Diersen’s News, Clips and Upcoming Events, February 7th

Posted on 2/7/2010 by Cao

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
February 7, 2010

Fellow Republicans:

News clips and upcoming event information:
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
– Low Republican turnout shows that Republican committeemen need to act – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
Beyond outrageously, some, if not many, Illinois Republican party leaders and candidates for party leadership positions made it clear by their words and/or by their actions/inactions that maximizing the Republican turnout for the February 2, 2010 Republican primary election was NOT a top priority.

I was one of those who unsuccessfully argued that the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, the DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and the Illinois Republican Party should do much more to maximize Republican turnout for the election. Beyond outrageously, some misguided, if not worse, party leaders and candidates for party leadership positions argued for doing less — they argued that “it’s only a primary, and not even a presidential primary.”

Beyond outrageously, it seems that some Republican candidates, and their unethical supporting party leaders, wanted the Republican turnout to be kept down because they believed that would increase their chance of wining. The low Republican turnout for the election shows that Republican precinct committeemen need to act, they need to do much more.

They will soon be voting in elections for party leadership positions. They should vote for candidates who have demonstrated that they can and will carry out the duties of the office they seek. They should vote for candidates who have demonstrated that they can and will maximize the Republican turnout for all elections.

– Reasons why, sadly, your GOPUSA Illinois Editor might not attend CPAC 2010 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

  • Putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails each day takes up too much of my time – on average, 10 hours a day
  • The hotel CPAC 2010 will be held at is expensive, getting to and from the airports is expensive
  • GOPUSA ILLINOIS’ focus is Illinois politics while CPAC’s focus is national politics
  • It seems that again, only a few from Illinois will attend or speak at the event
  • I use American Airline frequent flyer miles, American does not have a late flight to Chicago on Saturday, February 20, so I would have to miss the keynote speaker Glenn Beck
  • I have TAPROOT obligations — I have invited Senator Cronin to speak at TAPROOT’s February 20 breakfast meeting
  • While GOProud and Poker Players Alliance are co-sponsoring the event, GOPUSA is not

CBS NEWS

C-SPAN

NORTHWEST HERALD

(THE EDITORIAL: The race for the Republican nomination for governor of Illinois is so close, we still don’t have a winner five days after the election. Just a few hundred votes separate front-runner Bill Brady, a state senator from Bloomington, and Kirk Dillard, a state senator from Hinsdale, in a race where more than 700,000 votes were cast. There’s about one-tenth of a percentage point difference between the two candidates. It could wind up in a costly, and time-consuming, recount, as Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn moves forward with his campaign. Dillard did much better in Chicago and the suburbs than Brady, who carried most downstate precincts. In McHenry County, Dillard captured 5,907 votes on Election Day to Brady’s 2,191. Of course, less than 18 percent of registered county voters cast a ballot this primary election season. Slightly more than 36,000 of the county’s 200,668 registered voters bothered to participate in the democracy. Statewide, turnout was about 25 percent, still remarkably low, but better than here. Had McHenry County’s numbers at least mirrored statewide turnout, an additional 14,000 or so local residents would have voted. And guess what? That could have turned the election for Dillard, who received about three votes in McHenry County for every one vote that Brady received. We’ve already criticized registered voters who didn’t show up at the polls on Tuesday to participate in the democracy. But this is such an important issue, and such an important election, we’re going to do it again. Your vote matters! It mattered for Dillard. In the Democratic race for governor, it mattered to Hynes, who lost to Quinn by just a few thousand votes. In local races, fewer than 200 votes separated Anna May Miller, who is in, from Yvonne Barnes, who is out, in District 1. About 200 votes separated Barbara Wheeler (in) from Karen Tynis (out) in District 3. To state it more bluntly: YOUR VOTE MATTERS! Sadly, turnout was what it was last Tuesday. There’s a new election Nov. 2 to prepare for. We’re confident, or at least hopeful, more voters will decide to participate.)

