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New twist on the Lee Roupas Cook County GOP scandal: was forced to make decisions against his better judgment by wealthy donor
The Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation believes "kisses are the ink large checks are written with"
We’re working on a full, definitive piece on the whole Lee Roupas Cook County GOP scandal we’ve been following the last few days, but we just did an interesting interview a few moments ago where we learned that Roupas has been burning up the phone lines since Monday, trying to save his job.
Part of what he’s claiming is that he was forced — against his will and better judgment — to hire “The Prophet” to a high paying position in the Cook County GOP because multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie demanded this.
Roupas is saying he knew about the complaint against “The Prophet”, but was told to ignore it by GOP higher-ups because Christie wanted “The Prophet” to have that job.
Christie is one of only 6 large donors the Illinois GOP had, giving north of $100,000 easily. Roupas is telling angry GOP committeemen and Pooh-bahs that Christie threatened to stop writing her checky-checks if her favorite skinny, blond, bespeckled “Prophet” didn’t get that job under Roupas.
This directly contradicts the last story Roupas put out, where he claimed to have never known about the complaint. That was a story he sent in an email last Friday, where he said he first heard about the complaint against “The Prophet” in June of 2010, long after he’d hired him. But, affidavits now exist from prominent Chicagoans that show Roupas received the complaint in July of 2009. He just chose to do nothing with it, and then later hired “The Prophet” to work for the Cook County GOP despite being told he very well may have tried to date rape a young woman.
Roupas is now claiming a gun was essentially put to his head: lie, cover-up this mess, hire “The Prophet”, or risk the wrath of multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie.
It’s no wonder RNC Chairman Michael Steele canceled an event Christie was supposed to host on Wednesday: would YOU have wanted to get yourself dragged into this mess in Cook County?
It’s stunning how bad a liar Roupas is. His credibility is gone, but the GOP in Illinois has only one known response to any scandal or crisis: Ignore-Lie-Deny-Lie Some More-Coverup-Shift Blame-Lie Some More-Hope People Get Tired of Talking About It.
Republicans need to know if one very wealthy woman has taken control of the GOP in Illinois, and is using it as her personal plaything. She’s treating the state party like her Malibu Dream House, where she gets to take any doll she wants, dress him up, and send him to cocktail parties. And if a grown-up tries to take her most favorite doll away, she threatens to throw a tantrum that would repossess the dream house, and take EVERYONE’S toys away.
And to think, this woman used to be the CEO of a major corporation.
It’s staggering the amount of power just $100,000 can buy you in Illinois. In most other states, it would take millions to be able to carry on like this.
Maybe there’s a silver side to this recession for some people after all.
QUESTION: Will indulging millionaire cougar Beth Christie cost Republicans the governorship and Senate seat in Illinois?
How much will Beth Christie's large donations ultimately cost Republicans?
As a scandal involving both the Cook County GOP and the Chicago Young Republicans metastasizes into a major problem for Republicans here in Illinois (one that candidates Bill Brady and Mark Kirk are going to have to address in the coming days, considering how many appearances they have made with embattled Cook County GOP Chairman Lee Roupas), millionaire cougar Beth Christie emerges as the unintended root of this unforced error that could very well cost the GOP what should be two easy races against terrible Democrats in the fall.
In retrospect, Republicans wondering why this all happened will trace the losses back to the overindulgence of one generous but demanding donor, whose pet projects and passions clouded better judgment and oversight from Republican leadership. Because this one large donor wrote so many checks, and forever threatened to put her checkbook away if vexed, what would have been a minor hit to Republicans in Chicago has now reached a point where Cook County Chair Roupas will be forced to resign, with candidates Brady and Kirk doing major and distracting damage control.
In a TV dramatization of everything that led to this mess, Christie would be played by Jennifer Coolidge, with direction from Christopher Guest and wardrobe by Coach. Expensive-looking, with steeled elegance, Christie is a commanding, and demanding, presence in any room she enters. “Whatever Lola Wants” loops from imaginary speakers wherever she treads. The former CEO of Avent Baby Feeding Products, Christie nursed many pet projects in Chicago GOP circles — including the development of a young blond man she took an inexplicable shine to (a man who’d become known to CYRs as “The Prophet”, because of his delusions of grandeur and cult of mostly females used heavily for his self-aggrandizing purposes). Unable to see his dark side, Christie became his personal ATM and protectress, cutting large checks to cover his extravagant expenditures with the CYRs and bailing him out when he’d overdrawn the politically-flavored social networking club’s operating accounts.
