Sheila A. Weinberg joined the podcast to discuss:

• Why audited financials—not campaign talking points—must drive state budgets.
  
  
• Illinois’ transparency failures, delayed reports, and pension shell games.
  
  
• How citizens can force accountability, including SEC complaints over misleading claims.
  
  

Sheila A. Weinberg is a Certified Public Accountant and the founder/CEO of Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit that grades state and city finances and publishes the Financial State of the States, Financial State of the Union, and Financial State of the Cities. She launched TIA after discovering Washington’s “surplus” era still racked up debt and that Social Security, if booked like a corporate pension, was running massive deficits. Under her leadership, TIA developed a transparency score and the Data-Z platform, arming taxpayers and media with plain-English debt metrics like “Taxpayer Burden.” Weinberg is a leading voice for honest, audited numbers so voters can make informed, fiscally conservative choices.  

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