Illinois Republican Partysees Opportunity in Discord
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › July 23, 2007
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COLLINSVILLE <\ The Illinois Republican Party's top brass came to visit at a town hall meeting last week, only to be peppered with questions about the uncertain future for the fractured party.
A lot of older faces and a few younger ones greeted their party leaders with questions on all sorts of topics - the budget, medical malpractice, tort reform, elections, voter turnout, taxes, and more. In a nondescript room Thursday at the Gateway Convention Center, Illinois GOP Chairman Andy McKenna and state Sen. Frank Watson, the minority leader and Greenville Republican, and other area officials were grilled over the party's performance in past elections.See the full content of this document
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Illinois Republican Partysees Opportunity in Discord
"We recognize we've not done well in recent years," McKenna said after the meeting. "We admit that."
No one needed reminding that in 2002 the GOP gave up the governor's mansion after a generation and that former Gov. George Ryan was ind...See the full content of this document
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