The Elizabeth K. Christie Trust made a whopping $20,000 donation to the Cook County Republican party in December of 2009, at the exact time payback of a controversial $25,000 loan to the Chicago Young Republicans was causing major roadblocks for “The Prophet” to land a job with the Cook County GOP. In what many see as a quid pro quo, Christie’s check cleared in early December, which zeroed out the balance left on the CYR’s loan, and by the end of the month Roupas hired “The Prophet” to a high-paying job as his subordinate in the Cook County GOP.
In 2009, Christie also gave over $30,000 to the RNC itself, making her the political fundraising equivalent of what casinos call “whales” in Atlantic City and Vegas. Much sought after and indulged, these donors are what really control government in this country. Politicians depend on these people to fill their election year coffers and the political parties, especially the underfunded GOP in Illinois, rely on them to keep the lights on and fund day-to-day operations. Whatever the whales want, the whales get, by and large, and not just in terms of the regular photo ops and backstage access to events that come with making the occasional sizable donation to a particular fundraising.
When someone of Christie’s giving penchant appears on the Chicago scene, the Republican Party falls over itself to keep her pleased. If she likes someone, that person becomes untouchable for all intents and purposes, because the party does not want to upset Christie and risk losing access to her generosity.
It’s not difficult at all to see where this got the GOP in trouble here in Chicago.
“The Prophet” was identified as a brewing political problem as far back as 2008, before he’d claimed a prominent position in the CYR organization, and before he’d worked for failed Lt. Governor candidate Matt Murphy or Roupas at the Cook County GOP. Unbalanced, vainglorious, and vindictive, yet exceedingly charming and bisexually attractive, “The Prophet” was fired by the Murphy campaign at the insistence of gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna as a condition for Murphy to assume the Lt. Governor spot on McKenna’s ultimately unsuccessful bid against Bill Brady for the GOP nomination. Murphy was provided with a copy of the attempted date rape complaint filed against “The Prophet” by a young Chicago woman back in July 2009; Murphy received that complaint while he was still attempting a gubernatorial bid of his own, running with a staff comprised squarely of “The Prophet” and other young, relatively inexperienced “Romney Guys” (all veterans of the failed Romney 2008 campaign, and its subsequent off-the-radar 2012 successor). Murphy chose to ignore the complaint and keep “The Prophet” on staff, but McKenna forced “The Prophet” out, since McKenna had received a copy of the complaint in July or August of 2009 and did not want “The Prophet” to damage his own bid for the governorship once this scandal finally broke in Chicago.
It would certainly do no good with women voters in Illinois if a Republican candidate was found to have a man involved in allegations of date rape working for him, and McKenna smartly knew that.
If not for Christie’s generous check to Roupas, it’s unlikely “The Prophet” would have landed a job with the Cook County GOP, no matter how good of drinking buddies Roupas and “The Prophet” are. But, with money like that coming in from a strong and reliable supporter of “The Prophet”, Roupas had the cover he needed to bring “The Prophet” aboard.
Since the complaint against “The Prophet” kept working its way up the ranks in Republican circles, Roupas then had a ticking bomb on his hands Christie prevented him from ever getting rid of. Since “The Prophet” was a pet project of Christie’s, and he often bragged in political circles he was “untouchable” because “one word to Beth and she’ll stop writing checks”, Roupas could never fire him; the only option then, it seems, was to instead remove anyone in the Chicagoland GOP who pushed for an investigation into the complaint against “The Prophet”.
That led to the bizarre chain of events last month where Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson obtained a copy of the complaint, demanded an investigation into not only “The Prophet’s” behavior but also what led to his hiring by the Cook County GOP, and was then attacked by Roupas in an attempted coup to remove her for bringing this scandal into the spotlight.
Since the Illinois GOP is so terrified of alienating millionaire cougar Beth Christie, Roupas and the rest of the Chicago GOP lot used poor judgment and went after truthtellers instead of addressing the issue it had on its hands with “The Prophet”. Absent Christie’s protection, Roupas would have most certainly let “The Prophet” go and avoided the mess he’s now in. But, whatever Lola wants, as the song goes.
As with everything else involving this cover-up, this is an educational opportunity for the GOP in Illinois, and for conservatives nationwide. It’s a chance to understand exactly WHY the GOP is so seemingly incapable of making good decisions most of the time.
