Beacon News: Shake-up in Kendall GOP

I don't have any special insights on this one. Someone wants to share how this squares with Kay Hatcher's win, I'm open to some enlightenment. Is it displeasure with Hastert and throw the rascals out?

Three-decade GOP leaders Dallas Ingemunson and Terry Peshia lost their seats on the Kendall County Republican Central Committee Tuesday to first-time candidates with apparent ties to an upstart political group.

Residents linked to the year-old Kendall County Republican Candidate Support Committee captured 18 of the 75 precinct committeeman positions that make up the GOP rank and file. At least one KCRCSC boss is eyeing a leadership bid when the Central Committee elects new party bosses next month.

"They're going to find that (party work) is not as easy a job as they think," said Ingemunson, who no longer belongs to the Central Committee he led for three decades, helping to launch the careers of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Illinois House Minority Leader Tom Cross.

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