Archive for July, 2010
RESEARCH NEEDED: The Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation for the Cultivation and Protection of BoyToys, and its impact on the Illinois GOP
This weekend, we’ve booked two interviews about the growing scandal in the Illinois GOP, involving Cook County GOP Chair Lee Roupas and a coverup he was engaged in.
One reporter is from a national print magazine, and the other is a local Chicago paper. Both reporters are very interested in why the GOP has allowed one woman, multimillionaire cougar Beth Christie, to cause so much chaos in the state by dictating hiring and operations decisions for the Cook County Republican party.
One woman…limitless cash reserves…and possibly an intention to take down the GOP from within, by making sure inept, corrupt, time bombs waiting to explode are installed in key positions in the party.
That’s one theory we heard yesterday that’s worth looking into: could Beth Christie really be a Democrat in disguise, a Trojan donkey, doing the things she does to weaken the GOP by making sure people like Lee Roupas and “The Prophet” are retained in their positions, despite the damage they do to the party.
We doubt Christie’s a flavor of Evelyn Salt, and think she’s just a sad cougar who’s never heard of Craigslist or Rentboy, but it’s sure an interesting theory.
What IF Democrats decided to give the Republicans large donations, in states where Republicans are hurting for money…and what if the Democrats making those donations were then given de facto operational control of the GOP in those states, since the quid pro quo from their donations would allow them to staff those GOP offices with whomever they wanted. “I gave you all that money. Now, hire Cuddles, and no matter what Cuddles does, you can’t fire him. You can’t fire his friend Lee either, and if you do, then I’m gonna stop writing my checks, see? My lady cha-cha’s got a whole mess of zeroes after it, and if cha-cha’s not happy, then she talks to the hand and the hand says no more signatures on all those beautiful checks of mine”.
Reporters are generally very lazy.
If you think there’s really a Daily Planet office staffed with hundreds of people scurrying around to get all the backstory ready for Lois and Clark, you are dreaming. Most “journalists” work at home or from laptopsp these days. They have no staff. They do all of their own research, and if the research is boring or time-consuming, they just give up.
One reporter we talked to last night said he is “about 16 hours behind where I need to be on three stories”, which means he doesn’t have the time or energy to really dig deep enough.
That explainns JournoList to an extent as well: all of those Leftists on that site were lazy to a degree, and used each other’s ideas and bits of information to craft their own stories. The hive accomplished what each little hornet couldn’t on its own.
We want The Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation’s full influence and impact on the Illinois GOP documented and exposed — and Beth Christie’s days of calling the shots in Cook County to come to an abrupt and permanent end.
To achieve this, we need to do the research the “real reporters” out there can’t, or won’t do.
We need to pull the financial records for the following, using any access to LexisNexis or other search engines you may have:
(1) The Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation’s donations in the last two years
(2) The Illinois GOP’s revenue stream for the last two years
(3) The Cook County GOP’s revenue stream for the last two years
(4) The Chicago Young Republican social networking club’s revenue stream for the last two years
Once we have the data, we need those of you who are good at puzzle solving and chart-making to put together an easy-to-understand visiual representation of these relationships.
Who, besides Beth Christie, is a large donor to the Illinois GOP?
Are those people wielding cougar-grade influence on the party as well? If so, what games are they up to, and what are their agendas?
Could Beth Christie really be a Democrat operative/double agent working to take down the Illinois GOP from within by funding the cultivation and protection of incompentents the Democrats know will make terrible decisions throughout their political careers…and thus keep the GOP in Illinois mired in incompetence permanently?
Anything you could help dig up, and post in this thread, will help immensely in our meetings with reporters this weekend.
We have no intention of letting any of this go so long as Lee Roupas is Cook County GOP Chair and Beth Christie is allowed to buy her ticket to call the shots in the Republican party here in Illinois.
With Democrats so corrupt and hellbent on tanking this state, and the country, it’s time someone stood up to multimillionaire cougars and stopped whatever games they have been playing so grown-ups can lead the GOP here in Illinois again.
