Illinois Republicans Supporting Democrat Races Leads To The Destruction Of The GOP

Illinois GOP moderates selling out to Democrats

File photo/Val Ojeda (2022)

Val Ojeda, Writer

In 1964, President Ronald Reagan planted the flag on behalf of the Republican Party against the Democratic machine in our country that was growing with power.

In one of America's greatest speeches, Reagan said:

“Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what then, when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all."

During the 1964 Presidential campaign, Republican Party officials in California, who knew Reagan's powerful message and delivery, asked him to film this speech on behalf of the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater. The speech was aired on October 27, 1964, and it was electrifying. Donations to the Republican Party and candidates increased dramatically.

The Republican Party took note, and they targeted Reagan as a candidate from that point forward. He agreed in 1966 to run for Governor of California. He won two terms and eventually won the Presidency.

Speaking for Goldwater, Reagan stressed his belief in the importance of smaller government. In the speech, Reagan revealed his ideological motivation: “The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So, we have come to a time for choosing.” He also said, “You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism." The speech raised $1 million for Goldwater's campaign, and is considered the event that launched Reagan's political career.

Later, when Reagan became President on day one, Iran released our American hostages. Later, he rebuilt our military, building a 500 ship Navy. The U.S. became such a military power that the Soviet Union couldn't catch up to our spending, and eventually, it led to talks of reducing nuclear warhead stockpiles. Meeting with President Gorbachev, President Reagan challenged him to end the Cold War which he did by dissolving communism. The Soviet Union then ceased to exist.

Reagan didn't do this by appeasement. The Democrats in Congress at the time didn't want Reagan to saber rattle and provoke the Russians into a nuclear war. His decisions were unpopular, especially with military spending. The Democrats wanted more entitlements and welfare. Reagan said no with the stroke of his pen, vetoing any entitlements bills. He was also unpopular with the unions, especially firing all the FAA controllers that went on strike, but he stuck to his guns and was re-elected. 

President Ronald Reagan was a true patriot. He was an authentic Conservative Republican. He did not bend or kneel to the Democrats and their liberal ideologies. Later, Donald Trump ran for President carrying on Reagan's standard.Trump weaponized it to Make America Great Again. 

For the last 16 years, America suffered through two horrible Presidents, Bush and Obama, that tripled our national debt through needless wars and entitlement programs, bringing our economy to its knees. Jobs and industry fled to China, and the American dollar tanked. The Democrats celebrated because they were winning more national races, and now we're going to have another Clinton in the White House.

President Trump stopped them cold. He chose not to work with Democrats or even moderate Republicans such as Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney. Pushing them aside, he was the voice for the forgotten ones, of the American people. 

So, what has happened to us since he left office in 2021?

The Republican Party went through a radical change nationally, especially in Illinois. The Illinois GOP became the “unity” party. To unify with Democrats to make change because, after all, Illinois is a “Blue” state, and you need to adapt. 

What kind of BS reasoning is that?

Unfortunately, that's what's happening. Just last night I took a call from a Republican leader that tried to justify supporting Paul Vallas who is running for Mayor of Chicago.

Vallas is a liberal DEMOCRAT, he is anti-Republican and anti-Trump, demanding his arrest. Vallas is pro-abortion and has flip-flopped already in his support for the Police, accepting an endorsement from Black Lives Matter.

So, this leader tried to reason with me on supporting this DEMOCRAT because he is the lesser of two evils. Vallas's opponent is Brandon Johnson, who is just as bad. Equal in my book. 

I told him as a Republican Conservative I cannot in good conscience support any Democrat regardless of the situation. In this case, it's not my fight because I have no Republican horse in this race. 

With all the municipal and school board races happening, why should we even waste one minute supporting Democrat Vallas when there are many other Republican candidates in other races that need our help.

By the way, where were these same GOP organizers that are supporting Vallas now when we had the 2022 elections. Many of them were nowhere to be seen helping Republican candidates that later lost, but now you are working for Democrats such as Vallas. There is something wrong with this picture. If you continue to justify it, you might as well turn in your ticket and become a Democrat. The Republican Party doesn't need you.

Last Thursday, the Illinois Democratic Party dumped $300,000 in targeted mailers against 74 conservative candidates for school boards. Then they popped up with this website to identify and target GOP CANDIDATES: https://defendourschoolsil.com/

This unprecedented plan will include mail and digital advertising sent to a base of Democratic voters in target districts, reaching hundreds of thousands of individuals and households in Illinois. The paid communications program will highlight extremists on the ballot, support credible community advocates that DPI recommends, and direct voters to DefendOurSchoolsIL.com, where they can find additional information about races in their districts. In addition, the Party is supporting direct voter contact efforts through consultation and candidate training led by DPI’s Regional Political Organizers. DPI will invest nearly $300,000 statewide to support recommended candidates and expose fringe candidates.

