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| WEBSITES | LINKS | DESCRIPTION |
| National Republican Party sites | ||
| National Republican Party | http://www.gop.com/ | National Party site |
| http://www.nrsc.org/ | Political committee established by Republican members of the U.S. Senate to help candidates develop the campaign resources they need | |
| U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee | http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/ | To coordinate and enhance legislative policymaking |
| Senate Republican Conference | http://src.senate.gov/public/ | The formal organization of the 49 Republican Senators |
| National Republican Congressional Committee | http://www.nrcc.org/ | Supports Republicans and helps candidates develop the campaign resources they need |
| U.S. House Republican Policy Committee | http://policy.house.gov/ | For the consideration of forward-looking legislative initiatives the Policy Committee is an important means for every member of the Conference to develop legislative ideas into meaningful legislation |
| Republican House Conference | http://www.gop.gov/ | House Republicans |
| Republican Governors Association | http://www.rga.org/ | Republican Governors gathered from across the country to form an association of their own |
| State Republican Party sites | ||
| Illinois State Republican Party | http://www.ilgop.org/ | Information, polls, news, blogs and more! |
| IL. Senate Republican Campaign Committee | http://www.ilsenategop.com/ | Party site |
| Illinois State Senate Republicans | http://www.senategop.state.il.us/ | Government site |
| IL. House Republican Organization | http://www.ilhro.org/ | Party site |
| Illinois State House Republicans | http://www.housegop.state.il.us/ | Government site |
| Area County Republican Party sites | ||
| McLean County | http://www.mcleangop.org/ | |
| Tazewell County | http://www.tazewellgop.org/ | |
| Woodford County | http://www.mtco.com/~woodford/ | |
| Group's sites | ||
| Peoria County Young Republicans | http://www.peoriayr.org/ | PYR Website |
| Federation of Illinois Young Republicans | http://www.illinoisyr.com/ | FIYR Website |
| Young Republican National Federation | http://www.yrnf.com/ | YRNF; oldest political youth organization in the U.S. |
| Illinois Federation of Republican Women | http://www.ifrw.org/ | IFRW; education-based organization that provides women across Illinois with leadership training and networking |
| National Federation of Republican Women | http://www.nfrw.org/ | NFRW; grassroots organization; strengthen the Republican Party by recruiting, training and electing candidates; advocating the Party’s philosophy and initiatives; and, empowering women of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds in the political process |
| WOMEN'S TEAM | http://www.gop.com/Teams/Women/ | |
| Illinois Republican National Hispanic Assembly | http://www.ilrnha.org/ | a membership organization to foster the principles of the Republican party in the Hispanic community |
| Republican National Hispanic Assembly | http://www.rnha.org/ | to build a membership organization to foster the principles of the Republican Party in the Hispanic community |
| HISPANIC TEAM | http://www.gop.com/Teams/Hispanic/ | |
| African American Republican Leadership Council | http://www.aarlc.org/index.asp | The mission and purpose of the AARLC is to break the liberal democrat stranglehold over Black America |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN TEAM | http://www.gop.com/Teams/AfricanAmericans/ | Bringing African Americans back to the Party of Lincoln |
| Alliance of Black Republicans | http://www.alliancegop.com/ | to increase participation of the Black American community in the Republican Party |
| Black America’s Political Action Committee | http://www.bampac.org/press_release.asp | BAMPAC is a registered unaffiliated non-partisan PAC; committed to supporting common sense approach to public policy & politics: promoting Social Security reform, improving public education, expanding economic opportunities to historically disadvantaged sectors in America, vigorously promoting equality, protecting the sanctity of human life & restoring moral values & the importance of family in our communities |
| National Black Republican Association | http://www.nbra.info/ | (NBRA) a resource to promote the traditional values of the black community which are the core values of the Republican Party: strong families, faith in God, personal responsibility, quality education, and equality |
| The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change | http://www.newcoalition.org/ | The New Coalition brings a conservative multicultural perspective to issues of particular importance to people of color |
