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Legislation Would Require Tax Disclosure of Elected Officials
(IRN)-If you don't want people poking into your tax returns, don't run for governor. That's how it would be under a bill introduced in Springfield.

State Representative Bill Cunningham is the sponsor of the bill, which would require the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, comptroller, and treasurer to disclose their returns.

He says it would prevent such questions as, for example, whether 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate State Senator Bill Brady cast votes in conflict with his interest in land near Champaign. Brady allowed reporters to view his returns for three hours without photographing or photocopying them. Brady's running mate, Jason Plummer, never disclosed his financial information.

Cunningham knows the need for disclosure cuts across party lines: "Those of us on the Democratic side this last campaign cycle did not have clean hands on this, either," citing the misadventures of onetime lieutenant governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen. The bill, Cunningham says, is "directed at candidates of all stripes."

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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