UPDATEDx2: Aurora Mayor and Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Irvin Record plus State GOP Chair Claims Irvin “definitely a Republican”

Note from John Lopez: With the expected announcement on MLK, Jr. Day tomorrow of Aurora Mayor Richard C. Irvin seeking the Republican nomination for governor in the primary, moving this article, originally published on December 17, for readers to learn more about Irvin. Updates include names of lieutenant governor running mates, if announced.

Richard C. Irvin

“Aurora was built by and is still sustained by hardworking families where every dollar counts. We applaud Congresswoman Underwood for her stalwart efforts and fully support H.R.1757 and its goal of providing tax relief to working families,” Aurora Mayor Richard C. Irvin, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood press release 6/25/19

UPDATE 1/17/22, 11:10AM CST

This morning, WCIA TV reporter Mark Maxwell tweeted this:

Illinois Republican Party State Chairman Don Tracy said Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin is “definitely a Republican”, and pulled Democratic ballots because “that’s where the action is” in Kane County elections in even-numbered years?

From the desk of John Lopez: What Tracy said only applied to 2017 and 2021 Aurora Township Democratic primaries.

Yet Irvin trying to help Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D, Naperville) peddle lies about the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 back in mid 2019, when Irvin had pulled a Republican ballot the previous year was not something that happened on Primary Day, the “action” was spreading lies about the state and local taxes (SALT) impacts, including the lie of “double taxation”.

What about the fall, 2020 campaign of the mother of Irvin’s illegitimate twin sons, trying to elect her as a DEMOCRAT over the Republican appointed circuit judge!?

Irvin “definitely a Republican”, there are mutliple applications of the word “action” of Irvin, helping Democrats pass their Leftist policies, or push a woman he womanized with onto the voters of Kane County to be a circuit judge.

Will Republican primary voters fall for this “big lie” concerning Mayor Irvin!?

State Party Chairman Don Tracy certainly has!

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With the news this week the richest man in Illinois Ken Griffin is unhappy with the current field of Republican candidates for Illinois governor, Griffin’s people float Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin as his Christmas gift to save Illinois from the tyranny of Democratic Governor JB Pritzker.

Is Griffin bearing a Christmas gift? Or is Griffin playing the grinch trying to steal conservatism from the Republican Party by promoting Democrat Richard Irvin as a Republican to beat Pritzker.

McHenry County Blog believes in full context, and it is not forgotten how Ken Griffin-backed Irvin’s record, including his work with then McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks (D, Woodstock) and five other Democratic elected leaders trying to help Congresswoman Lauren Underwood’s (D, Naperville) state and local taxes (SALT) deduction limits bill in 2019, when she and other local officials attempted to mislead the public the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 hurt the middle class.

The facts said otherwise as McHenry County Blog presented in July of 2019 and coverage of Franks, Irvin & company supporting the inaccurate campaign of Underwood.

The seven candidates for governor currently include four major and 3 minor candidates, and they are, with their lieutenant governor running mates, in alphabetical order:

  • Darren Bailey / Stephanie Trussell
  • Cheryl Erickson
  • Gary Rabine / Aaron Del Mar
  • Christopher Roper / Alfredo Cisneros
  • Paul Schimpf / Carolyn Schofield
  • Max Soloman / Latasha Fields
  • Jesse Sullivan

Irvin would be the 8th candidate, and rumor is Millennial 29-year-old 3-term state Representative Avery Bourne (R, Morrisonville) is Griffin’s choice to pair with Irvin on the gubernatorial ticket, bringing downstate and gender balance, as well as conservative credentials to the married mother of one, who is very pro-life and pro 2nd Amendment.

If Irvin is at the top of the Republican ticket bankrolled by Griffin to defeat Governor JB Pritzker, how could Irvin campaign for his running mates, including the Republican nominee in the new IL-14 to unseat the two-term incumbent Underwood next year?

Would Irvin/Griffin & Company even try?

And then there’s Irvin’s Democratic voting history in primaries, both even-numbered years and odd-numbered years (2017, 2021) when Irvin was on the ballot for the officially nonpartisan office of mayor of Aurora.

He had to declare party as Democratic in order to vote in the Democratic primary for Aurora Township offices in both odd-numbered years he won the mayoral race.

The official copy of Irvin’s voting history WCIA-TV’s Mark Maxwell obtained yesterday from the office of Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham (R, Aurora) has some irony.

In Irvin’s first mayoral run in 2005, then 1st term Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham (R, Aurora) was one of Irvin’s four opponents in his first bid for mayor when then Mayor David Stover did not seek reelection that year.

The city of Aurora’s mayoral and city council offices are officially nonpartisan, and under a nonpartisan election, the top-2 candidates advance, regardless if the primary winner garnered more than 50% of the vote.

Irvin made the April ballot in 2005, finishing 2nd to eventual winner Tom Weisner, who garnered 60% of the vote in the primary. Irvin bested Cunningham and the other two candidates in the February primary in 2005.

