Diersen News, Clips and Upcoming Events, Saturday, February 6th

By Cao on 2/6/2010

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
February 6, 2010

Fellow Republicans:

News clips and upcoming event information:

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

(FROM THE COMMENTARY: The Illinois Republican Party has a very engaging, energized chairman, Pat Brady. Illinois Democrats have Madigan, who shows little interest in doing the job of state party chairman, including mapping strategy to win in November.)

(DIERSEN: If/when Cohen withdraws, the Illinois Democrat Party State Central Committee (SCC) will fill the vacancy by weighted vote. We all remember when the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) SCC filled the Jack Ryan U.S. Senate vacancy by weighted vote. Back then, Combine members and other anti-conservatives who dominate the IRP SCC did not want Oberweis to fill the vacancy, so the IRP SCC filled it with Alan Keyes. The minute Oberweis became a vicious critic of Lauzen, the Combine dropped its opposition to Oberweis. Also, we all remember when the IRP SCC filled the Judy Baar Topinka IRP Chairman vacancy with the Combine’s favorite Andy McKenna. Finally, Sweet should acknowledge that she and other members of the paid Illinois news media do no more and do no less than what Combine members and other anti-conservatives tell them to do.)

(FROM THE COMMENTARY: The debacle of Democrats nominating pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen for lieutenant governor — a candidate so politically toxic he could bring down the Democratic ticket in November — highlights the awful job House Speaker Michael J. Madigan is doing as chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois. Unlike every other state party chairman in the nation, Madigan refuses to run a viable statewide political organization.

With Democrats now facing uphill battles to elect Gov. Quinn and Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias, they head into the nine-month general election campaign without a real, working statewide party. The Illinois Republican Party has a very engaging, energized chairman, Pat Brady. Illinois Democrats have Madigan, who shows little interest in doing the job of state party chairman, including mapping strategy to win in November.

Madigan has used the position mainly to re-elect his state House members and to help daughter Lisa Madigan when she first ran for attorney general. He is up for re-election as Democratic Party of Illinois chairman in April.

Every Democratic activist I’ve been talking to the last few days says it is time for Madigan to step up or step out. . .

The Cohen episode demonstrates that Illinois Democrats could use a real state party leader. Even if Madigan did not want the party to endorse anyone, usually a chairman would at least try to make sure the least-electable contender does not get the nomination. “In any other state, campaigns or interested parties would have gone to the state party chair and aired their concerns about Scott Lee Cohen’s candidacy,” said Kitty Kurth, a Chicago-based Democratic consultant. “The state party chair could have asked Cohen to step down for the good of the party. If Cohen said no, then the party chair could have stood up in the press and said to voters, ‘Vote for any Democrat, but not this one.’

” Illinois Democrats have not had an activist party chairman since Gary LaPaille, who served between 1990 and 1998. During LaPaille’s tenure, he was a statewide voice for Democrats on a state and national level, and the state party was involved in coordinated campaigns, voter registration drives and had an office in Chicago accessible to the public. That has not been done under Madigan, as other Democratic entities have stepped into the void. Sen. Dick Durbin has played a major role in statewide Democratic organizing for years; so have the Illinois Democratic County Chairmen organization, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Organizing for America, the former Obama political organization now run out of the Democratic National Committee.

Madigan spokesman Steve Brown said criticisms of Madigan for being hands-off were “ironic” since Madigan is sometimes accused of being “heavy-handed.” I asked Brown going forward what Madigan’s role would be in dealing with the Cohen situation. On Thursday, Madigan agreed with Quinn that Cohen should step aside. Brown said he did not know if “Chairman Madigan” would be doing more than that.)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

(DIERSEN: Zorn’s employer vehemently opposes SB600. Zorn fails to point out that Dillard supports SB600, but Brady opposes SB600.)

