October 20, 2005

In This Issue:

• Ethics in Veto?
• Gloria Tristani, Alysia Tate, Salim Muwakkil Confirmed for Media Conference
  
• Best of the Blog
  

Ethics in Veto?
Speaker Madigan has announced a subject matter hearing of the State Government Administration Committee for Friday, October 21, in Room 114 of the Capitol.  The subject matter is "ethics".  There's no legislative language (yet), but the hearing is open to the public.  The Speaker's spokesperson told the Journal-Register's Mary Massingale that the purpose was to determine if there was consensus around certain issues.  Anyone who wants to help answer that question should consider attending the hearing.  http://www.ilga.gov/house/committees/hearing.asp?HearingID=2687&CommitteeID=175

Gloria Tristani, Alysia Tate, Salim Muwakkil Confirmed for Media Conference
ICPR is proud to announce newly confirmed additions to our forum on broadcaster coverage of local campaigns and elections, The Most Powerful Voice in America: How Candidates and Voters Speak to Each Other Through the Media.  The forum is to be held at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on the morning of Tuesday, November 15th.  Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani will be there, as will columnist Salim Muwakkil and Chicago Reporter Editor Alysia Tate.  Will you?  Click here to register.

Best of Blog
Here's a recent entry from ICPR's blog, The Race is On.  Stop by regularly for insights like these:

More, please
Once in power, some elected officials resent the idea that Illinois politics needs to be reformed. But a new poll in today's Tribune shows that voters think the job isn't done, and that the state needs more serious reforms to earn their trust again. And with the long spate of headlines, at the local, state, and national levels, who can blame them? Even sausage makers have cleanliness standards. Public office should be the same.

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