| Project 21/The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives | http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21Index.html | an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans |
| Republicans for Black Empowerment | http://www.theblackgop.com/index.htm | to raise awareness of the benefits offered by conservative solutions to the black community; to tap the personal potential of Black Americans |
| United Black Republican Coalition | http://www.ubrc.org/ | To increase the number of blacks voting Republican by generating and supporting candidates across the nation who are committed to making a positive difference in African American Communities |
| Republican Young Professionals | http://www.ilryp.org/ryp-il_001.htm | falls into three main categories: get-out-the-vote, base building, and community service |
| Illinois College Republican Federation | http://www.icrfcentral.com/ | College Republicans |
| Young America's Foundation | http://www.yaf.org/ | committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values |
| YOUTH TEAM | http://www.gop.com/Teams/Youth/ | |
| SENIORS TEAM | http://www.gop.com/Teams/Seniors/ | |
| Log Cabin Republicans | http://online.logcabin.org/ | organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans |
| President George W. Bush |
Government website |
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| First Lady Laura Bush | http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/ | Government website |
| Vice-President Dick Cheney | http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ | Government website |
| Lynne Cheney | http://www.whitehouse.gov/mrscheney/ | Government website |
| Ray LaHood
- U.S. Congressman 18th District |
http://www.raylahood.com/ |
Campaign website Government website |
| Dale
Risinger - State Senator 37th District |
Campaign website Government websites |
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David Leitch - State Rep. 73rd District |
http://www.davidrleitch.org/ |
Campaign website Government website |
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Aaron Schock - State Rep. 92nd District |
http://www.aaronschock.com/ |
Campaign website Government website |
| Timothy D. Riggenbach (R - Dist. 10) Vice Chairman Merle Widmer (R - Dist.11) Robert Baietto (R - Dist. 12), Brian Elsasser (R - Dist. 14), Carol Trumpe (R - Dist. 15) | http://www.co.peoria.il.us/display.php?section=countyBoard&page=meet |
Peoria County Board Members County website |
| Peoria County Sheriff: Michael D. McCoy | http://www.peoriacounty.org/sheriff.php?dept=sheriff&page=index/ | serves a population of approximately 183,433 people that live in a 629 square mile area; has four cities and eleven villages located within its boundaries, with 315 miles of County roads, 674 miles of Township roads, and 266 miles of State and Federal roads |
| Peoria County Treasurer: Edward "Tripp" O'Connor | http://www.peoriacounty.org/display.php?dept=treasurer&page=index | duties include receipt, management & disbursement of public funds; collection, management and distribution of property taxes levied by various units of local gov't |
| Peoria County Coroner: Johnna Ingersoll | http://www.peoriacounty.org/display.php?section=coroner | has the responsibility of investigating sudden, unusual and traumatic deaths |
| Peoria County Recorder of Deeds: Brad Horton | http://www.peoriacounty.org/display.php?dept=deedsRecorder&page=index | responsible for the recording, scanning & microfilming of any legally executed document, & maintaining official records that have been accumulated since 1825 |
| Peoria City Clerk: Mary Haynes | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/officials/clerk/ | City Clerk and staff can assist you in researching Council action, City Regulations, Laws and Policy |
| City Township/Assessor: Bonnie Gavin | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/officials/assessor/ | Assessor is responsible for establishing values on all parcels within the Peoria Township |
| City Treasurer/Township Collector: Reg Willis | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/officials/treasurer/ | City Treas./Township Collector is responsible for the administration & management of the collection, verification, depositing & recording of all taxes, fines & fees due the city |
| MaryAlice Erickson - 18th Cong. Dist. Republican Committee Chair & State Vice-Chair | http://www.ilgop18.org/ | Illinois 18th Congressional District - from here access 20 counties' web-sites |
| Other Area Leaders | ||
| Don
Moffitt - State Rep. 74th District |
http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=950 | Covers the western half of Risinger's district, next to Leitch, covering Knox County and surrounding area |
| Bill
Brady - State Senator 44th District |
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?GA=95&MemberID=1241 | Covers Tazewell & McLean counties and surrounding area |