THE REALITY CHECK & RED COUNTY

(THE ARTICLE: Well, the Chicago controlled Illinois media has done it again. It’s allowed another unsavory Democrat candidate with criminal propensities to slide by unnoticed and to be placed before the voters un-exposed as the low-end sort of fellow he is. And, just like clockwork, this drug addled nut has been elevated to nominee by the Democrat sheeple of the Land of Lincoln – proving that Democrats will vote for a ham sandwich if one is put before them. This media malfeasance only works in favor of Illinois Democrats, though. To prove it all one need do is remember the 2004 case of Republican Jack Ryan. We have but to recall how the Illinois media destroyed this man over what they claimed in wide-eyed shock was his outrageous behavior and remember how the Chicago controlled media torpedoed this man’s career over what they felt was his unsuitability for higher office. It’s all a pretty ho-hum tale of media malfeasance and a case of the Democrat Party’s typical sort of low-brow candidates in Chillinois. . .or is it Illcago? It happens all the time in here, in any case. The Democrats put up a criminal as a candidate, the media yawns and reports on some Hollywood story instead, the voters that claim a Democrat ballot vote him to the head of the class, and then the media suddenly wakes up with cries of faux outrage. It’s a typical pattern, really. This current case is that of Scott Lee Cohen, pawn shop king, wife abuser, steroid addict, and now your Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor. The guy really has no respectable qualifications for office. As a teen he flunked out of High School – but did get his GED, at least. He was once addicted to steroids so badly that he beat up his wife repeatedly because of the fits of rage the drug brought upon him. He was once arrested for holding a knife to the throat of live-in girl friend who also happened to be a prostitute. It’s a pretty messy life Mr. Cohen’s lived. Scott Lee Cohen is certainly the Jerry Springer candidate, here. Yet the Chicago led Illinois media was practically silent about this low-end character whose life reads like a rejected sub-plot from a bad 70s cop show. And the half-witted Democrat voters of the Sucker State* voted him right in as their official nominee for Lt. Governor. The Democrat Party isn’t above criticism, either. Cohen’s endorsement list included prominent Chicago Aldermen and groups like the Illinois Committee for Honest Government and Planned Parenthood. Of course, with all the many Democrat pols that end up in jail in Illinois, I can’t say that Coehn is really all that unusual at this point. But whether his past would have caused voters to shy from him or not, the media fell down on the job of bothering to inform them of it. But this media shield doesn’t work for Republicans, does it? Let us contrast this media behavior in Chicago/Illinois with how they treated a 2004 candidate for Senate that came from the other side of the aisle. His name was Jack Ryan and he was married to Jeri Ryan, a famous actress at the time who had been a co-star of a Star Trek spinoff TV series. As it happened, Mr. Ryan had an interesting peccadillo or two, but no violent criminal nature. Nevertheless, the Chicago controlled Illinois media went wild with joy in order to destroy Mr. Ryan before his campaign had even fairly begun. Not only did the media indulge a feeding frenzy over Mr. Ryan’s supposed sexual proclivities (it was claimed he wanted a threesome with his wife and a second woman and that he tried to force his wife to attend risque sex-clubs with him) but the media went so far as to look into sealed divorce records in order to get to “the truth.” The media sonorously told us that they had a right to see these records because it was for the good of the voters. The media frenzy went from the local news all the way to CNN, the Networks and the national news establishment. The pressure got so hot that Mr. Ryan quit his bid for Senate. Once Ryan stepped down, an outsider named Alan Keyes took his place as the Republican candidate for Senate and the result was Senator Barack Obama. And you know the rest of that story. The point is, in 2004 we had a guy that just wanted sex with his wife, albeit with some friendly onlookers, and the media went wild with efforts to expose this ne’er-do-well to the public so that they’d be “informed” about this evil, rotten Republican. Fast forward to 2009 and we have a Democrat running for Lt. Governor that was a drug addict, a wife abuser, generally a violent fellow, and one who’d taken up with a prostitute yet from the media crickets were heard. Barely a word about this man’s past was discussed by the media that was so hot to destroy a Republican but a few years earlier. That is the major difference in how the media treats the two parties. Republicans get eviscerated, Democrats are treated with kid gloves. Do I have to say John Edwards to you? *Illinois was nicknamed the Sucker State before it adopted the Land of Lincoln handle.)

