“It’s amazing,” said Kent Redfield, an Illinois campaign finance expert and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. “It denied the public, the news media and the people who participated in the campaigns full knowledge of what’s going on.”
Dont forget, secret sc funding is on top of machine gerrymandering the crap out of sc districts to insure machine wins
Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago
Just another example of BS in government. Like I have always said, all government employees are crooks and steal from the taxpayer at every chance.
Pensions Paid First
3 years ago
“Failure to comply with the campaign disclosure rules is punishable by fines of up to $3,000 for each violation after three instances where the law was not followed. There were 35 instances that the group failed to file the state required two-day spending report.” So even when this PAC is guilty, the only thing they need to do is pay a fine of 105k? Clearly there is a problem with the law. In this particular case, the fine would be less than 1.5% of their spend. Seems like a good spend/strategy to not have to answer any questions. Fix the… Read more »
That was my first thought. All the big money groups (labor and lawyers) contributed to this campaign. Any fine to them is a drop in the bucket.
What should happen is the person who ran this PAC should be banned from running any PACs in the state ever again. Since this person is also an attorney, the ABA or other legal associations should also investigate.
To what extent did these non-disclosures effect the outcome of the election? The personal attorney of the senate president was in charge of a PAC to elect Supreme Court justices after gerrymandering the districts in their favor…
move along folks, nothing to see here, just ‘inside baseball’….
debtsor
3 years ago
Raise your hand if you’re SHOCKED, just SHOCKED to find out that Democrats cheat to win.
Wolfnight
3 years ago
Lawlessness at its very very worst.
Corrupt to its core – Illinois. Evil.
As stated by Peter Hitchens, an English conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator, “the decay of modern society has set in”.
They cheated. And they won. And now they are in charge so nothing will happen to them. And the justices who benefited from the money are now beholden to the very legislators that helped elect them. To the tune of millions of dollars.
But that’s OK because the ends justify the means to preserve abortion rights.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Democrats and the fake news fraud media liars have a heavy-flow outrage period over “dark money” in politics — unless it’s Democrat dark money
Watch them act Holier Than Thou from the bench, when it is they who are unethical and criminal. We see through you frauds.
next to Amendment 1, nailing down Illinois SC was the machines #1 priority
Dont forget, secret sc funding is on top of machine gerrymandering the crap out of sc districts to insure machine wins
Just another example of BS in government. Like I have always said, all government employees are crooks and steal from the taxpayer at every chance.
“Failure to comply with the campaign disclosure rules is punishable by fines of up to $3,000 for each violation after three instances where the law was not followed. There were 35 instances that the group failed to file the state required two-day spending report.” So even when this PAC is guilty, the only thing they need to do is pay a fine of 105k? Clearly there is a problem with the law. In this particular case, the fine would be less than 1.5% of their spend. Seems like a good spend/strategy to not have to answer any questions. Fix the… Read more »
Sadly, exactly correct. Chicken-n-egg as to whether the media’s disinterest results from the public’s, or the other way around.
That was my first thought. All the big money groups (labor and lawyers) contributed to this campaign. Any fine to them is a drop in the bucket.
What should happen is the person who ran this PAC should be banned from running any PACs in the state ever again. Since this person is also an attorney, the ABA or other legal associations should also investigate.
To what extent did these non-disclosures effect the outcome of the election? The personal attorney of the senate president was in charge of a PAC to elect Supreme Court justices after gerrymandering the districts in their favor…
move along folks, nothing to see here, just ‘inside baseball’….
Raise your hand if you’re SHOCKED, just SHOCKED to find out that Democrats cheat to win.
Lawlessness at its very very worst.
Corrupt to its core – Illinois. Evil.
As stated by Peter Hitchens, an English conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator, “the decay of modern society has set in”.
How right Mr Hitchens is.
This is not going to end well.
They cheated. And they won. And now they are in charge so nothing will happen to them. And the justices who benefited from the money are now beholden to the very legislators that helped elect them. To the tune of millions of dollars.
But that’s OK because the ends justify the means to preserve abortion rights.