Why doesn't the Illinois GOP have a website like this?

What's the Illinois GOP doing to fight back? NOTHING! They are heading to Florida to recruit Desantis to run against Trump and to donate to the Desantis campaign instead of donating to GOP candidates or buying mailers to target liberal socialist candidates.

Last month in an E-mail IL. GOP Chairman Don Tracy stated he will NOT get involved in school board non-partisan races?

WAKE UP! These aren't non-partisan races. They are Republican vs Democrat. That's simple. 

J.B. Pritzker and the Democrats are spending up to a million dollars to take out GOP schools board candidates and the Illinois GOP wants to sit this one out.

This is why under his leadership the Illinois GOP lost more races in the history of the Illinois Republican Party. You can see some big school board losses coming up because the GOP can't play defense and never learned to play offense. 

The Illinois Republican Party is defunct and dead. The real engine in the Republican Party is with the grassroots. One of these groups is Awake Illinois that is a target of the Democrats and even by some Republicans who identify them as “far right” Where should they be in the middle?

Do you know why JB Pritzker and the Democrats are coming after Shannon O'Grady Adcock the founder of Awake Illinois, is because they are A REAL THREAT to the Democratic Party, unlike the GOP who is a paper tiger? 

The Illinois GOP has an entire board of directors, State Central Committeeman and sub-committeeman and spokespeople, strategists and consultants, but doesn't even have an office. They have no working number or anyone that answers. They have no office or office staff. Furthermore, they don't answer emails. Their website has no activity and doesn't even direct you to active candidates and their info. They offer no help to candidates for free consulting, printing or giving them free voter data. They can't even pay for text blasting.

At least Shannon has an office and a working Email and number. She also is actually putting people in office, unlike Don Tracy!

If the Illinois GOP was a funeral home, no one would die!

The only fundraisers the Illinois GOP sponsors are for RINO out-of-state candidates that have nothing to do with Illinois races. 

Let's face it, the Illinois Republican Party is another pyramid scheme just put to get your cash, and after you are left with nothing!

Remember, if you don't donate, then you don't matter!

Don Tracy and the entire state central committee need to go!

Speaking of leadership, how about the GOP leaders on both sides of the general Assembly. Sen. John Curran, the minority leader of the Senate Republicans and Rep. Tony McCombie the minority leader of the House Republicans both supported Amendment one after the reason for thousands of dollars in donations from the liberal teachers unions? They sold out for cold hard cash.

While tens of thousands of Republicans campaigned against this amendment that gave more powers to the unions and would increase taxes, these two “leaders” joined the Democrat wave to pass this liberal junk law.

The head of the NorthWest Side GOP (Chicago Republicans) candidate, Matt Podorski, who ran for Cook County Commissioner, joined them supporting Amendment One after accepting Democrat union money. He lost his race as Republicans failed to vote and backed him. 

The Illinois GOP made history in 2022, losing more races in one year than its entire history. The red Wave became the red ripple. The Democrats celebrated these losses looking at our party as weak, knowing that they controlled us from the inside. All this is because the State Central Committee voted in a Democrat to be its leader. Don Tracy.

Under his leadership, he directed a hate campaign against anyone who supported Darren Bailey for Governor or that supported Trump. On Tracy's agenda was a plan to support abortion. As head of the party, he discounted postage for a mailer on behalf of candidate for DuPage County Chairman Greg Hart, calling him an “independent” and was “pro-choice” after Hart won a REPUBLICAN primary. Hart, like Podorski, lost because Republican voters found him to be a fake.

Under Tracy's control, we lost the governorship because they chose a Democrat to run for Governor Richard Irvin. Instead of investing Ken Griffin's money on Darren Bailey, a real Republican, they invested on a liberal who never voted Republican in his life. 

In December, hundreds of grassroots Republicans challenged the Illinois GOP to rid themselves of Tracy. Instead, the state central committee stuck to their guns supporting him. Many candidates and grassroots Republicans went home that day confused about the direction of the party with Tracy still in charge.

What can be done now?

Just like what Reagan said, it's time for a choosing. We have to pick a side. We are Republicans or Democrats. There is no middle. We should eliminate modernism from the Republican Party. If a Republican supports abortion or associates with Democrats, they should be forced out of the party. 

We live in a society where it is acceptable to support Democrats because a race is called “non-partisan”. There is no such thing. It's liberal or conservative. Democrat or Republican. 