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR

(DIERSEN: I am one of those who give credit to candidates who announce their campaigns early. At TAPROOT’s 2008 Christmas Party (http://www.taprootgop.org/Docs/BradyBunchParty.htm), I introduced Brady as Illinois’ next governor. I agree with those who believe that Brady would have gotten many more votes in 2010 primary if a) he had with withdrawn from the 2006 primary and thrown his support to Oberweis after it became clear that if he didn’t, Topinka would win the primary, and b) he had not thrown SB600 supporters under the bus. Sadly, to this day, Brady, and therefore, many of his supports, continues to refuse to believe that I would have called for Oberweis to withdraw from the primary and to throw his support to Brady if Brady had been ahead in the polls.)

(THE ARTICLE: What a difference a couple of years makes. Well, a couple of years, a couple of more candidates and a whole lot of apathy. Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, ran for governor in 2006. He got 135,370 votes in the primary election, according to state Board of Election records. That was good for third in a field of five candidates. This year, Brady ran again, and the latest unofficial tally gives him 155,263 votes. This time, though, Brady is in first place, at least for now. Runner-up Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, trails by 400 votes, but he repeated Friday that he isn’t conceding until all the votes – absentee and provisional – are counted. That will take awhile. As you see, Brady’s support didn’t grow substantially in the four years since the last Republican primary. (And just for the record, had he gotten 155,000 votes in 2006, Brady still would have finished third, far behind the top two.) One difference is that the vote this year was split seven ways instead of just five. (DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schilerstrom’s name was still on the ballot, and he got several thousand votes, even though he dropped out of the race.) Among the top five finishers, all polled within just a few percentage points of each other. Also, there were far fewer votes to split. In 2006, about 1.8 million votes were cast in the Republican gubernatorial primary. This year, only a little more than 765,000 were cast. As Kent Redfield, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield, put it, Brady’s apparent victory wasn’t the result of him moving forward so much as the rest of the field moving back.)

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER

(THE ARTICLE: In years past, a handful of media outlets across Illinois would regularly contract with pollsters to track where election contests stood in the months and weeks leading up to an election. But, probably as a result of tough economic times, there’s been markedly less of that. As a result, polls done in the governor’s race for the Chicago Tribune and its TV partner, WGN, might have gotten even more focus than usual this year. Some independent polling companies and campaigns also released numbers, but the Trib poll – which showed Brady trailing badly – got a lot of attention. It got attention from Edgar during his visit to Springfield, too. “I’ve always thought polling’s dangerous in primaries,” Edgar said. “If the Tribune continues to poll, they need to get a new pollster.” Edgar said he thought the firm’s sample of Republican voters included just 25 percent from downstate. About half of actual GOP votes came from that area, he said. But NICK PANAGAKIS, president of the Trib’s polling firm, Market Shares Corp. of Arlington Heights, said the polls presented an accurate picture when they were taken. He said the dynamics of the GOP race changed toward the end. And he said the poll’s results in other races were close to Election Day totals, including in the Democratic gubernatorial contest. Panagakis also disputed Edgar’s criticism of the sample. In getting responses from Democrats, 26 percent were from outside the six-county Chicago region. On the Republican side, however, 45 percent were from downstate. A Dec. 13 poll published in the Trib showed JIM RYAN with 26 percent support, ANDY McKENNA with 12 percent, Brady with 10 percent and Dillard with 9 percent. The follow-up, published Jan. 24 based on interviews conducted Jan. 16-20, had McKenna at 19, Ryan at 18, Dillard at 14 and Brady at 9. That was from a sample of 592 registered GOP voters. The margin of error was reported at 4 percentage points. Back in 1998, Democratic gubernatorial candidate GLENN POSHARD said that polls – including the Trib’s – that predicted a landslide win for Republican GEORGE RYAN, “just killed us,” by deflating the morale of Democrats and making it hard to raise money. Panagakis stood by his results then as well, saying Democrats nationwide gained ground in the final days of that election season. That year, a poll done for The State Journal-Register and other newspapers had Ryan 11 points up about a week before the election. The Market Shares poll several days earlier had Ryan 15 points up. Ryan beat Poshard by less than 4 percentage points. Yepsen said he didn’t want to be critical of any particular newspaper because, when he was a reporter, “I’ve certainly sinned like this. . .too.” But he said Tuesday’s primary showed again that “elections are late-breaking things.” Polls done weeks in advance are worthless, he said. “If you’re not going to stay in the field right up till probably the day before the election, maybe even put a poll on election day morning and do stuff online, you probably ought to think about whether you’re wasting your money,” Yepsen said.)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

(FROM THE COMMENTARY: The right wing of the GOP didn’t want Kirk any more than Team Obama wanted Giannoulias. And plenty of conservatives still aren’t happy. John Parrott, Republican chairman of Downstate McLean County, said Thursday by phone that based on Kirk’s early vote for cap-and-trade legislation (a position he later reversed) and his 100 percent pro-choice voting record, “I think he’s going to have some trouble selling himself to the base of the party.” Nonetheless, Kirk already has jumped out to an early lead, according to a Rasmussen poll.)

