Ordinari;y, Illinois has had Republican governors with the good taste to be well to Arnie's right, if not perfect. Lyin' RINO George Ryan ended a 26-year GOP dominance of state offices here. He ran pro-life, pro-family, pro-law enforcement, anti-tax and anti-spend against a genuinely conservative Democrat (then Congressman Glenn Poshard). Lyin' George won by 4% on the usual lame party arguments. He then proceeded to commute every death penalty to life other than a handful pardoned because of DNA proof of innocence (as to which no complaint) but among those preserved for potential pardon was a charming couple who cut a pregnant woman to death to remove her late-term baby to kidnap it to apply for welfare. Lyin' George also went fully pro-abort, signed funding legislation (a first for Illinois), signed a faggot's rights bill, kept gun controls, raised taxes and spending payoffs to leftists.
The Republican Attorney General,James Ryan (no relation as we were constantly reminded during his inept but losing gubernatorial campaign) though pro-life, gave $300,000 in discretionary lawsuit proceeds to Jesse Jackson for a job retraining program for women and also refused to attempt the indictment of Lyin' George Ryan for selling Tractor-Trailer drivers' licenses for $300 per pop. (They will be driving on roads near your family too). We hold out hope that the US Attorney will do the indicting and send Lyin' George Ryan to die in federal prison where he belongs. Many of his aides have already been convicted in the scheme and he is always named as an unindicted co-conspirator. Courtesy of Lyin' George Ryan, we lost the State Senate for the first time in memory as most GOP candidates apologized for being alive and lost state constitutional offices and lost seats in the state house. These are the wages of public policy cowardice. We retain Judy Bahr Topinka as State Treasurer. The sooner she is defeated the better.
I was not attempting to change minds just testifying to the truth.
I chaired Ronaldus Maximus's challenge to Ford in my previous state of residence and I will bet you did not.