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Dawn of the deal

December 12, 2011
Chicago Reader

Mayor Emanuel's old campaign manager helps bring an Uptown TIF deal back to life
By Ben Joravsky

The last time the TIF-funded deal atMontrose and Clarendon reared its ugly not-so-little head was on a sweltering day in June, when everyone involved would have been better off watching the NBA finals.

About 600 people crammed into the Clarendon Park field house for a community referendum on a developer's proposal to spend $50 million in public money to build condos, a health club, and a grocery store on a 31-acre site now occupied by a vacant medical facility.

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The man who stands between Chicago pols and their casino dreams

November 20, 2011
Chicago Tribune

Regulator Aaron Jaffe objects to plan for a barely regulated deal

John Kass

With taxpayers busy concentrating on the holidays, it might be the perfect time to think about what's on top of the Chicago political wish list:

Like a big fat Chicago casino, generating millions a month in cash and contracts, the management agreement shielding the names of the subcontractors from the public, and nobody to watch over the massive quivering organism but a few guys handpicked by City Hall.

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Lobbyists Line Up to Sway Special Committee

September 21, 2011
New York Times

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: September 21, 2011

 

WASHINGTON — With television cameras rolling last week, aerospace executives warned of dire consequences if Congress cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in Pentagon spending, and they promised a full-throttled campaign to stop it.

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Premium for policies (Editorial)

September 16, 2011
Belleville News Democrat

   
Can $70,800 buy you an Illinois legislative study group?

Probably not. But you could look at it as buying an insurance policy.

The insurance industry so far this year gave $70,800 to the four state lawmakers chairing the group that is making recommendations on governing and funding a state insurance exchange -- our state's implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act, known less kindly as Obamacare. One of the four is our own state Sen. Bill Haine, D-Alton.

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Rick Perry and HPV vaccine-maker have deep financial ties

September 13, 2011
Washington Post

By Dan Eggen, Published

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose bid for the White House depends heavily on support from religious conservatives, finds himself confronting an issue that is a flash point for that part of his base: his attempt to order schoolgirls to receive a vaccine that would protect them against a sexually transmitted virus.

The uproar over the Gardasil vaccine — manufactured by Merck, a major Perry campaign donor — knocked the candidate off-stride during a Republican debate Monday night.

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Lawmakers on exchange panel get insurance funds

September 12, 2011
Chicago Tribune

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.— The insurance industry is handing out campaign cash to Illinois lawmakers who will play pivotal roles in setting up Illinois' health-benefits exchange.

Democrats Frank Mautino and William Haine and Republicans JoAnn Osmond and Bill Brady are co-chairpersons of the study committee, which is expected to make recommendations to the General Assembly by Sept. 30 on how the exchange should be governed and funded.

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In Highland Park, fencing match becomes federal case

September 11, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Lisa Black, Tribune reporter

The dispute that started between two neighbors with a regal view of Lake Michigan was never just about a fence.

At least, that's what a Highland Park resident says about an 8-foot-tall barrier running alongside his backyard on the lake's shoreline — a structure that's now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

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Health-insurance advocates suspicious of insurance industry campaign money

September 9, 2011
Suburban Life

By DEAN OLSEN
GateHouse News Service

SPRINGFIELD -- Lawmakers who will play pivotal roles in setting up Illinois’ health-benefits exchange — an entity designed to make health insurance more affordable for consumers and small businesses — are among the top recipients of cash from the insurance industry.

One consumer group says campaign contributions make it likely the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Legislative Study Committee will issue recommendations later this month that benefit the insurance industry at the expense of consumers.

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Company that volunteered in Emanuel's transition snags a big contract

August 28, 2011
Chicago Tribune

Accenture could reap millions as it looks into city spending

By David Kidwell, Tribune reporter

As newly elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel was developing his priorities for fixing government, he turned to Chicago's business community for free advice on everything from failed schools to wasteful city spending.

Now, one of the companies involved in that effort has agreed to review how City Hall doles out contracts, with an eye toward saving as much as $25 million. But this time, the expertise won't come so cheap.

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