Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – It’s time for a change at the Illinois Republican Party.

Bob Grogan ousted Kathy Salvi this year as chair of the state party. He is a former DuPage County auditor. Comparing the two parties, he said, “I think it’s the ability to change and actually sort of hold people in check. But I also have a faith that the basis of our grass roots, for instance, is just people who believe in principles; the other side, the way they maintain power is through contract and patronage, and that’s just not as much in the lifeblood of Republicans.”

The GOP holds no statewide offices, three of the seventeen U.S. House seats, and a superminority of each chamber in the Illinois General Assembly.

Democrats, said Grogan, have “never seen a new tax that they don’t like, the spend money like a drunken sailor, the corruption side of things.” Grogan cited those to back up his contention that Democrats are “destroying the state.”

Grogan appeared on the WTAX Morning Newswatch.