(DIERSEN: Who will take the reins of Kirk’s Senate bid?)

DAILY HERALD

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Gov. Jim Edgar attributed the theatrical win of Bloomington state Sen. Bill Brady to the three-way split of local votes between former Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna of Chicago, former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan of Elmhurst and state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale. Brady, meanwhile, rallied downstate voters to nudge him to the party’s forefront. “The key factor was geography. It wasn’t ideology,” Edgar said. And then there were the two neophyte lieutenant governor victors – Democrat Scott Lee Cohen and Republican Jason Plummer – who largely self-financed their campaigns out of obscurity, besting fields of established candidates to possibly next be a heartbeat away from the governor’s office. With such a hodgepodge of candidates moving into the general election, Kurth said the most revealing mentality of the electorate may belong to the voters who didn’t show at the polls. “The one overwhelming truth that happens every time in a low turnout primary is strange things happen,” Kurth said. “This is the problem in a low turnout election. All politics is local and you can’t make any generalizations.” In the 8th Congressional District, Joe Walsh’s Republican win was steeped in the tea party revolution. But that movement diluted statewide where Hinsdale businessman Adam Andrzejewski managed to win a few counties but ultimately may have served as a conservative spoiler in the six-way GOP governor race. Governor hopeful Brady is a social and fiscal conservative but not the favored candidate of that movement. As returns rolled in Tuesday, House Republican leader Tom Cross was similarly left wondering what message to take from voters. “They’re scared, they’re frustrated, they’re angry. Who knows what drives people?” he said. Some political observers blamed the low turnout and lack of enthusiasm on the February primary, weeks ahead of the traditional date. “And one indicator of that is that the vast majority of voters didn’t bother to show up,” said Cindi Canary, director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a nonpartisan watchdog group based in Chicago. “It was a very fast paced, negative campaign coming out of the holiday.” Tuesday’s primary had fewer than 1.7 million voters cast ballots for the governor’s race, compared to more than 1.8. million gubernatorial voters in 2006. The results four years ago already marked the lowest collective turnout for a statewide primary since 1960. “It was such a short timeline in so many ways,” Canary said of the February primary. “There was none of that feel-good campaigning.” Illinois political historian Charles N. Wheeler III, a professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield, said the low turnout was ironic considering the disgust many Illinoisans directed at officeholders following Blagojevich’s arrest in late 2008. “Despite all this supposed outrage among voters and all this sentiment of ‘throw the bums out’ stoked by some editorial boards, in reality, roughly three out of four registered voters didn’t feel sufficiently engaged or impassioned or motivated to bother to vote,” Wheeler said.)

(DIERSEN: Concerning the Lieutenant Governor race, the Daily Herald asks its dwindling number of readers to “name any of the candidates other than Cohen and Plummer” and asks for a “show of hands of anyone who, prior to reading this editorial, could name Plummer, even after he’s won.” Needless-to-say, those who read GOPUSA ILLINOIS daily emails would have no problem answering those questions concerning the Republican candidates and neither would those who attend TAPROOT events. Five of the six Republican Lieutenant Governor candidates spoke at TAPROOT’s November 21, 2009 breakfast meeting and three of the six spoke at TAPROOT’s December 13, 2009 Christmas Party. Two of the six spoke at the Milton Township Republican Central Committee’s (MTRCC) October 30, 2009 Oktoberfest fundraiser — Plummer won the straw poll taken at the event. If the Daily Herald’s mission was report the news rather than help elect Democrats, the Daily Herald would have promoted and reported on the TAPROOT and MTRCC events.)

