A screenshot of Senator Toi Hutchinson's facebook page showing vulgar and racist remarks.

Senator Toi Hutchinson, (D-Chicago Heights) has long been a target of Governor Rauner and the Illinois Policy Institute. Illinois Policy is a lobbying arm of Governor Rauner. Today Senator posted a sample of the hateful, and racist messages she is receiving by email and on social media. The Senator told me all members who oppose Governor Rauner are getting crude messages and threats of violence. One Republican member was threatened with lynching.

If there was any question that the Illinois GOP, Governor Rauner, and his minions were not using hate as a tool for their objectives, the messages above dispel any doubt. The Illinois GOP has become a hate organization. Its leaders do nothing to quell the hate. In fact, they just try to flame the fires further and in their best Pontius Pilate routine, try to wash their hands.

Only this dirt won't wash off. It is sticking to the GOP in Illinois and to the party nationally.

Why haven't they tried to rein in the vulgarity and racism? After all, don't they want to have a debate on the issues at hand? Evidently not. They have been silent as the onslaught of vulgarity, crude messages, and threats of violence have been flowing like water over Niagra Falls.

Will the Governor ask the State Police to investigate threats of violence against members of the State Legislature? After all, using the internet to threaten is a crime both in the State of Illinois and on the Federal level as well. Why would they? They are using this crude behavior for their own means. They inflame it. I wrote an article about how Illinois Policy was fanning the racial flames. They don't see it that way. Racists never admit to their racist ways because they know it is wrong.

Have they cautioned their members that crude language and threats of violence only drive support away from their positions on serious issues? It appears not and it appears Governor Rauner is a smoother, more sophisticated version of Donald Trump rather than someone to be respected and followed.

Illinois Policy Institute tries to pretend they are not playing a role in the hate spewing. Is this right? Have they repudiated the hate and racism flowing from their supporters? Of course, they haven't.

If they had, then it would go slow down or go away. The baby-doe-in-the-car-headlights response of "I have nothing to do with this," doesn't fly. You have everything to do with it. You have been inflaming hateful people for months. How will you look when a member of the State Legislature his harmed physically because of your unbridled ambition?

Look at the language they are using in those messages to Senator Hutchinson. Is this what your organization is about? You have a responsibility for keeping the debate civil and then speaking out when it becomes uncivil.

I would have thought the Tea Party who reelected Barack Obama in 2012 with their hateful behavior and extremism would have learned their lesson about hate spewing in politics? I guess not. Maybe if you tried more a more civil approach to lobbying the way it has been done successfully in the past, you would have soundly defeated Madigan.

This kind of rhetoric only helps Michael Madigan and the Democratic Party to show voters how unstable and ignorant the Republican Cause in Illinois has become.

It is shameful. This is the behavior of trash, and your silence on the issue only emboldens the lunatics who support you.

Governor Rauner and Illinois Policy Institute, show some class for a change and rein in your Klan. Be sure to be offended by my words and have your kooks write me some more hateful emails. Maybe I'll publish the antisemitic rants directed at me each time I point out your using racism and hate in the debate over taxes. Feel free to send me more fodder, Rauner supporters.

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