Thank The Illinois GOP For Not Producing The Right Leaders To Take Back Our State!

Another discussion of failed policies and strategies

April 19, 2023

Val Ojeda, Writer

Political Commentry

The Illinois GOP just released another "Chairman's memo". If it were a mailer it would have gone straight to the trash.

Once again, Chairman Tracy hasn't the idea of how to direct his messaging. Why comment on the “wilding” in Chicago when the genuine crisis exists on putting leaders in office that could actually make a difference? Especially in Chicago to be tough on crime.

If the city is so important to him, then why didn't he run a REAL Conservative for Chicago Mayor with a directive to clean it up? Instead, he supported Paul Vallas who is a pro-abortion Democrat, because they have two things in common. They both hate President Trump. 

If Tracy only supported Bailey, Bailey would have used state resources, state law enforcement and the National Guard to make a difference in cleaning up Chicago. But nope. His brain doesn't think that far!

Let's examine what happened in Chicago.

On Saturday, two teens were shot as a mob of young people rioted on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. According to the Chicago Police department, both the victims were boys, one 16-year-old was shot in the arm and one 17-year-old was shot in the leg. Both were transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital by the Chicago Fire Department.

Videos show hundreds of young people causing chaos in downtown Chicago by jumping on vehicles (including a CTA bus), assaulting motorists, and getting into fights. According to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), someone fired shots around 9 pm as a crowd was gathered on Washington Street near North Michigan Avenue.

CPD reported that they had arrested 15 people near Millennium Park, nine adults and six juveniles. CPD said most of the charges were for reckless conduct, but one 16-year-old was charged with unlawful use of a weapon.

According to local CWB, Saturday's incident was the third consecutive night youth were out causing trouble in the downtown area. On Thursday evening, a large group gathered at Millennium park, where a 16-year-old girl was injured as a fight broke out.

On Friday night, a 14-year-old was shot around the 31st Street Beach. Friday and Saturday's crowds were reported to have formed as the result of invitations being sent out over social media.

Alderman of Chicago's 15th Ward, Raymond Lopez, tweeted a video and said, “This was Chicago last night. Save the excuses & rationalization. Unless you want this to be the norm in Chicago, hold them & their parents accountable.”

The mayor-elect Brandon Johnson put out a statement claiming that “demonizing” the Youths who are rioting and just about to turn their lives around is “not productive.”

“In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city. However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved for opportunities in their own communities.

Everyone's got a big stinky "but"...

Mayor Lightfoot stated: "Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly, under adult guidance and supervision, to ensure that every part of our city remains welcome for both residents and visitors. This is one aspect of my comprehensive approach to improve public safety and make Chicago livable for everyone"

So, are we to give a pass to these "youths" because they come from single-parent homes? That they live in bad neighborhoods? Because they live off welfare? 

Why have they become so entitled that in 2021 they led weekly marches downtown and invaded stores, stealing millions of dollars of merchandise and contributing to hundreds of millions of dollars in damage? 

As they chanted Black Lives Matter, they demanded the removal of the statute of Christopher Columbus. In the process, thousands of these entitled youths shouldn't be "demonized" as they attacked hundreds of Chicago Police Officers, putting 50 of these warriors in the hospital as one officer lost an eye. 

Then came the destruction of their neighborhoods. In Englewood and the westside where they live. Breaking into the corner stores. The pharmacies. Liquor stores and gas stations. 

Then came the attacks of thousands on the big box stores and other corporate stores like CVS and Walgreens. 

The Police were helpless, with orders to observe but make no arrests. Then came the looting, wiping out every aisle in the stores like it was Black Friday. 

Recently, Walmart Closed four locations in Chicago because of incessant looting and no police protection.

Now “Community Activists” Demand That Walmart Remain Open and Just Let People Steal As They Wish. They shrieked for years about "food deserts" and pressured companies like Walmart to open up more food stores in the cities. And then, when the companies agree to their demands, they are the victims of constant, ruinous looting.

If the company refuses to cooperate, leaving communities with “large, empty buildings and a desert of resources,” leaders are prepared to host another demonstration outside an Evergreen Park location, Pfleger said. They’ll also boycott the company, he said.

“If Walmart leaves us, we will leave Walmart,” Pfleger said.

