Via The Washington Post By Editorial Board September 13 MARYLAND has long offered candidates for statewide office the option of public financing for their campaigns, but candidates at the local level have to raise money the old-fashioned way. More often…
Read MoreFrom Crain’s Chicago Business Unlike Illinois Republicans, he doesn’t have a sugar daddy with super-deep pockets to depend on. But Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan doesn’t need one. As if there ever were any doubt. Campaign disclosure reports filed over…
Read MoreFrom the Pantagraph Associated Press Governor candidates focus on business, hiring By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ gubernatorial campaigns clashed over business dealings and state hiring Monday, with Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s running mate accusing Republican businessman…
Read MoreVia Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s push to raise the minimum wage, which has largely found success in liberal-leaning coastal states to date, could make headway in the conservative heartland in the November elections. Voters in the…
Read MoreVia Chicago-Tribune Mayoral operatives. Political rivals. Angry constituents who were denied a parking sticker. There’s a long line of people, we’re told, who’d like to whisper falsehoods about Chicago aldermen in the inspector general’s ear. For decades, the City Council…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times On Friday, three Republican-appointed federal judges in Chicago gave Wisconsin a green light to require government-issued photo IDs before people can vote in the November election. The decision could be a recipe for a disaster. Last April,…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune More than two-thirds of the Chicago City Council is on board with a plan to give the city’s top watchdog the power to investigate aldermen — with at least one string attached. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson…
Read MoreVia the Herald-Review SPRINGFIELD – There’s been no shortage of politically connected companies lining up to compete for a limited number of state-regulated medical marijuana franchises. But, it remained unclear Tuesday whether state officials will release complete information about the…
Read MoreVia The New York Times Tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations, the new political weapons of choice, are widening the gap between the rich people who control campaign financing and the economically anxious voters targeted by their ads. We don’t know who…
Read MoreVia the National Journal September 9, 2014 Senate Democrats have made campaign finance reform a key plank of their preelection messaging, with Majority Leader Harry Reid denouncing outside spending from the floor regularly and Democrats blasting the corrosive influence of…
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