Via Chicago Sun-Times The $1.35 million-and-counting superPAC created to re-elect Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his aldermanic allies is taking its first concrete step to ensure that Emanuel has even less City Council resistance if he’s re-elected to a second…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times A questionnaire distributed to aldermanic candidates by a superPAC created to re-elect Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his City Council allies telegraphs Emanuel’s plan for a post-election property tax hike, two possible mayoral challengers warned Thursday. Ald….
Read MoreVia The Washington Times Americans in growing numbers are unhappy about depending on government for survival — life-and-death survival, not just dependence on government for food stamps, health care, housing or even cash. Even in liberal enclaves such as Chicago and Detroit,…
Read MoreVia State Journal-Register Republican Bruce Rauner’s proposal to dump a temporary state income tax increase would cost public schools $4 billion a year and lead to nearly 28,000 teacher layoffs, the rival campaign for Illinois governor said Wednesday. Paul Vallas,…
Read MoreVia The Washington Post After more than a year of campaigning, New Hampshire Senate candidate Jim Rubens (R) has decided on his closing message: the “disconnect between voters in New Hampshire and politicians in Washington, D.C.” He was campaigning in Groveton, a…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune A top aide to Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is leaving the administration amid a politically damaging patronage hiring controversy that already led to the departure of the head of the state’s transportation agency. Quinn spokesman Grant…
Read MoreVia Pantagraph SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday on gay marriage fights from Indiana and Wisconsin, setting the stage for one ruling. Each case deals with whether statewide gay…
Read MoreVia The Washington Post Federal prosecutors have turned time and again to a favorite phrase as they’ve battled D.C. political corruption — “pay-to-play politics” — and for the past several years now, elected officials and candidates have floated various solutions…
Read MoreVia SF Gate Advertisements decrying the proposal to tax soda in San Francisco are everywhere — from billboards to web banner ads to literature being handed out around town by people wearing those ubiquitous red T-shirts. But the campaign to…
Read MoreVia ABC WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) — Governor Pat Quinn called for raising the minimum wage in Illinois to at least $10 an hour while at an event Sunday night in north suburban Waukegan.Quinn joined Congressman Luis Gutierrez, nominee for Lt….
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