Lake County Gazette

Efforts are underway to establish a GOP club at Lake Forest College. 

Cameron Carlile, president of the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale College Republicans, is looking to set up outreach efforts across the state. “I am assisting our State President Sydney Yurt in helping develop a conservative voice on campuses across the state in an effort to fight the one-party rule, we have been under for almost 30 years,” Carlile said in a Facebook post. 

Carlile included Lake Forest College in its search for local GOP leaders.

Carlile’s efforts are one of many young people in Illinois have undertaken in getting active in politics. The Illinois College Republicans recently excoriated Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for indicting former President Donald Trump. 

“Despite there being no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair, and the statute of limitations having been expired on that supposed crime, yesterday the Manhattan District Attorney chose to listen to his political bias rather than fulfill his oath of office by indicting former President Donald Trump on frivolous charges,” Illinois College Republicans said in a Facebook post. “Today the ILCR has a clear message – College Republicans across Illinois stand with Donald J. Trump as he continues to fight for America!” 

Trump was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a case surrounding hush money payments to a porn star who alleges she was paid to stay silent to not disclose an affair with the former president.

According to the New York Post, the case “just convinces America that our legal system is biased and politicized.” 

Bragg inherited the case. His predecessor refused it for six years before he took it up.

The Illinois College Republicans are very active in the state. 

“At ILCR, we will strive to build a statewide framework for college-aged students and people who wish to be involved in grassroots Republican politics,” the Illinois College Republicans website reads. 

“We wish to create a system where there is an infrastructure for individual College Republican chapters on Illinois’ college campuses to be connected to a statewide system, and where they can be directly connected to local party officials and candidates in their communities.  Our end goal will be to have ICRF have enough money and support within our state that we are well known, have a strong infrastructure, and are able to directly have an impact on our local and statewide elections.  We also want to make sure we have a strong presence on all of our campuses and give the new generation of Republicans a place to come and have their voice heard, especially in the days of the ultra-liberal campus environment.  We have yet to find a group dedicated  solely to the future Republicans of Illinois, and that is the key to saving our state.”