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Comptroller’s ‘no exit bonus, no signing bonus’ reform passes in legislature’s ethics package
— 23 WIFR | WIFR Newsroom — View the article. ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Legislators of both parties exploited a loophole in state law that allowed them to resign on the first day of the month and collect the whole month’s pay or get sworn in at month’s end but claim a whole month’s pay,…
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The clock is ticking at last on paycheck shenanigans in Springfield
— Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn — Listen to this article. State Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the needle on her shenanigans detector jumped dramatically shortly after the resignation of state Sen. Martin Sandoval in late November 2019. The Southwest Side senator, who died a little more than a year later of COVID-19, was at the…
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Editorial: Pull plug on legislators’ windfall pay scam
— Champaign News Gazette | Editorial Board — Public policy that, by design, institutionalizes abuse of taxpayers ought to be repealed. How’s this for ridiculous? Illinois taxpayers are/were on the hook for the full monthly February salaries of three members of the Illinois House who represented the same 22nd District in Chicago. Yes, it’s true, fully…
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Editorial: One month’s pay for three days’ work?
— Kankakee Daily Journal | Editorial Board — The recent comings and goings in the Illinois House of Representatives is nothing short of a debacle. To catch you up, long-tenured former Speaker Michael Madigan resigned his 22nd District post. He hand-picked Edward Guerra Kodatt to take his seat in the House. Three days after he was…