Since “real reporters” are too lazy, and actual GOP officials in the state don’t really seem to WANT to improve their chances of someday making this a red state, we guess all of this is for some reason up to us.
If you don’t want to post what you find in this thread, please email it to us at @gmail.com">HillBuzz@gmail.com
Come on get involved, there’s a mystery to solve.
Friday Open Thread: July 30th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Friday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
What are you going to do this weekend to drive the Left crazy?
NEED INPUT: Was there ever a time when you had to call out someone you liked very much for doing something very bad?
We sincerely mean this, when we ask all of you daily readers — including those that have never commented before, or who do so infrequently — to chime in on this thread and give us your input and advice on something that is literally making us sick to our stomachs.
All day yesterday, we realized that we need to confront someone here in Chicago that we like very much and have respected more than few others. This person is Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady, whom we got to know well through the 2008 campaign, and whom we absolutely think the world of. We can’t think of a day we cheered LOUDER and LONGER than the day we heard Brady had replaced Andy McKenna as the IL GOP Chair.
FINALLY, we thought, we’ve got someone who will do the right thing, won’t play games, and will make it his mission to clean up the corruption in this state.
FINALLY, we’ve got a guy at the helm we believe in, who will kick Republicans into shape the way Sarah Palin did in Alaska, when she cracked skulls and went after the All Boys Club.
So, we hope you can appreciate the gut-wrenching chagrin we’ve felt in the last few days as it’s become increasingly clear that Pat Brady — a personal hero — has been protecting Lee Roupas in the Cook County GOP. Brady could fire him today if he wanted. IF he wanted.
We’re working on one of the hardest essays we’ve ever had to write, about everything we’ve gotten confirmed in terms of what Brady’s been hiding for Roupas, and how Brady’s been strategizing with other Romney and Kirk guys in the GOP higher-ups to make the current GOP scandal here in Chicago fade from the headlines for a while…let the dust settle…and then resume open war with the truthtellers in this matter after November.
We’re being told — and it’s being confirmed from independent sources — that the aim is to protect Lee Roupas at all costs, make sure he keeps his job, and also to give “The Prophet” a lucrative consulting gig (funded by multimillionaire cougar Beth Christie, of course) that will pay him as much, if not more, than he was making as the $4,000/month Cook County Executive Director.
If all of this is true, then Brady’s in on the corruption in this state — and that horrifies us.
He is either the most brilliant actor who never took to the stage, or we let this man cast one Hell of a spell on us, because we just can’t imagine he would knowingly enable someone like Lee Roupas to retain his high-paying position, representing Republicans, after all the things Roupas as done to disgrace the party.
We just can’t tolerate this Old/All Boys’ Club nonsense. In corporate America. In politics. Wherever.
Just because someone has a penis does not mean that person can lie, engage in coverups, and carry on any way he damn well pleases…and expect to be protected and rescued the way Lee Roupas does.
It’s not right.
It’s not how America should be.
It’s not what voters in Illinois want, after seeing Democrat corruption go unchecked for so long.
Lee Roupas is the Cook County Charlie Rangle…and if Pat Brady is protecting him, then Pat Brady needs to be taken to the woodshed too.
And that’s devastating for us to have to admit.
So, we need two things from you this morning:
(1) We need you to pray for us, so that we have the wisdom and the guidance and the strength to do what we need to do here, because we’ll be damned if we allow Lee Roupas to get away with lying, covering up scandal, and declaring open war on Eloise Gerson for attempting to launch an investigation into the bizarre dealings of the Illinois GOP
(2) We need you to PLEASE think about a time when you had to confront someone you had great respect for, and tell that person they disappointed you, that they were wrong, and that they needed to step back and look at things differently to avoid making a horrible mistake
We’ve had to confront friends with drinking and drug problems who were ruining their lives — and to intervene and make sure they saw just how bad what they were doing looked.
