RESPONSES TO ICPR'S 2008 CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE

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1) Do you support ending pay-to-play by banning state contractors, including owners, directors and officers, from making campaign contributions to the constitutional officer who issues the contracts and oversees the work they do?

2) Do you support limitations on the amount of money that individuals and political action committees can contribute to campaign committees?

3) Do you support legislation to prohibit direct campaign contributions by corporations and labor unions, bringing Illinois in line with regulations of federal campaigns and the campaign laws in most other states?

4) Should heavily regulated industries, such as gaming interests and utilities, be prohibited from contributing to campaign committees?

5) Do you support limits on transfers between political committee?

6) Do you support voluntary public funding of campaigns, tied to spending limits, for candidates for Illinois Appellate and Supreme Court?

7) To preserve the appearance of impartiality in our courts, do you support limits on contributions to judicial candidates?

8) Do you support the creation of performance commissions to review judges whose terms have ended and wish to seek retention? Judges deemed exemplary by such a commission would automatically be retained until the next performance review and those judges who do not receive favorable performance reviews have to, as is the current practice, garner 60% of the public vote in a retention election in order to stay on the bench.

9) Do you support allowing the public to receive information on allegations of corruption and the status of investigations by the inspectors general after a finding of probable cause?

10) Do you support quarterly, rather than biannual, campaign finance disclosure by committees registered with the State Board of Elections?

11) Do you support providing the State Board of Elections with increased enforcement authority and the power to conduct random audits?

12) Do you support quarterly, rather than biannual, campaign finance disclosure by committees registered with the State Board of Elections?

13) Do you favor the creation of an independent, non-partisan redistricting commission?


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