It’s, frankly, because of wealthy donors like Beth Christie who wield a disproportionately large amount of power for writing so many oversized checks. Clearly an excellent businesswoman who amassed millions running a major corporation, in retirement one of Christie’s hobbies became the professional development of a young man she took some sort of shine to. Whatever glamor “The Prophet” used on her kept Christie from seeing how toxic his presence was for the GOP in Chicago. The threat of losing Christie’s largesse prevented the Chicago GOP from taking actions against “The Prophet” and forced Cook County GOP Chair Lee Roupas to engage in a Byzantine cover-up for “The Prophet” that ultimately involved declaring open war upon a respected and well-loved Chairwoman who dared to call for an investigation into alleged criminal activity and impropriety committed by a paid staffer in the Cook County GOP.
This is why all Tea Party inclined Americans need to become intimately familiar with all FEC filings and campaign contributions made by big donors like Beth Christie. These wealthy people’s agendas are not necessarily what’s best for the parties, voters, or Americans in general. Candidate who depend on millionaires like Christie to stay in office often seem to find themselves doing the opposite of what common sense and prudence would dictate, because they have put themselves in positions where these big donors are calling the shots, and dictating courses of action that counter basic reason.
This explains why Democrats are driving themselves off a cliff with a radical Leftist agenda currently: large Democrat donors are pushing for this, because they don’t really understand the ramifications of everything that’s being rammed through legislatively; they just want to get their money’s worth and see some action.
On the Republican side, you have women like Beth Christie who want to get their money’s worth as well, and look at the mess that ultimately made for the Cook County GOP.
These unforced errors and donor-induced follies happen all across the country for both Democrats and Republicans.
It’s why we’ve been long-advocating a major educational initiative in the Tea Party ranks to identify and pressure these large donors to put a stop to the madness both parties are engaged in right now. If Americans directed their ire and attention at these wealthy individuals, who use politics as a hobby and pet project (or who, like Christie, give money to advance pets of another sense), then politics might be a much less desirable place for them to spend their mad money. If Christie took those big checks to Coach or Tiffany’s on Michigan Avenue, and had one heck of a fun time there instead, the Cook County GOP would be much better off today, counterintuitive to the party’s zeal to get as much cash from this blonde ATM as possible.
CASE STUDY: Why the Chicago Young Republicans' sexual assault scandal and its cover-up by the Chicago GOP is yet another example of Republicans refusing to get in front of a problem before it metastasized.
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Over the last few days, a wholly preventable scandal has metastasized for the GOP in Illinois that could very well cost Republicans the Governor’s mansion and “president” Obama’s former Senate seat: both were winnable races, if Republicans had learned from mistakes of the past and gotten in front of a potential problem before it was allowed to yet again reveal the GOP in Illinois to be a myopic boys’ club that protects its own while covering-up anything that could potentially upset their cucumber-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich cocktail parties. “Romney Republicans” have gotten conservatives into an untenable position yet again.
In July of 2009, a young woman came forward and identified herself to be the victim of a self-proclaimed “Prophet” in the Chicago GOP ranks, a man who abused his position in the social networking/political action club Chicago Young Republicans to lure women (and some men) back to his apartment, hotel suites, offices, and other venues for “private, high level political discussions”. Against the backdrop of a Democrat razzle-dazzler and snake oil salesman essentially doing the same thing to the American people at large in this “The Golden Age of Hope and Change” (and while Al Gore was practicing moves of his own on massage therapists, according to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Enquirer), the complaint filed by the young woman with the Chicago GOP and Young Republican National organization alleges “The Prophet” plied her with alcohol to the point of inebriation, continued to force drinks upon her after she’d told him she’d had enough, took her cell phone away from her when she tried to call for help, blocked her exit when she tried to flee, and then refused to assist her in finding a cab to drive her home, in the dead at night, after all those drinks he served her, when she was afraid of venturing out into crime-riddled Chicago on her own.
Other women and men have come forward with similar detailed accounts that paint a clear picture of a serious problem in the Chicago Young Republican organization, which had been seen as a growing and dynamic new political force on the Chicago scene — until it was rendered a laughingstock by “The Prophet”. It’s now widely considered kin to Animal House grade fraternities that would surely lose their charters if observant deans and mature adults stopped to realize how much damage the debauchery, skirt-chasing, and victimization of women was inflicting on the conservative cause in a corrupt, bankrupt, battered Midwestern state desperate for an alternative to endless Democrat scandals and abuse of power.
“The Prophet”, as nicknamed by members of the CYRs because of his endless womanizing and grand delusion of “being the Republican Party in Illinois”, as well as being “untouchable”, has been protected from discipline and scrutiny by Cook County Republican Chairman Lee Roupas, Fran Eaton (editor of the Illinois Review), wealthy Chicago donors such as Beth Christie, former GOP Illinois State Chair Andy McKenna, failed Lt. Governor candidate Matt Murphy, and other Republicans on the state and national levels who knew of the complaint filed by the young woman against “The Prophet” — but did their level best to quash it, and squash any truthteller out there who was determined to see an investigation launched into the frat house the Chicago Young Republicans had devolved into.
