SPRINGFIELD – Any chance the conservative wing of the Illinois Republican Party had to take over party leadership next Saturday has been dealt away, with an announcement from the party headquarters Wednesday. Governor Rauner's pick Tim Schneider will remain the IL GOP State Chairman for another four years, and Lake County Chairman Mark Shaw will "co-chair" in a new position on the SCC.
And everyone – the Rauner wing of the party and the IL GOP Platform wing will be happy and united …?
"To ensure that the Illinois Republican Party and the Republican County Chairmen’s Association work together in an efficient and seamless manner, I am happy to announce that I have appointed Mark as a Co-Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party as well," Schneider said in an email announcement Tuesday night.
"In this new role, Mark will be the primary liaison to our County Chairmen and will take the lead on grassroots engagement, training, and mobilization. To win in November we are going to need a grassroots army to battle the Democrats, and I am confident Mark will get the job done."
In other words, the IL GOP conservatives will return to their worker bee positions in the party apparatus – knocking on doors, making phone calls, canvassing voters – while the IL GOP Rauner-paid staff hive queen bees call the shots and make public policy with no regard whatsoever to the IL GOP Platform.
That's the way many are seeing their "compromise" – one the Rauner Wing was willing to initiate because the conservatives on the SCC were confident they had the votes to elect Mark Shaw as the new party chairman – taking the IL GOP in a direction that simply would not blend well with Governor Rauner's checkbook and piper tunes.
The SCC members that told Illinois Review they were confident that they had the votes for a party leadership upheaval backed off Wednesday.
"Jeanne Ives made a good statement on this agreement this morning. My views are very similar to hers," 17th CD SSC member Stan Bond said Wednesday. "This agreement will give conservatives a stronger voice within the ILGOP and additionally provides the County Chairmen a permanent seat and voice on the party’s executive committee which surprisingly they have not had up until now."
So what did Rep. Ives – who post-ILGOP primary holds the party's role of conservative wing leader – say about the IL GOP compromise that Bond liked?
"This is an encouraging about face by Rauner and his surrogates including Tim Schneider who spent the primary campaign ridiculing conservatives and telling us to leave the party," Ives said. "If this compromise elevates the party's conservative base in terms of both policy views and party leadership, that would be good."
But Ives added a qualifier – one that is deserved because the IL GOP leadership such as Pat Brady has publicly demeaned and degraded the conservative wing of the party.
"If this compromise turns out to be the typical surrender Republican Rauner play of buying people off with money and titles, that would not be good," Ives added. "While I'm guardedly optimistic, I'll reserve judgment to see how the deal operates in practice."
It's too bad Mr. Shaw didn't see fit to fight for the takeover of the IL GOP – so that the state's party would reflect the rest of the nation's Republican stance and not continue in the failed Democrat-lite direction its leadership has been pursuing for years.
Those conservatives that hold to conservative principles first and the Republican Party affiliation second have been left with no political home for this election cycle. That's an ugly reality, and one that must be processed.
I’m tired of hearing all this whining from the JB Pritzker wing of the Republican party.
By the way how come the Cook County GOP “slate” only has candidates for Assessor & Sheriff? Preckwinkle won her primary with only 60% despite having a lackluster opponent with no money. If Chris Cleveland had any balls he would have stepped up to run against her.
The Illinois Republican Party is now officially DEAD.
It just isn’t smart enough to lay down yet.
While I’m skeptical of this, I hope it works out. Petsis Tim Schneider and Bruce Rauner can now endorse and show support for our president now, Donald Trump. I look forward to that announcement tomorrow..
I commend Msrk Shaw, Jeannie Ives, Stan Bond, and others for their leadership.
The governor can invite the president to the state of Ilinois for a visit as a sign of good faith to him and all the solid Illinois Republicans.
I wonder how much it cost Rauner.
Mark Shaw: Bought and Paid For by Bruce’s $Billion$to
Rauner will be out of power soon, anyway. He can’t win in November. Maybe this arrangement can make Rauner/Schneider feel good while the conservatives use Rauner money to help their candidates win in other important races.
