re: #32 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Our long-time Secretary of State (up to 2012), Sam Reed, was a Republican, but he did everything he could to make voting easier and encourage turnout.

There was Chuck Hagel who was Obama’s Secretary of Defense; Michael Bloomberg who did win NY mayor as a Republican. Our governor Jim Edgar in the 1990’s was fine and though he went to prison for his crimes as Secretary of State, George Ryan was OK as governor — he started us on the path to eliminating the death penalty in Illinois.