Now, we find ourselves in a position of having to criticize a person we have utmost respect for, whom we believe to be a very good man…but who is allowing multimillionaire cougar Beth Christie (and her neverending threats of cutting off her donation stream, should she ever stop getting what she wants) to force him to protect Lee Roupas, save his job, and make sure “The Prophet” scores a golden parachute that lets him maintain the presidency of the CYR organization, and command a large “consulting” fee from the GOP that will in fact be more than he’s making now as the Executive Director.
We don’t seem to have quite the right words to describe what we think of Beth Christie, and how she’s bringing down the GOP in Illinois with her demands and money games, so maybe YOU could help us by telling us what YOU think of a woman who uses her vast fortune to cause such chaos — seemingly for her own personal amusement.
It’s frustrating because Pat Brady made us believe that the Republican Party REALLY COULD ultimately become what it claims it wants to stand for. We thought he’d be cracking skulls and getting things done…but, pardon the French, all he seems to be doing is kissing Beth Christie’s sorry cougar ass.
It’s no secret Brady as GOP State Chair is desperate for donations…but surely other large donors could step forward and provide whatever Beth Christie’s been giving to cause the damage she’s been doing to the party.
SURELY one woman can’t tank the entire state, just because she thinks she’s Jennifer Coolidge in an American Pie movie, and she’s excellent at signing her name to checks with large numbers on them.
Please be frank about your experiences in similar situations to ours. This is one of the most difficult things we’ve ever faced, because loyalty is one of the most important things to us…but loyalty to this country trumps personal loyalty to individuals…even to people we like as much as Pat Brady.
SOMEONE at GOP national has to put a stop to Beth Christie’s chaos spree. SOMEONE at GOP national has to fire Lee Roupas and install a Cook County Chair who can clean up this mess and crack some skulls.
We want that someone to be Pat Brady, because we know he has it in him.
We need your help understanding a time when YOU personally had to push someone you respect towards the right decision, even if powerful forces (of the cougar or non-cougar variety) were pushing him in the opposite direction.
Please help…the future of Illinois largely depends on this.
Thursday Open Thread: July 29th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Welcome to the program, already in progress: HuffingtonPost and CapitalFax are finally covering the Cook County GOP sex scandal and coverup
Huffington Post and CapitalFax are finally covering the Cook County GOP sex scandal and coverup. That puts them 16 days behind us, as we’ve been on the case since July 12th. Not that we’re keeping count or anything.
We’re just pleased they “get it”, in that this is not just about “The Prophet”, whom Huffington Post (not us) has identified as one Jeremy Rose, and what he did to women in the Chicago Young Republicans organization — this is about Lee Roupas, the Chair of the Cook County GOP, lying in a July 16th email to his committeemen, claiming he did not know about what Rose was up to until June 10th, 2010 (and trying to remove Eloise Gerson from her elected post after she blew the whistle on this whole thing on June 11th, 2010). As we all know, and as two important Chicago attorneys have come forward, on the record, and testified, Roupas was informed of what Rose did back in July of 2009…a FULL YEAR before he admitted having that knowledge.
The Huffington Post piece lifts large parts of this story directly from HillBuzz (but does not, in typical HuffPo style, give us credit…which could be because we make so many Ariana Huffington jokes about straight women who are too dense to know their husbands are gay).
Lee Roupas needs to be removed from his position this week.
There’s just no way the GOP can keep him: he has been proven dead-to-rights to be a liar.
Even if Rose didn’t do the things the complaint states he did, Roupas lied about having information the Committeemen under him asked him directly about. After he lied to them, they were forced to go to their constituents, and the media, and unknowingly lie about all of this as well.
Roupas doesn’t realize it yet, but he ended his political career on July 16th, 2010 with the lies in that email.
We will not drop this story until he is fired, and Eloise Gerson, truthteller, receives an apology from the Illinois GOP for what Roupas tried to do to her. In our opinion, Gerson should be made the Chair of the Cook County GOP…so she would be given Roupas’ position, and afforded the ability to clean house.
Fate, Hera, poetic justice, whatever you want to call it has a nice sense of humor with that outcome: Roupas tries to oust Gerson for bringing the truth to light, Roupas is ultimately destroyed by the truth, Roupas loses his job, and Gerson takes his place.