(THE EDITORIAL: The truth is, Scott Lee Cohen won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor because almost nobody paid attention to the race. Frankly, not too many people paid attention to the Republican primary for lieutenant governor either. In that case, Jason Plummer – only slightly better known than Cohen – won over more credentialed rivals. In Cohen’s case, he won because of a television ad, favorable ballot position and widespread apathy. In Plummer’s case, he won because of downstate chauvinism, favorable ballot position and widespread apathy. In each case, a large field of candidates increased the longshot chances for victory by two candidates almost no one took seriously. Six candidates ran in the Democratic primary. Six ran in the Republican primary. Few people could list them, much less distinguish between them. Quick! A show of hands, please, of anyone who can name any of the candidates other than Cohen and Plummer. Bonus round! A show of hands of anyone who, prior to reading this editorial, could name Plummer, even after he’s won. Widespread apathy and disinterest were the unfortunate winners Tuesday, and to say that is not necessarily a knock on Cohen or Plummer. Either could have been anywhere from history’s worst candidate for office to history’s greatest. That’s not the point. The point is, they were elected without many people having any idea where they fell on that scale. They were elected, mainly, because nobody cared. That is the hard truth. And it is an indictment of everyone – of the electorate, the news media, the political parties, even most of the candidates running for governor (only Andy McKenna, who endorsed a running mate for himself, gets dispensation here). None of us cared enough to go beyond the most cursory exploration to find out who these candidates were. There are a lot of excuses. Too busy. The holidays. The short election window. Distracted by more important races. Not enough time. Not enough staff. They’re all crooks. They couldn’t possibly win. My vote doesn’t matter. It’s somebody else’s job. It’s somebody else’s fault. Excuses. They’re all excuses. The truth is, almost none of us cared enough. None of us care enough even though we are electing someone who will be one heartbeat away from becoming governor. Shame on us. Shame on the electorate. Shame on the news media. Shame on the politicians. On Friday, we called for the office of lieutenant governor to be abolished as an unnecessary waste. But whether that does or doesn’t happen will not solve the greater challenge. That challenge is this: In a democracy, we get the government we deserve.)

FOX NEWS CHICAGO

NBC5

WGIL

NORTHWEST HERALD

(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Tuesday, neither black challengers in the Illinois’ primary – Chicago Urban League President Cheryle Jackson, a Democrat, and little-known former suburban Chicago alderman John Arrington, a Republican – could compete against the better-funded and better-known candidates who captured the major party nominations. Kirk won the GOP nomination, and Giannoulias walked away with the Democratic nod. Both are white. Burris was appointed by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich after Blagojevich was arrested for allegedly trying to sell Obama’s seat.)

SUBURBAN CHICAGO NEWS

(DIERSEN: Evidence of Bowler’s outstanding judgment includes a) his early and strong support for the lieutenant governor candidate who won, Plummer, and b) his being a GOPUSA ILLINOIS email subscriber for many years.)

(THE ARTICLE: Many volunteers in Naperville pick a particular cause or interest and then plug themselves completely into whatever is their passion. Mike Bowler, 39, is wired a little differently than some of the people who do volunteer work. He’s appeared at booths that promote organizations at Naperville’s Last Fling, helped raise funds and awareness for a variety of causes and given his time when someone was in need. But Bowler’s passion is being active as a political volunteer — a task he believes makes a difference in people’s lives and one that means everyone has a stake and a “say so” in our immediate world. A graduate of North Central College, where he majored in marketing, Bowler said the political bug bit him in college as he watched channels like C-SPAN during his undergraduate years. “This was something I took an interest in during the college years and I knew that I wanted to become politically involved,” Bowler said. “I think we have to help facilitate things when it comes to government, which ultimately can help or hurt people’s lives. The recent election shows why this is important — we had a record low turnout locally, which shows that people may not know a lot about the candidates or the issues and therefore the ‘wrong’ person could wind up in office.” Bowler lived in Naperville for a dozen years before moving recently into Aurora. He is married with one child. Despite his relocation, he still has ties as a member of Naperville Township, where he served for a dozen years and is now a committee member after being co-chairman of a local Republican organization. Currently a commercial insurance broker for McClure and Associates, Bowler’s political resume includes being a former executive clerk for Chris Kachiroubas of the DuPage Circuit Court, a legislative coordinator for House Republican leader Lee Daniels and a former legislative aide to state Rep. Jim Meyer. Folks have also seen him at events promoting the Naperville Area Humane Society, plus volunteer stints with the Naperville Junior Women’s Club. He is a past board member of the American Cancer Society East Branch and a regular volunteer for Relay for Life. Bowler said giving back something to the community is both necessary and essential and that in today’s economy, being involved is more important than ever. “Whether you’re looking to save a dog or a cat or help out at a hospital, efforts we make on behalf of not-for-profit groups today are more important than ever,” he said. “In this economy, everyone needs help and resources. “Some of the work I’ve done has been to organize teams on behalf of political candidates who want to support causes like Relay for Life and other events,” Bowler added. “Raising money to help causes like that is worthwhile, and the political connection doesn’t detract from those who the money will benefit.”)

