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BOB PIECKERT DUPAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PARTY BOSS CONTINUES TO DENY THAT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF IMPROPER CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE PDF Print E-mail
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Will somebody please tell Democrat Party Chairman Bob Pieckert that the election is over?  In his June 10 letter he continued to berate my wife for winning her election for the third time.  While he used the word “facts”, I didn’t see any in his letter.  His typical Democrat spin however was once again evident.

By spin I mean his constant denial of his being found guilty by the State Board of Elections.  So to set the record straight I have posted the actual letter Pieckert received from the IBE on our website www.addisontwpgop.com.  If he wishes to continue denying his guilt after this I will post another finding by the IBE which will also show that his appeal to these charges was denied.

His letter was so discombobulated it is hard to cover all his lies in this small space.  And since he never attended a Township meeting in the last 10 years to learn the truth, here are the facts.  He falsely stated that Addison Township only allows “---a paltry sum of $5000 for its Food Pantry” and that “---an appointment had to be made to get one bag of food per month”.  Unbelieveable!  The truth is the Township gives out 75 bags of food per week at an average retail cost per bag of $25.  So Piekert’s one bag a month lie is in reality over 1500 bags at a cost of over $37,000 in the last five months of this year alone.

Pieckert should volunteer for one week at the Food Pantry so he can count the bags himself, but to learn the truth he would refuse.

And instead of writing fraudulent letters to the newspapers about my wife, he should be writing to his fellow Democrats who control the State and question why we are $12 billion in debt. 

Patrick Durante
Addison Township Republican Chairman
 
Addison Twp. leader wasn't 'handed' job PDF Print E-mail

Daily Herald - Letter to the Editor - June 12, 2009

I just had to respond to the letter to the editor by Amy Tauchman, as she signed her letter as merely being from Glen Ellyn, thus acting as though she were some unbiased citizen looking in from the outside world. One would ask themselves: Why would someone from Glen Ellyn be interested in elected officials from Addison? Then you realize her sneaky motive when you learn that her official title is executive director of the DuPage Democratic Party.

She mistakenly stated that GOP Chairman Patrick Durante handed the job of Addison Township Supervisor to his wife when she knew full well that Kathryn Cermak-Durante had nothing handed to her because she won election to that office in 2001, 2005 and again this year by overwhelming margins.

And why, oh why, do she and other Democrats continue to remain in a state of denial by constantly defending DuPage Democrat Chairman Bob Peickert for being found guilty by the Illinois Board of Elections for improper campaign finance disclosure? She and Peickert keep making all kinds of excuses, but the fact remains that Peickert was found guilty and fined more than $2,400 by the IBE. He didn't correct a thing. He spent money in a campaign he ran in and lost to Don Puchalski and did not follow the law in telling the IBE where all the money he spent came from.

Maybe these Democratic leaders would do better spending their time explaining to the people of DuPage County why the Democrats who run this state are going to double our taxes by the end of this year. And if Peickert and Tauchman really want a two-party system, why don't they practice what they preach and help get some Republicans elected at the state level?

Gus Leventis

Addison Township Trustee

 
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WE WON!  WE WON!


On behalf of all eight Township Republican candidates, I would like to thank the voters for the faith they held in us.  They saw through the lies and the false accusations of the Democrat Township candidates and elected the whole Republican ticket by a margin of 60% to 40%, a plurality not seen by Republicans for a long time.

And this was the first time, and not the last time that Republicans came out swinging.  In the past Republican candidates only produced literature on the issues of the day, while the Democrats would make crazy, inaccurate claims against them.  It was dirty politics but it paid off for the Democrats and a couple of them have gotten elected over the past few years.

Not this year.  As soon as the Democrats told a falsehood, Republicans pounced on the issue telling the truth, and countering with facts about how the Democrats had plans in store to raise Township taxes.  These counters were then met with more lies by the Democrats like “100% pay increases, the Food Bank only being open 2 hours a week, and the craziest of all charges, that the taxpayers were being cheated on a low rent the Township was charging a tenant”.

The Democrats hated the truth and didn’t know how to react to it.  Most of them had not shown up at Township meetings for 8 years.  And only after they filed their papers for candidacy did they appear at 2 meetings just before the election.  Disgraceful!  Yet they wanted the people to think they knew everything there is to know about Township government.  And they are so mad now that they lost they showed up at the Annual Town Hall meeting on April 15th and tried to interrupt the proceedings with stupid parliamentary motions.  They lost in that effort as well.  They just never know when to stop their nonsense.

In the old days there was a droplet of respect both Party’s had for each other.  We got along.  For the 32 years that I worked for Congressman Hyde we worked with dozens of Democrats.  Dan Rostenkowski, Rahm Emmanuel, Jesse Jackson Jr, Jesse White, both Congressmen Lipinski’s, Senator DeLeo,  Bud Loftus, Bill Redmond, and yes, even Barack Obama when he was the U.S. Senator, just to name a few.  These new DuPage Democrats don’t know the meaning of the word respect.  They hate, and they are just plain mean.  And that is why they lost and will continue to lose.

And if that is how they want to run campaigns, so be it.  We will meet them head on and will let the voters know the truth about who they really are.  Their agenda is not the agenda of the typical DuPage County working man and woman.  Their motto is “What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine”.  They want more of our hard earned tax dollars to give to those who won’t earn.  That never sold in DuPage County and never will.