It was always about cutting a deal, Mark Shaw never had the votes, only trying to get favors. So what else did he get for selling out ?
SERIOUSLY,
how many times do I have to tell you that Tim Schneider, Sean Morrison and the gang are double agents working for John Daley and other Democrats including Mike Madigan !
I am the Republican Party Committeeman of the infamous 11th Ward in Chicago. I’ve been in that position for 10 years. I have attended 95% of the meetings. I’m a whistleblower. When she was alive, Judy Barr Topinka and a black street thug threatened to murder me for speaking out. at that incident in Greektown in April 2014, Jay Reyes acted very suspicious.
Did you hear what I said! They threatened to murder me for speaking out in regards that Judy is a double agent.!
There is no surprise, given what I just said which makes perfect sense, that Illinois is morally bankrupt and financially bankrupt, and is the number one worst state in our United States of America. It is a criminal enterprise our government.
again, when you people read what I just wrote, given all the financial facts of our indebtedness, all the pension information, all the scams, do you really find it hard to believe what I just said?
Are you naïve?
Illinois government, it is a mafia of cowards… Money whores, power whores, political sluts, pimps, Child-politicians and COWARDS.
Next question?
Sincerely,
Carl Segvich – Republican Committeeman
What can Schneider possibly mean when he says “To win in November, we are going to need ..”? We don’t win anything of substance if Rauner wins – certainly not adherence to conservative principles upon which the party is supposed to uphold and honor. The only ‘win’ if Rauner is elected is that we will not have a full-fledged socialist in the governor’s mansion.
I generally agree with the tone of the article except for the qualifier “for this election cycle”. Leaving that off would be more accurate.
Also I would disagree with labeling Ives as “leader”. People voted for her because her name wasn’t Rauner. Not because of some “Ives Revolution”.
I have the same thoughts as Jeanne Ives: guarded optimism. While a position for someone billed as a conservative (I don’t know Mark Shaw so I can’t comment on him) is nice, the ILGOP history does not make me feel warm and fuzzy. This is clearly a move done to keep power and head off any potential activism on Saturday. I’m also inclined to think that This is not set up in any way to really share power. If it did, that would be bad too because you would have a potentially divided SCC. Huh, I think I’m talking myself out of that guarded optimism.
Well, looks like the Schneider-Shaw contest for IL GOP chairman has been called off. They worked out some backroom deal where “principled conservative” Mark Shaw will be co-chairman under “Rauner Republican” Tim Schneider.
Despite what Shaw and his fans say, I think this had little to do with ideological differences, and everything to do with Shaw looking for a way to advance his prestige in the state party hierarchy.
The “System” will not be corrected by the “System”!
Thanks to Carl Segvich for speaking the truth!
Put your big boy pants on and get behind your governor.
Huh, I think I’m talking myself out of that guarded optimism.
Wise move.
The statement by Jeanne Ives was very weak. Why were Ives and McSeeeney pushing Mark Shaw for chair in the first place? He became Sell Out Shaw at the first opportunity.
Ives seems to have really bad judgment. This is hardly the first example.
I wonder how many people in Illinois, especially in Chicago, will stay home because they have no real choice in any race. Republicans need to find someone to run in every IL House district. Just so those who want to protest vote have a place to put that one dot.
This pretty much hits the nail on the head – it’s the way it’s been for years now – “In other words, the IL GOP conservatives will return to their worker bee positions in the party apparatus – knocking on doors, making phone calls, canvassing voters – while the IL GOP Rauner-paid staff hive queen bees call the shots and make public policy with no regard whatsoever to the IL GOP Platform.”
Really disappointed in Mark Shaw. I wonder if he discovered they really didn’t have the votes they thought they did.
Glad I didn’t run for committeeman this year.
Since no conservative is running for chairman, I hope that a conservative will start running today.
I would agree with this 100%
I hope that conservatives run for all offices. Further, I hope that they win all offices.
I hope that Governor JB gives us each a free pet unicorn. 😉
They aren’t that stupid. They aren’t going to give conservatives their money.
I appreciate your honesty Carl Segvich… God Bless You
Ives did lead because she ran against liberal Rauner.