(FROM THE COMMENTARY: Party of Hope’s performance Illinois Democrats are full of hope these days. They are hoping openly that Scott Lee Cohen steps aside for a substitute lieutenant governor candidate with less personal baggage. And they’re hoping quietly that State Sen. Bill Brady’s roughly 400-vote lead over State Sen. Kirk Dillard holds up in the still disputed Republican gubernatorial race. Though the two have substantially similar voting records, Brady, of Bloomington, is more of a movement conservative than Dillard, of Hinsdale, and so less likely to appeal to moderate voters. Both are opposed to abortion, for instance. But Dillard makes an exception in cases of rape and incest where Brady does not. Brady supports school-sponsored prayer and the teaching of creationism in public education; Dillard has said many nice things about Barack Obama and supported embryonic stem-cell research. Accordingly, this is the song I believe you’ll hear if you put your ear up to the door at Quinn’s campaign headquarters: Won’t you hold on, Bill Brady, won’t you hold on? We cry the whole day long We’ll talk abortion, Brady, we’ll talk school prayer We’ll make the case you’re wrong Remember those grass-roots rallies? You wooed the fringe You sounded like a right-wing pawn. You drank the tea, now come face me Bill Brady won’t you please hold on?)

(DIERSEN: If/when SB600 passes and is enacted, the tremendous influence that Cellini, that other Combine members, and that other anti-conservatives have over the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) will begin to diminish. Cellini, other Combine members, and other anti-conservatives vehemently oppose SB600. So why would Cellini support Dillard who supports SB600? The top priority of Combine members and other anti-conservatives who dominate the IRP is to maintain control of the IRP by preventing direct election of IRP State Central Committee members. Therefore, Combine members and other anti-conservatives work against those who support SB600. Dillard supports SB600. Brady opposes SB600.)

(FROM THE COMMENTARY: But now I’m lusting for a different story. This one involves a federally indicted 75-year-old Springfield gazillionaire with a snappy Julius Caesar haircut. William Cellini is the former longtime boss of the patronage-rich Sangamon County Republican organization. He was indicted on political corruption charges along with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the Operation Board Games investigation. What’s revealing is this: Cellini was involved in a recent strategy session that led to the Sangamon County GOP’s key endorsement for gubernatorial candidate Kirk Dillard. State Sen. Dillard, R-Hinsdale, is still neck-and-neck with state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, for the Republican gubernatorial nomination as the remaining votes are counted from last week’s election. “I don’t know whether Mr. Cellini was involved,” Dillard said Friday. “I don’t believe he was. I have no knowledge of his involvement in my endorsement in Sangamon County at all.” Republicans are all giggly over the Pawnbroker and the Hooker. It has weakened the re-election chances of the Pawnbroker’s Democratic running mate, hapless Gov. Patrick Quinn. So riddle me this: If Blagojevich were found offering his political expertise at a Democratic meeting that led to the endorsement of a gubernatorial candidate, would it be a story? You betcha. Reporters would howl. Editorialists would scold. National politicians would slap their outrage on the table. And the candidate foolish enough to accept the endorsement of a group remotely connected with Blagojevich would feel the pain. But the Cellini-Dillard thing isn’t a big story. I guess the laws of political physics don’t apply to true political giants like Big Bill Cellini. He’s the asphalt king of the prairie, but he doesn’t wear sexy outfits. Instead of lacy nothings, Cellini wears suits. He stays below the media radar, counting millions upon millions made through political deals, state casino licenses and development projects with Mayor Richard Daley’s favorite developer, Michael Marchese. Cellini’s sister Janis was the patronage boss for former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar, the fellow who rides his white reform horse for Dillard, his former chief of staff. But Cellini was the real boss. All he had to do was whisper, and Govs. Jim Thompson, Edgar and Blagojevich would roll over. So would Democratic tough guys like state Sen. Jimmy DeLeo, D-How You Doin’?, who in a frenzy of bipartisanship lived at Janis Cellini’s Springfield home for years. Though Republicans use Blagojevich to bash the Democrats, they never mention Cellini. Oddly, neither do the Democrats, who tiptoe past the Cellini scandals like frightened church mice. Cellini is accused of conspiring with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko and Stuart Levine to extort an investment firm into making a $1.5 million contribution to the Blagojevich campaign. And there’s that alleged plot to use White House political contacts to oust U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as the investigation began. That’s what insiders must mean when they say Democrats and Republicans should work together for the good of the people. And who says there’s no Combine? So on Friday, as Dillard was talking about counting every vote and how Blagojevich’s corruption trial would help the Republicans in the fall, we were on the phone to Springfield. The call was about the Sangamon County GOP endorsement of Dillard. Just before the election, Dillard applauded the Sangamon group as “the brain trust” of the state Republican party. The brain belongs to Cellini. Bernard Schoenberg of the State Journal-Register reported Cellini’s involvement last week. So we called Tony Libri, the chairman of the Sangamon Republicans, to confirm. Libri said Cellini was asked for his input on the endorsement process, but not on Dillard, specifically. “We had all these conflicting polls, and we asked him if he could help sort this thing out,” Libri said of Cellini on Friday. “He’s been involved in many, many, elections,” said Libri. “He’s got a lot of experience, so we said, ‘What do you think of this, this and this?’” Libri insisted that Cellini never told them whom to endorse. It just happened that way. Oh, sure. And I’m a Chippendale dancer. Dillard of Hinsdale handily won Sangamon County over Downstater Brady, 6,540 votes to 4,471. It might not seem like much. But Cellini’s “this, this and this” might be the difference. Brady was ahead by only 420 votes as of late Friday. Blagojevich’s trial is scheduled for June, just as the November campaigns take shape. Cellini’s trial is expected to begin after Election Day in November. What an amazing advantage to those corruption-hating Illinois Republicans, who’ll use Blago to beat the Democrats to death while playing “Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil” about Republican Big Bill. “I guarantee you, Mr. Blagojevich’s trial will take precedence in terms of the public, just because one was the governor and one was not,” Dillard said. “But they’re both factors.” Blagojevich is the one who really titillates the politicians and the media. But few get hot for Cellini. I guess the old man just isn’t sexy enough.)

