February 4, 2021
Congressman Adam Kinzinger- Studstill Media Photo
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Republican Central Committee has voted overwhelmingly to censure Representative Adam Kinzinger. According to a press release, at their regular monthly meeting, two issues echoed repeatedly amongst committeemen, that is Kinzinger not meeting with the Central Committee in over six years and also because he called for the impeachment of former President Trump. The resolution to censure Kizinger passed with 88%. The LaSalle County Central Committee says they’ve received unsolicited support for the censure from over 40 county Republican Central Committees around the state.
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The La Salle County Republican Central Committee announced in a press release late Wednesday that more than 88 percent of the group voted in favor of censuring Kinzinger, who has emerged as a prominent Trump critic, adding that the committee “has received unsolicited support for the censure from over 40 county Republican Central Committees around the state of Illinois.”
The committee’s statement says that the censure “disavows Rep. Kinzinger for acting contrary to the values of the La Salle County Republican Central Committee.”
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The group’s chairman, Larry Smith, added in a statement that he had received “hundreds upon hundreds” of emails, texts and phone calls from within the county and beyond “expressing their frustration and a lot more with Congressman Kinzinger’s actions and statements the past few months.”