State officials may need to review ways to “protect disclosure” in Illinois in the wake of largely untraceable campaign contributions flowing into state campaigns, a leading campaign finance reform group says.
An unprecedented amount of out-of-state money is financing the race for governor, one expert added.
“That’s pretty unprecedented for Illinois to have that huge amount of money coming in from out of state,’ said Kent Redfield, political science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Redfield raised another point.
“The Democratic group discloses (contributors), the Republicans don’t,” he said.
Redfield's comments were featured in an October 27, 2010, article in The State Journal-Register.
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