DAILY HERALD

ABC7

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cross does not want either candidate to request a recount. “It certainly takes away from the issues of the day of taxes and spending. And, quite frankly, it’s an expensive endeavor for both sides,” said Rep. Tom Cross, (R) Oswego. Dillard — still holding out hope — thought the meeting in Brady’s office was premature. “Unless they know what those 5,000-to-10,000 potential votes have in ‘em, yeah, they’re premature,” said Dillard. Dillard said Friday his chances rest in where the absentee and provisional ballots are being counted. Most of them, he says, are in the Chicago area, which gives him an advantage over Senator Brady. But, most of those ballots are likely to be Democratic, and the smaller Republican vote could be split as many as six ways.)

CBS2

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE

SUBURBAN CHICAGO NEWS

SUBURBAN LIFE

ST. LOUIS TODAY

THE SOUTHERN

MORRIS DAILY

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Chicago businessman Andrew McKenna led in Grundy County with 829 votes followed by Adam Andrzejewski with 723 and Kirk Dillard, 720, Jim Ryan, 711 and Brady, 644.)

CHAMPION NEWS

NANCY J. THORNER

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE

TOM ROESER

SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND

THINK PROGRESS

(DIERSEN QUESTION: How many people voted for Obama mainly because Obama promised socialism, that is, he promised to use government to a) take more and more and more money away from those who have more money and b) give that money to those who have less money?)

(THE ARTICLE: Yesterday was the start of the National Tea Party Convention, which is “aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movement’s multiple organizations’ principal goals.”

One of the featured speakers during the convention’s kickoff was former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo. Tancredo told the audience that the country had elected “a committed socialist ideologue in the White House” because “we do not have a civics, literary test before people can vote in this country”:

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”

The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America “put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. . .

Barack Hussein Obama.” Given that the convention is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, Tancredo’s remarks are particularly offensive. For years, literacy tests were used across the South to disenfranchise African-American voters, who generally had illiteracy rates 4-5 times as high as whites due to historical discrimination and lack of opportunity.

Unfortunately for Tancredo, the 1965 Voting Rights Act makes literacy tests illegal.)

