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Recent News About Illinois Republican Party
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Pritzker's plan to skip pension payments gets 'cold water' thrown on it from both sides of aisle
The Illinois Republican Party is more than willing to make room for several top Democrats on its growing bandwagon of opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan to skip pension payments as part of his state budget.
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ILGOP Chairman Schneider thinks 'tax-hiking hypocrite' Pritzker should look in the fiscal mirror
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider finds it difficult to seriously consider Gov. J.B. Pritzker's graduated income tax-hike proposal, given the source of the plan's own history of personal finance.
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GOP Chairman Schneider claims Pritzker's tax plan will drive more out of Illinois
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider is more than a bit skeptical of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed graduated income tax-rate plan.
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GOP wants Madigan's full disclosure about sexual harassment claims against staffers
The Illinois Republican Party is calling for greater transparency from Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan on the issue of sexual harassment in his office.
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GOP: Skipping pension payments is Pritzker’s 'first major flip-flop'
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider is urging newly elected Gov. J.B. Pritzker to be a man of his word where it concerns the state’s long-troubled pension system.
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GOP's Schneider likens Pritzker's plans to Blogojevich era
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider says he has seen it all before when it comes to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s newly proposed state budget.
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GOP denies Pritzker's claim of bipartisan support for minimum wage hike
The Illinois Republican Party is calling out Gov. J.B. Pritzker on his claim that he compromised with GOP lawmakers to raise the state's minimum wage, a claim the GOP said this week is not true.
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McGlasson calls for Illinois GOP Chairman Schneider to 'do the right thing' and resign
Less than a year after an alleged attempt by now former Gov. Bruce Rauner to purge him from the Illinois GOP's central committee, a committeeman earlier this week called upon the party's chairman to resign.
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McGlasson warns 'there will be little left after 2020' if GOP doesn't shape up
The Illinois Republican Party faces a grim future if significant changes aren't made soon, according to the committeeman who this past weekend asked state GOP Chairman Tim Schneider to resign.
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Illinois GOP says Pritzker's minimum wage hike 'will bankrupt Illinois'
The Illinois Republican Party this week officially added its voice to those already warning that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's minimum wage bill, passed yesterday in the Senate, will be a disaster for the state
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Illinois House Democrats the only legislative caucus without leadership term limits
Aaron DeGroot laments Democrats in Springfield are far from being in the minority in at least one way.
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ILGOP on FBI Madigan tape: Reform is long overdue
The Illinois Republican Party is pointing to a secret FBI recording of a Chicago alderman allegedly assuring a local developer of the perks to come from striking an alliance with longtime House Speaker Mike Madigan as just a snapshot of the way he has always operated.
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McGlasson discouraged by lack of response to meeting request
All Republican Committeeman John McGlasson says he is likely to get out of his call for a special meeting of the state GOP after the shellacking the party took in November is a chance to speak his mind at the party’s regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 9 in Bolingbrook. If he can make his way onto the agenda.
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GOP chair Schneider not reassured after Pritzker inaugural speech
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider says he walked away from new Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s inaugural address feeling more fearful for the state than ever.
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Ives says GOP should not be listening to Rauner
Former Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Republican from Wheaton, hardly sees former Gov. Bruce Rauner, whose last day in office was today, as the man most qualified to offer advice about the party’s direction.
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OPINION: Why is our state saddled with such State House mediocrities?
Shameless is a story about a hopelessly dysfunctional family led by a soulless father whose greed and own selfish desires exacerbate the poor behavior of the miscreants who surround him.
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From Chicago City Wire
State GOP chair calls for ban on lawmakers running tax-appeal firms
Tim Schneider, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, says no politician in Illinois should be able to get away with what Chicago Ald. Ed Burke is accused of doing.
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Ives: Rauner's lack of interest cheated GOP voters
State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) thinks Gov. Bruce Rauner owes an explanation to the millions of Republican voters she believes he essentially cheated out of their votes.
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From DuPage Policy Journal
Morrison, Ives urge rebuilding GOP after Rauner confesses election apathy
A bombshell new report that soon-to-be ex-Gov. Bruce Rauner bailed out on his reelection campaign has some Republicans fuming.
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Federal judge refuses to dismiss sexual harassment case against Democratic Party of Illinois
The Democratic Party of Illinois is headed into Election Day hampered by a harassment complaint, with a federal judge denying its motion to dismiss a sexual harassment case allegedly covered up by House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), according to the state Republican Party.