What do you see as the biggest challenges and opportunities for the Republican Party over the next few years?

Well, it depends on which avenue you're looking at.

Are you looking at the local, state, or federal? But I still think our biggest hurdle, at least for Illinois and even locally, is just getting people out to vote.

They're discouraged and assume that Chicago is just going to railroad us again.

But with the stats, with some information that's come out, we know that not to be true, but we've got to get people out to go vote.

And that's our biggest hurdle is getting over the people that just don't care.

What would you like to accomplish as chairman, and what do you hope the McDonough County Republican Party looks like five years from now?

Five years from now, I would hope, back when I started, we would nearly fill the grand ballroom at WIU for our Lincoln Day dinner, and we would raise some serious money.