Illinois GOP Take In Devastating Election Losses At The Direction Of Its Chairman, Kathy Salvi
November 9, 2024
Val Ojeda, Writer
Illinois GOP Take In Devastating Election Losses At The Direction Of Its Chairman, Kathy Salvi
Because of the DEVASTATING losses for Tuesday's election it's time to make changes. Big changes in the Illinois Republican Party.
But the Illinois GOP is bragging they won with a big victory? For who?
Illinois GOP Chairman Kathy Salvi is praised for victory of a total of 3 seats won in the Illinois General Assembly versus the Democrats 14 wins and more control of their already SUPER MAJORITY in Springfield! Is that a victory?
So let's review her post. First off it was a Presidential race. A down ballot and she included Trump at the very end with no congratulations? Instead she claimed credit for a larger voter turnout that has nothing to do with the Illinois GOP but Trump and his campaign strategies. Next will she lay credit to her friend ROBERT RENTERIA the Barrio DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST book peddler for making this happen?
Under Salvis' watch the Illinois GOP suffered the most Republican candidate losses in the state's election history. Greater than the 2022 midterms which led to Durkin and McConchie the GA minority leaders resigning their leadership roles. Durkin outright resigned his seat. Don Tracy was the former chairman of the Illinois GOP at the time. A disgrace himself.
Instead of plainly explaining these losses she is attempting to save her job by riding Trump's coattails and claiming a personal victory. This is unacceptable as she shouldn't be celebrating but writing her letter of resignation immediately! #ResignSalvi
After Don Tracy resigned as Illinois GOP Chairman, Kathy Salvi was voted in by members of the state central committee. My question is why she was selected. The Chairman's job is to raise money, organize and WIN races which she has failed to do. You want a Chairman that is a winner but she lost her own campaign recently to Sen. Tammy Duckworth but let's face it none of the candidates in the GOP primary in 2022 had a chance to beat Duckworth anyway.
When a NFL football team hires a new coach and they don't produce wins you fire them. Look at the Chicago Bears, they do it all the time. Salvi oversaw the most reported losses in Illinois GOP history, bypassing Don Tracy by a third and she demanded congratulations? What's next, a gold watch from the Illinois GOP?
By the way.... Tracy never left. He is now a strategic consultant to Salvi and proof of this is the events she holds and he is right next to her calling the shots. Recently she held a fundraiser for a Wisconsin Congressional candidate while ignoring Illinois Congressional candidates. She also raised tens of thousands for her choice of moderate Trump hating candidates who support abortion such as Judge McGraw, Jim Carris, Jerry Evens while ignoring other Grassroots candidates that supported Trump. Carris actually came out with a mailer stating as a Republican he supported ABORTION, was anti 2nd Amendment and hated Trump. Yet, she placed him on a pedestal like he was Jesus Christ.
This is why Salvi “saliva" should resign. When elected she refused to clean house in the GOP, instead she became Tracy on steroids. She should have immediately demanded the resignations of no good GOP County and Township Chairs who were doing nothing but carry around titles. She should have also demanded the resignations of Tony McCombie and John Curran for them selling out to the Democrats in support of AMENDMENT ONE and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in union hush money to secure their power in the Illinois General Assembly. But nope.
By the way, Any GOP candidate that took even one dollar from the HRO or SRO during this campaign cycle should immediately designate themselves DEMOCRATS. A RINO label is just too nice. Just ask Will County where every single candidate that ran for Illinois House and Illinois Senate were bought and paid for by Rep. Tony McCombie and Sen. John Curran. They were bought off to lose. So desperate were they that it clouded their judgments. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM LOST IN WILL COUNTY. The same happened in Rock Island, Dupage and Lake counties. Who's your DADDY!
Salvi should have broken ties with the corrupt SURUS and Cor Strategies, the consultants promoting pro-abortion initiatives supposedly to win races. The Illinois GOP is getting political advice from amateurs and college kids meanwhile there is no representation for the Grassroots.
