{"id":453118,"date":"2010-03-20T17:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fc24c8e970c"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:57:04","slug":"brady-elected-to-full-term-as-illinois-republican-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/453118","title":{"rendered":"Brady elected to full term as Illinois Republican chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Rick Pearson<\/em> at 4:57 p.m.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Pat Brady, who took over as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party in August, was elected to a full four-year term today by GOP leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, an attorney from St. Charles, was approved unanimously by the 19-member Republican State Central Committee, which held its post-Feb. 2 primary election organizing meeting in Springfield. Brady is no relation to state Sen. Bill Brady, the Republican governor candidate.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Brady, who has been the state GOP&#8217;s Republican National Committeeman, became chairman last summer after Andy McKenna quit the post. At the time, McKenna expressed little interest in running for office, but went on to wage a costly losing primary effort for governor.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Brady, a close ally of Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, was a leading supporter in the primary of U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk&#8217;s GOP bid for the U.S. Senate. Kirk easily outdistanced several rivals and faces Democratic nominee, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Rick Pearson at 4:57 p.m. Pat Brady, who took over as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party in August, was elected to a full four-year term today by GOP leaders. Brady, an attorney from St. Charles, was approved unanimously by the 19-member Republican State Central Committee, which held its post-Feb. 2 primary election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453118","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}