Just two weeks ago, there was a Republican organization that invited a Democrat elected official to speak at their event. I challenged this invitation and was told it was because it was a "non-partisan” event. Meaning to unify with liberals. This is unacceptable. 

Earlier this year a GOP chairperson from Western Illinois contacted me to make contact with DEMOCRAT Rod Blagojevich to be the special speaker at a REPUBLICAN LINCOLN DAY DINNER? Really. Out of the thousands of Republicans and conservative speakers who are requesting a pro-abortion, liberal Democrats speak at their event that's most sacred to us. 

What's next, maybe recruiting Blago to run for Governor as a Republican? He would be the first one to say no because even though he knows how to pick a side, he will take and accept Republican dollars meanwhile making Republicans look like fools.

Some say Blago is a Republican but he has even admitted he would never become a conservative. Though he appreciates Trump releasing him from prison early and even calls himself a "Trumplican" he will never vote for a Republican. As a matter of fact he continues his fight to run for office as a Democrat. 

In order for Illinois Republicans to take back the state, it's going to start with becoming real Republicans. Forget what Chairman Tracy is trying to sell by embracing the moderate Republican strategy of embracing abortion to attract voters. We ain't buying it!

The real problem is we don't have enough Republicans voting. Of course, we want to attract more independents and Democrats to vote for Republican candidates, but we need to energize the rank and file to get out the vote. In the June 2022 primary, only 8% of Republicans voted. Just over 20% in the November general election. 

What is the problem?

There is currently a divide in the Illinois Republican Party. 85% of Republican voters are Trump supporters. Over 90% of the GOP leadership are anti-Trump. How did they get their leadership positions? 

It's the good old boy system. This is the same network that gave us Tracy and Irvin. Besides the slate of RINO candidates that ran with Irvin, they gave us Esther Joy King, who ran in the 17th Congressional District. 

King was recruited by Adam Kinzinger and was endorsed by RINO Rep. Liz Cheney. After out-raising many other GOP candidates nationwide, she lost her second bid because she wasn't a true Republican and the Conservatives chose not to vote for her. Instead they sat on their hands. 

The reason we don't have a Republican in the race for mayor of Chicago is because the Chairman of the Chicago Republicans, Steve Boulton, sold out to the Democrats. Instead of recruiting a Republican to run for Mayor, Boulton, and the Chicago GOP let the Democrats do the work of running someone, and then they endorse that Democrat for Mayor on behalf of the Republican Party. They did this for Willie Wilson now they are doing it for Paul Vallas. 

It's time we rid the Illinois GOP of the current leadership. The strategies that Tracy, Boulton and other leaders are not working on. It's time not to unite, but to identify the fake Republican RINO leaders and eradicate them from the party. 

This also goes for GOP county chairs that don't want to put in the work to help candidates and win races. In some cases like in Grundy County you have the GOP Chairman there Aren Hansen that attacks grassroots candidates.

Hansen is an ally of Adam Kinzinger and was very disappointed when Jed Davis beat RINO Rep. Welter. It was a big surprise that Jed won. Even RINO Sen. Sue Rezin was in shock. These are new days!

It's time to restore, rebuild, and regain!

Don't invest in a broken down car, replace it with a new one. The Illinois GOP is just that old car. It's time for new.

A winning strategy comprises recruiting genuine grassroots that support our Republican principles. To lower taxes, to promote smaller government, pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life. Genuine conservatives!

We cannot afford to support “moderate” candidates. We need fighters, not appeasers. 

The California GOP for being a Blue State is more organized and doing more things than the Illinois GOP. After last year's election losses, who has to place the blame on those that created a split in the party. The party leaders. Because of their greed they followed the Pied Piper, billionaire Ken Griffin, like good little mice they followed. When Griffin offered up 50 million dollars to Democrat Richard Irvin, every single GOP leader in the state, including 500 elected officials, endorsed and worked Irvin's campaign for Governor against Bailey. Soon Irvin lost his ass and Griffin fled embarrassed to Florida forever, leaving the Illinois GOP in limbo. Not one more dollar in donations. Griffin and the Illinois GOP gambled on a Democrat to run as a Republican, and their plan backfired.

I provided evidence in a story exposing Richard Irvin in the primary. When Griffin read it was too late. He already gave Irvin his money. I put Irvin on blast. These same GOP leaders hated me for it. It's my job as a political operative to expose those that shouldn't be in office. I exposed his Democrat ties. His voting record. His donors. His corrupt political deals like the Old Copley hospital deal. His ties to the Latin Kings. He is a former gang member himself. His ties to the drug cartels. One being a restaurant/bar owned by a man connected with the Sinaloa cartel that is a big supporter of him. Covering up the liquor license that should have been pulled for murders and drug dealing. (Sen. Karina Villas, dad) His addictions. Yet, the GOP leaders supported this loser over Darren Bailey, a Christian. Bailey beat him and Irvin went back to Aurora with his political future destroyed. No becoming President some day after Governor for him.

