Jim Ryan's Pick for Illinois GOP Party Chairman Endorses Proft for Governor
Tribune's Kass on Proft
(Chicago, Illinois) – Accomplished international businessman, author, Chair of Gov. Jim Edgar’s Human Services Reform Commission and former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Gary MacDougal today announced his endorsement of conservative Republican Dan Proft for Governor of Illinois.
MacDougal served as Illinois Republican Party Chairman in 2002 at the behest of former Attorney General Jim Ryan, the GOP’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee.
“Dan Proft is saying the things that need to be said and offering the ideas that need to be pursued to rescue Illinois from financial ruin,” said MacDougal, who also served as former U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald’s Finance Chairman. “I have watched the race unfold over the last several months, read with interest the policy proposals that the various Republican candidates have offered and concluded that Proft’s ‘policy revolution’, as he terms it, is what Illinois needs.”
“I have spent much of my life as that outsider coming in to turn around companies,” added MacDougal. “Dan Proft is that committed outsider who knows what it takes to make real change, and I believe he's willing to break eggs as necessary to get it done. I'd be glad to help him - pro bono."
MacDougal served for 17 years as CEO of the highly successful Mark Controls Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company, spent 32-years on the board of United Parcel Service (UPS), and is a former director at another half-dozen NYSE-listed companies. MacDougal is a former George H.W. Bush administration official, having served as a delegate for the U.S. to the United Nations General Assembly in New York after having been Assistant Campaign Manager of his national campaign.
“Gary MacDougal’s endorsement is a tremendous vote of confidence for me and for our campaign,” said Proft. “He is too modest to say so, but Gary MacDougal is an amazingly talented individual in business, in public policy, in philanthropy and in the political arena. For example, Gary’s seminal work on welfare reform in the mid-1990s led to an incredible 92% decline in the number of individuals on Illinois’ welfare rolls.”
MacDougal chaired Governor Jim Edgar’s Task Force on Human Services Reform from 1993-1997, presiding over the largest reorganization of Illinois state government in the 20th century.
“Gary MacDougal knows all about ‘policy revolution’, he’s lived it,” said Proft. “Like State Sen. Steve Rauschenberger who also endorsed my candidacy, Gary MacDougal has a track record of standing up to the entrenched interests in state government, both Democrats and Republicans,” added Proft. “And like Rauschenberger, Gary MacDougal knows my opponents in this race. His views on both politics and policy are incredibly informed and meaningful—and so is his endorsement.”
Attachment: Audio of Gary MacDougal endorsing Proft on WLS 890-AM's Don Wade & Roma Morning Show
Proft...actually talked of fundamental change, the elimination of whole departments, the shrinking of government.
Recently, Proft has put together a series of attractive conservative endorsements aimed at the conservative GOP base.
Former state Sen. Steve Rauschenberg(er), of Elgin, the respected budget hawk now re-entering electoral politics, has endorsed Proft. So have anti-abortion rights activists and former Illinois Republican Party chairman Gary MacDougal, the conservative pushed out of the party by Combine Republicans who ended up working closely with former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. MacDougal had been a supporter of Jim Ryan's but said Proft was best equipped to offer fundamental change.
Proft also got off the best line, when talking about decades of taxpayer abuse in Springfield, either by tax-and-spend Democrats or borrow-and-spend Republicans, each maintaining the status quo as Illinois moves closer to insolvency.
Einstein said that the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits,” Proft said.
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