Posts Tagged ‘ Illinois politics ’

Six Republican State Senators betray the Illinois Republican Party Platform by voting to massively expand gambling in Illinois.

If you assumed the State House Republicans couldn’t be a bigger embarrassment to our Party - you were wrong.

Among those voting for the gaming bill adding five more casinos to the state was Tom Cross, who has received $510,750 in campaign contributions from gambling interests.

Shameful.

An incredible story – and one that could have included Illinois.

Resolution of the 2012 Illinois Republican State Convention concerning direct elections of State Central Committeemen and State Central Committeewomen.

Rodney Davis, a State GOP insider at the center of the Illinois Republican Party’s money transfer scandal, was chosen today to replace retiring Congressman Tim Johnson.

One day after the Illinois House voted to kill a generous retirement perk for most state retirees, the Senate did the same by a 31-20 margin.

Syndicated political columnist Bernard Schoenburg has an excellent expansion this week on the story we broke last month about a money transfer scheme involving the State GOP.

There’s a situation brewing in central Illinois where Republicans risk lending legitimacy to the Democrats’ attack that Republicans are engaged in a "war on women."