She failed to establish GOP Task Forces for Chicago, Latinos and blacks to actively market and recruit new voters from the minority voters. Why not appoint Stephanie Trussell, a very popular black Republican who once ran with Darren Bailey for Lt. Governor. Most important is to dump a lot of money including opening an office in Chicago to prepare for elections, especially that of the United States Senate and Mayor. The Governor's seat is up in just two years. We need to organize Chicago voting because Chuck Hernandez, the Chicago GOP Chair has failed to do his job not even returning phone calls for much needed help. He should resign as well.
The party is sitting on just over one million dollars. Instead of putting it all on the table to find races in greed they are holding back the money to pay the consultants like Cor Strategies who receive hundreds of thousands per year by contract to provide bad advice and of course to pay for fancy dinners and travel to exotic locations as delegations like when they went to Florida numerous times to support Gov. Ron Desantis.
She failed to assist Trump in campaigning in Illinois. She purchased zero Trump campaign signs but Dean White did so personally. As a matter of fact the majority of the Illinois Delegation for Trump to the RNC we're not even supporting Trump. They were her people, the moderate RINOs. They just needed passes to the NRC in Milwaukee to party there. They were absent during the festivities and speaking. Dozens of seats were vacant during the important speeches. Then when they made their appearance in unison dozens of them turned their back on Trump led by Don Tracy.
Remember it was former Illinois GOP Co-Chair Mark Shaw that recruited these fakes as he himself was a fake telling lies of him being the director for Trump in Illinois which was found to be a flat out lie that I verified. Thankfully he was voted out as co-chairman.
Pathetic and disrespectful.
As a matter of fact Salvi refused to speak at a Trump dinner in Darien sponsored by Terry Newsome recently to speak at another dinner with a flaming Democrat. Will County GOP Chairman Christina Clausen also backed out because Salvi pressured her to. Salvi agreed initially to speak at the Trump dinner for Newsome along with her Co-Chair Arron Del Mar and National RNC Committeeman Dean white. When she canceled both men refused to cancel their appearances even after they were threatened by her and others because the event was too far right and full of Trump supporters.
Instead she spoke at another Lincoln dinner where she honored a former drug dealer Robert Renteria who's only claim to fame is writing a book that is full of lies 30 years ago. In real life "Barrio" as they call him owns a laundromat in Aurora where he organizes Democrats for liberal candidate elections in order for him to attempt to peddle books. There are pictures and videos to prove this in the span of two decades.
He is not a REPUBLICAN or even a CONSERVATIVE. INSTEAD HE'S SUPPORTED DOZENS OF DEMOCRATIC RACES for self promotion. Not once has he separated himself from the Democrats and as of recently he started working with Republicans because the Democrats failed to buy his books. If he says he is what he says let him announce that he is indeed a Republican instead of the excuse he gives that his family became conservative eight years ago but never touched the subject for himself.
For some unknown reason Republicans invited him into the fold because they felt he could get the Hispanic vote. Wrong! He has no direct ties to the community to get votes. The Latinos have no idea who he is. They all know me. As a matter of fact the last time I saw him was eight years ago he was campaigning for Tao Martinez who was running for coroner in 2016. Martinez is a flaming Democrat. He was just arrested recently for DUI driving drunk and having an accident. When I was hired by Trump in 2016 as senior staff he went on a rampage attacking me publicly and Trump calling me out as a racist.
So Renteria was the VIP headline speaker at the Salvis event where she praised him even wearing his Barrio hat looking like a clown. In his speech he failed to promote Republican ideologies or promote Republican initiatives or even endorse GOP candidates instead he slammed Republicans for not helping him sell books. What?
With thousands of real Republicans available to speak as the VIP she brings a wolf into the henhouse as a spy? Then she praised him. No Democrat should ever speak at our sacred dinner. And shame on any conservative for supporting Renteria. He should run out of the next GOP event. Then he goes on a tirade that Republicans disrespect Latinos and nobody buys his books?
Another wolf is Tyrone Muhammad in Chicago, a convicted murderer who served twenty years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. When released he started an anti-Chicago Police group that would stalk and harass Police Officers. He was arrested multiple times including attacking a Hispanic Illinois State Trooper on the highway as he blocked the roadway disrupting traffic to thousands to make a point against Police making a power play as a no good vigilante. Yet the Illinois GOP is said to support his run for United States Senate? Muhammad is another full fledged Democrat that recently supported Bob Fioretti for Cook County State's Attorney. Fioretti, a Democrat, recently endorsed KAMALA HARRIS for President as they shared signs together in Cook County.
