01 Oct 2002

Illinois AG Candidate Madigan Gets Aggressive

By Rich Miller
For months now, Lisa Madigan has allowed her staff or some other surrogates to attack Joe Birkett, her Republican opponent in the race for Illinois attorney-general. The personal high-road strategy hasn't worked too well so far.
24 Sep 2002

Illinois High Court Takes Away Citizen Recourse

By Rich Miller
The Illinois Supreme ruled last week that you, as a taxpayer, have no right to sue when your state tax money is spent illegally. The case, brought by the Better Government Association (BGA), sought to recover tax money that was allegedly used to subsidize Governor George Ryan's campaign operation.
10 Sep 2002

Cash and Conflicts for Illinois AG Candidate

By Rich Miller
The news media, particularly in Chicago, has expended huge amounts of time and energy researching every nook and cranny of attorney-general candidate Lisa Madigan's life and political connections. But almost nothing has been written about her opponent, Joe Birkett.
03 Sep 2002

Illinois Attorney-General Candidate Should Come Clean

By Rich Miller
What follows was assembled using DuPage County grand-jury testimony given by police detective Greg Figel. According to the testimony, William Stoltz was unemployed for the last six months of 1999. Stoltz lived in a house with his wife of 18 months, Dawn.
27 Aug 2002

Media Scandal-Mongering Needs to Stop

By Rich Miller
I'm getting pretty tired of all the news stories about political corruption these days. Every time we turn around, another media outlet is screaming for a new federal investigation. It's become the thing to do in media circles, an attempt to mount an indicted trophy head or two on newsroom walls as a display of accomplishment and importance.
20 Aug 2002

Politicking at the Illinois State Fair

By Rich Miller
E-Mail To Ellicia (from Vanessa Miller, age 16): Hey hun, how are you? I am doin' just fine. I just got back from the state fair. These last two days have been awesome for me. I have my own press pass for future use and I can pretend that I am all-important.
06 Aug 2002

Reports Show Illinois Republican Party in Disarray

By Rich Miller
You know it's bad news when the Republican state treasurer has more money in her campaign account than all her fellow GOP statewide candidates and the state Republican Party combined. Plus, to top it all off, most big-time Republican who filed campaign-finance disclosure reports last week - except Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka - did business with a corrupt little mail house called Unistat, run by the now infamous (and indicted) Roger "The Hog" Stanley.
16 Jul 2002

Daniels Probe Leaves Illinois GOP with Few Good Alternatives

By Rich Miller
Illinois House Republican Leader Lee Daniels summoned his top lieutenants to Springfield last week for what was billed as an election strategy session. Instead, the meeting immediately morphed into a war council, as Daniels and his leadership team talked about how to fend off a surprisingly strong coup attempt.
18 Jun 2002

Powerful Union Takes Massive Hit in Illinois Budget

By Rich Miller
It's been a long time since a union has taken a hit in Springfield like the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees took last week. The Illinois Senate Republicans held lockstep for more than eight hours last week, approving all but a handful of Governor George Ryan's 234 budgetary vetoes one by one.
14 May 2002

State Employees Flex Political Muscle

By Rich Miller
There might be no more politically powerful union in Illinois than the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Want proof? Well, AFSCME brought thousands of its members to Springfield last week for its annual "lobby day," and both state legislative chambers used the opportunity to suck up a whole lot more than they ever would for any other labor organization.

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