We like the sound of that turnout.
NOW, this next part is a bridge we didn’t want to come to, and hope we don’t have to cross.
BUT, Illinois State Chair Pat Brady can no longer protect Lee Roupas. Sending out that July 16th, 2010 email, chock full of lies, is a terminable offense for Roupas because it exposed every Committeeman who received it to potentially damaging blowback because Roupas provided them with false information that they then passed on to constituents and the press — making EVERYONE look like liars. That is conduct unbecoming of a County Chair, and Roupas must be relieved of his position because of it.
Pat Brady is one of the best men we have ever met in this world. We worked closely with him (and his wife, who was McCain’s #2 in command here in Illinois) and we think the absolute world of the both of them. If not for the Bradys, we would have never continued our involvement in politics after Hillary Clinton suspended her presidential campaign. We were hesitant to help Republicans, even though we had conservative tendencies, because before the Bradys every Republican we knew had been nasty to us…unapproachable…and pretty much the stereotype the DNC always drilled into us. The Bradys, however, went out of their way to build a connection with us…to rally everyone possible coast to coast to help defeat Obama…and in the process we realized just how much our thinking had in common with the Republican Party. While we’ll never be Republicans, because the corruption in the Cook County GOP is just as bad as in the Democrat ranks, so we feel more comfortable being independents at this point, HillBuzz has evolved into what it is today, with all of you as daily readers, because of the overtures the Bradys made to us way back in the spring of 2008.
We’d give kidneys to these people if they needed them. We love them, and are so grateful to them, and are so inspired by them.
BUT, Pat Brady needs to do the right thing regarding Lee Roupas. As nice of a man as Brady is, and much as Brady likes Roupas and tried to groom him for bigger things, Roupas has lost all credibility and has seriously damaged Republican chances in November.
Pat Brady needs to fire Lee Roupas.
If he won’t, then we need to cross the uncrossable bridge and start advocating for someone to fire Pat Brady and replace him with someone who WILL clean house in Cook County, get rid of Roupas and the other “Romney Guys” frat boys stinking up the place, and prove to the voters of Illinois that there really is a choice to be made in this state: either vote for the corrupt, revolting Democrat party or vote for a party that’s about cleaning up the mess in Illinois and doing the right thing.
If Pat Brady fails to act by the end of this week, then we know he’s not serious about giving voters that choice.
It will break our hearts, and highly disillusion us, but we’ll have to start calling for Brady’s removal at that point.
Here’s what needs to happen, if you have any clout or access to Republican leaders:
(1) Lee Roupas is fired immediately, for lying in that July 16th, 2010 email
(2) Profuse apology is given to Eloise Gerson for Roupas’ attack on her
(3) An investigation is immediately launched into the undue influence multimillionaire Chicago cougar Beth Christie has had on the daily operations and staffing decisions of the Cook County GOP
BREAKING: More proof obtained Lee Roupas lied about date he received complaint against "The Prophet"
Tonight we secured emails Lee Roupas sent out, from his Cook County GOP email address, that show him discussing the attempted date rape complaint lodged against the Cook County GOP employee and CYR Board Member known in Chicago circles as “The Prophet”.
These emails sent by Roupas are from July of 2009.
On Friday July 16th, 2010, Roupas sent an email to all 80 Cook County GOP Committeemen and other officials claiming he knew nothing about this complaint until some time after June 11th, 2010.
Last week, we secured an affidavit from a prominent Chicago attorney who swears under oath he telephoned Lee Roupas in July or early August 2009 to discuss the complaint. That contradicts Roupas’ 7/16/10 lie that he did not receive this complaint until the summer of 2010.
Now, we can trace Roupas’ knowledge of this complaint back to July of 2009, slightly earlier than even the affidavit attests.
Therefore, the Chair of the Cook County GOP deliberately lied to his committeemen and engaged in the coverup of this complaint…against a Cook County GOP employee who was hired by Roupas in December of 2009, after Roupas was aware of the complaint against him…a complaint that Roupas did not investigate.