While the complaint filed against “The Prophet” was made in July of 2009, alleging an attempted rape/date rape at “The Prophet’s” apartment in the spring of 2009, this scandal didn’t break until June 11, 2010 when truthteller Eloise Gerson, Chairwoman of the Chicago Republican Party and Central Committee, attempted to launch a full-scale investigation into “The Prophet’s” conduct by sending a letter to Cook County Republican Chairman Lee Roupas demanding action be taken.
This demand was made because Roupas, a close personal friend and drinking buddy of “The Prophet’s”, had hired “The Prophet” to be his subordinate in the Cook County GOP, earning a high salary and gaining access to a set of offices in which allegations were surfacing the same sort of frat boy behavior detailed in the complaint was being carried out.
Gerson had been aware of the date rape complaint for some time, but had never actually seen a physical copy of it until early June of 2010. Roupas was presented with a copy of the complaint at the National Young Republican convention in Indianapolis in July of 2009; he read the complaint in front of witnesses in a hotel suite, smiled, tried to make a joke of it, then seemingly forgot about the whole thing. Roupas never launched an investigation into the matter, and instead saw to it that “The Prophet” was installed in a cushy position with the Cook County GOP at the first available opportunity.
After Gerson read the complaint, she was horrified, and immediately contacted the complainant to verify the accuracy of the charges. Believing the young woman, Gerson then launched her own investigation and determined this was not an isolated incident. Women, and some men, came forward and detailed scores more instances of sexual harassment and impropriety at the hands of “The Prophet”, many of which Roupas seemed to know about as well.
Both Roupas and “The Prophet” are “Romney Guys”, a special brand of Republican we’ve identified and described for you on this site repeatedly. Here in Chicago, all of these guys seem to have been part of the Mitt Romney 2008 campaign, before Romney bowed out to John McCain. They’ve never stopped running Romney for president, and have taken over organizations like the CYRs to build them into Romney 2012 ground teams. This is similar to what Barack Obama did between 2004 and 2008 to usurp control of the Democrat Party from the Clintons. The “Romney Guys” are dangerous for a lot of reasons, not just because they are hellbent on pushing a losing 2012 candidate upon the GOP. They’re also a problem because of the entitlement they feel, and the frat boy environment they foster in their ranks, encouraged, we’ve been told, by Mitt Romney himself. For “Romney Guys”, women are to be seen and not heard, don’t deserve much consideration, and are disposable. The goal of each day is to enrich themselves as much as possible, chomp down on some good cigars, drink themselves silly in wood-paneled neighborhood bars, and protect each other to the hilt whenever any of their penises get them into trouble.
On June 15th 2010, Gerson received a phone call from Roupas telling her he had received her letter and that he was now taking the complaint seriously — despite spending a full eleven months doing just the opposite, while protecting his drinking buddy. Roupas told Gerson he’d “get back to her in a couple of weeks” about what “The Prophet” had been accused of. After he hung up the phone with Gerson, instead of following through with the promised investigation into his drinking buddy, Roupas launched a plan to eliminate Gerson from the Illinois GOP so that she would be forced to stop talking about this date rape complaint.
Roupas illegally convened a secret meeting of “The Executive Session” on June 15th after speaking with Gerson. He invited only his loyalists, and excluded Committeemen he had no power over. All of Gerson’s allies, and Gerson herself, were excluded from the meeting…the point of which was to plan an attack on Gerson that would discredit, malign, humiliate, and remove her from power so that she could not blow the lid off the sexual assault scandal Roupas realized would now take him down too.
Roupas’ cronies at “The Executive Session” engaged in classic “Romney Guy” behavior, setting up a scenario where Gerson and her allies were not present for the purpose of attacking Gerson on record without giving her ability to defend herself. It’s a tactic borrowed from the Left, as evidenced in Barack Obama’s repeatedly successful attempts to eliminate opponents on various ballots he ran on, so that he’d be the only one left standing in the room. In Chicago, Republicans like Roupas are indistinguishable from Democrats at times.