The ones that supported Irvin walked away from Bailey after the primary. The party leaders and every elected official. Over 500 of them. They took their voters and donors with them in retaliation. They created the split in the party because they hated Bailey and of course his support for President Trump. Yet, not one of them acknowledged what they did. Instead two of the "leaders" stepped down. Rep Jim Durkin and Sen. Dan McConchie that delivered the biggest failure in GOP election history to retake back seats in the General Assembly. It was pathetic that they failed to spend not one penny on any candidates that supported Bailey. Just Irvin supporters. That's 10% of the party candidates for the Illinois House and Senate. They are both traitors to the party, and we are better off without them after they resigned in disgrace. 

To restore the party, we need more resignations. First, Don TRACY, the Republican Party Chairman in Illinois. He's first to go, a traitor to the party as well. Second, Richard Porter, the National RNC Committeeman for Illinois.  He's just as negligent. These two losers are deadweight Trump haters that have no desire to promote the party. They just want power. It's time they too resign in disgrace and shunned and excommunicated from the GOP. Let them become Democrats. 

Next is Cook County GOP Chairman Sean Morrison. He's selfish, and he's in it for himself, refusing to help not one Cook County candidate running for office in any capacity. The only candidate he helped was Matt Podgorski, an Irvin supporter who works with Democrats. He took Democrat cash and supported and endorsed AMENDMENT ONE in his campaign. Podgorski lost horribly in his expensive campaign. Morrison is just as responsible for not helping any candidates or even taking their phone calls for guidance or simple questions. It's time for the RINO to go. 

DuPage County Republican Chairman James Zay should consider stepping down when Republicans on the County Board are in a 10-8 minority. DuPage County is officially DEMOCRAT. A Blue County. (Zay won reelection to his County Board seat), and had the at-large elected open county board chairman flipped to Democrat. Congressional candidates in both the 6th and 11th districts clobbered in Dupage, too, plus former Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti failed to flip the county clerk’s office from first term Democrat. Evelyn received $100,000 from the Illinois GOP for being a good little Irvin supporter, meanwhile other statewide candidates that supported Bailey received nothing! Greg Hart, a huge Irvin supporter lost because of his Democrat leanings then after the GOP primary announced he was “independent”. State Representative Mazzochi lost her race for the General Assembly, handing off the seat to yet another Democrat giving the Democrats a greater SUPERMAJORITY! The Dupage GOP failed to get the Hispanic vote and handed the 3rd Congressional seats to communist Delia Ramirez. Unfortunate because the Democrats scooped up the Latino neglected vote. The GOP catered to the Indians and Arabs, but they never vote REPUBLICAN. They do like having their behinds kissed, though. Zay also promoted the Republican split due to infighting within the party in Dupage. Dupage County is officially the smaller version of Cook County.

What can be done to win? 

Supporting Republicans only and not Democrats!

Also, it is time to put in the hard work to get these patriots elected. It's also time we dig deep down in our pockets to donate. The Democrats out-raised the Republicans by 30 times. Marketing and advertising costs money. So do lawn signs and mailers. I remember last year, candidates pleading for money just to be ignored by their Republican friends. This goes for Republican businessmen that have money. 

Donate, donate and donate. It truly matters. Don't depend on others. Do your part!

On April 4th, there is no reason you cannot vote and take 5 friends and family members with you. In these next 8 days, are you even willing to make phone calls supporting Republican candidates? Would you be willing to even share political posts supporting GOP candidates on your social media? 

Most importantly, would you be willing to even knock on some doors supporting Republican candidates? 

It will be up to you to make a difference in Illinois. You say no one is ever doing something for change, well here is your chance to do just that.

For any Republicans that do support Paul Vallas remember pictures and screenshots are forever when it's used against you in a Republican primary because you chose to support a die hard liberal to get your name and picture in the papers because of a popular race that has nothing to do with Republicans!

©️Val Ojeda is a Republican Author, Media Personality, Strategist and Consultant. Ojeda manages federal political campaigns also serving as President Trump's Hispanic Coalition Leader. Ojeda is also a businessman, entrepreneur and the founder of FAMA a 501c3 Chamber of Commerce. Ojeda served as law enforcement Veteran Officer/Detective.