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Not a fiscal conservative: Rauner’s budget is $4.6 billion short? (VIDEO)

Real GOP Illinois has issued the following statement about Gov. Rauner’s proposed budget and its $4.6 billion shortfall: Real GOP Illinois is disappointed with Gov. Rauner and we are angry at his broken promise to voters. In 2014, we believed we were electing a fiscal conservative, who would balance the budget, provide tax relief, and […]

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Pressure building on Rauner to fire his crony appointee Frank Vala

In 2014, Gov. Rauner promised voters he would “Shake up Springfield.” He said it was his “moral duty” to take Illinois back from the corrupt insiders. Has Rauner kept his promise to voters? Last week, Gov. Rauner asked a judge to decide whether “state employees who were improperly hired under former Gov. Pat Quinn should […]

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The time for empty talk is over

I spy with my Illinois eye… Follow the money Downstate here. For too long, a small group with ties to Downtown Chicago and Northern Suburbs has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Downtown Chicago and Northern Suburbs flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians […]

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Rauner’s shocking pro-abortion questionnaire is proof he isn’t a Republican

The Chicago Tribune’s liberal columnist Eric Zorn is questioning why pro-abortion Gov. Bruce Rauner is threatening to veto a trigger provision that will allow Medicaid recipients and state workers to use their health coverage for abortions should Roe v. Wade be overturned. At the same time, Rauner and his wife recently donated $50,000 to Planned […]

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The view from Downstate: Chicago dumps on us daily

I spy with my Illinois eye… Drain the swamp started in Chicago. Downstate here.   We’re your neighbors and it’s time we had a talk. First of all,  the original swamp that had to be drained was the smelly stagnant water in the settlement around Fort Dearborn.   You don’t know where Fort Dearborn is?   Well it’s right […]

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Trump’s “Forgotten Man” discovered in Illinois

I spy with my Illinois eye… Downstate here “No one saw it coming” I listened to a local, long-time serving, downstate Republican politician speak to a group of downstate Republicans this past month at a Lincoln Day Dinner.   He was explaining what was happening in Springfield. He’s not in the leadership so he really doesn’t […]

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McConnell: We’re going to confirm Judge Gorsuch

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Judge Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed this week to the Supreme Court but acknowledged Republicans still might not have enough support from Senate Democrats to avoid their attempts to slow or try to stop the nomination process with a filibuster. “We’re going to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed […]

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READER: Why is Rauner’s appointee giving money to Springfield Democrats?

Real GOP Illinois received this letter through our tip form and the reader asks a great question. What do you think? Does Director of Illinois Tourism, Cory Jobe, have any shame? Why would he, an Illinois state Republican official, appointed by Gov. Bruce Rauner, give $1,000 contribution to a Democrat? It’s not as if the […]

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MAP: How does it play in Peoria?

Peoria County changes from blue to red in 2016 election The phrase, “how does it play in Peoria?” put Peoria on the map. And now a new map shows how Peoria is again at the center of national political changing mood. Why Peoria? Marketers test their products in Peoria for a reason.   First of all, […]