Posted on 03/07/2010 9:22:19 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
ChampionNews.net has a sad tale to tell of the recent meeting of the Will County, Illinois Republican Party. It is an example of why the Illinois GOP is not accountable to the voters in any way. In fact, it proves that many parts of the Illinois GOP isn't even accountable to the elected committeemen!
It is the story of Committeeman Mark Batinick of Plainfield, an elected member of the Will County GOP. In this tale of woe, Batinick details how even the votes of the committeemen are ignored by the "combine" styled, powermongers of the moribund Illinois GOP.
He reveals the events surrounding the crushing defeat of Will County Central Committee member Bobbie Peterson who in a straight up vote of the Will County committeemen voted Perterson out and voted challenger Cory Singer in. The lopsided tally was around 9,000 votes for Singer and 4,000 for Peterson according to Batinick.
That seems like a pretty convincing win for Singer, right? Well, hold the boat. It seems that Will County Chairman Dick Kavanagh (just returned to his spot himself earlier this same meeting) and his pals in the combine didn't want Mr. Singer to take his seat as the 11th District State Central Committee Member no matter how lopsided Singer's vote was.
Dick Kavanagh invoked some arcane half licit rules that gave him the power to simply discount most of Singer's votes so that Peterson could stay as the 11th District's rep on the State Central Committee...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Interesting. I live in Will County and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Thanks for the heads up.
*IL politics ping*
In 2006, I was a precinct committeeman, in Lake Co., and the county chairman, Dan Venturi, voted for vacant precincts, in the election for IL GOP State Central committeeman, in the 10th District, although he lives in the 8th District. He should have had 0 votes, in that race, according to state law, but he had more than 500 votes. I forgot the exact number. I voted for Ray True, and the other conservative was Ruth O’Connell. Because Venturi violated a law, the winner was Tolbert Chisum. I was one of six people who sued Venturi, but the judge threw out the suit. She said that the plaintiffs didn’t have standing to sue, although all of us were precinct committeemen, of the 10th District.
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