September 07, 2004

In This Issue
* New Sunshine Database Available Soon!
* You Can Encourage Better Campaigns
* See Photos from ICPR's Tribute to Paul Simon

* New Sunshine Database Available Soon!
ICPR and the Sunshine Project has been hard at work this summer, analyzing campaign disclosure reports from candidates for legislative and judicial offices.  With the help of our summer interns, we have examined over 150,000 contributions and 100,000 expenditures, updated the profiles of more than 100 of the state1s top donors, summarized the campaign finances of over 300 candidates, and identified over 1,000 previously uncoded contributors and vendors.  Campaign finance data is now updated through June 30 of this year.
Check back daily for updates to the career patrons, contributor profiles, which will be posted throughout the week.  Click here

* You Can Encourage Better Campaigns
Some of the biggest complaints about election season deal with the ads. Often, the most deplorable ads are sponsored not by the candidates but by outside groups.  A new law in Illinois requires groups running ads that name or depict a candidate and that run between September 3 and Election Day to follow the same disclosure rules that candidates must follow.  You can help enforce this new tool to clean up elections.  Click here for more information.

* See Photos from ICPR1s Tribute to Paul Simon
ICPR1s Tribute to our late founder was a huge success.  If you missed the event, and even if you were there, click here to see pictures

ICPR Spotcheck is a publication of The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a non-partisan public interest group that educates, conducts research, and advocates reforms to promote public participation in government, address the role of money in politics, and encourage integrity, accountability, and transparency in government.

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