At the illegal “Executive Session”, Roupas and his henchmen drew up a resolution essentially saying Gerson was crazy, bad, and not doing her job as a Chairwoman of whatever it was she was chairing. Details of the procedural goings-on of Republicans can be mind-numbing, because as a rule these people are so obsessed with titles, power struggles, blazers, and cucumber sandwiches-t0-cocktails ratios at parties that it’s impossible for us to keep straight who’s the Grand Poobah and who’s just the Viceroy Spectacular or Sprinkles-Coated Rum Ripple Committeeman. We imagine these people assembled together, around large plates of soggy sandwiches, wearing horned water buffalo fur hats comparing each other’s titles on business cards.
On June 16 2010, Gerson caught wind of the retaliatory moves made against her the day before, in violation of the Rules of the Grand Poobah that these “Executive Committees” are supposed to be run by. Roupas had scheduled a new meeting to be held on June 29 2010 (ironically, unbeknownst to Roupas, EXACTLY, to the day, one year from the day the young woman first sought help in writing the complaint against “The Prophet”…when she attended the Chicago Young Republicans $25,000 “Membership Drive” party at the Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville and encountered several other young women at the event with similar stories to hers…convincing her to write the complaint when she saw “The Prophet” working the crowd goosing young women and plying them, too, with alcohol in attempts to get them to come upstairs to the “VIP Lounge” he had created for himself), which was also the last day in that “I’ll get back to you in a few weeks” period he had set to “get back with” Gerson about any investigation he was launching into “The Prophet”.
The next day, Gerson dispatched letters to all the GOP Ward Committeemen telling them that Roupas was abusing his power, acting illegally, and covering up a date rape complaint made against someone employed by the Cook County GOP.
On June 18 2010, Gerson had a delicious breakfast with Republican State Executive Director Curt Conrad, informing him that we at HillBuzz had a copy of the young woman’s complaint, and that she was a friend of ours. It’s unclear what the two ate for breakfast, but it’s been noted it was delicious. At length, it was speculated why we never published the complaint or wrote about it, since we were copied on it from the very beginning. The reason for this is that we’ve thought this was a police matter to begin with, and have always been surprised the GOP didn’t refer the matter to the CPD to let them investigate it on their end while the GOP in Illinois cleaned house in terms of whom it put in positions that enabled them to victimize women in this way.
The Chicago Young Republicans was a wonderful organization when it was run by former CYR President Keely Drukala, one of the smartest, most honest, and hardest working people we’ve ever known. It was Drukala who embraced us, as Hillary Democrats turned Democrats for McCain back in the summer of 2008. We worked side by side with the CYRs through the 2008 election and its aftermath, hoping to forge a lasting alliance between moderate Dems and Independents and conservatives in the state of Illinois to battle the Leftists that control Chicagoland. That was all possible when Drukala was president, but after she was forced out of the organization by ‘The Prophet”, and the “Romney Guys” took over, we ultimately ended all ties with the CYRs…though we still maintain that 95% of them, the non-Romney crowd, are great people. Drukala now works for a conservative think tank and has lost her interest in active political involvement because of attacks made upon her by “The Prophet” as he climbed the ladder and seized power. Looking back on it all, the Alinksy Method playbook was very much used against Drukala by “The Prophet”, just as it was used against Gerson by Roupas and those Romney Guy committeemen. Apparently, things of this nature were also done to another woman in the GOP recently in Illinois, with Demetra DeMonte (whom we also know from the 2008 campaign) being forced out of her position for standing up to Romney Guys of her own.
The GOP in Illinois is sending a clear message to women: shut up, stay out of the way, and if you get out of line you will be smacked down so that Romney Guys get what they want.
On June 26 2010, three days before the meeting that Roupas scheduled, female CYR members alerted Gerson that “The Prophet” had declared that “Eloise will be eliminated soon”, emphasizing the great lengths Roupas was going to protect “The Prophet” by removing Gerson from the GOP so that she could not have access to resources to investigate Roupas or “The Prophet”.
A bizarre plot then unfolded to move up the June 29th meeting by a day, so that Roupas and his henchman could remove Gerson from her position before Roupas had to issue a response to her about the investigation of “The Prophet”. Roupas declared this to be an informal meeting to discuss “moving forward” and “doing good things”, and he deliberately maneuvered to keep as few of Gerson’s allies at this meeting as possible. Meanwhile, he prepped his own allies for the real purpose of the meeting: which was essentially an “Eloise Gerson needs to go before she uncovers the truth” meeting. People who were not attending the meeting sent “proxy votes” ahead with other Roupas allies…which defies logic if the meeting had no agenda and was just for “moving ahead”. How could these people know they’d be voting to boot Gerson from her position if that was not the expressed intent of the meeting? Barring psychic powers on their part, this is proof Roupas coordinated this meeting behind Gerson’s back to put in place a mechanism to remove her before she forced him to investigate ‘The Prophet”.
