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Tweak or Landmark Reform?

Ethics Codes & Reform August 20, 2009 by Robert Wechsler

Tweak or Landmark Reform?

According to an article in yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois Gov. Quinn called the new ethics bill he signed a "landmark" change to the state's political culture. However, Patrick Collins, whom Quinn had named to chair the commission that recommended these ethics reforms and many more, called the new ethics provisions "tweaks to the system. ... What we always were advocating for was game-changing reform."

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