{"id":544074,"date":"2010-04-26T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01348029bbe4970c"},"modified":"2010-04-26T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:20:03","slug":"palin-to-headline-state-gop-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544074","title":{"rendered":"Palin to headline state GOP fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Rick Pearson <\/em>at 7:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Republican Party is stepping up its general election fundraising by featuring former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at a Chicago-area fundraiser May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Palin, the 2008 running mate to GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain of Arizona, remains both controversial and a draw.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>She is scheduled to be at the Westin O&#8217;Hare in Rosemont for 2 hours that day and state Republicans are trying to make the most of it.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>For $25,000 donated or raised, a donor gets to be part of a private round table during the first half hour, including a photo. A $10,000 donation or fundraising bundle nets a photo and participation in the next half hour&#8217;s VIP reception.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>A general reception will follow at $500 per person or $750 per couple, but no photo.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>State Republicans just had a successful fundraiser last week featuring National Republican Chairman Michael Steele.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>No word yet on whether the GOP&#8217;s U.S. Senate candidate, five-term North Shore Rep. Mark Kirk, will attend the Palin event. During the primary, Kirk sought some encouraging words from Palin during a previous Chicago visit, an attempt to blunt concerns that he was too moderate to woo conservative Republican primary voters. Palin did not respond.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Rick Pearson at 7:19 p.m. The Illinois Republican Party is stepping up its general election fundraising by featuring former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at a Chicago-area fundraiser May 12. Palin, the 2008 running mate to GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain of Arizona, remains both controversial and a draw. She is scheduled to [&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-544074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544074","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=544074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}