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“I will be a tireless advocate for taxpayers as treasurer,” said Jim Dodge. “My opponent’s silence has been deafening when issues of saving taxpayers money arises.”
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“I will be a tireless advocate for taxpayers as treasurer,” said Jim Dodge. “My opponent’s silence has been deafening when issues of saving taxpayers money arises.”
Republicans Come Out In Shorewood Parade
Republicans Come Out In Shorewood Parade
By: Alex Anderson It was a solid show of support yesterday Sunday, August 5th, 2018 at the Shorewood parade. Republican candidates and supporters alike took to the streets at around 12:15pm. For the first time all year, there were 4 statewide candidates and a lot of well know republican elected officials walking as a team. Republican candidate for Attorney General Erika Harold, Candidate Jim Dodge for State Treasurer, Darlene Sanger for Comptroller, and Jason Helland for Secretary of the state were all out and talking to voters.
With November right around the corner, it's only fitting that you see these guys working harder and harder! For the first time ever in Illinois, the governor's race has topped a quarter billion in spending and every day we are seeing more and more coming out. Now more than ever these candidates need to build name ID and resonate with voters if they hope to win in the November Elections.
Also in attendance was State Representative Mark Batnick, Judge Ben Braun, Candidate Alyssia Benford for State Representative, Judge Victoria Kennison, Candidate for County Clerk Laurie McPhillips and The Will County Young Republicans had a team of newly elected members out including Christian Carry Secretary, Matt Wiley Tressure and Brandon Harris Director of Communications. The Will County Young Republicans have made an effort to rebuild the team in 2018 helping reunify the Republican party in Will County as a whole!
For the first time in 6 years Will County Young Republicans host special election to revive organization
For the first time in 6 years Will County Young Republicans host special election to revive organization
By: Alex Anderson
Cornel Darden Jr 33, of Shorewood, IL a Republican was appointed President of the Will County Young Republicans today! As the Young Republicans have not had newly appointed or elected leadership since 2012 this is a major move for the local party.
Cornel Darden, Jr has a Masters degree in information science and he has been involved with the local community for 15 years. His tenure includes time as a College professor at Kennedy-King College, South Suburban College, and Joliet Junior College.
With aspirations of growing the local party to over 100 members Mr. Darden, Jr has a task ahead of him. Along side Darden, Jr also elected was Chris Lang 27, of Joliet as Vice President, Christian Cary 22, of Bolingbrook as , Secretary, Matt Wylie 28, of Joliet, and Brandon Harris 28, of Joliet as Information Officer.
As Cornel Darden Jr and his young team moves forward they will continue to develop more and more ground. With this season's election cycle in front of this young and focused team they are sure to have a lot on their hands.
As a team this young group of individuals is headed on a mission to regain positions county wide through this election cycle with a group effort. If you or anyone you know would like to join this organization contact the Young Republicans at click here and request a meeting schedule.
By: Alex Anderson
Cornel Darden Jr 33, of Shorewood, IL a Republican was appointed President of the Will County Young Republicans today! As the Young Republicans have not had newly appointed or elected leadership since 2012 this is a major move for the local party.Cornel Darden, Jr has a Masters degree in information science and he has been involved with the local community for 15 years. His tenure includes time as a College professor at Kennedy-King College, South Suburban College, and Joliet Junior College.
With aspirations of growing the local party to over 100 members Mr. Darden, Jr has a task ahead of him. Along side Darden, Jr also elected was Chris Lang 27, of Joliet as Vice President, Christian Cary 22, of Bolingbrook as , Secretary, Matt Wylie 28, of Joliet, and Brandon Harris 28, of Joliet as Information Officer.
As Cornel Darden Jr and his young team moves forward they will continue to develop more and more ground. With this season's election cycle in front of this young and focused team they are sure to have a lot on their hands.
As a team this young group of individuals is headed on a mission to regain positions county wide through this election cycle with a group effort. If you or anyone you know would like to join this organization contact the Young Republicans at click here and request a meeting schedule.
