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Join the Cook GOP for the 2008 Illinois Republican State Convention
The 2008 Illinois Republican Party Convention will be held on Friday, June 6, 2008 and Saturday, June 7, 2008 at the Decatur Conference Center & Hotel
Decatur Conference Center & Hotel, 4191 West U.S. Highway 36 (Wyckles Road), Decatur, IL
To be a delegate or alternate delegate from Cook County, please contact your Township or Ward Committeeman about remaining openings.
Convention Brochure and Registration Form
Recent News
IR Focus: Lee Roupas, Cook County GOP Chairman
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Chairing the Republican Party in America's second most populous county is a big job for an experienced politician, much less a 25 year old part-time law student. But Cook County GOP Chairman Lee Roupas says his energy, enthusiasm and fresh perspective may be just what is needed to turn around a demoralized and fractured party organization.
"I've not been around long enough to make enemies," the Palos Township committeeman who was elected county chairman March 5, 2008 said. "My strategy is to treat everyone as if they want to be on board, and move ahead from there. So far, things have been coming together. We've had good support in filling current ballot vacancies."
Roupas said he is pleased that several Cook County Democrats unopposed in the past will face Republican challengers this election cycle.
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Democrat Corruption
Blagojevich had big plans, witness says
Sunday, April 20, 2008 - By Bob Secter and Jeff Coen
- Chicago Tribune
A veteran Democratic fundraiser testified Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich once offered to give him his pick of contracts and state business in exchange for help building a nationwide political money machine as a prelude to a presidential run.
The governor said "that there were contracts, legal work, investment banking work and consulting work to be awarded to people who helped," Joseph Cari recalled as he took the stand in the federal corruption trial of Blagojevich insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko.
The allegations by Cari, once a finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee, were the most explicit accusations of pay-to-play politics leveled against Blagojevich at a trial where he is not even the defendant.
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Recent Press Releases
Mike Sweeney Appointed Elk Grove GOP Committeeman
Sunday, April 20, 2008 - Daily Herald
Mike Sweeney of Arlington Heights has been appointed the new committeeman of the Elk Grove Township Republican organization. Sweeney, the current Elk Grove Township clerk, was named committeeman by Lee Roupas, the chairman of the Cook County republican Organization. Sweeney is presently the Republican candidate for the 33rd state Senate seat in Springfield, challenging incumbent state Sen. Dan Kotowski of Park Ridge. Sweeney was elected Elk Grove Township collector in April 2005, but was appointed clerk in September of that year to fill the vacancy.
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