RFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke with The Chicago Tribune’s Gregory Pratt about Mayor Lightfoot’s transparency ordinance, which allows her administration to release previously confidential reports from the inspector general. Lightfoot should revisit the ordinance “if she’s serious about following through…
Read MoreFrom Joe Manchin to ComEd, it’s hard to escape speculation about the role of corporate money and special interests in environmental and energy policy. Watch Illinois PIRG’s Abe Scarr, WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s Dana Johnson, and Public Citizen’s Tyson…
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke with Greg Bishop of The Center Square about Gov. Pritzker’s “huge advantage” in Facebook ads in the governor’s race. Read the article here.
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan wrote to The Chicago Tribune about billionaire politics and their “extraordinarily corrosive effects” on society. Read the letter here.
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan joined WGN Radio’s John Williams to share her thoughts on billionaires in politics. Listen here.
Read MoreRFI ED Alisa Kaplan spoke with the Better Government Association’s David Jackson about conflicts of interest and the revolving door for insurance executives at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), which oversees Medicaid. “When the relationships between…
Read MoreThe Daily Line’s Joel Ebert covered SB 536, an omnibus elections bill that would prohibit judicial candidates from accepting contributions from out-of-state donors or from entities that do not disclose their donors. RFI ED Alisa Kaplan’s take? While Reform for…
Read MoreWith Mike Madigan gone from the Speaker’s seat for almost a year, recent fundraising reports give us some hints about what’s changed and what’s stayed the same in a post-Madigan era. What’s the same. Legislative leaders are still abusing the…
Read MoreReform for Illinois’ Executive Director, Alisa Kaplan, spoke with the Center for Illinois Politics’ Daniel Vock about House Democrats starting to “stand on their own two feet” without Madigan controlling the party’s fundraising efforts. Read the article here.
Read MoreThe recent revelation that an FBI sting caught a Cook County Board of Review employee counting thousands of dollars in alleged bribes in his car, saying he was going to “split [the cash] up between everybody” is a cinematic example…
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