If I have to hear one more time of Republicans working with DEMOCRAT former Governor Rod Blagovivich I'm going to blow a gasket. He's not a REPUBLICAN yet you invite him to dinners to teach Republicans to be Republican? The blind leading the blind. This convicted felon, he never received a pardon from Trump by the way, just a commutation making sure he is a felon for life. Any Republican that works with this loser should be ousted from the Republican Party as well.
Meanwhile Saliva Salvi is being mocked for supporting such people and rightfully so!
This is an example why she has to go. #Resign What are the other reasons, well let's see:
1. Failure to raise any money except for a few RINO favorites of hers
2. Eliminating ties with the Grassroots. She recently appointed Anne Partchert but she sold out quickly as a RINO who delivered mass losses in Rock Island as the GOP Chair there. I guess Anne cares more about raising money for her Bud Light beer and generic cigarettes
3. Failure to lead. She is no leader of men
4. Failure to campaign or assist in campaigns
5. Failure to fire numerous vendors and consultants for bad consultation
6. Failure to reach out to evangelicals and minorities for votes. Proof of this is her failure to represent the party at Pastor Corey Brooks Godson's funeral. I reached out to her and here came the excuses not to attend. Instead I organized a Republican delegation to attend which we did for the visitation and funeral. She just offered flowers. Wow
7. Failure to organize elections in the Chicago/Cook County and suburban market to win races. As a PAC they failed to assist candidates by sending out advertising and mailers
8. Failure to disassociate herself with Don Tracy
9. Failure to demand resignations of RINO County Chairs and members of the state central committee for failure to do their jobs
10. Failure to promote a social media campaign to promote elections
11. Failure to weaponize the Illinois GOP to promote candidates
12. Failure to endorse Republican candidates
13. Failure to organize fundraisers for candidates
14. Failure to support GOP organizations even after they begged for support
15. Failure to support President Trump
There is much more to believe. Don't tell me that she is new. This happened under her watch and enough said she has to go or be FORCED out.
I can continue this list all day but you just need one reason to request her resignation and that's failure to communicate. She should be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week like I was as a consultant. It comes with the job of leadership. Nope she's not even 9 to 5. Candidates were telling me she refused to answer her phone or even text back. There should be a 24 hour GOP hotline to answer the phones in the critical state of campaigning this year. Nope.
She was elected in July. In August we met personally and I broke it down how I would support her even after I wanted Arron Del Mar to be Chairman instead. I explained to her to be the opposite of Don Tracy and to disassociate herself from him politically. I told her if she failed to do this, I was coming after her seat so she could be replaced by Del Mar. After many calls it appeared as she was buying time from me to fulfill Tracy's agenda and lose elections.
For right now I believe it's best to RESIGN KATHY SALVI immediately so we can move forward as a Republican Party.
Who will replace her? Certainly not Jeanne Ives. We need a 100%Trump supporter that is independently wealthy and available to work unlimited hours. We don't need a part-timer.
Others who should resign in leadership as well:
Because of the tragic GOP losses under their watch the following County Republican Central Committee chairman's should resign:
1. Jim Zay/Dupage County
2. Chuck Hernandez/Cook County
3. Anne Partchert/Rock Island County
4. Christina Clausen/Will County
5. Keith Brin/Lake County
6. Andro Lerario/Kane County
7. Sean Morrison/Cook County
8. Larry Smith/LaSalle County
9. Tim Bagby /Dekalb County
10. Barry Welbers/Bureau County
For example, look at these races.
I know both the Coroners for Kane and Dupage Counties personally. I actually worked for Kane County Coroner Russel's campaign for a win years ago. Dupage County Rich Jorgenson is a friend and a four term incumbent.
Jorgenson was defeated in Dupage County and Russell may be defeated in Kane County. Both trailing behind socialist Democrats.