After Roupas lashed out at Gerson at this meeting and maligned her character and job performance, Gerson passed out copies of the victim’s complaint against ‘The Prophet” to everyone present. One of the people seeing this complaint for the first time was a Ward Committeeman who is also a Chicago Police Detective.
The police detective stated in no uncertain terms that what “The Prophet” is alleged to have done in the complaint filed with the GOP is indeed a criminal offense.
After the assembled Republicans gasped at what they read in the complaint, the plot to remove Gerson from her position collapsed. Gerson again called for an investigation of “The Prophet”, but was shouted down by Roupas and his henchmen. Failing to remove her by vote, the Romney Guys then ganged up on her and tried to intimidate her into quitting, using thuggish tactics we’d only experienced from the Obama campaign and ACORN here in Chicago.
After shouting at Gerson to “just shut up and go away”, Roupas then decided to create a new position in the Grand Poobah Republican Organizational Chart of Numerous and Varied Titles to supplant Gerson, render her redundant and irrelevant, and give her a new direct report who would eclipse her.
Roupas then revealed the person he wanted to supplant Gerson was a man named Andy Magliochetti, who you will know as “they idiot who used Republican donor money to take Young Eagles RNC members to a bondage strip club in Los Angeles, causing another scandal for the GOP”.
Do you see what Romney Guys have done here?
Magliochetti screws up royally at the RNC in Los Angeles, creates a scandal, and causes immense embarrassment because he cannot control his sexual fetishes. Instead of being cast out of the Republican Party, he’s given a promotion to a job in Chicago that would make him the boss of a “trouble-making” woman who needed to be shut up before she blew the lid off a major cover-up the Chicago GOP was engaged in.
This is the same thing that Roupas did to “The Prophet”. After the date rape complaint was released, instead of Romney Guys removing “The Prophet” from the fold, they dug trenches around him and promoted him to a high-paying position under Roupas in the Cook County GOP.
When a Republican male does something despicable, he is protected, promoted, and rewarded.
When a Republican woman speaks out and challenges what the party is doing, she is maligned, berated, dragged through the mud, and forced out.
This is why Republicans lose so many elections: they have too many Romney Guys protecting themselves, and are too afraid of Mamma Grizzlies like Gerson, Drukala, and DeMonte who don’t take their garbage and challenge them to put the needs of the state, their constituents, and conservatism above the Romney Guys’ personal enrichment, delusions of glory, and “it’s my turn” mentality.
After the June 28th meeting, the Romney Guys all declared this Magliochetti person to be Gerson’s replacement, which Gerson maintains is illegal because she was elected to her position and cannot be usurped like this. No investigation into “The Prophet” was launched by the Illinois GOP and Roupas did not give Gerson the report he promised by June 29th…the one year anniversary of when this complaint was first initiated.
On July 9th, the Chicago Young Republicans threw another lavish “Membership Drive” at the Cubby Bear, which Gerson attempted to attend as a paying member. She was humiliated at the door and refused entry by “The Prophet’s” private security and personal entourage, called vulgar and misogynistic names, and demeaned with taunts of “You lost, we won! You can’t touch him!”.
Witnessing this treatment of Gerson, a group of CYR members formed the “Roxy Vanilla” project to bring everything above to light and to call for an immediate investigation into the conduct and behavior of Roupas, “The Prophet”, and others up the chain of command in the Illinois GOP (such as former State Chair Andy McKenna, who received the complaint around the same time Roupas did back in 2009, but never did a thing about it).
“Roxy Vanilla” began emailing details of the complaint and other instances of victimization of women allegedly committed by “The Prophet”. Recipients of those emails included Carol Marin, Michael Sneed, John Kass, Laura Washington, other political reporters here in Chicago and several political sites, including HillBuzz. We were specifically asked to come forward with what we knew about all of this, and about what “The Prophet” had done to the CYRs and was doing to women…and some men, too.
“The Prophet” is equal-opportunity in his victimization and retaliations against both men and women alike. In some instances, he’s utilized Fran Eaton at Illinois Review as his personal goon, where she writes hit pieces on people “The Prophet” wants punished for some transgression against him. When we exposed a campaign “The Prophet” was running against gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft, when “The Prophet” believed this would help Matt Murphy win the nomination, “The Prophet” hit us back by ordering Fran Eaton to reveal one of our real names, post pictures, and out us on Illinois Review…knowing this would, for the first time, give Daily Kos and DemocraticUnderground a point of personal attack against HillBuzz. Prior to this outing by Fran Eaton at the urging of “The Prophet”, we had been an anonymous political blog because exposing our identities put us at risk of attack from the Left. Subsequent to Fran Eaton and Illinois Review’s actions, Daily Kos has regularly run hit pieces on us, using one of our real names, labeling him a racist, destroying his business, alienating friends, and ruining his livelihood.