Despite the serious nature of what’s brought forward in the complaint, Roupas hired this man to represent the GOP in Illinois anyway, largely due to the continued pressure of multimillionaire Chicago cougar Beth Christie, who took a shine to “The Prophet” in 2009, fell under his spell, and used her checkbook to protect him and advance his career.
It’s time the Chair of the Illinois Republican Party, Pat Brady, addressed this matter and gave Republicans in Illinois, and nationwide, an explanation for why it’s allowable for the Cook County GOP Chair to deliberately lie about when he received information.
Why did he do this?
It’s not like he could have forgotten something as memorable as a complaint describing an attempted date rape a subordinate of his was involved in, which he deliberately chose not to investigate…or even bring up in his job interview before hiring him.
We’re just going to keep digging on this and building up the timeline of what Lee Roupas knew, when he knew it, and how he chose to ignore this problem. WHY he ignored it so far mainly focuses on one Cougar telling him to protect the object of her affections at all costs…but it also involves the Republican gubernatorial and Senate campaigns as well, because men who protect Roupas and “The Prophet” are highly placed in those circles too.
What should really concern Republicans is the fact that gay guys in Boystown, and their readership, are not the only ones working on this story. Actual, paid reporters are digging. The Democrat Machine in Chicago is digging.
Roupas should be removed because of his 7/16/10 lie, if for no other reason.
Unless someone out there can offer a valid and legitimate reason why a County Party Chair should be allowed to directly lie to his committeemen and other officials and maintain his paid position with the GOP.
We’d love to hear an answer for that.
Allen West Awesomeness Report Needed
We’ve had a lot of requests from many of you to take a close look at two people who are gaining an electric amount of support these days: Cedra Crenshaw here in Illinois (a Mom, accountant, and general dragon-slayer) and Allen West in Florida (who by all accounts, is nine shades of awesome).
We asked you to chime in on Crenshaw last week, and we’re working on a write-up of just how great a candidate, person, and mom she is (and also thinking about things we can do to help send her to Springfield to take on corrupt Democrats and Republicans alike).
We’d like to do the same thing for Allen West. A good friend of ours who lives in Florida has parents that are close friends of West’s, and they tell us he’s a future US president. There’s a really good chance he’ll be our historic and unprecedent first COMPETENT and PRO-AMERICAN black president.
Please use this thread to tell us everything you can about Allen West and why you support him. If you’re in the minority around here and don’t like West for some reason, tell us why.
Explain West’s appeal to people who have never heard of him before, or who have limited knowledge of him.
West and Crenshaw are interesting candidates for a great number of reasons…not least of which is a phenomenon we’ve never seen in Republicans — the fact that people we personally know are starting to think of them as presidential choices a few election cycles in the future.
Democrats ALWAYS plan their national candidates many years in advance. Republicans don’t bother strategizing for the most part, and end up left with whomever the corrupt state and county parties rig the primaries and caucuses for.
Crenshaw and West are both very young, and are just starting their national prominence…but Althea thinks Crenshaw will end up a US Senator in 2014 (defeating Dick Durbin), and could be the Republicans’ nominee in 2024. That would possibly make her our first black female president.
Althea’s thinking MIGHTY far ahead, but she’s genuinely excited about Crenshaw — a good woman, who takes no prisoners, and is prepared to punch Springfield in the face to audit the books and get this state back into solvent shape.
Sending West to Washington would be doing largely the same thing as putting Crenshaw in Springfield.
Then, we’d have Chris Christie in New Jersey, Jan Brewer in Arizona, Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Jim DeMint in the Senate, and Governor Sarah Palin at large.
With, hopefully plenty of mamma grizzlies on the ground coast to coast supporting them and giving them the ground teams they need to put this nation’s financial house back in order so we can end generational theft and get Big Government out of our pocketbooks, and out of our lives as much as possible.
So, tell us everything you can about West and what you want to see from him in the future.