| Bill
Mitchell - State Rep. 87th District |
http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=1183 | Covers Tremont & Mackinaw to Heyworth & Farmers City & south to Springfield & Lincoln, the vast bulk of Brady's Senate District |
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Dan Rutherford - State Senator 53rd District |
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/Senator.asp?GA=95&MemberID=1281 | Covers from Morton & Washington all the way to the Indiana border |
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Keith P. Sommer - State Rep. 106th District |
http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?MemberID=1196 | Covers Morton & Washington to Streator & Pontiac down to Leroy, the western portion of Rutherford's Senate District |
| U.S. Gov't. sites | ||
| U.S. Supreme Court | http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ | Government website |
| U.S. Federal Judiciary | http://www.uscourts.gov/ | Government website |
| U.S. Senate | http://www.senate.gov/ | Government website |
| U.S. House of Representatives | http://www.house.gov/Welcome.shtml | Government website |
| The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | https://www.cia.gov/ | an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. |
| The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) | http://www.cbo.gov/ | CBO assists Congress by preparing reports and analyses. In accordance with the CBO's mandate to provide objective and impartial analysis, CBO's reports contain no policy recommendations |
| Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) | http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/index.htm | to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | http://www.epa.gov/ | EPA - to protect human health and the environment. |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | http://www.fbi.gov/ | To protect and defend the U.S. against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the U/S., and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. |
| The Library of Congress | http://www.loc.gov/index.html | the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress |
| The National Security Agency (NSA) | http://www.nsa.gov/ | is America’s crypto logic organization, is on the frontiers of communications and data processing |
| U.S. Dept. of Defense | http://www.defenselink.mil/ | On behalf of the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense... DefenseLINK is the official web site for the Department of Defense and the starting point for finding U.S. military information online. |
| U.S. Dept. of Energy | http://www.energy.gov/ | mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the U.S.; to promote scientific and tech. innovation; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. |
| U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security | http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm | Preserving our freedoms, protecting America ... we secure our homeland. |
| U.S. Dept. of State | http://www.state.gov/ | concerned with the conduct of foreign relations throughout the world. |
| U.S. Dept. of the Treasury | http://www.ustreas.gov/index.html | The mission is to promote the conditions for prosperity and stability in the U.S. and encourage prosperity and stability in the rest of the world. |
| Firstgov.gov | http://www.firstgov.gov/ | Official Government Website |
| Official Documents | http://www.house.gov/house/Educate.shtml | Constitution, Declaration of Independence, etc., |
| USO (United Service Organizations) | http://www.uso.org/ | delivers comfort, morale and recreational services to the military |
| Illinois Gov't. sites | ||
| Illinois Executive Branch | http://www.illinois.gov/government/const.cfm | (although, I don't know why you would) ;-) |
| Illinois Supreme Court | http://www.state.il.us/court/ | Link to all courts and more |
| Illinois Senate & House site | http://www.ilga.gov/ | link to both gov't. bodies |
| Illinois State Agencies | http://www.illinois.gov/government/agency.cfm | Agencies, Boards & Commissions |
| Illinois Gov't. site | http://www.illinois.gov/default.cfm | General IL. site |
| Secretary of State | http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/ | the most diverse office of its kind in the nation |
| Official Documents & other links | http://www.illinois.gov/government/gov_legislature.cfm | Constitution, statutes etc., |
| Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources | http://dnr.state.il.us/ | IDNR |
| Peoria Gov't. sites | ||
| County | http://www.peoriacounty.org/county | |
| City | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/default.asp | |
| Election sites | ||
| County of Peoria | http://www.co.peoria.il.us/display.php?section=countyClerk/ | Election Office |