That’s the fear many of “The Prophet’s” victims in Chicago have, of facing career-killing and life-destroying retaliation from “The Prophet” and his allies. Fran Eaton is always ready at Illinois Review to personally destroy anyone “The Prophet” tells her to take down. ”The Prophet” is well-funded by Chicago multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie, who writes large checks to maintain “The Prophet’s” extravagance. The “Membership Drive” parties “The Prophet” throws once a year are Obamaesque in their opulence, with bands costing close to $10,000 rocking out the stage in a giant venue rented to proclaim “The Prophet’s” greatness. Christie’s lavish donations have saved the Chicago Young Republicans from insolvency on at least two occasions, when “The Prophet” spent tens of thousands of dollars more than the group had and authorities were closing in on them for collection. Without large donors like Beth Christie funding this debauched, Obamaian frat party, “The Prophet” would not be able to afford loyal minions like Fran Eaton.
And, without control of the CYRs, “The Prophet” would not have access to the attractive, discreet young men he introduces to Congressmen Aaron Schock and Mark Kirk, and other prominent Republican men who lend “The Prophet” credibility and support because “The Prophet” not only makes these introductions, but presumably threatens to go public with them should Schock, Kirk, and the other dandies cut him off.
It’s why we keep telling Republicans that Schock, Kirk, and the rest need to just come out of the closet. We spotted Schock with our own eyes in the Boystown gay bar MiniBar after the 2009 CYR Cubby Bear event, having a fabulous time with male CYR members in the VIP section of the bar…men he was presumably introduced to by “The Prophet”. We’ve seen “The Prophet” flirt with Schock, and other prominent closeted Republicans, in attempts to talk them into various shenanigans, but Schock seems to, up to this point, be playing things smart enough to only take home men who won’t speak out about their trysts. Some day, that will change, and will come back to bite Republicans like it always does.
We know for a fact Democrats in Chicago have footage of Schock in Boystown bars carousing with men. We know this because after noting Schock’s appearance at MiniBar back in 2009 on this site, we were offered a paid assignment to secure such footage and deliver it to Democrats here in Chicago. We turned down that task because a good friend of ours in Republican circles made us promise to give Schock a chance to come out on his own — which he has promised to do before the 2010 election — and because Democrats are destroying this country and there’s nothing on Earth that would get us to help any of them at this point.
Which brings us to the importance of addressing this scandal in full, as a case study for Republicans nationwide.
The thinking in the Republican Party, with all things like this, seems to be: pretend nothing is happening, protect the Romney Guys at all costs, attack the victims and truthtellers with every weapon at your disposal, and maintain your seat at the cocktail party no matter what.
The Republican Party needs a come to Jesus moment.
It needs a dressing down of the highest order.
The reason you need to care about a sex scandal rocking the GOP in Chicago is because these sorts of cover-ups are happening wherever you live too.
If you don’t think Democrats know all about them, then you are insane. You’re as clueless and deliberately delusional as that busty-chested woman poolside with Aaron Schock, helping him prove how heterosexual he is. Democrats don’t buy any of this garbage. But they know about all of it. They might not talk about it, because they are waiting for the right moment to reveal everything they know, at a time that’s most opportune for them and most precarious for Republicans.
YOU HAVE TO START UNDERSTANDING THIS if conservatives are going to save this country from the Left.
YOU HAVE TO STOP COVERING-UP BAD THINGS and start addressing them NOW, so there is time to recover from this stuff by November.
It is crystal clear, time and again, that Republicans enter into a turtle’s shell of misguided hope that they can weather an election without whatever scandal they are hiding being revealed. The Left is incredibly strategic. It does not explode all the mines it has all at once. It know about Mark Kirk. It knows about Aaron Schock. It knows about Lee Roupas and “The Prophet”. It knows about things we don’t even know about. Some of them aren’t even gay scandals. Imagine that.
The Romney Guys out there, being all about themselves, just hold their breath and hope the Left explodes a scandal on the other guy this election cycle, letting their own bad behavior or lies go unnoticed this time around. That gives them another two years at the cocktail party, in the nice blazer, with all the cucumber-and-mayo sandwiches on white bread, washed down with skim milk, they can eat (unless Fran Eaton happens to sniff that particular buffet…then Oprah help them, there won’t be any sandwiches left for the khaki pants brigade).
