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To be honest, Dold had me fooled the first time he ran too... he said he "hadn't really thought much about abortion" and it wasn't an important issue to him, but he would probably support "reasonable restrictions" on it. Then that scumbag promptly began voting like Ruth Bader Ginsburg once he got to Congress. He even voted to allow abortion for gender selection, putting him to the LEFT of several pro-abortion RATS.

Kirk apparently did the same song-and-dance in 2000 and fooled some conservatives into thinking he an "improvement" over John Porter and would "vote more conservatively"

Still, there's no excuse for Mark Shaw to continuously back rabidly pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, gun-grabbing leftists RINOs for state legislature, congress, and the U.S. Senate (ESPECIALLY when they were being opposed by more conservative candidates in the primary), which is what Shaw's track record is as Lake County GOP chairman, and 10th District committeeman.

One GOP official from the 10th District (Kirk & Dold's home district) who impressed me standing up for conservative values was Marjorie Kubalanza. She was the delegate from the 10th District on the IL GOP platform committee in 2016, and the RINOs wanted to drop the traditional marriage plank and replace it with some "anything goes" cave to the Democrats. They kept trying to twist her arm to get in line but Kubalanza stood firm and said that homo marriage went completely against her values and there was NO WAY she could in good conscience vote to change the wording. The Pat Brady types kept trying to pressure her with "but Republicans in YOUR district that you're supposed to be representing want it changed, you're standing against Senator Kirk... blah blah blah" and she flat out refused to play ball with the RINOs.

Unfortuntately, Marjorie Kubalanza isn't the one running for Chairman. Mark Shaw is, and I don't recall him similarly going to bat for conservatives against RINOs.

Speaking of the 2016 IL GOP convention, one of the reasons I'm inclined to back Schindler over Shaw is that Schindler did a fantastic job having an open and fair convention process, and I was at the 2008 convention where they did everything behind closed doors and tried to screw us out of having a vote on anything, so I can tell you that it was really was a 180 degree change from the way Andy McKombine ran things 8 years earlier. Schindler allowed a motion to have the delegates as a whole approve an amendment to the party platform and he did an accurate vote count that showed the delegates overwhelmed approved traditional marriage, and had the platform amended accordingly. (McKombine wouldn't let us READ the finished platform until minutes before we were supposed to approve it, then "reported" that every vote was from the floor was a "yes" vote regardless of how many delegates shouted "NAY!" during the roll calls)

I think its a bad idea to throw someone out as chairman who has played fair for the first time in well over a decade.

I voted for Dold in 2010 because, at that time, I didn’t know that he was liberal. In 2012 and ‘14, I skipped that section of my ballot because I thought that he was too liberal. In 2016, I voted for a write-in candidate, Joe Kopsick.

Please ask at least five Lake Co. conservatives, who have known Shaw for at least three years, about him. A majority will say that he’s conservative or very conservative.