Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed named Gov. Bruce Rauner “the state’s number one fiscal conservative.” Real GOP Illinois has a visual response to Michael Sneed’s strange claim and this is it.
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 […]
A longtime suburban Chicago mayor who held a fundraiser for President Donald Trump last year has expanded his narrow lead in his re-election battle with a union organizer backed by top Democrats. With all precincts reporting Wednesday, Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar held a 104-vote lead over Will County Commissioner Jackie Traynere. The vote tally will […]
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 […]
Newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez campaigned for Democrats in Newark, New Jersey Friday by telling a crowd the Republican Party doesn’t “give a shit” about them. Perez, speaking at a rally hosted by the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, first congratulated protesters on showing up in droves to Washington, DC on January 21, the day […]
Members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday. Nunes said the monitoring appeared to be done legally as a result of what’s called “incidental collection,” but said he was concerned because it was not […]
