Posted on 03/12/2009 1:15:50 PM PDT by Velveeta
Shame on Andy McKenna, Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party. Shame on the entire party, which seems hellbent on continuing its dismal record of losing elections. Although the Illinois GOP has won more "games" than the Chicago Cubs have over the past 100 years, at least the Cubs can honestly say they've been trying. The Illinois Republican Party seems content to roll over and play dead.
Rosanna Pulido won the Republican special primary election in the Illinois 5th Congressional District on Tuesday, March 3. The election is being held to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. You might not know this, however, from looking at the Illinois Republican Party's website (http://www.weareillinois.org/), where there are only two brief mentions of Rosanna Pulido. Pulido will face Democrat candidate Mike Quigley and Green Party candidate Mathew Reichel on April 7.
We're not talking about a minor elected office. We're talking about a seat in the US Congress. Although it is unlikely that Pulido can defeat better funded Quigley, the GOP should at least be touting their candidate in the 5th. Barely a mention on their website. The GOP is making a lot of noise in support of a special election to replace Roland Burris, who was appointed by Gov. Blagojevich to fill the congressional seat vacated by Barack Obama.....
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There will be more about this next week. Much more.
ping
Culture of corruption within the GOP there?
Two words: Losing Cause...
yet they attack us for not voting for their ‘moderate’ guys
They said the same thing about my congressman and he lost by a whopping 2%.
A virtually non-existant GOP here.
Ronald Reagan: I didn’t leave the democratic party. The democratic party left me.
Robroy, 2007: I didn’t leave the republican party. The republican party left me.
What others call a Rino, I call a “republican”. What I call a Rino, others call a “conservative”.
The Republican party has been a joke for a long time.
Pulido is against illegal immigration, and the ILGOP, much like the rest of the country club GOP “leadership”, is for it.
With a Democrat and a Greenie competing, the Repub might have a chance.
The district (while heavily Dem) isn’t as Dem as Cao’s district in New Orleans.
Especially in an off year, low turn out race.
Is there anything we can do to try to organise and support Pulido, regardless of the country club GOPers’ cut and run?
Not necessarily.
If the ILGOP backed Rosanna financially, I think she’d have a shot.
No more moderates!
Funds should bypass ILGOP and go straight to Rosanna.
bump
Follow the money politics in CT, same as here - right?
So, how do we fix it?
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