National Republicans Again Put Illinois Republicans in a Pickle
This is just too funny.
The Republican National Convention has again been set too late—Sept. 1st through 4th--for the next GOP presidential nominee to be placed on the Illinois ballot without changing state law.
The deadline for certification, according to the State Board of Elections is August 27th.
The same thing happened in 2004.
Of course, no one thinks that the next Republican presidential nominee can win Illinois, so maybe it makes no difference.
But, we can look forward to seeing the majority Democratic Party cats play with the Republican Party favor-seeking mice.
Maybe, if Judy Topinka is elected governor, the original legislative asking price for this change in state law will not be as outrageous as before.
Can anyone remember what the Democrats demanded?
And, if you are into history, take a look at McHenry County Blog and see the bonuses that Lee Daniels gave his staff right before he left his leadership position. It's an article Illinois Leader would not publish, but which might be of renewed relevance now that Mike Tristano has agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney's office.
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The first demand from Speaker Madigan and the Dems was that about $3 million worth of campaign finance disclosure fines be wiped off the books, mostly on Democrats, in exchange for changing the law to allow Bush on the ballot. Almost $1 million of that was Jesse White's. Tom Cross and the House Republicans said sure, but Watson and the Senate Republicans wouldn't go along with it.
I said this in 2004 and I'll say it now: how typically arrogant of Republicans to expect the law to be changed on a whim whenever they want. They should have one of the crack policy researchers they churn out from their chain of "think tanks" read state election laws before scheduling their half of our quadrennial political dog-and-pony show past the legal deadline(s).
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