Weisner went on to crush Irvin with the same supermajority of 60% of the vote in April.

Two years later, with the increased citywide name ID from his 2005 mayoral run, Irvin won an at-large City Council seat and served as an alderman for 10 years until his election as mayor in 2017 which was open due to Mayor Weisner’s resignation in 2016 due to cancer (he passed away in 2018) and acting Mayor Bob O’Conner chose not to seek election in 2017.

The Aurora City Council has a 10-3 configuration, with 10 alderpersons elected from single-member wards, with the mayor and two alderpersons elected at-large.

In Irvin’s successful 2017 campaign, he was one of four candidates in the nonpartisan primary, and the field included then state Representative (and now disgraced ex Illinois Veterans Affairs Director) Linda Chapa-LaVia and two other candidates. Chapa-LaVia did not get out of the primary, and Irvin went on to win the mayoral election in 2017.

Jeff Ward

Irvin’s general consultant for his successful 2017 mayoral election was Geneva’s Jeff Ward.

Ward’s blog, The First Ward is a treasure trove of free opposition research against Mayor Irvin, given Ward, going back to his southern Kane County journalism beat, still tracks local officials in Kane County and documents where they could have done better.

Ward, as Cobra Kai teaches, shows no mercy.

Here is a sample of Mayor Irvin’s record concerning shelters in Aurora, most notably long-established Wayside Cross Ministries (a western suburban smaller version of Pacific Garden Mission of Chicago) based in downtown Aurora and Hesed House.

From the desk of John Lopez: If Irvin does run for governor, and we’ll know next month, Jeff Ward’s stock as a political consultant will shoot through the roof, and of the remaining four major IL gubernatorial candidates are smart, they would be well advised to sign Ward to do opposition research against Irvin.


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UPDATEDx2: Aurora Mayor and Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Irvin Record plus State GOP Chair Claims Irvin “definitely a Republican” — 15 Comments

  1. I think Griffin’s putting it out there that he just might bankroll an Independent candidate.

    ✌️😎

  2. For some reason Irvin reminds me of BHO, and for that reason alone I say HELL NO.

  3. Honest Abe, is Irvin gay too, like Obama?

    He’s supposedly married, but lives apart and hangs around in public venues with other women and at least one transgendered freak.

  4. Headline: “We applaud Congresswoman Underwood for her stalwart efforts and fully support H.R.1757 and its goal of providing tax relief to working families,”

    Someone explain to me what happened in 1913 to bypass the 16th Amendment and several Supreme Court precedents that allows the federal government through the IRS to force the fruits of our hard work (wages and gains) to be stolen from us under duress.

    When you find that in the constitution please define what income is. LOL.

    Watch Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism if you want to learn about the illegal taxes being stolen from us once a year. There’s even a tie in to IL as well.

    This is just a hedge fund billionaire using race to buy the governor’s mansion and Springfield just like JB did and Bailey is doing with a token black radio broadcaster.

    Just what IL needs.

    Another bought and paid for RINO and political grifter.

  5. Write Avery a message.

    Tell her to not accept Griffin’s funny money offer to run with this phony who’s a Democrat.

    There is an effort to flood her with emails expressing disapproval.

    Keep the pressure on!

    Tell Avery JUST SAY NO.

    https://www.ilhousegop.org/contactbourne

  6. Or, correcting, maybe you shouldn’t use a government side contact form that she cannot reply to about political issues?

  7. “Don’t contact a politician about political issues.”

    Look everybody! Snake, who’s a Democratic Party paid operative, doesn’t want you to talk to Republican politicians and give them feedback! Wow I wonder why!?

    1. People already are.
    2. Her response is not necessary. It’s a comment not a question.
    3. People close to her WILL see the messages. Republicans WILL see it and there’s NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT HAHA!

    Back in your cage, NefariouasSnake!

    Additional ways to contact Avery Bourne:
    info@AveryBourne.com
    https://twitter.com/averybourne
    https://www.facebook.com/RepAveryBourne/
    (314) 884-2016
    PO Box 123, Farmersville, IL 62533

