State Representative Kay Hatcher (R)

Years served: 2009 - Present

Committee assignments: Transportation, Regulation, Roads; Vehicles & Safety; Aging; Appropriations-Public Safety; Counties & Townships; Tourism & Conventions.

REFORM (or the lack thereof)

Hatcher desperately opposes a common sense reform that would once again allow ALL Republicans to directly elect the senior leadership of their own Illinois Republican Party.

Hatcher continues to keep rank-and-file Republicans from having the same voice all Illinois Democrats enjoy in their State Party. Hatcher opposes SB600 - returning to the better system of direct election Illinois Republicans used until the late 1980’s. Illinois has been a “Blue State” ever since the change to the easily corruptible system Hatcher dishonestly still protects.

Hatcher did nothing to help cleanse the Illinois Republican Party of the tainted National Committeeman Bob Kjellander.

Bob Kjellander could have been removed and replaced with an honest leader a lot earlier, if only Republican “leaders” like Hatcher were serious about reform. Hatcher never joined the rank-and-file and more serious officials who overwhelmingly called for Kjellander’s immediate ouster. It’s only because Hatcher and a tiny handful of other old guard faces refuse to unify on reform that even this simplest of clean-ups remain difficult to accomplish.

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