I disagree Ives is a Republican leader…. she is the only one I listen to.
UUmmmm maybe it was because he was the best option! Ya think, no one said he was perfection, we KNOW what Timmy boy is.
Looks like things worked out!
In regards to LIVE FREE OR DIE:
1) You and all of America are MORE than welcome.
2) I profoundly apologize for not speaking out sooner!
3) Realizing that as long as one has one breath left, it is never too late, I plan with the help of all who are willing to fight, to EXPOSE the Chicago/ Cook County/Illinois political mafia run by cowards including John Daley, Jay Reyes, Sean Morrison, Mike Madigan and Tim Schneider.
[ I do not have an exact plan in mind; far from it. I am open to suggestions. This is why I am posting. This is not for the faint of heart. This is for self respecting Americans. All I know is we must EXPOSE THE GOVERNMENT/POLITICAL MAFIA OF COWARDS WHO ARE DISMANTLING AMERICA FOR MONEY.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…… LIVE FREE OR DIE.
P.S. All of these diaper gangsters such as John Daley and Tim Schneider, and the entire motley disparate desperate crew , laugh at us conservatives who are moralists and care about Christian America. They mock us. They laugh at the fact that we engage in public discussion for the greater good of a Christian
America.
P.P.S. we need you defectors who are on the inside of this cowardly mafia, who are feeling guilty, to come clean. You can redeem yourself. You can help us save America. We need your help.
sincerely, Carl Segvich
1) You and all of America are MORE than welcome.
2) I profoundly apologize for not speaking out sooner!
3) Realizing that as long as one has one breath left, it is never too late, I plan with the help of all who are willing to fight, to EXPOSE the Chicago/ Cook County/Illinois political mafia run by cowards including John Daley, Jay Reyes, Sean Morrison, Mike Madigan and Tim Schneider.
[ I do not have an exact plan in mind; far from it. I am open to suggestions. This is why I am posting. This is not for the faint of heart. This is for self respecting Americans. All I know is we must EXPOSE THE GOVERNMENT/POLITICAL MAFIA OF COWARDS WHO ARE DISMANTLING AMERICA FOR MONEY.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…… LIVE FREE OR DIE.
P.S. All of these diaper gangsters such as John Daley and Tim Schneider, and the entire motley disparate desperate crew , laugh at us conservatives who are moralists and care about Christian America. They mock us. They laugh at the fact that we engage in public discussion for the greater good of a Christian
America.
P.P.S. we need you defectors who are on the inside of this cowardly mafia, who are feeling guilty, to come clean. You can redeem yourself. You can help us save America. We need your help.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION, come forward. LIFE IS SHORT.
Sincerely, Carl Segvich
This is an encouraging about face by Rauner and his surrogates including Tim Schneider who spent the primary campaign ridiculing conservatives and telling us to leave the party,” Ives said.
Given this honest assessment, why would any conservative be a part of this? The IL Republican party is not worth preserving – period. What is worth fighting over? IL is solid blue state and will always be. Just look at the dependency demographics. IL is now solid blue. Conservatives in the IL Republican party suffer from battered wife syndrome.
Any conservative that supports Rauner and this UNI-Party deal should be humiliated and ashamed. This is the corruption that our founders warned us about. It wouldn’t surprise me if Planned Parenthood is one of the money donors funding this Rauner sell-out deal. How low can the Republican Party go? All grassroot support just vanished. They knew it would happen too, and just don’t care. I’m done.
I won’t have any renewed trust at all in Rauner until Schneider is totally removed as GOP state chair. Won’t trust any co-chair arraingement either! Rauner needs conservatives votes MORE than they need Schneider in position of chair or co-chair!
I’m not feeling the unity because Schneider is still in a position of power! When he is out then i’ll start feeling better but not before then!
Of course it would have worked either way out for a liberal troll such as yourself.
Can’t wait for things to work out in November. Hopefully Sam McCann and the Libertarian do well. I wonder if Not In Charge Rauner can crack 40%.
Good luck with that.
The Democratic caretakers of the Election Code revised its provisions, so committeemen can no longer simply slate candidates for positions vacant after the primaries. Now, the committees need to pass resolutions and then the candidates must collect petition signatures (and survive challenges before the electoral boards). The deadline for filing petitions is in early June.
