Via the Chicago Tribune Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday dubbed his first spending plan a “turnaround budget” for a financially shaky state, but Democrats rebuffed his proposed cuts to health care for the poor, government worker pensions, state universities,…
Read MoreVia Moyers & Company In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said, “a better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads that pull us into the gutter.” In January, The…
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Read MoreVia Crain’s Registered Chicago voters will cast ballots for mayor a week from today, on Feb. 24, and they’ll have only one vote each. But the vast bulk of the money fueling the mayoral candidates is coming from a relative…
Read MoreVia CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) – A consumer watchdog group was warning that voices of small donors have been swamped under a tide of big money washing over the mayor’s race in Chicago. Illinois Public Interest Research Group director Abe…
Read MoreVia Illinois PIRG In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions undermining campaign finance rules, most notably Citizens United v FEC, our elections have become increasingly dominated by large donors at the expense of ordinary Americans. These effects have been…
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Read MoreVia WTTW As lawmakers and stakeholders await Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget proposal next week, the Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability at the Civic Federation has released a five-year roadmap that it says will stabilize state finances and protect government services….
Read MoreVia US News and World Report To any logical observer, Jeb Bush is testing the waters to run for the presidency. The former two-term Republican governor of Florida has written on Facebook he’s actively exploring the possibility. He’s traversing the…
Read MoreVia WBEZ A well-funded political action committee has sent a fresh round of negative mailers against two of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s more vocal critics on City Council, but it remains unclear how much of an impact it’s having on their…
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