Morning Spin: Trump will visit Illinois steel plant today
Morning Spin: Trump will visit Illinois steel plant today
Gov. Bruce Rauner won’t be on hand, noting this week that he appeared in Granite City a week ago to veto legislation that would have required the city's mayor be named to a local flood-control agency. The governor appeared with Vice President Mike Pence this month, embracing the White House despite spending much of his term avoiding saying Trump’s name.
Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday needled Rauner over his decision to avoid Trump during his visit, saying “this governor seems to want to play both sides of the issue.”
But Trump will be joined by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, a Murphysboro Republican who is locked in a competitive re-election bid against Democrat Brendan Kelly, the St. Clair County state’s attorney.
“Looking forward to joining @POTUS in Granite City to celebrate return of 800 steel jobs,” Bost tweeted. “Pres. (Ronald) Reagan came to our neck of the woods 30 years ago & we’re still talking about it in S. Illinois. Have a feeling folks heading back to work will talk about this visit 30 years from now.”
In a statement about Trump’s visit, Kelly doesn’t criticize the president by name. After all, Trump won many southern Illinois counties that comprise the 12th Congressional District where Kelly is taking on Bost.
“Our country is deeply divided right now, but we should all agree it’s a good thing to see steelworkers in Granite City getting back to work,” Kelly said in a statement. “It’s right to confront China’s cheating on steel, but disconnected trade policies like Fast Track that Mike Bost supports have done a lot of damage in Southern Illinois.”
Trump, meanwhile, appeared with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the White House on Wednesday, when the president said “we also will resolve the steel and aluminum tariff issues, and we will resolve retaliatory tariffs.” (Monique Garcia)
What’s on tap
*Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s schedule wasn’t available.
*Gov. Bruce Rauner will tour businesses in Itasca and Machesney Park, and he’ll act on tax credit legislation in Peoria.
*Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten will debate on Fox 32 at 10 p.m. It will be streamed live on the station’s website and Facebook page at 6 p.m.
From the notebook
*Election security: Illinois’ entire U.S. House delegation has asked federal officials for a briefing about election security, given that the state was a “major target” of Russian hackers in the 2016 election. Read more here.
*Emanuel doesn’t engage on Wilson: Mayor Emanuel pointedly declined Wednesday to weigh in on mayoral challenger Willie Wilson’s weekend event where he passed out thousands of dollars in cash to people at a South Side church.
Asked about the Sunday event at the New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church where the Wilson campaign said he handed out nearly $40,000 in personal cash to help people with various expenses, Emanuel first made a joke: “(My wife) Amy says ‘Why don’t you do that at home here?’”
But then he stepped away from the controversy: “You don’t need me to comment on something because a picture’s worth a thousand words, it speaks for itself.”
On Wednesday, Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, introduced a resolution at the City Council meeting, calling on the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the U.S. attorney to investigate whether the money giveaway violated campaign finance laws that prohibit purchasing votes. The resolution notes repeatedly that Gov. Rauner was with Wilson at the event and that the governor contributed money to a fund Wilson set up to help people pay their property taxes.
Rauner on Monday said he gave Wilson, a friend of his, $100,000 last year and an additional $100,000 "in the last month or two" to help struggling families pay their property taxes but did not approve of Wilson handing out cash at the church. Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker said on Wednesday that Rauner is “obviously aligning himself with people that are handing money out at churches.” (John Byrne, Monique Garcia)
*Da fundraiser: Legendary former Bears head coach Mike Ditka is headlining a fundraiser for a Republican state House candidate in Chicago’s northwest suburbs.
Ditka is helping Jillian Rose Bernas at an Aug. 9 fundraiser, according to an email alert from the Chicago Young Republicans. She’s running against Democratic state Rep. Michelle Mussman of Schaumburg.
Bernas is a Schaumburg Township District Library Trustee and previously worked at the U.S. embassy in Chile, according to her campaign website.
Ditka considered entering the political fray as a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in the 2004 campaign, but ultimately did not.
*Puerto Rico trip: Democratic U.S. Reps. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago and Robin Kelly of Matteson will be in a delegation to Puerto Rico led by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. The trip starts Thursday.
Source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-donald-trump-illinois-granite-city-20180725-story.html
Illinois GOP candidates push to merge treasurer, comptroller
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| Darlene Senger Jim Dodge |
Candidates for Illinois comptroller and treasurer want to merge the offices, effectively putting one of them out of a job if they were both elected.
