* Didn’t Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner sign HB40 into law? Wasn’t he the guy who essentially funded the ILGOP for five years? I guess times truly have changed…
Yesterday, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order concerning taxpayer-funded abortion and stated Illinois will be the “most progressive state in the nation” on abortion under his administration. Illinois Republican Party Spokesman Aaron DeGroot issued the following statement in response:
“Making Illinois the ‘most progressive state in the nation’ on taxpayer-funded abortion is not something to be proud of. Rather, it’s tragic. At a time when our state budget is strained already, allowing this new and unfettered entitlement program to continue is beyond fiscally irresponsible. The Illinois Republican Party is deeply disappointed in Governor Pritzker’s executive order and will continue to oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.”
* From 2017…
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider released the following statement after Governor Rauner announced he will be signing House Bill 40 into law:
“I am disappointed in the Governor’s decision to sign HB40 as the Illinois Republican Party opposes taxpayer-funded abortions.
“While I am frustrated and saddened, I also know that Speaker Madigan and the Democrats are trying to use this issue to divide our party and elect a Madigan-backed candidate for governor.
“As Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, I will not let that happen. Our state faces great challenges, and we are focused on the issues that unite us as Republicans and as Illinoisans. There is no daylight between Governor Rauner and the Illinois Republican Party and we will continue working hard to ensure his reelection and finally defeat Mike Madigan once and for all.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:15 pm:
Dear ILGOP - you lost, your platform lost.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:20 pm:
Dear ILGOP…
Diana Rauner ran your social agenda, thru Bruce Rauner’s pen.
You took her money, you did what Bruce told you…
… and now you’re rubble.
The uber-left, costal, liberal social agenda… that was the cost to Bruce Rauner.
Congratulations.
- curtis - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:21 pm:
This line of thinking will surely help them win back the suburbs in 2020 and beyond.
Keep it up!
/s
- Anon E Moose - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:24 pm:
We are all quite aware of the GOP’s feelings about abortion. Now if they only cared about people once they left the womb…
- don the legend - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:29 pm:
Schneider and DeGroot. A comedy duo not scene since the heyday of the great 60’s duos.
Perhaps OW can get them a part in an upcoming HBO special of Dad’s Home State.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:31 pm:
===…can get them a part in an upcoming HBO special of Dad’s Home State.===
You never know who will pop up in episodes…
- Iggy - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:48 pm:
Social values and morals come and go in cycles, currently Millenials and woke boomers push for abortion rights at their highest level. It’s time for the GOP to lower the priority on this issue. Accept for the next 12 years this is where American hearts and minds are. If you don’t like abortion, give money to organizations that educate women about alternatives. Live your personal life against abortion, but stop trying to make it legislative battle. Abortion rights have catapulted democrats in states all over the US. It’s time to move on and fight a more reasonable fight.
- NIU Grad - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 4:58 pm:
Back to the platform!
- Illinois Resident - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:02 pm:
GOP - If you care for peoples lives so much, get behind medicare for all (healthcare as a right for all citizens). This will save a lot of lives each year.
- Retired Educator - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:03 pm:
Schneider has presided over the total destruction of the Republican Party. They are now going to get a conscience? How does Schneider till have a job? Is the Republican Party telling us he is the best they can get? He couldn’t run a snow cone machine, and that goes for the entire House Republican Organization. It is a kiddie show from top to bottom.
- Mike - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:06 pm:
As I see it, women without money still deserve the same constitutional rights as women with money.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:32 pm:
Did anybody else hear some rustling in the weeds? No? Must not have been anything important. Okay, thanks
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:37 pm:
“There is no daylight between Governor Rauner and the Illinois Republican Party”
This is the cause of the demise of your political party.
- Boat captain - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 5:50 pm:
Kudos to OW. The republicans are self destructing and don’t realize it. And making their party less relavent every day. Unbelievable.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 6:00 pm:
(Tips cap to - boat captain -)
Until the GOP GA, the ILGOP, the state central committee decides that a mea culpa is the best to begin to rebuild…
… they will continue to lose me… and until they realize that the Rauner way was bad, the moment platform is a “guideline” and the 80% Reagan Rule isn’t just lip service… their own irrelevance will indeed be self-evident… even if they can’t see it.
