind-boggling the amounts of money that we’ve been seeing throughout this entire year.”
Republicans…Democrats it doesn’t matter. What matters is power in Springfield. And it’s not coming cheaply.”
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