SOUTHTOWN STAR

CHAMPION NEWS

ILLINOIS REVIEW

CHICAGO NOW

NEWS BUSTERS

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cynical observers might note that given that the Democratic Party’s White House occupant has admitted to past cocaine use, and that Illinois’s Democratic nominee for its open U.S. Senate is allegedly “married to the mob,” one might expect that Land of Lincoln Democrats, instead of shunning Scott Lee Cohen, would instead be welcoming him to the club with open arms.)

FOX NEWS CHANNEL

WALL STREET JOURNAL

NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT

DENNIS PRAGER

(DIERSEN: Dr. Dan Kiley had a radio program and a cable television show. He wrote a best selling book titled “The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up” (SEE: http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Pan-Syndrome-Never-Grown/dp/0380688905) In the mid-1980s, he used the profits from that book to have new home built in the small cul-de-sac that I live in.)

REPUBLICANS FOR FAIR MEDIA

WALL STREET JOURNAL

BOSTON GLOBE

WASHINGTON TIMES

LOS ANGELES TIMES

(FROM THE ARTICLE: “A crowded primary field helps liberals in the Democratic Party and conservatives in the Republican Party, but it doesn’t necessarily help either in the fall,” he said. A case in point is the race for Illinois governor, where seven candidates vied for the chance to take on Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn. State Sen. Bill Brady, a solid social conservative, was leading the primary vote count on Thursday with 20.3%. A Brady win would make Quinn’s chances of reelection soar, Sabato said.)

AL JAZEERA

GAY FRIENDLY CHURCHES IN ILLINOIS

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY

(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party’s Unity Breakfast was a great success and we appreciate everyone’s participation and efforts. The large attendance alone shows our energy and that we are ready for the challenges of the 2010 election cycle. We must unite behind all of our Republican nominees and stand proud on our Republican values and principles. Together, we will be victorious in November. Statewide Nominees, along with their contact information, may be viewed at WeAreIllinois.org. We encourage voters to take the time to learn more about our candidates and the direction of Republican Party in Illinois. This is the most diverse ticket in the history of the Illinois Republican Party. We must also acknowledge the efforts of our entire primary ticket and thank them for their dedication to furthering the Republican message. These candidates (see below) should be applauded for their willingness to step into the political arena and demand true change. “We anxiously await the final ballot count and the determination of our Gubernatorial nominee. I am confident that we will win with Senator Bill Brady or Senator Kirk Dillard as our nominee for the Office of Governor. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the efforts of former Illinois Republican Party Chairman and gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna. His commitment to build the Illinois Republican Party should not go unnoticed, ” said Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady.)

UPCOMING EVENTS: FOR EVENT DETAILS, VISIT THE EVENTS PAGES AT: www.illinoisreview.com, www.weareillinois.org, and/or www.dupagegop.com

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
2/9 Event: Geneva Township GOP meeting
2/10 Event: Republican National Lawyers Association meeting in Chicago
2/10 Event: Town Hall meeting in Chicago
2/11 Event: Wayne Township GOP meeting
2/11 Event: RALC meeting in Mundelein
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
2/15 Event: Lisle Township GOP meeting
2/17 Event: Winfield Townhip GOP meeting
2/18-20 Event: CPAC 2010
2/20 Event: TAPROOT breakfast meeting in Lombard
2/22 Event: Northwest Lincoln Day Dinner in Schaumburg
2/22 Event: Vernon Township GOP meeting
2/23 Event: Bloomingdale Township GOP meeting
2/23 Event: York Township GOP meeting
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
5/5 Event: Cinco de Mayo RNHA fundraiser in Aurora
11/2 Event: General election

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