Kane County and Dupage are forever lost to the Democrat machine. Both GOPs are dead. The only thing keeping the GOP afloat is Sheriff James Mendrick who works hard to support candidates, raise money and win elections. He alone is keeping the Dupage GOP afloat.
I spoke with some candidates in both counties and they are rightfully upset. They lost their races after working hard for over a year to win but we're ignored by the County and state GOPs. These are great people that financed their own races with little donations. Instead they were being forced by the GOP to buy SURUS political software for tens of thousands which is practically useless. You say no…. then you are blacklisted by the party leadership.
So all these candidates were abandoned by the GOP Chairman of Dupage and Kane County. They even refuse phone calls from candidates including PCs, volunteers and others. They became Kings not to be bothered by the peasants.
They provided no field teams for campaigning. No election judges or poll watchers. They raised zero dollars or provided leadership.
It's time these guys #Resign immediately. It's time to recruit Chairman's that want to do the job and actually care about winning and not just carry a title. To serve the people not have the people serve them.
Dupage Chairman Jim Zay is a drunk and a no good human being that led Dupage to become Dupage County. Just look at their failure to get RINO TRUMP HATER GREG HEART elected after he came out for abortion rights. Heart now wants to run for Hinsdale Mayor which will never happen after I become involved.
Let's just hope Coroner Rob Russell keeps his seat in Kane County.
Because of being INACTIVE to help candidates or even raise money to assist candidates why should they continue to "lead" The fallout was unforgiving as they lost every single Congressional, Illinois House and Senate seats.
These candidates had no infrastructure, data, volunteers, phone banking or donations from these lackluster weak chairman. Of course they were being pushed to purchase SURUS of course. Then bending candidates arms to purchase sponsorships at their events.
There is no excuse for some of them to say that they are new to the job. This happened under your leadership now it's time to go. #Resign
Recently I made a decision not to manage campaigns anymore and to hang up being a professional political consultant. In eight years I ran and assisted in over 200 races for Trump, Federal Super PACs and think tanks. I've placed many in office but I lost races as well but I never gave up. This time I gave up. I returned last year to Illinois after working many federal races for Senate and the House so I can be close to family and friends and maybe help make a difference in the Illinois GOP to win races with my expertise. Man was I wrong.
I will not miss the events and fundraisers stinking of RINOs and their gossip while I'm spending $7.00 a beer eating cheap buffet style food at fancy fundraisers. I'll only miss great candidates who wanted to serve.
The Illinois GOP is the toilet bowl of the nation. The trailer park of Illinois more namely the Will County GOP. I was not prepared for how liberal the GOP was starting with the entire leadership. As I managed races, I was not prepared for the hostility that came my way from the leadership because I was far right. In Illinois they want you right in the middle hugging Democrat platforms. Then it wasn't about myself but Grassroots candidates that wanted to run. God forgive them if they spoke of term limits, PRO-LIFE and being PRO-GUN.
In Illinois you cannot raise any money for races. The Republican base is tight and will NOT give to individual candidates. Good luck getting even a Grassroots Republican to volunteer. Crickets. There was no leadership instead losing methods to sabotage Conservative races. This is the reason I will not work in another political race. The system in Illinois is rigged. You are set up to fail and a testimony is losing all these races this week.
Illinois is wicked. Instead of uniting Republicans the Chairman stays silent. ALL Republicans are jealous of each other. Then the attacks come on social media. Trump supporters vs Trump supporters. Black Conservatives vs black Conservatives and so on. If a CONSERVATIVE had a slice of bread he would be attacked meanwhile the attackers have a loaf themselves.
If the Illinois GOP was a funeral home no one would die!
Now I may be done consulting but I can still write and report. I'll be writing a lot especially about any for seen enemies I may have. As I venture off into private business I'm a civilian now. I no longer have to keep silent because I didn't want to disrupt client races or embarrass them. My hobby will be to expose Republicans RINOs, consultants, vendors, leaders such as the chairmans and State Central Committee members and those in leadership such as Kathy Savi. I will expose the corruption in the Illinois GOP. I'm gone but I'm still here. So expect hundreds of stories coming your way as my hobby will be to chase the bad Republicans. I'll be seeing you soon pal.