AMERICAN THINKER

EXAMINER

WALL STREET JOURNAL

LOS ANGELES TIMES

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Plans underway for Reagan’s centennial in 2011 Celebrations in D.C., California and Illinois will recall Reagan the president, the movie star and even the lifeguard. . .In Dixon, a piece by composer David Holsinger celebrating Reagan’s life and legacy will premiere at the Dixon Historic Theatre — “a movie theater where Ronald Reagan would go,” said Ann Lewis, who heads the local centennial planning committee. The local park district plans to re-create the beach where Reagan the lifeguard was credited with saving 77 lives. Plans call for installing a replica of the lifeguard stand he used, with a sign from the era reading: “Profane Language Prohibited.” The late president’s birthplace of Tampico, Ill., is raising funds to dedicate a statue of “Young Reagan” in (where else?) Reagan Park.)

WASHINGTON TIMES

TIME MAGAZINE

(DIERSEN: The facts show that the Republican Party is dominated by moderates, that is, by those who reject some, most, or all of the Republican Party platform, that is, by anti-conservatives. The big tent policy has not only allowed, it has invited those in who want to burn the tent down.)

(THE COMMENTARY: The Vital Center David Frum Ann Coulter made news at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by calling John Edwards a vulgar term for a homosexual. At CPAC 2009, Rush Limbaugh urged conservatives to “stamp out” those in their movement who thought the era of Ronald Reagan had ended. Bottom scraped? Not quite. Next week, Glenn Beck will headline the 2010 CPAC. It’s been a decade since I attended a CPAC, but back in the 1980s I used to plan my year around them. They gathered more ambitious Republican politicians in one place than any other event except a party convention. It was at a CPAC that I first heard Newt Gingrich speak and saw Reagan in the flesh. (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time.) The gathering did something very important for conservatives: it introduced them to one another. CPAC was launched in 1974 by activists at the American Conservative Union at a time when the Republican Party was still dominated by its moderate wing. CPAC activists helped transform the conservative intellectual movement into a political reality – one of the great organizational achievements of American politics. Conservatism’s achievement was matched by an equally epic failure: the implosion of the GOP moderates. The GOP endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment in every one of its party platforms from 1940 through ‘76. From 1970 to ‘74, Richard Nixon signed more environmental legislation than any other President in U.S. history. In ‘74, Nixon advanced a proposal for universal health coverage – decades before those offered by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. (See TIME’s 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama.) Today that brand of moderate Republicanism remains a force in state and local politics. At the national level, however, it is nearly extinct. Northeastern or California Republicans who aspire to national office often feel compelled to reinvent themselves: see Romney, Mitt, career of. Yes, when unemployment exceeds 10%, the GOP can elect a Senator in Massachusetts. But what happens when the economy returns to more normal conditions? The Republicans’ recent electoral successes do not overcome 20 years of GOP difficulty appealing to women, young people and the college-educated. It wins elections by accumulating a huge supermajority in one demographic: whites, especially white men, who are not poor but who have not finished college. That’s a big slice of America, but it’s a shrinking slice. Moderate Republicans sometimes blame conservatives for edging them out of public life. But politics is a competitive business. If the conservatives bring more voters, more dollars and more intensity to the table, well, of course they get the bigger chair. They’ve earned it. The fault is with the moderates themselves. The moderate tendency still exists in the GOP. It expresses itself in quiet dealmaking in the halls of the Senate, in pragmatic decision-making in state capitals. But when challenged, the moderate tendency goes mute. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders.) Who’ll speak up for Utah Senator Robert Bennett, chief co-sponsor of the Wyden-Bennett health proposal that was the best hope for truly market-oriented health care reform? Bennett now faces a serious nomination challenge. Once the excitement of Massachusetts subsides, who’ll champion the non-CPAC-style Senators on the ballot in 2010: Mark Kirk from Illinois or Rob Portman from Ohio? Members of this new miniwave of moderate Republicans support national defense, are eager to cut other federal spending and are hostile to Democratic attempts to reregulate the economy. But these newcomers also understand that the health care status quo is unsustainable. They seek a middle way on abortion and gay rights. They want to protect the environment. And they eschew the inflammatory rhetoric of the tea parties and town halls. We don’t even have a name for this kind of Republican. In the 1980s, we called them Gypsy Moths, after a pest prevalent in the Northeast. But this new strain is not found only in the Northeast, and it is not a pest. It represents the best home for a center-right politics of the future. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia.) If moderates are to flourish, they need an infrastructure to support them. The Democrats worked hard in the 1980s and ’90s to showcase their centrist governors. They invented superdelegates to balance the left-wing activists who had saddled them with unelectable presidential candidates. They altered their primary schedule to enhance the clout of must-win states in the West and border South. Republicans can learn from these examples. But first they have to say it loud and say it proud: The time has come to restore the center to the center-right coalition. Maybe it’s even time to start a new convention so the centrists can meet face to face at least once a year, just as their conservative colleagues do. CenPAC, anyone?)

