Brady Proposes Illinois GOP Reform

Sen. Bill Brady in the Freeport Journal-Standard on the future of the Republican Party in Illinois:

We must launch internal reforms if we are ever to bring any shade of red back to the political hue of Illinois.

We can start by giving Republican primary voters the right to elect their party officials. We can demand that party leaders who divide rather than unite step aside. We must move beyond the blindness of the old guard to the promise of energetic new leaders with innovative new ideas. We must speak to the future, for without a clear vision for this great state, we stand for nothing. Without respect for the values that made Illinois strong, we fail. Without inspiring confidence and welcoming all, we risk truly being irrelevant. Once the party of Lincoln and Reagan, the Republican Party must reclaim its voice as a party of compassion, free enterprise, fiscal restraint, personal responsibility and common sense. It indeed will take a new generation of leadership in the Republican Party to successfully bring Republican and independent voters back to our ranks.

I supported Bill Brady in the GOP primary for governor. He is a clear voice, the next generation of leadership.