It’s Doers vs. Do-Nothings on the question of restoring direct elections for the Illinois GOP

Take a look at the two lists published HERE.

Republicans on the SUPPORT list get it.

They are a diverse group of party officials, public officials, grassroots leaders, and activists from across the state who all know the truth: the Illinois GOP is never going to win a big election again in this state until Republican voters are empowered again in their own state party.

These are intelligent people who say enough is enough. The wheel-spinning by the Illinois GOP has been going on election cycle, after election cycle, after election cycle. Meanwhile, Republicans just keep losing winnable elections while the Democrats run circles around a hapless Illinois Republican Party.

And they all see that no one in our state party has Donald Trump’s back.

The SUPPORT camp is standing up for Republican voters and historic change. They are demanding that our vote be restored – a vote which never should have been stolen from Republican voters in the first place.

And then there is the OPPOSE list. Empowering Republican voters is about the last thing the persons on that list have in mind. The idea of their Republican constituents getting energized and taking an active interest in how the sausage is really being made in our state party apparently terrifies them. No doubt for good reason.

That is why the Illinois GOP’s state central committee has been holding their meetings basically in secret ever since a couple hundred angry peasants showed up to the state central committee meeting that was held shortly after the Illinois GOP’s disastrous election of November 2022 and rightly demanded resignations of top state party officials.

To say our state party is grossly out of touch with the Republican voters it has a duty to serve would be a colossal understatement.

When deadwood bosses aren’t disrespecting Republican voters and meeting in secret, they are actively and openly INVITING Democrats into our party (just check out the OPPOSE list).

Republican primary voters need a broom to sweep out the deadwood.

That broom is our vote. We need a vote again for the top officials of the Illinois Republican Party, the state central committee.

A normal person would automatically assume that EVERYONE pretending to be involved in Republican politics would be all about Republicans voting. That would be a very reasonable assumption.

But incredibly, that assumption would be wrong, as the small OPPOSE list illustrates.

No doubt some, if not all, of those clueless souls are still bitter over the fact Republican primary voters used their broom to sweep career Democrat Richard Irvin off the Republican ballot in the 2022 GOP Primary. Despite the record tens-of-millions of dollars flushed away on trying to give the GOP nomination for the top state job to Democrat Irvin, and a substantial chunk of the state central committee openly supporting him, Irvin lost in spectacular fashion, finishing a very distant third in that GOP gubernatorial primary.

The deadwood knows what Republican voters can do with a broom. The deadwood isn’t particularly bright, but even deadwood can recognize its natural enemy: the humble broom.

Republican primary voters once had a broom to sweep the deadwood out of our state party.

But selfish Boss Hoggs who despised the idea of accountability took the broom away from us at a horribly rigged state convention in 1986. I recently wrote about that convention HERE.

That power grab disenfranchised 99.999% of Republican voters in Illinois in their own state party. Ever since that 1986 state convention, the Republican rank-and-file has had zero say in what our state party does and doesn’t do.

Imagine if a corporation did that. Imagine if officers & directors said: “Yeah, we’re really tired of you pesky shareholders showing up at shareholder meetings, and we’re especially tired of you making demands and expecting us to perform. We’re done with that noise. So guess what, we’re taking away your vote for the board of directors.”

Granted, that’s a crazy scenario. No corporation would be that stupid. For one thing, every corporate officer and director involved would go to prison for violating a whole host of federal and state criminal statutes. And when they eventually got out of the hoosegow, they would all be facing shareholder civil lawsuits that would take their last dime.

So in the private sector there is no example one can point to in order to illustrate what would happen if a company’s officials acted so ridiculously.

But in the political world one need look no further than the Illinois Republican Party to see what happens when an organization disenfranchises its own stakeholders, the constituents the state party is supposed to be listening to and serving.

The good news is we can give all Republican primary voters back their vote at the upcoming state convention on May 24 & 25 in downstate Collinsville. We can make the GOP relevant again in Illinois.

That would be an historic event – but far from a radical one. We would simply be giving Republicans back their vote which never should have been stolen from them in the first place.

If you haven’t already signed-on, we invite you to join the growing list of good people who are standing up for their fellow Republicans and their right to vote. Alternatively, if you think the only problem with the Illinois Republican Party is that Republicans are voting too much, we’re happy to add your name on the other list.

Again, both lists and how to join either, can be found HERE.

We all need to keep up the pressure as the deadwood wants to keep this long past-due reform from even being voted on by the delegates who attend our upcoming state convention. Stay tuned.