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Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka isn’t in the running to take a position she once had — chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois. But she’s not shy in saying what she thinks of the job after just “a tad of discussion” that she could take it again.

“That has got to be the worst job in the world,” Topinka said. “It is horrendous. It was just so wearing after two years of that. I was thrilled when I was able to divest myself of it.”

Accurate.

* Wouldn’t Joe Walsh have to give up his brand new radio gig if he took the chairmanship? I doubt he’d get the chairmanship anyhow, but here’s what he had to say…

“The Republican Party in this state is irrelevant,” Walsh said. “We’ve been an irrelevant force for a long, long time. … Party leaders going all the way back to Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, George Ryan, Tom Cross, you name ’em, we’ve all been happy playing second fiddle, and we’ve let the Democrats run this state. I really do believe that the Republican Party … has been complicit, in this almost criminal arrangement, where we let the Democrats run the state and we just take a little bit of power wherever we can have it. That’s got to end.”

Yeah, Thompson, Edgar and Ryan ceded all sorts of power to the Democratic Party. Right. Please.

Go read the whole thing.

posted by Rich Miller
Sunday, May 26, 13 @ 2:27 pm

Comments

Someone should tell Walsh that party chair is a non-paying gig. That might tamp down his interest.

Comment by wordslinger Sunday, May 26, 13 @ 2:38 pm
We of course would vote DeadBeatJoe chairman and radio show. Heck WhackyJack Roesser has fake TV show and his defense contractor biz.
BIGjIM, bLINKYjIM AND gEORGE ALL gave up lots to the Ds. Pour it on DeadBeat
Fire, Aim, Ready!

Comment by CircularFiringSquad Sunday, May 26, 13 @ 2:52 pm
Funny, I don’t remember Big Jim playing second fiddle to anyone. That must have been back when Walsh was a Democrat.

Comment by 47th Ward Sunday, May 26, 13 @ 8:49 pm
It’s a crying shame that Joe Walsh can even be considered in a nasty, drug-induced fever dream as a chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.

He’s a money-grubbing fool. He’s a clown. He brings nothing to the table.

Have some respect for the birthplace of the Republican Party.

Reagan, Dole,Simpson, Goldwater and Lugar would pound lumps on his head.

Not “conservative” enough for you? Baby, those are the conservatives. If you can’t handle them, you’re in the Weird Zone.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, May 27, 13 @ 12:01 am
I appreciate Walsh’s willingness to admit his own party’s failings instead of the predictable finger pointing to place total blame for the state’s ills on the other party. He would be entertaining as chairman.

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