{"id":242671,"date":"2010-01-28T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2010-01-28T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:54:11","slug":"ryan-wants-gop-investigation-into-mckenna-made-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242671","title":{"rendered":"Ryan wants GOP investigation into McKenna made public"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SPRINGFIELD — Republican governor candidate Jim Ryan on Thursday called on party officials to make public all documents related to an investigation of former GOP Chairman Andy McKenna.<\/p>\n

McKenna, who resigned the chairmanship last summer and then launched a bid for governor, came under scrutiny for including his own name in party polling on potential governor matchups.<\/p>\n

Questions about McKenna’s conduct were first raised in October by the Daily Herald. <\/span><\/p>\n

A recent investigation order by GOP leaders concluded McKenna broke the organization’s ethical code. He apologized and both the party and McKenna have since said they consider the matter closed. The state Republican Party has declined to turn over investigators’ report on McKenna.<\/p>\n

But questions linger as the race for the Republican nomination heats up among the six remaining GOP candidates.<\/p>\n

First, part of the internal report was leaked to a downstate newspaper this week. The new documents reveal party officials concluded McKenna “compounded one ethical misstep with another” and a clear conflict of interest between McKenna’s political aspirations and role as chairman.<\/p>\n

At the same time, McKenna skipped GOP debates, citing previously disclosed scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n

Ryan, a former state attorney general, said all such documents should be turned over so questions can be addressed now.<\/p>\n

“Let’s not find out after Feb. 2 when it’s too late,” he said at a Chicago news conference.<\/p>\n

Ryan challenged McKenna to “be a man. Step up and answer the questions.”<\/p>\n

Neither McKenna nor GOP Chairman Pat Brady were immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SPRINGFIELD — Republican governor candidate Jim Ryan on Thursday called on party officials to make public all documents related to an investigation of former GOP Chairman Andy McKenna. McKenna, who resigned the chairmanship last summer and then launched a bid for governor, came under scrutiny for including his own name in party polling on potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}