  8. [Re_drop]
    What happens when 90% of the media is controlled/owned by (6) corporations?
    What happens when those same corporations are operated and controlled by a political ideology?
    What happens when the news is no longer free from bias?
    What happens when the news is no longer reliable and independent?
    What happens when the news is no longer trustworthy?
    What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
    Fact becomes fiction?
    Fiction becomes fact?
    When does news become propaganda?
    Identity creation?
    How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction?
    Majority of people more prone to believe someone in power sitting behind a big brand ‘news’ name?
    Do people [human psyche] tend to follow the ‘majority/mainstream viewpoint’ in fear of being isolated and/or shunned?
    ‘Mainstream’ is used for a reason [dominate trend in opinion].
    [If majority of people believe ‘x’ then ‘x’ must be validated / true]
    Why do ‘mainstream’ media heads, within different orgs, always use the same keywords and/or catch phrases?
    Coordinated? By who? Outside entity providing instructions?
    Do they count on the fact that people [human psyche] are more prone to believe something if heard over-and-over again by different ‘trusted’ sources?
    Do ‘echo chamber’ tactics provide validation / credibility to the topic/point being discussed?
    Threat to intellectual freedom?
    Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
    Read again – digest.
    Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
    Logical thinking.
    Why, after the election of 2016, did [D]’s and media corps jumpstart a [coordinated & planned] divisive blitz intended to create falsehoods re: illegitimacy of election, character assassination of POTUS through sexism, racism, every other ‘ism’?
    Pre/post 2016 election?
    Why were violent [masked] terror orgs such as Antifa immediately created/funded?
    Why were these orgs tasked w/ immediate intimidation/shut down of any pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
    Why were marches immediately organized to counter and silence pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
    Why were marches immediately organized which divided people into sex/gender, race, [ism]?
    When you control the levers of news dissemination, you control the narrative.
    Control of the narrative = power
    When you are blind, what do you see?
    They want you divided.
    Divided by religion.
    Divided by sex.
    Divided by political affiliation.
    Divided by class.
    When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those ‘different’ from you, not those responsible [controllers].
    Divided you are weak.
    Divided you pose no threat to their control.
    When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or stable [livestock kept – sheep].
    When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
    “Free thought” is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
    THIS REPRESENTS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    17 – 3721

    {Set your alarm clocks people, it’s time to wake up}

  9. **Don’t contact a politician about political issues.”**

    Not what I said, but valiant effort.

  10. Here’s something far more more important:

    Abundant circumstantial evidence points to the Covid pandemic being part of an ethnic bioweapon operation whose apparent aims are death, disability, submission to irrational orders, coerced vaccination, travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, asset stripping, and vaccine passports using social credit scores to control and harm select persons and groups.

    Lockdowns, masks, business closures, variants, and vaccine booster policies are part of it, too.

    Here are 41 signs that’s what’s happening:

    1. Intense coercion of people to get vaccinated regardless of age, risk, prior infection, immune status, pregnancy, or autoimmunity, with no long-term studies completed.

    2. Biden announced vaccine boosters for every American adult in August 2021 upon the urging of Israel and before any data supported the need, safety, or efficacy of such boosters. Then the CDC promptly recommended Pfizer vaccine boosters, evidently leading two top FDA vaccine officials to quit.

    3. Reasons for FDA approval of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children ages 5-11 years include things having nothing to do with safety, efficacy, or necessity, including “vaccine equity,” appeasing “parents who are beyond eager to vaccinate their kids,” and getting schools to reopen after they were closed until a Covid vaccine would be approved for kids, a self-referential endpoint.
    Parents expect the FDA to make sure the vaccine is safe, not just approve it because parents “are beyond eager to get their young kids vaccinated.”

    4. The FDA asked a federal judge to grant it until the year 2076 to release fully Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine data.
    5. Vaccine contracts with many countries, including all member states of the European Union, allegedly forbid marking vaccine vials or associated packaging with serial numbers. These contract provisions were concealed from the public until recent disclosure by whistleblowers.

    This policy enables targeting of specific people or groups with “hot” (harmful or deadly) vials that are impossible to trace.
    Twitter avatar for @jhillmd
    James Hill, MD
    @jhillmd
    1/ Previously hidden from the public, a vaccine contract with all member states of the European Commission says the “vaccine shall not be serialized,” meaning vials cannot be identified by serial numbers.
    MomAtArms @mom_at_arms
    Knowledge is power, which is why it’s important to stick with facts and data over emotions and agenda pushing garbage that ignores facts and data. Take, for instance, contracts Pfizer has with the European Union. The redacted version vs the recently unredacted version https://t.co/zKfjXm3pb9
    November 6th 2021

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    school mandates for all children ages 5-11 to be vaccinated despite several physicians on the FDA panel for Pfizer’s vaccine expressing concerns the vaccine is totally unnecessary for most children and has an unknown safety profile
    approving the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 despite a lack of safety data, with Drs. Rubin and Sawyer saying, “The only way to learn if the vaccine is safe is just to start giving it.”
    Twitter avatar for @ScienceWDrDoug
    Dr. Doug Corrigan
    @ScienceWDrDoug
    Wait, did I hear the FDA panelist correctly? The only way to learn if the vaccine is safe is to just start giving it? Because this is the way we learned about complications of other vaccines, like rotavirus? And then they vote 17:0 to approve?
    Wow.

    See the rest here: https://hillmd.substack.com/p/in-a-covid-bioweapon-operation-strange

  11. John, I don’t believe Don Tracy is “falling for the lie.”

    He’s a corrupt sucker for money and power.

    He likely knows all about Irvin’s problems but is vouching for him anyway because he wants Republicans to get that sweet sweet hedge fund billionaire money.

    This is what having no backbone looks like.

    The Illinois Republican Party is a disgrace.

    They have zero principles.

    Like the Democrats, their main concern is power.

    Any kind of vision is an afterthought to the corrupt party bosses.

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