GOPUSA ILLINOIS

– Factors That Discourage Illinois Republicans From Applying For Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Positions – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

- Knowing that Combine members and other anti-conservatives will viciously attack any candidate that they do not ask to apply for the position
- Knowing that even if Combine members and other anti-conservatives ask you to apply, they need scapegoats, and they will not hesitate to throw you under the bus
- Knowing that the longer that you serve on the SCC without making any waves, the more that you will be viewed as being a Combine operative, a yes-man/woman, spineless, or worse
- Not having the necessary time and money to do the job right
- Not having the appropriate background, experience, etc.
- The congressional district you live in has a low weighted vote
- You have nasty skeletons in your closet that might come out if you apply for the position

UPCOMING EVENTS: FOR EVENT DETAILS, VISIT THE EVENTS PAGES AT: www.illinoisreview.com, www.weareillinois.org, and/or www.dupagegop.com
2/6 Event: Kane County Unity Party
2/6 Event: Pat Brady to speak at Dundee Township GOP Dinner
2/8 Event: Former GAO Comptroller David Walker to speak at the Union League Club
2/8 Event: Connelly, Senger, Hultgren, and Dillard host business summit in Naperville
2/8 Event: DGTRO monthly meeting
2/9 Event: Fort Dearborn Group meeting in Chicago
2/9 Event: Deadline to for SCC candidates to notify the IRP
2/10 Event: Republican National Lawyers Association meeting in Chicago
2/10 Event: Town Hall meeting in Chicago
2/12 Event: McCain to discuss Obama foreign policy at IL GOP luncheon in Chicago
2/12 Event: Lincoln Summit in Oakbrook Terrace
2/13 Event: Tazewell County Unity Breakfast
2/18-20 Event: CPAC 2010
2/20 Event: TAPROOT breakfast meeting in Lombard
2/22 Event: Northwest Lincoln Day Dinner in Schaumburg
2/24 Event: Milton Township GOP monthly meeting
2/24 Event: DuPage Young Republicans meeting in Wheaton
2/26 Event: Pankau fundraiser in Medinah
2/27 Event: NTRO monthly meeting
3/3 Events: County Party Conventions
3/8 Event: Republican State Senate Campaign Committee Reception in Springfield
3/14 Event: Addison Township GOP Annual Brunch
3/19 Event: Rove to speak at DuPage GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
11/2 Event: General election

Each and every morning, I send a GOPUSA ILLINOIS email to each and every GOPUSA ILLINOIS subscriber. If the email does not appear in your inbox, to view a copy of it, please visit: http://www.gopillinois.com. Also each and every morning, I post a link to that copy on the Illinoize page at http://www.capitalfax.blogspot.com. Since January 1, 2005, GOPUSA ILLINOIS has brought to your attention 59,350 internet postings and information on many upcoming events free of charge and without any advertising. GOPUSA ILLINOIS asks that its subscribers use the information in the emails to help elect and reelect Republicans who can and will defend and advance the Illinois Republican Party platform.

Thanks,
Dave Diersen
Phone: 630-653-0462
Fax: 630-653-9665

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