Via The Redline Project The 2014 Illinois gubernatorial race between incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner is shaping up to be one of the most competitive — and costly — in the country. The two campaigns spent…
Read MoreVia Chicago Tonight Bruce Rauner has one message for Governor Pat Quinn. “Governor, the jig is up,” he said in a press release Tuesday. “The application process for medical marijuana should not be held in secret where insiders win and…
Read MoreVia Gotham Gazette Not only are the 2013 New York City elections memorable for moving the city into the post-Bloomberg era, they stand out for the unprecedented levels of outside spending, or independent expenditures, by non-campaign organizations that vied to…
Read MoreVia 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…
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