But… I do what I can do.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 6:30 pm:
==GOP - If you care for peoples lives so much, get behind medicare for all (healthcare as a right for all citizens). This will save a lot of lives each year.==
Not only this, but there is a correlation between public funded healthcare and less abortions.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1002985
- Baloneymous - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 6:35 pm:
today’s IL GOP:
Hear the voices in my head
I swear to god it sounds like they’re snoring
But if you’re bored then you’re boring
The agony and the irony, they’re killing me
I’m not sick but I’m not well
-courtesy of Harvey Danger
- The Dude Abides - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 7:15 pm:
The ILGOP trying to solidify their base, what’s left of it.
- Blue Dog Dem - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 8:30 pm:
To the post. And well they should be. If a wall is immoral…..
- Blue Dog Dem - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 8:40 pm:
Mike. Abortion is in the constitution?
- Anon - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 8:58 pm:
“Schneider has presided over the total destruction of the Republican Party.”
Sadly, he isn’t even the worst. He and Jim Durkin are having a race to the bottom and Durkin is in the lead. He was the decision maker behind the laughable races that has given his caucus historic low numbers. The hilarious part is they think they are still relevant.
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 10:50 pm:
I’ve had some in vino veritas talks with a couple of dudes on the GOP state central committee. No shock to anyone here, but there’s a civil war going on with that crew and they don’t know where there next dime is coming from.
There’s a real re-alignment going in this state that reflects a belated conformity to national trends more than anything else: City solid Dem, suburban going Dem, rural going GOP, with Dem outposts in uni towns and metros over 200K or so Downstate.
- Annonin' - Wednesday, Jan 23, 19 @ 10:52 pm:
Maybe the CarWashKing and Brady can get a booth at the new Rosemont flea market and do BOGO on the left over Madigan stuff
- Stuntman Bob's Brother - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 12:36 am:
Meh. If the Democrats want to kill their unborn children, who am I to tell them not to? If there is a God and it is a crime in His eyes to abort potential life, let Him handle the Judgment and Punishment aspect. If not, the downside is less future votes for Pelosi, which ain’t much of a downside.
- Mike - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 2:26 am:
Blue Dog Dem: That’s what they teach us in law school.
- Shanks - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 3:50 am:
My tax dollars should not go to abort unborn children.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 5:41 am:
==My tax dollars should not go to abort unborn children.==
Agree. They should go to Medicare for all, to prevent abortions.
- ike - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 7:37 am:
Shanks - Maybe if Republicans supported insuring birth control then even less unborn child would be aborted.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 8:28 am:
=If the Democrats want to kill their unborn children=
You may want to check the Google on that one. Some big-time GOP guys have funded abortions for their mistresses.
But go ahead and judge others, that is the christian thing to do.
- Huh? - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 8:31 am:
“My tax dollars shouldn’t go to…”
Get another argument. Go live somewhere else, elect different officials of government, or work to change the law.
We have a representative government which decides what is for the good of the citizens. Whether we like it or not, we pay taxes and our elected officials determine how to spend the money we send to the centers of government, whether it be to the local area in which we live, the State, or the federal government.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 9:01 am:
I think older R’s(in their 50’s-60’s and above) will choose to leave rather than continue the uphill fight. See it and hear it constantly, either they downsize here and move to Florida, TN, Texas, etc. to be a resident of a different state or they completely make the move.
Too many taxes, high taxes, poor financial condition of the state, liberal policies, et.al.
Next recession will be a doozy in the great state of Illinois.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 10:01 am:
“Meh. If the Democrats want to kill their unborn children, who am I to tell them not to?”
There are more Democrats than Republicans. Assuming politics is inherited, it must be the Republicans having all the abortions.
- TAXEDOUTWEST - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 5:07 pm:
I agree, no one, NO ONE should tell a woman what to do in a clinic, hospital, etc what she can or cannot do. But, no one should be able to go into my wallet to back her decision that I feel is none of my business. I will stay out of your clinic, you stay out of my wallet.
- Illinois Resident - Thursday, Jan 24, 19 @ 8:06 pm:
Taxedoutwest - None of us get to pick and choose. Do you think I like my tax dollars going to our bloated military industrial complex?