Local Democrat state representatives continue to remain quiet over their positions on the future of House Speaker Michael Madigan despite 19 fellow Democratic state legislators vowing not to vote for his re-election to the post.
Asking Illinoisans to pay more in taxes to receive less in services has been the trend in state government for the past decade, driven by the ever-growing cost of Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension crisis.
Madison County voters overwhelmingly support referendums seeking to save taxpayer money.
By a margin of 78-22, voters approved a binding resolution lowering the maximum tax rate to .18 percent. Voters also opposed the non-binding resolution asking if they supported double dipping, which is when retired county employees and officials draw a pension while also drawing a salary paid for by taxpayers. The resolution was rejected in a vote of 70 to 30 percent. The most significant margin was in support of a non-binding resolution asking if Illinois General Assembly legislators should not receive automatic pay increases. Voters overwhelmingly supported the question by a vote of 87 to 13 percent.
Since State Rep. Monica Bristow (D-Alton) was first elected in 2018, her campaign committee has pulled in $2,960,236 - half of which has come since the beginning of the month.
By this time, with the millions of dollars spent for and against, you have been inundated with advertising on Gov. Pritzker’s so-called “Fair Tax.” Pritzker himself put in $56 million of his own fortune into the “Vote Yes” campaign.
One of three advisory referenda for Madison County voters asks whether automatic pay increases for state lawmakers should end, a question which local Republican candidates for state representative urge a "yes" vote.
Attorney General Raoul Releases Voter Guidance for 2020 General Election Attorney General Kwame Raoul released new online guidance to help Illinois residents understand their rights during the 2020 general election.
Committees controlled by the speaker of the Illinois House funded more than half of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride’s campaign contributions in 2010. Kilbride is up for retention again this year.
The lawsuit challenges the language that will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot asking whether voters want to scrap Illinois’ constitutional flat tax guarantee – opening the door to a retirement tax.
Democrat Bob Daiber, challenging Republican incumbent Kurt Prenzler for county board chairmanship, says that feral "working" cats released within the Metro East Sanitary District to keep away moles, voles and other burrowing animals under Prenzler's administration "were left to be hunted by coyotes, resulting in their violent deaths."
Undaunted by his implication in a bribery scandal, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan within the past month transferred $3.25 million to the state party.
While acknowledging the harm it would do to the state economy and working Illinoisans, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton claimed lawmakers would be ‘forced’ to look at hiking everyone’s taxes due to the budget crisis.
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is also chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois, has been implicated in a federal bribery investigation. Trial lawyers, however, continue to donate money to Madigan's campaign organization.
Progressive income tax proponents put factually inaccurate and misleading claims into a constitutionally required pamphlet intended to inform voters about a proposed amendment.