Darlene Senger, Republican candidate for comptroller, and Jim Dodge, a Republican looking to unseat Treasurer Michael Frerichs, say the state should merge their offices.
“Illinois is facing a budget shortfall and a politician surplus,” a joint statement from the two candidates says. “We urge the legislature to save taxpayer dollars by consolidating the offices of Treasurer and Comptroller.”
The Illinois Constitution would have to be changed to merge the offices. Senger and Dodge want to press the issue so lawmakers pass a constitutional amendment that would then be on the subsequent statewide ballot.
A spokesman for comptroller Susana Mendoza says the Republicans’ estimation of $12 million in savings isn’t accurate.
“The framers of the state constitution were familiar with the potential for corruption in having one officer in charge of receiving money, investing it and paying it out,” the spokesman, Abdon Pallasch, said. “That's because Orville Hodge embezzled $6 million in state funds in the '50's. That's $57 million in today's money – far more than the phony projected savings number.”
Senger said claims that the offices were separated to ward off corruption doesn’t make sense considering the technology that’s available to keep track of money.
“Everything’s online,” she said. “Things are now done with computers that will make sure that you’re doing things accurately.”
The Illinois state Senate voted to place the question of consolidation on the ballot in the 2014 election in 2012. Frerichs voted to put a consolidation measure on the ballot when he was a state senator. The measure never passed the House.
“We shouldn’t feel comfortable asking Illinois taxpayers to tighten their belts and hand over more of their hard-earned money when political leaders in Springfield aren’t willing to do the same thing,” Senger said.
A spokesman from Frerichs' office says the treasurer still supports evaluating the proposal but still has yet to see an explanation for the savings Senger and Dodge say are possible."In 2015, we reached out to the Comptroller Munger’s office to discuss such an evaluation," said Greg Rivara. "There was no response."
Illinois is one of only a handful of states to have both a comptroller and a treasurer as elected officials, Senger said. Many states have a “chief financial officer” position within the governor’s office. Mendoza has publicly clashed with Gov. Bruce Rauner over managing of Illinois’ debt, successfully pushing for multiple transparency measures that the governor’s office opposed.
Former Joliet City Councilman Jim McFarland Found Guilty of DUI
(PS) Late Thursday evening former Joliet City Councilman Jim McFarland was found guilty of DUI charges. McFarland resigned from his elected seat as city councilman in 2016. After 3 1/2 hours of deliberations the jury reached a unanimous verdict of " Guilty".
As of Thursday evening it was stated by the Will County States Attorney that this now makes DUI number two for McFarland. The first DUI was not in Will County but this charge may massively effect McFarland's driving and criminal record.
The Will County States Attorneys spokesman Chuck Pelkie stated that due to this being McFarland's second DUI he would not be eligible for court supervision. McFarland faces up to 240 hours of community service, 5 days in jail, fines and his licence will be revoked for 1 year at the end of which he will have to appeal to the secretary of states board to re en state his licence.
Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance
(PS) Hours after Republican State Senator Sam McCann announces his run for office, Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign is back with the same old song and dance. Having spent less than 30 seconds on running a sort google search, I stumbled upon a Rauner camp ad as seen below.
The likelihood that Madigan is helping a Republican candidate run as a 3rd party opponent is slim to none. Madigan has shown again and again in election year that his sole focus is State Representative's elected. As that, is what keeps him in power. With Republican Governor Rauner already in a tough spot with his Republican base there would be no need for Madigan to dabble in Republican politics.
Rauner has been taking hits from his own party since the primary election ended. The chairman of the Illinois Republican National Hispanic Assembly resigned her position after the shortly after the results. "I cannot in good conscience support Bruce Rauner," Yvonne Sencial Bolton of Will County said in her resignation letter.With mummers of concern about Rauners core values already, compounded by a 48.6% of his own base voting for Jeanie Ives, Rauner has the potential loss of half of his own republican voting base to compensate for. That number is not even including those voters who do not come out until the general election.
The current direction of Rauners campaign could mean ruin for Rauner himself.
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