Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady today released the following statement in response to Pat Quinn’s comments last night at the Heartland Cafe in Chicago.
Quinn said, “We cannot allow the right wing, all of those people on cable TV who don’t wish the President any good at all. They’re a bunch of haters…”
Pat Brady: “I can understand Pat Quinn’s frustration that he has failed at his job as governor, but to start blaming conservatives who question the President or who care deeply about how to solve Illinois’ $13 billion deficit is the height of arrogance. They’re not haters, Governor. They’re citizens, they’re people, and they’re voters.”
If you listen to the audio from the GOP tracker, the rest of the Quinn quote is “They’re a bunch of haters, a lot of them, on those TV shows.”Audio…
Quinn wasn’t talking about Illinois citizens upset about Quinn’s many failures or the state’s horrific budget deficit. The governor was talking about the cable TV goofballs, who don’t even live here. Personally, I can’t bear to watch cable “news,” whether it’s Fox or MSNBC. Shrill haters all. It creeps me out after about 2 minutes. It’s just a vast wasteland of hate.
Together with a conservative political action committee, the state GOP has teamed up with an infamous anti-Obama birther who’s helped to recruit tea party activists to oversee the vote as official poll workers and independent poll watchers […]
This effort has placed [state GOP chairman Pat Brady] in league with one of the tea party movement’s more unusual characters. The project’s coordinator, Sharon Meroni, is an infamous anti-Obama birther who filed objections against 32 Illinois candidates for failing to provide adequate documentation of their citizenship.
Meroni, who blogs under the pseudonym “Chalice Jackson,” also helped launch a petition demanding Obama’s resignation for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” “Who truly would have believed…that there was ANY chance America could be in the hands of a usurper government?” she wrote in another court filing to contest Obama’s citizenship, which the McHenry County Grand Jury dismissed. Meroni is now helping to select the election judges—as official poll workers are called in Illinois—and poll watchers that the joint project will dispatch on Election Day.
Meroni (who blogs under the name “Chalice Jackson”) went into a McHenry County court in late 2009 seeking to challenge the citizenship of Barack Obama. Her website has some similar themes.
However I had never heard of her until this summer when she filed 31 frivolous objections against the petitions of independent and new party candidates…. Meroni didn’t care about the number of petition signatures or any of the other claims made in the typical petition challenge. Meroni instead wanted every candidate to produce a birth certificate.
But the [IL GOP] was apparently inadvertently too candid on its own website about the efforts, and has since scrubbed the earlier references to the RNLA’s training program. Also scrubbed: the party chair’s statement that “ballot integrity will be a key ingredient to our success.”
