Republicans shoot down electing GOP leaders
A proposal that would require the Republican Party to let Republican voters directly elect its central committee members was rejected in the House, mostly because Republicans didn't vote for it.
Several Republican members called it a plot by Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan to try to meddle in the Republican Party. The plan was initially filed by state Sen. Chris Lauzen, an Aurora Republican, and among the supporters when it passed the Senate was Republican leader Christine Radogno, who's from Lemont.
The House vote was 59-47 (at one point it got up to 60 votes flickered back and forth between 59 and 60 before voting was closed. It needed 71 to pass) and the official roll call was wiped clean because of a procedural move. I jotted down as many "no" votes as possible before the big vote board was erased. I got up to the Js. There is no official roll call to review.
"No" votes on SB 600:
Bassi
Beaubien
Bellock
Bost
Brady
Brauer
Brosnahan
Cavaletto
Coladipietro
Cole
Coulson
Cross
Cultra
Durkin
Eddy
Hamos
Hatcher
Joyce
(sorry, that's it)
Republicans want the right to vote (the same one the Democrats already have), so Tom Cross says it's a Democrat plot that Republicans want to vote.
Tom Cross has got to be the most useless official ever to walk on the face of the earth.
Just when you thought it couldn't be any more embarrassing to be an Illinois Republican.
Good luck ever getting anyone to volunteer or give you money Tom. What a pinhead.