Posted on 05/16/2023 5:20:21 PM PDT by COSIllinois
The Illinois Republican Party remained mostly silent during the April 4th election cycle, with the exception of two social media posts encouraging people to vote – but behind the scenes, the IL GOP general counsel and top advisor to chairman Don Tracy was working as a paid legal advisor to an anti-grassroots slate of candidates, and approving mailers with the IL GOP postage discount – despite Tracy’s comments that the state party wasn’t going to get involved in the election, in another dig aimed directly at the conservative base of the party.
Tracy and the IL GOP despise the grassroots – and they’ve spent the last year proving it.
During the 2022 primary, senior IL GOP officials backed the anti-grassroots gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin, who in previous elections, pulled Democratic Primary ballots in 2014, 2016 and 2020.
During the General Election, the IL GOP deliberately ignored the grassroots-preferred candidates for governor and attorney general, and even left them off of social media posts, with the exception of congratulating them on their primary victories.
At the Republican State Central Committee meeting in December, the IL GOP sent a very clear message to the over 200-plus grassroots activists in attendance that, “only rich, donor voices matter.”
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisreview.com ...
I would bet this has been done EVERYWHERE the establishment didn’t want MAGA or any other “fringe group” that they didn’t like, getting elected.
I’m sure you are correct. We know big pharma owns every major news outlet so it would be no surprise that they aren’t owning state political parties, including Republican ones, as well.
Bkmk
Why any America loving conservative individual would remain a resident of Illinois (or New Jersey, or New York, or Massachusetts, or California, or Oregon or Washington) at this point is way beyond me.
“Why any America loving conservative individual would remain a resident of Illinois …”
Try an 85 year old mother with serious health issues on for size, jackass.
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You seem to have taken it personally. Don’t be so bitter-not at your age.
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