Lake County Young Republicans Sponsor Impeachment Forum to Packed House in Libertyville

As we've been plugging for a few days now, the newly-rejuvenated Lake County Young Republicans sponsored a forum on the impeachment and trial proceedings against Governor Rod Blagojevich at Austin's in Libertyville. The event was well attended by many Lake County Republicans, young and old, moderates and conservatives. All were united, however, in their desire to get the inside scoop on the deliberations and procedures used by the House in their review of the evidence and vote to impeach the Governor.

YR President Collin Corbett emceed the program, which first featured State Reps. Ed Sullivan, Jr., Sandy Cole and Suzanne Bassi, who discussed the impeachment proceedings in the House. Next, State Senators Dan Duffy and Matt Murphy addressed the crowd, although they were not able to talk about the trial in the Senate, since they are essentially the jurors in the trial. Q&A followed.

All in all, a fantastic and well-attended first effort by the YRs. We look forward to much more from this new generation of Lake County Republicans in the weeks and months ahead. Here's Thursday's front page write-up in the Daily Herald about the YRs, in case you missed it.

Some pix:

YR President Collin Corbett warms up the crowd.

The crowd.

Keith Gray, Senator Dan Duffy and Steve Greenberg.

GOP County Chairman Dan Venturi, Joseph Mancino and County Board Member Michael Talbett

Rod Drobinski, Aaron Lawlor and Kelley Folino.