Walmart has demonstrated “corporate racism and corporate greed,” Alderman-elect William Hall (6th) said. If Walmart doesn’t agree to invest in the community, “we will disinvest across the nation,” Hall said.

And the same community activists just say, "Suck it up, you're rich. Just give away your stock to criminals."

With the closings over the weekend, and now community leaders want to know where people will get food and prescriptions and what will happen to the empty buildings.

But yet the complaints came forth…like it was Walmarts fault.

"This is a place where most people get their fresh fruits and vegetables, considering that a lot of the corner stores that's in our neighborhood currently only provide junk food," said Ilandrea Nichols, Senior Service Coordinator for My Block My Hood My City.

One "activist" tweeted—though he has since deleted this tweet, it appears—that Walmart should just be happy that criminals are kind enough to rob them blind.

Someone else Tweeted: "The comments on here are really telling. The people who own Walmart are some of the richest in the world, and they didn't get there by "working harder". Work with the community instead of complaining about a few stolen TVs."

— Roberta Salas (@RobertaSalas) April 14, 2023

Anthony B. Bradley, PhD @drantbradley: 

"Why is Walmart closing across Chicago? Why is there a food desert in X neighborhood? Why are Whole Foods closing in SF? Because no store can stay in business if walking in a store & "eating free," & teaching your kids to do the same" 

Pastor Johnny@DrJE

"Unfortunately, while these thieves may suffer, a broader population of people in this community will suffer more"

The "broader population in this community" supports this lawlessness, and should suffer the natural consequences of their actions. They may not be stealing themselves, but they're electing people on a "defund the police and empty the prisons" platform. I have no sympathy, and I don't ever want to hear whining about "food deserts" again.

Don't like deserts? Then don't burn down all the trees and fields.

Now the minority senior citizens that don't drive have the ability to walk down the street to get their drug prescriptions and food. The same goes for the single mother with no car. 

What will happen is that they will rely on shopping at the local gas station or liquor store for groceries, where they will pay double for what they paid at the corporate stores. At least they have that 60-inch TV that they looted!

So in order to be a success in a minority community you have to become involved? Hell no! It's a business. Who cares about the community? It's about the bottom line. By the way, they were lucky to have a store with low prices. On top of that they had community centers inside the stores for community meetings and training. They even  donated food. 

Yet  the thugs were so bad shoplifting that for every three dollars Walmart put in the store with merchandise they stole one. Sad. Then shoppers were walking in the store eating off the shelf? One woman ate an entire baked chicken with bread then left without paying! Give me a break!

I remember when I was in law enforcement I worked a side job undercover at the old Venture Stores in the 90s. I was arresting 10 people for every shift I worked. We couldn't even take lunch because we had eyes on us. When asked why they could steal from the store the answer was always the same. The company could afford the loss.

As for community involvement and jobs. I was arresting more cashier's and managers than the shoplifters. These employees would steal at the register giving away items to their friends pretending to shop. They would ring up $500.00 of merchandise then delete the order. They would bag the items and give it away, maybe charging them for a soda to make it look like a cash transaction. 

Soon Venture Stores closed. I wonder why?

And for many of you that feel that this will not affect you in the Western suburbs like Wheaton, Naperville or Oswego let me tell you this. The federal government is pressuring cities to take in more section 8s. Meaning they will be building thousands of low income housing in your town. It just started in Naperville. This thugs will be imported to you soon!

So now it's time to clean up Chicago and our state before it's to late!

To clean up Illinois, we need to win elections. To win the Governorship and most of the General Assembly, we have to win Chicago then we can start to change things. 

Chicago and its votes are the key. The strategy to win is to campaign now for Chicago Mayor. To actually recruit Republicans to run for Illinois House and Senate seats in the city. Not just slate them at the last minute like Chicago GOP Chairman Steve Boulton did for bragging rights. Every single candidate that Boulton slated lost because not one of them was directed how to even start. They were thrown to the wolves with false promises. 

To win Chicago we need to embrace the minority population.

We need to embrace the black community. We need more black conservatives, not just our token minorities such as the Illinois GOP Black Coalition listed on their website. By the way they better update the site because the Chairman of the Black Coalition is gone!

