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Shut the revolving door in Springfield (Editorial)

January 23, 2013
Southern Illinoisan

Our View: Illinois needs a law keeping politicians from going straight from lawmaker to lobbyist.

Illinois is a state plagued by corruption. It’s an issue that needs to be fixed, now.

Yet, somehow the revolving door in Illinois politics remains swinging wild and free.

State legislators can take jobs as lobbyists immediately after their time as lawmaker is done.

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Wanted: Lobbyists who raise cash

May 20, 2012
Politico
By ANNA PALMER 

 
Policy experts, leadership aides and committee staff used to be the kings of K Street, collecting a premium

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Former Daley aide Teele now lobbying Chicago tourism agency

May 1, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter 

Terry Teele — a trusted adviser to former Mayor Richard M. Daley forced out in a 2000 ethics scandal — has landed a lucrative lobbying contract with the mega-agency charged with promoting Chicago as a site for conventions and tourism.

Don Welsh, CEO of the agency now known as Choose Chicago, was tight-lipped when asked why he chose Teele.

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Lobbyists' revolving door needs to go

April 24, 2012
Decatur Review & Herald

 By the H&R Opinion Page Staff

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Prosecutors alleged Tenaska paid former Oklahoma senator to influence bill

March 8, 2012
Illinois Times
Patrick Yeagle
 
A power generating company with plans for a major new plant in Illinois has been implicated in the corruption trial

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Politicians get rich at taxpayer expense

November 18, 2011
The Beacon News

By Jeff Ward

It isn’t often that “60 Minutes” pays a visit to this Illinois political backwater. And with senior correspondent Steve Kroft no less! Had it been Scott Pelley, we’d all have hung our heads in shame at the thought of having to endure all those Chicago Democratic machine sneers, taunts and giggles.

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Ex-Lawmaker Still a Friend of Hospitals

August 5, 2011
New York Times

By ERIC LIPTON

WASHINGTON — Earl Pomeroy figured that Plan A was his career in Congress, where, over nearly two decades, as a North Dakota congressman he became a powerful advocate for the hospital industry.

Now, after losing re-election last year despite hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from grateful hospital executives, doctors and other industry officials, he has moved on to Plan B: promoting their cause as a lobbyist.

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Former top lawyer at City Hall follows Daley to Chicago law firm

July 14, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Fran Speilman

Mara S. Georges, who was the city of Chicago’s longest-serving chief lawyer, is following her old boss, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, to the Chicago law firm that got $822,760 in legal fees from City Hall for work on Daley-engineered deals that privatized Chicago’s parking meters, the city’s downtown parking garages and the Chicago Skyway.

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Fired Water Dept. supervisor Patrick Doherty’s new government job

July 14, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

 By Steve Warmbir and Lisa Donovan

In 1994, Chicago Water Department supervisor Patrick Doherty was fired for lying on his time sheets.

When he said he was working, he was actually at home at times, or going to Handy Andy or White Hen or Walgreens, a city investigation found.

Doherty claimed he did some work at home, in part, because of a problem at his city office.

His work desk wasn’t big enough to do work on, he said.

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