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Kiannah Sepeda-Miller is an investigator with the Better Government Association in Chicago. She worked in the Associated Press Illinois Statehouse Bureau while earning a master's degree in Public Affairs Reporting at the University of Illinois-Springfield.

Featured Statements

Mary Miller
stated on October 23, 2021 in a tweet:

The migrant caravan from Tapachula, Mexico “is the population of Minneapolis.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 31, 2021
Terri Bryant
stated on September 21, 2021 in a radio interview:

“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 3, 2021
Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021
Rodney Davis
stated on July 27, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “office was calling the shots on all of their (Capitol security officials’) actions on Jan. 6.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 5, 2021
JB Pritzker
stated on July 21, 2021 in a podcast interview:

“You can't actually use ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds” to pay down state unemployment insurance fund deficits.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 30, 2021
Terri Bryant
stated on July 13, 2021 in a radio interview:

“You may be 55 years old in [Illinois] and a citizen and not eligible for Medicaid. But if you are an undocumented immigrant and 55 or older, you’re eligible for Medicaid.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 20, 2021
Lori Lightfoot
stated on June 28, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

Cook County’s criminal courts “have been shut down for 15 months.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 4, 2021
Rodney Davis
stated on June 21, 2021 in a press release:

“Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 27, 2021
JB Pritzker
stated on June 3, 2021 in a TV interview:

Illinois Republican lawmakers “have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 11, 2021
Robert Martwick
stated on May 10, 2021 in a podcast interview:

Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 23, 2021