How about putting a GRASSROOTS COALITION on your site with a director with a committee and funding? We shall wait and see. 

Open your eyes, ILLINOIS GOP. You are looking at the mouse while the elephant walks by. 

You can condemn the Chicago “wilding” last weekend but yet we still await you to condemn the unlawful arrest by President Trump two weeks ago!

It's amazing how many State Central Committeeman that are on the Illinois GOP Board, including sub committeemen, lawyers, accountants, spokespersons, coalition leaders and advisors and not one of them knows how to change a light bulb let alone run a Republican organization and win races.

Instead the Chairman is appointing kids out of college with no real world experience that have never even visited Chicago let alone the collar counties. 

They have yet to visit the inner cities or visit the farmers in central Illinois. They have never even helped run a political campaign or knocked on doors to promote a candidate. 

Yet, these new age moderate "Republicans" but never to be identified as Conservatives in their skinny pants, whisper in the ear of Tracy and the leadership to embrace liberalism and woke ideologies as that's the way of the future. 

Just ask Bud Light if that worked out for them as they promoted a tranny man in a dress to advertise their brand. 

What's next for the Illinois GOP a Gay Coalition because we are heading in that direction. Homosexuals are only 5% of the U.S. population and a demographic we don't want. God created the rainbow as a promise to the world and not as a symbol for members of the society that live ungodly opposite of our Christian conservative values that exist with us. 

I'm not saying I'm against gays it's their choice, but I won't stand by as we have to submit to their lifestyle and have to adapt to their influence as gay men dress as female strippers to do lap dances on our young school children. You don't think they aren't their rocks off doing it?

Homosexuality is wrong and it shouldn't be accepted or embraced by conservatives.

The direction of this country depends on our investment. How much are you willing to invest in the future of your children? Because this country is going downhill. Those "entitled" youths in Chicago gone "wilding" are products of poor parenting and direction. 

I'm not asking you to run for office or even donate money. All I ask is for you to vote. It's amazing how many people were crying after we lost the midterm elections. What happened to the Red Wave?

But why did we lose the midterm elections and school board races? Because only 20% of voters turned out. If we only had just 10% more of a Republican turnout we could have scored some big wins including Darren Bailey for Governor. 

My heart dropped watching the video of Bailey thanking everyone for their support and vote. I can't even count how many times I saw him on the campaign trail as I traveled the state managing campaigns. To see him broken and tired. The win was within arms reach. But no, Republicans stayed home refusing to vote! Sad. 

That's why we have the wheels moving on uniting the grassroots Republican organizations to identify the problems in the elections and to reorganize with more involvement. This includes voting, voter registration, recruiting and training candidates, funding and reorganizing the Illinois GOP beginning with demanding the resignations of the GOP leadership that are responsible for breaking up the party. 

Only then can we move forward. So instead of taking the time to condemn Chicago, we should condemn the Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party Don Tracy in order to regain, rebuild and restore our conservative movement and the GOP. 

If we fail to do this now our children will pay for our mistakes. Are you ready to live with that? 

The Democrats want control. Let's examine how they will do it. Because it's already happening:

1.Capture both of the political parties in the United States.

2. Get control of the schools and teachers’ associations. Soften the curriculum.

3. Gain control of all student newspapers.

4. Infiltrate the press.

5. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and pictures.

6. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” 

and a violation of free speech and press.

7. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media.

8. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.” Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

9. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

10. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate and old-fashioned.

11. Discredit the American founding fathers as selfish aristocrats [and racists].

12. Belittle American culture and discourage the teaching of American history.

13. Discredit and eventually dismantle law enforcement.

14. Infiltrate and gain control of big business and unions.

15. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as mental health or social problems.

16. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

17. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.

18. Begin an organized campaign of Vaxxing the American population to eliminate certain demographics. 

This isn't science fiction, it's fact. So while some are condemning a bunch of wild teenagers causing a ruckus in Chicago some of us are actually willing to make a difference to make things happen.

Let us do away with the marches and signs. Democrats do that, we don't! It's time for us to knock on doors to get out the vote but most importantly is to actually vote instead of sitting on our asses! 

Participate now! Hit the link below and sign up for a new GRASSROOTS CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT to take back the party and our state. This is for individuals, GOP organizations and clubs!

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©️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