Saying he was spending “too much time dealing with intra-party power struggles and local intra-party animosities,” the head of the Illinois Republican Party submitted his resignation on Wednesday, saying he would stay on until a new chair is elected, but no later than July 19th, the day after the end of the Republican National Convention in neighboring Wisconsin.
Reuters reports Don Tracy basically just got sick and tired of the childish politics played by childish politicians. “In better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intra-party elections but now it seems that agreeing 80% of the time, as President Reagan said, is simply not enough for some who would rather fight each other than take on the Democrats,” Tracy said in his resignation letter.