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The Republican Party platform is conservative and the Republican Party exists to help elect Republican candidates who can and will advance that platform. The Democrat Party platform is liberal and the Democrat Party exists to help elect Democrat candidates who can and will advance that platform. The Combine exists in Illinois to a) advance the personal financial interest of its members, b) advance the Democrat Party platform, and c) defeat candidates who can and will advance the Republican Party platform. Bills in the Illinois Senate and House would return to Illinois Republican primary election voters the power to directly elect those who govern the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) -- the 19 members of the IRP State Central Committee (SCC). Tragically, for decades, the IRP, and especially the SCC, has been dominated by the Combine. Tragically, efforts to rebuild the IRP and efforts to motivate regular Republicans to contribute to the IRP are severely hampered if not futile as long as the Combine continues to dominate the IRP.

GOPUSA ILLINOIS 2008 wish list:

-- All Republican candidates in contested races on February 5 ballots in Illinois sign and fully comply with the IRP Campaign Code of Conduct (http://www.digitalvictorycms.com/_uploaded/347054-IRPCodeofCampaignConduct.pdf);

-- Illinois voters elect Republican candidates in the February 5 primary election and in the March 8 14th Congressional District special election who will also win in the November 4 general election and who can and will do the best job of advancing the Republican Party platform;

-- Many from Illinois attend the 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC February 7-9;

-- Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen elect candidates for Republican township party officer positions who can and will do the best job of advancing the Republican Party platform and vote to amend their township party by-laws to include recall provisions and to disqualify from holding leadership positions in their township party those who have recently voted in a Democrat primary election, who have recently accepted money from a Democrat, who have recently given money to Democrat, or who reject a major plank in the Republican Party platform;

-- Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen a) elect on March 5 candidates for Republican county party officer positions who can and will do the best job of advancing the Republican Party platform and vote to amend their county party by-laws to include recall provisions and to disqualify from holding leadership positions in their county party those who have recently voted in a Democrat primary election, who have recently accepted money from a Democrat, who have recently given money to Democrat, or who reject a major plank in the Republican Party platform;

-- IRP SCC members select Republicans who can and will do the best job of advancing the Republican Party platform to serve on IRP convention committees June 6-7;

-- IRP SCC member Ron Smith selects Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman Dave Diersen to represent the 6th Congressional District on the IPP platform and resolutions committee June 6-7;

-- IRP SCC convention committee members nominate on June 6 IRP National Committeeman and IRP National Committeewoman candidates who can and will do the best job of advancing the Republican Party platform;

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