A Jan. 6 attendee’s election speaks to Illinois GOP’s last stand in Will County
as political efforts by Democrats to try to keep “a negative image” of Trump “fresh in people’s minds before the election.”Butler isn’t alone among Republicans who continue to distrust the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Claar, who was a Trump supporter, said he thinks the county’s shift to Democrats will only accelerate as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisionBolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, left, talks with colleagues as election judges count absentee ballots in the hotly contested race for mayor of Bolingbrook on April 18, 2017, at the Will County Government Center in Joliet.
“At some point, we have to take a pragmatic approach toward these elections in that you can be a Republican but also have a moderating voice in this process, and that’s what people are looking for. But if you’re an extremist and you go along with and you start talking about, you know, ‘the big steal,’ it’s not going to work in areas like Will County,” he said.
“The County Board position pays $23,000 a year and yet you have to be available for … meetings during the day,” she said. “And if you own your own business and do your own thing, that is great” or “you’re retired.
While Butler was not yet a member of the County Board when Jan. 6 occurred, a Will County Board member at the time attended the rally that day. Butler said he “was all the way in the back” of the march to the Capitol and was unaware of the deadly riot and break-in until he returned to his hotel and, the next morning, met up with others.
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