Shirts!

Everyone, shirts (polos) are in!   I will be at the meeting tomorrow to distribute, if you did not order one I have extras, they are 20 dollars.

Alternatively, Demetra will not be able to make it tomorrow night, although she has sponsored pizza for us and assured us she will make it in the next few months.  So bad news- no Demetra, good news- Pizza.

Hope to see you all tomorrow night!

-Brian

Dillard Concedes, Brady Wins

Its official, 193 votes may decide the next governor of Illinois.  That’s less than one vote per precinct.  Still think your vote doesn’t count?

-Brian

Don’t forget, meeting this tuesday!  Demetra Demonte!

Upgrades to the Website

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been doing some renovation lately.  We’ve put up the the scrolling picture, the events calendar, tweaked the category names and the background colors, and put up the video.  Of course, we’re always looking for ways to improve.  Be sure to send an email to the staff if there’s something you would like to see, or just merely to say if you like it.

-Communications Committee

January Social Reminder

Celebrate the 1st Birthday of the LCYRs! It’s our party, and the wings are on us!

Date:
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Street: 3961 Fountain Square Place
Town/City: Waukegan, IL
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238426549727&index=1

As always, New Members/Guests Welcome!!!

December Business Meeting Cancellation/Reschedule

Due to inclement weather and a winter advisory warning through Wednesday evening, the LCYR Business Meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled.The December business meeting is rescheduled  for next Tuesday, Dec. 15 @ 7pm at Republican Federation Headquarters in Libertyville.

December’s Business Meeting and Social!

Because of the holidays, we will be combining our monthly social and business meeting on Tuesday, December 8th. The social will be held at Austin’s Saloon after business is done.

We are always welcoming new members, so if you’re thinking about joining come out!  The meeting will be held at our regular place (302 Peterson Rd, Libertyville)

RALC Christmas Party

Where: White Deer Run Golf Course, 250 West Gregg’s Parkway, Vernon Hills

Come out and have fun with a good bunch of conservatives in “The LC”

Fundraiser to support Circuit Court Judge Jorge Ortiz

Dec. 1
Fundraiser to support Circuit Court Judge Jorge Ortiz
5:30-8 pm
The Country Squire
9133 E Belvidere Rd, Grayslake
$100 per person
RSVP to info@judgeortiz.com

It’s a Party!

Join us on October 26th at Austin’s (481 Peterson Road, Libertyville) from 7-9 pm to celebrate the historic election of our new President, Lauren Fleming, and the successes of our past-President, Collin Corbett!

GOP hopefuls court local faithful

From: Pioneer Press
August 13, 2009

By DAVID CONARD dconard@pioneerlocal.com  

 

 

Competition for the 2010 Republican Illinois gubernatorial nomination, like the 90-degree weather, was hot at a Young Republicans barbecue at Citizens Park in Barrington Saturday.

“If you think this is hot, this is nothing like what we’re going to put the Democrats through in the general election (in 2010),” state Sen. Bill Brady, R-44th, told the crowd.

The event, organized by the Lake, McHenry, DuPage, and Kane County Young Republicans, attracted about 200 people.

Brady, along with Hinsdale resident Adam Andrzejewski, Wheaton resident Dan Proft and DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schillerstrom, are all declared candidates for the Republican gubernatorial primary and spoke to the crowd.

All the candidates said the indictment of former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the difficulty the General Assembly had in passing a budget until mid-July gives the Republicans an opportunity to recapture state offices.

“I think there is a great opportunity for the pendulum to swing back,” Proft said. “The opportunity is there for a revolt against the Democratic central planners.”

Asked if they thought voters would remember former Republican Gov. George Ryan, convicted in 2006 on federal corruption charges, the candidates seemed to think either their anti-Ryan credentials or their new ideas would overcome that stigma.

“We need to prove in our party that we are clean conservatives,” Andrzejewski said. “The patronage wing of my party needs to marry the reform wing of our party or we will continue to lose statewide elections by landslides.”

“I think I’m the only one, Democrat or Republican, who stood up to George Ryan,” Brady said.

Brady said he had voted against Ryan’s Illinois First legislation as a state representative in 1999.

Schillerstrom said his 11 years experience as DuPage County board chairman has proven he can say no to wasteful programs, and corrupt policies wouldn’t continue if he’s elected governor.

“Not if I’m elected governor,” Schillerstrom said. “It has to be somebody from outside of Springfield.”

“It’s not simply not going to change as a Republican governor, it’s going to change with Dan Proft as governor,” Proft said. “A lot of my colleagues are content to go along to get along. They had their chance to exercise leadership in Springfield, and they have chosen not to do that.”

All the candidates said they were against the 2009-10 state budget passed in July. Brady said he had voted against the budget in the Senate.

All candidates were also against Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposed income tax hike, saying they would seek to cut the budget to balance it.

Proft, Brady, and Schillerstrom said they’d seek to move more Medicaid patients to a managed care system, which they said would provide better care and reduce costs.

All three also want to move newly hired state employees to a state pension system similar to a 401(k) plan, where employees get state contributions but not a guaranteed pension.

If elected, Andrzejewski said he would institute a forensic audit of state expenditures, which he believes would show about $3 billion to $5 billion in redundant or wasteful spending in the state budget.

Andrzejewski also said he would eliminate the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, which he said would save the state about $850 million. He would also seek to require state employees to pay more for health insurance, which he said would save $200 million.

Proft said he would seek to sell the state lottery because he doesn’t believe the state should be in the business of gambling, and he said that would help raise money to cover the budget after January.

Brady said the state must “live within our means.” He said the $2.5 billion dollar state budget deficit represented less than 5 percent of total state spending.

The barbecue was organized to help unite the party, according to Lake County Young Republicans President Collin Corbett.

“Different (organization) presidents started talking about getting everyone together,” Corbett said. “One of the major problems we have is uniting together to fight a common foe.”

Corbett said the barbecue would help local residents know about the organization.

“Young Republicans are out there; We’re all over the place,” Corbett said.

Lake County Young Republicans Secretary Lauren Fleming said it was unfair to characterize the Republican Party because of George Ryan or former President George W. Bush.

“A lot of young people are post-Reagan era, so all they know as Republicans are George (W.) Bush and Dick Cheney,” Fleming said. “The fundamental beliefs about fiscal responsibility and transparency (are) what this country was founded on.”

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/lakezurich/news/1713550,lake-zurich-gopbarbecue-081309-s1.article

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