Adelizzi uniting area Republicans

To the editor: The recent letter to the editor ("GOP downturn the fault of Adelizzi") signed by a resident of Schaumburg, has all the markings of having been written by the former Schaumburg Township Republican Committeeman who changed parties and became a Democrat.

The writer espouses how great things were under Froehlich's party leadership when he was a Republican and blasts the new committeeman, Mike Adelizzi, for the decline in Republican votes in the recent primary.

There are many reasons there were fewer Republican votes cast than in prior elections, but well informed individuals know them, including the fact there wasn't much going on in the Republican primary.

There was a lot of excitement in the Democrat primary, not only for president, but in Froehlich's own contested race (a race in which he won but only after spending thousands of dollars on negative advertising and having legions of paid workers from Chicago and help from Speaker Mike Madigan in Springfield).

It is hard to repair in a few months a political party that was mismanaged by the former committeeman over an eight-year period. He used it for his own purposes and when it no longer served his purposes, he left it to others to fix. He left the party with no money, no headquarters, and no organization. He got Republicans to give him money and he left with that money.

In a few short months, the new Republican Party led by Mike Adelizzi has united both former Republican groups in the township, established an office, began appointing and training a new group of precinct captains, published a newsletter mailed to all Republicans in the township, started monthly breakfast meetings with speakers open to the public, led five townships in a very successful Lincoln Day Dinner and raised several thousand dollars to aid in building a strong organization. These are significant achievements for any organization, let alone one that was effectively starting from scratch.

We're confident that in the months and years to come the new Republican Party will recover from the mess Froehlich left and will be better and stronger than ever before.

Joe Folisi

Bob Lyons

Steve Rossi

Bob Vinnedge

Mike Rupnow

Bob Fecarotta

Dean Dahlgren

Schaumburg