Lake County YR’s Sponsor Impeachment Forum

1/23/2009 Lake County Young Republicans Sponsor Impeachment Forum to Packed House in Libertyville As we’ve been plugging for a few days now, the newly-rejuvenated Lake County Young Republicans sponsored a forum on the impeachment and trial proceedings against Governor Rod Blagojevich at Austin’s in Libertyville. The event was well attended by many Lake County Republicans, [...]

Sheriff Mark Curran’s Fundraiser brings in Thousands for Charity

6/6/2009 Lake County Sherriff Mark Curran’s fundraiser raised thousands of dollars for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. On Friday June 5th Sheriff Mark Curran hosted his first Golf Outing as a Republican. The event played at Antioch Golf Course and was sold out with over 40 foursomes and a successful dinner auction that followed. The [...]

In Midst of Budget Crisis, Giannoulias Holds Campaign Event with Tax Cheats

5/6/2010 State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is holding a press conference at Granite Innovation today for his Senate campaign. While the stated purpose of the event is to promote Giannoulias’ “new agenda to help Illinois families balance increased challenges between working to make ends meet and raising children,” perhaps the State Treasurer could ask his hosts [...]

WATCH: Kirk on U.S. Debt

5/6/2010 From WGN News Congressman Mark Kirk, Republican candidate for United States Senate, joined Congressman Peter Roskam at the Chicago financial markets to discuss U.S. Debt and the Greek financial crisis

Several Illinois Democrats make National Review’s ‘Most Likely to Lose’ List

5/6/2010 “Ranking Those 99 House Races By Degree of Difficulty for GOP Challengers” By Jim Geraghty – National Review Here are my 99 races, grouped into five levels of difficulty. I’ve used three different measurements of difficulty – the Department of Homeland Security’s old color code alert system, a comparable degree of difficulty to beating [...]

Roskam Statement on April Unemployment Numbers

5/7/2010 Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), Deputy Whip and Ways and Means Committee member, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor announced the national unemployment rate rose in April to 9.9%: “While this Administration promised the American people that a trillion dollar stimulus bill would keep unemployment under 8%, today the national unemployment rate [...]

Even a Daily Kos poll now shows Kirk, Brady leading

5/7/2010 From Capitol Fax The last Research 2000 poll conducted in February for Daily Kos didn’t even come close to matching up with anybody else. R2K had Mark Kirk and Bill Brady both trailing. They’re somewhat more in line now. One reason may be that their sample of senior citizens is larger than before, which [...]

WATCH: The Problem: Alexi Giannoulias

5/7/2010 From the Committee for Truth in Politics The Problem: Alexi Giannoulias Watch this video on YouTube below

Obama’s home-state headache

5/7/2010 By Ben Smith and Manu Raju – Politico President Barack Obama’s enemies like to call him a creature of the “Chicago machine,” but when it comes to the politics of his home state of Illinois, the White House doesn’t seem to know where the gears are. Indeed, Chicago has delivered an unending stream of [...]

Brady dissapointed Quinn, lawmakers did not reach budget agreement

5/8/2010 By Chris Essig – Bloomington Pantagraph Moments after the Democrats adjourned Friday with the state’s fiscal future still in limbo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady expressed his disappointment with lawmakers and his opponent in the November election, Gov. Pat Quinn, for not reaching an agreement on the budget. “Here we are on adjournment day [...]

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