By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(SPRINGFIELD) Governor Rauner is proposing big increases in fines for public corruption.
Now that the legislative deadlines have passed for reforms like term limits and fair maps, Rauner wants to make the state’s penalties for public corruption the toughest in the nation.
Maximum fines would jump: for bribery from $25,000 to a million dollars … receiving campaign contributions on state property from $5,000 to $10,000 … and accepting other compensation for official duties from $1,000 to $200,000.
Rauner wants legislators to be more like him, “I don’t owe anybody anything. I can’t be bought, bribed or intimidated and I can just stand up to the system and say no.”
Democrats regard all of this as a campaign stunt and an idea that will go nowhere.
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