Pat Brady resigns as Illinois GOP Chairman

CHICAGO, IL – Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady announced he will be resigning his position effective immediately.

Carol Smith Donovan, the current Vice-Chairman will serve as interim Chairman until the Illinois Republican State Central Committee selects a permanent replacement.  The State Central Committee elected Brady as Chairman immediately after previous Chairman’s Andy McKenna’s resignation at Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair in August of 2009. 

In his resignation letter, Brady stated that during his tenure as Chairman Republicans in 2010 had their most successful election cycle in decades, electing Senator Mark Kirk to President Obama’s former Senate seat, four new GOP members of Congress, two GOP statewide constitutional officers, six new GOP members to the Illinois House and Senate and a Republicans to a number of down ballot offices throughout the state.

Critical to that success was the state party’s first ever-statewide get out the vote program that was the highest-ranking “Victory” program in the country that year.  Brady also noted that in his time as Chairman, the party raised records amounts of money, slashed operating expenses and instituted reforms such as term limits on State Central Committee Members.

Finally, Brady stated that he as Chairman developed relationships with national party leaders that resulted in funding and resources coming to Illinois for Republican candidates.

 

Brady’s Letter of Resignation can be read online at:

http://www.weareillinois.org/ connect/newsDetail.aspx? newsID=12969