GOP illegally silencing Tea Parties!
CHICAGO, Illinois - February 23, 2010 - The Republican State Central Committee in Illinois - the Gangster State - is instructing its County Chairmen to illegally stack the deck against Tea Party reformers in the March 3 elections.
The Tea Party movement has spent the last year recruiting new Precinct Committeeman candidates to take back the Republican Party for actual grassroots conservatives. But the votes of these newly elected officials are now going to be nullified as County Chairmen across the state exercise their made-up, non-existent right to vote vacant precincts however they see fit.
The law - Illinois Election Code at 10 ILCS 5/7-8(a) - is clear:
“Each elected ward, township or precinct committeeman shall cast as his vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a township or precinct in the last preceding primary election of his political party.”
There is nothing about County Chairmen being able to vote the vacancies. It is not mentioned or even implied. This bastardization of the law turns everything upside down from what was intended and renders the rightfully elected Precinct Committeemen meaningless - especially in a state with such enormous percentages of the precincts still vacant.
The Tea Party movement has spent the last year recruiting new Precinct Committeeman candidates to take back the Republican Party for actual grassroots conservatives. But the votes of these newly elected officials are now going to be nullified as County Chairmen across the state exercise their made-up, non-existent right to vote vacant precincts however they see fit.
The law - Illinois Election Code at 10 ILCS 5/7-8(a) - is clear:
“Each elected ward, township or precinct committeeman shall cast as his vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a township or precinct in the last preceding primary election of his political party.”
There is nothing about County Chairmen being able to vote the vacancies. It is not mentioned or even implied. This bastardization of the law turns everything upside down from what was intended and renders the rightfully elected Precinct Committeemen meaningless - especially in a state with such enormous percentages of the precincts still vacant.
