Dirty Dealings: Infighting & Incriminations Among the Chicago Young Republicans & Chicago GOP
This article was submitted by Michael Volpe.
On June 17, 2009, the Chicago Young Republicans (the CYR) held one of their monthly happy hours. It was a typical night of drinking, networking, and talking politics. When Jeremy Rose, then president of the CYR, woke up the next morning, he thought his biggest problem was the hangover he had from the night before. He didn’t know it yet, but the events of the night before would eventually lead to the destruction of his reputation, the end of his political aspirations, and would lead some to call him a “sexual predator.”