This does conservative voters no good, because the Romney Guys are an entrenched aristocracy that protects their own at all costs…to the detriment of conservatism and the nation at large.
That’s why the Romney Guys are so damn scared of Governor Palin and the Tea Party Movement. That’s why these guys throw everything they have into attacking truthtellers like Eloise Gerson. These guys hate Mamma Grizzlies. They hate women with opinions and mouths that just won’t shut up when told to. They hate anyone who won’t enable their self-destructive, asinine operating procedure of allowing something like “The Prophet” and Lee Roupas’ mess in Chicago to metastasize into the national scandal this will more than likely become.
The GOP could have avoided this by removing “The Prophet” last July. Instead, the GOP in Chicago staked its credibility and public image on protecting a prophet while ignoring a criminal complaint from a female victim. Instead of listening to the female truthteller calling for an investigation, the GOP in Chicago decided to bully her into silence and try to force her out. Fran Eaton, donut in hand, is hard at work over at Illinois Review, no doubt, putting out whatever lies she dreams up today about Gerson. No doubt Fran Eaton will hit us some more too, as she did when she gave the Left the tools it needed to destroy one of us personally and professionally.
Why conservatives in this state tolerate Roupas, McKenna, Conrad, Fran Eaton, and wealthy donors like Beth Christie who fund all these frat parties, for whatever bizarre reason, is just beyond us.
But, we hope today you get more insight into why we are fighting so hard against the Romney Guys every day around here. It’s draining, because we’re also fighting against the Left in this country, so conservatives would make life so much easier by purging the Romney entitlement “it’s my turn” wing of aristocrats entirely so we can all focus on getting more people like Chris Christie, Jan Brewer, Michele Bachmann, and Governor Palin into office (all of whom, we’ll note, are hated by Romney Guys and GOP cocktail party establishment).
We’re sure the next week or so will be brutal in comments as this scandal explodes nationwide, but we wanted to tell you everything we knew because we want the Republican Party to learn from its mistakes, cut the crap, and stop repeating these disasters.
It is NOT okay to keep quiet about these things and just hope and pray Democrats decide not to make it an October surprise. STOP PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH THE LEFT!
Start taking conservatism’s destiny into your own hands, exposing your own scandals before the Left can, and nipping as much of these Romney Guys’ destructive shenanigans in the bud before it can metastasize into election-ruining cancers.
The cucumber-and-mayo frat parties need Mamma Grizzlies to clean house, crack skulls, and whip this party back into shape.
We hope and pray all of you reading this are such Big Mammas, regardless of gender, because the party of Romney and his acolytes may be adroit at using Alinsky Methods on fellow Republicans…but it’s not going to have what it takes to defeat Obama and his true Alinsky experts in 2012.
That’s what really matters, folks. Not what title this or that Poobah or Committeeman has.
QUESTION: Are police investigating the Chicago Young Republicans and Cook County GOP for an attempted rape?
Truthtellers in the CYRs strike again!
“Roxy Vanilla” has dispatched another hard-hitting letter this morning, this time copied all the way up to Michael Steele at the GOP, alleging a police investigation is ongoing into the Chicago Young Republicans and the Cook County GOP for an attempted rape of young women by a man nicknamed ‘The Prophet”. This man has been protected by several ranking members of the GOP for over a year, despite his history of abuse towards women.
Can anyone with police connections confirm there’s an investigation afoot?
Anyone with connections to Steele’s office, can you confirm GOP national has heard of any trouble brewing in Chicago related to “The Prophet” luring women to his apartment, drugging them, then trying to force sexual acts upon them when they want to escape?
According to “Roxy Vanilla”, at least one woman has filed a formal complaint describing such an event, with more women corroborating her story at the hands of “The Prophet”.
Cook County’s Lee Roupas, failed (miserably) Lt. Governor candidate Matt Murphy, major Republican donor Beth Christie, Illinois Review editor Fran Eaton, and others are alleged by “Roxy Vanilla” to be in on the coverup of this sex crime.
Can anyone confirm if Republicans on a national level or the local Chicago police are investigating any of these people as well?
“Roxy Vanilla” claims political careers are going to be destroyed over this…and our sincere hope is that whatever’s going on hits the fan now, while the GOP in Illinois has enough time to recover for November.
Can you help get the truth out by reaching out to your GOP contacts and asking them what they know about what’s going on?