| City of Peoria | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/election/ | Election Office |
| State of Illinois | http://www.elections.il.gov/ | Election Office |
| Municipal/County sites | ||
| Chillicothe | http://www.ci.chillicothe.il.us/ | |
| Medina Township | http://www.geocities.com/medinatownship/index.html/ | |
| Peoria (City) | http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/ | |
| Peoria (County) | http://www.co.peoria.il.us/ | |
| Princeville | http://www.princeville.org/ | |
| Personalities' sites | ||
| Glenn Beck | http://www.glennbeck.com/home/index.shtml | Conservative talk radio show & TV host |
| Rush Limbaugh | http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Sean Hannity | http://www.hannity.com | Conservative talk radio show, TV host & author |
| Michael Savage | http://www.michaelsavage.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Jim Bohannon | http://www.jimbotalk.net/ | Talk radio show host |
| Matt Drudge | http://www.drudgereport.com/ | Talk radio show host and blogger |
| Mark Levin | http://www.marklevinshow.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Bill Bennett | http://www.bennettmornings.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Neil Boortz | http://boortz.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Jerry Doyle | http://www.jerrydoyle.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host |
| Rusty Humphries | http://www.talk2rusty.com/store | Conservative talk radio show host |
| Laura Ingraham | http://www.lauraingraham.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| G. Gordon Liddy | http://www.liddyshow.us/ | Conservative talk radio show host |
| Dennis Miller | http://www.dennismillerradio.com/ | Talk radio show host |
| Erich "Mancow" Muller | http://www.mancow.com/ | Talk radio show host |
| Bill O'Reilly | http://www.billoreilly.com/ | Talk radio show host & author |
| Michael Reagan | http://www.reagan.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host & author |
| Dr. Laura Schlessinger | http://www.drlaura.com/main/ | Talk radio show host & author |
| Phil Valentine | http://www.philvalentine.com/ | Conservative talk radio show host |
| Writers @ Columnists | ||
| Mona Charen | http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen1.asp | Conservative writer |
| Ann Coulter | http://www.anncoulter.com/ | Conservative writer |
| Newt Gingrich | http://www.newt.org/ | Writer and former House Speaker |
| David Limbaugh | http://davidlimbaugh.com/ | Conservative writer |
| Michelle Malkin | http://michellemalkin.com/ | Columnist/blogger |
| - Hot Air, Malkin's Videoblog site | http://hotair.com/ | Videoblog site |
| Robert Novak | http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/index.html | Conservative writer |
| Thomas Sowell | http://www.tsowell.com/ | Conservative writer |
| Cal Thomas | http://www.calthomas.com/ | Conservative writer |
| George Will | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402294.html | Conservative writer |
| Walter Williams | http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/ | Conservative writer & Economist |
| News & info. sites | ||
| American Family News Network | http://www.onenewsnow.com/index.php | a national news service that exists to present the day's news from a Christian perspective |
| American Rhetoric | http://americanrhetoric.com/ | news & info. |
| American Spectator | http://www.spectator.org/ | news & info. |
| American Thinker | http://www.americanthinker.com/ | news & info. |
| Breitbart.com | http://www.breitbart.com/ | news & info. |
| Conservative Communications Center | http://www.therightvoice.org/ | Conservative news & info. |
| Conservative Grapevine | http://conservativegrapevine.com/ | Conservative news & info. |
| Free Republic | http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm | news & info. |
| GOPUSA | http://www.gopusa.com/ | Conservative Website |
| The Hill | http://www.hillnews.com/ | news about Congress |
| Human Events | http://www.humanevents.com/ | news & info. |
| Insight Magazine | http://www.insightmag.com/ME2/Default.asp | news & info. |
| Jewish World Review | http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ | news & info. |
| JunkScience.com | http://junkscience.com/ | Truth in Science |
| Lucianne | http://lucianne.com/ | news & info. |
| Media Research Center | http://www.mediaresearch.org/ | Media Watchdog Group |
| Memeorandum | http://memeorandum.com/ | news & info. |
| National Review Online Magazine | http://www.nationalreview.com/ | news & info. |
| NewsBusters | http://newsbusters.org/ | Exposing Liberal Media Bias |
| Newsmax | http://www.newsmax.com/ | news & info. |
| The Patriot Post | http://www.patriotpost.us/ | Conservative Website |
| Politics Line (formerly Commentary Today) | http://www.politics-line.com/ |