It seems that the Madigan people were really angry that the Republicans had been successful fielding candidates for vacancies in the past and really like running unopposed. It is harder to qualify for the ballot now than ever before.
The Republicans had candidates for other county offices who dropped out after being slated. One of the people who bailed was supposed to challenge Toni the Phony.
All three branches of state govt has been corrupted by organized crime
#SellOutShaw
EXACTLY! She’s NO LEADER, Just a PROFT plant. REMEMBER? Dan Proft GAVE us Brucey! Now he wants to give us Jeannie.
LOL! BINGO!!
A lot of good posts. I appreciate Car Segvich speaking out.
Anyone that votes for Rauner is part of the problem. There is NO incentive for the GOP establishment to change if Conservatives continue to vote for them. Stop voting for them. It would be great if the Libertarian and/or Constitution parties exceeded 5% this election. That would be a real wake up call. It’s a blue state but that could change. The Democrats will bankrupt IL and it will hurt their brand. We need to stick to our principles and be active and vote. Our time will come.
” Hopefully Sam McCann”
Some real conservative you are, voting for that fraud.
Crazy Carl, a good reason and Time to bring back lithium tablets.
Yes we know your buddy Rauner is afraid McCann will takes votes from him
Thanks conservative position is to beat Rauner.
Besides are you, a Democrat, really defining conservatism for us?
TBD, it is people like you, who refuse to read the writing on the wall, that are the cause of the demise of this once-great state. You laugh off the evidence put forth by Carl, who has been in the trenches for 10 years – in Chicago – and you start typical leftist name-calling. 35 years of this crap with Madigan and democrat-led ILL-annoy government, and you call him crazy. Maybe you should try paying closer attention to the reality of this illicit government instead of applying Alinsky tactics to the Republican Party, adding absolutely nothing to the conversation, or the solution.
So Mr. Kevil, you rather have JB as Governor? How is having JB as Governor futhers the conservative cause?
How would re-electing pro-tax, pro-abortion, traitor to the GOP Platform RAUNER “help the conservative cause?”
Please detail and explain to us any real difference between Brucie and JB, if you will (or CAN.)
Schneider can resign in humiliation in November after Rauner flames out in his final blaze of glory.
Grow up… To put in simple terms with simple Ideological can understand.
The difference is Rauner will give give audience to those with a conservative bent, JB with tell all you conservatives to “POUND SALT”…
That’s all the detail needed.
You far uber right folks need to understand right now, is you can’t have it all, the political truth of Illinois right now is for every 10 Republicans that vote in state wide election, 18 Democrats vote.
The Jeanne IVES part of the Republican party is irrelevant in Illinois.
Please tell me if JB will be more sympathetic the the conservative cause. The answer you give “Rauner a trator” don’t answer my original question.
You Jeanna Ives zellots need to come back to Illinois from Planet Ives, and think how to win in a state where out of every 4 Jeanne suporters voted, 18 voted for Democrats?
Fact is that Mark Shaw took $25,000 from the IL GOP for his Lake County GOP organization – and that money came directly from Bruce Rauner to distribute and keep party chairman OUT of or FOR Rauner in the 2018 IL GOP Primary.
There are outrageous conflicts of interest on the SSC as a result.
And while the positions listed in the above Op-Ed may be frustrating to the IL GOP powers that be, they are should be viewed as a reaction to what the Rauner Party leaders started – not that conservatives are in error for resisting it.
The disdain the Rauner Party elite holds for the IL GOP base is shocking and detestable. Conservatives should be proud of what they stand for, and ignore or resist the insults the Rauner bullies try in order to regain their power. They are worthless and destructive to our liberties, our freedoms and our pursuit of happiness.
First, WHERE do you get your voter figures? How do YOU know how many Republican voters voted as conservatives?
Second: Go back to school. The word is spelled “traitor” not “trator.”
Third: How many of those “Democrat voters” were actually live people, and voting as themselves?
This is DEMOCRAT-RIGGED ILLINOIS, remember?