Update: Campaign Cash-the rules for using it when not in office

See update below By: Diane Benjamin At the end of September Dan Brady was sitting on $438,947.66. https://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/7645/ Jason Barickman was sitting on $835,282.52. https://www.illinoissunshine.org/committees/23150/ We won’t know the actual balances now until both file 4th Quarter reports. Both will no longer hold elected office in January. Many states require closing campaign accounts 60 days […]

Barickman announces retirement RIGHT AFTER running for re-election

By: Diane Benjamin From Barickman’s Facebook: I have chosen to retire from the Illinois Senate, effective at the end of my current term, which expires on January 10, 2023. I have now served in the Illinois House and Senate for twelve years. My oldest son was born during the final days of my first legislative […]

Renner’s ethics

By:  Diane Benjamin Besides Tari Renner, you have to remember former Alderman Rob Fazzini to understand this story.  Fazzini is the guy who claimed a gas tax doesn’t raise the price of gas and he wasted tons of staff and legal time trying to get both Bloomington and Normal to sell him their garbage so […]