In closing I would like to thank the dozens of volunteers who put in hundreds of hours to insure the voters got the best of the best to represent them at the Township level.  And to the members of our Organization get ready, because the new DuPage Democrats are sitting around a table right now writing down a whole list of new falsehoods to present to the voters in 2010.  What they now realize is that this time we’ll be waiting for them.  Thank you one and all!
 
SB600: How not to do politics PDF Print E-mail

Tom Swiss - chicagogop.com - June 1, 2009

At midnight on Sunday, Senate Bill 600 effectively died since it was not called for a vote with the House of Representatives in Springfield. In the overtime session, SB600 would now require an unlikely super-majority of 60% to pass.

SB600 calls for the direct election of State Central Committeemen (SCC) for the Republican Party, as opposed to the current weighted vote selection by ward, township, or precinct committeemen. The 19 SCC, one for each congressional district, essentially make up the board of directors for the Illinois Republican Party.

Probably less than 100 politicos in the state actually care about SB600, but some of the ultra-right or Columbine, have been throwing their usual noisy tantrum.

 Jack Roeser, a disaffected 85-year old multi-millionaire from Carpentersville and leader of the Columbine, drew another of his infamous lines in the stand with SB600 to defeat the Illinois GOP establishment. Roeser has spent over $2,000,000 over the years crusading for his causes and has yet to claim any victories.

If Republicans are going to start winning again in Illinois, the Columbine are an excellent example of what NOT to do.

Politics is not business. The old yarn that Republican businessmen would make good elected officials because they would run government like a business is bad logic. In business, every layer of management has the ability to simply fire subordinates. Employees try to fulfill the bosses needs because they desire gainful employment. None of this leverage is available in politics.

All political power, even internal party politics, is achieved by making sure your team has 50% +1 of the voting block or at least a plurality. If you want your side to win Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party or prevent an income tax increase, you need the votes.

The question for Republicans is how to get the necessary votes. This is tricky since being shut out of all executive offices the Republican Party in Illinois has devolved into a warlord-opoly.

Jack Roeser can spend millions playing revolutionary firebrand, but he must not care about a return on his investment. He hired a small group of malcontent pariahs no longer welcome in any legitimate Republican organization, then proceeds to insult and disparage the very people he would need to build a coalition of votes necessary to enact any of the reforms he seeks.

Scorched-earth name calling, ultimatums, and demanding resignations has always resulted in the same catastrophic failure Roeser has been experiencing. There is nothing noble about failure, especially when it is self-sabotage.

True reform comes from within. If Roeser did not have his purity litmus test, he might have been able to form coalitions with enough groups to win some reform measures. Instead of pitching a fit and threatening elected officials with hostile and recalcitrant losers, he should have had the moral courage to work with enough of these people to win his cause. He needs to work with people who have actually won something.

This art of negotiation is where politics is both at its finest and worst. You need to discover where compromise can be made without selling out core values. The best politicians are grounded on their core values while the worst will sell-out for personal gain.

 The TV Show "Survivor" is an excellent example of how politics works. The logo says it all; outwit, outplay, and outlast. The chubby gay nudist, Richard Hatch, who laid around all day won the first $1,000,000 prize over the industrious soccer mom with survival skills because he negotiated votes.

Hatch was easily the least deserving of the prize based on his community efforts, but most deserving because he understood the rules. Republicans need to understand the rules; more outwit and less nitwit.

Going forward, especially in the 2010 election cycle, Republicans are going to need to invite every subsection they can to start winning back executive offices. If social conservatives want a pro-life governor, they will need to demonstrate leadership by embracing team members of different beliefs. If Libertarians want an actual fiscal conservative, they will find a welcome home in the party but need to tolerate some of the griping from the established social conservatives.

Both conservatives and moderates need to understand they will also need to embrace the objectionable independent voter. It is fair play to fight it out in the primary, but after February 4, 2010, the focus turns to winning votes of people who seem to lack the brains or moral compass to even pick a party. The independent vote will pick the next governor.

All groups understand what they want, but it is yet to be seen if they will have the courage to swallow the distasteful medicine necesary for the cure. No one said politics was easy or without objections. Republican leaders must understand the rules of the game.

This is Illinois, Mike Madigan not only understands the game, he plays it exceedingly well and cheats.

 
Sen. Cronin calls on Sen. Roland Burris to resign PDF Print E-mail

U.S. Sen. Roland Burris should resign.

On Saturday Sen. Burris filed an affidavit stating he was in contact with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich several times prior to his nomination to fill President Barack Obama's empty Senate seat. This revelation conflicts with earlier testimony Burris gave to the Illinois House Impeachment Committee that he had no contact with the governor or his representatives.

According to the Chicago Sun Times, Burris now acknowledges having contact with five representatives of Blagojevich regarding his appointment to the U.S. Senate seat. Burris also confirmed that Robert Blagojevich, the since-ousted governor’s brother who headed his campaign fund, had solicited him for campaign cash. Burris also says he talked to the governor's office about a position in state government for his nephew.

It is clear Sen. Burris perjured himself before the House and is evident the taint surrounding disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich clings to Sen. Burris.

In light of everything citizens of Illinois been through with the corrupt administration of Blagojevich and with the public demand for honesty and open government, I firmly believe Sen. Burris needs to step down. Roland Burris was not honest and forthcoming in the process and there need to be consequences, which include him stepping down from his position.

 
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