ELMHURST, IL – The Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Illinois (ILRNHA) held their biennial convention this week at the Diplomat West Banquet Hall in Elmhurst. Among the guests participating in the program were Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti, National Spokeswoman for the Libre Initiative Rachel Campos Duffy, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger, IL Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider, AM560 Morning show host Dan Proft, DuPage County GOP Chair Darlene Ruscitti and College of DuPage Board Member Kathy Hamilton.
Closing her remarks to the group, Campos Duffy said, “I hope that you will all be happy warriors. Get out there. Our ideas sell. They sell to Hispanics. They sell to young people. We just have to be courageous and vocal and never tire.”
Lt. Governor & ILRNHA National Committeewoman, Evelyn Sanguinetti, spoke of the road she traveled that led her to become Lt. Governor: “My first introduction to Bruce Rauner was in this very room exactly two years ago (at the last ILRNHA Convention), and look at us now!” Sanguinetti went on to say “We all know that Latinos are all about faith, hard work and family. Our mission going forward, it’s no secret that Hillary Clinton is running for President, and it’s going to be incumbent on the largest minority group to hit at it and know that yes, we need a woman leader, but what we really need is a leader, and we do not find that in her. So it’s going to take the Latino vote, it’s going to take the women’s vote for us to fight back!”
The RNHA Illinois delegates approved an updated Constitution and elected its Executive Board for a two year term. The board will consist of the following Republicans:
- Steve Orlando – Chairman
- Evelyn Sanguinetti – Vice-Chairman
- Ric Gruber Jr. – 2nd Vice-Chairman
- Jasmina Hauser – Secretary
- Ramiro Juarez – Treasurer
- Peter Aguilera – National Committeeman
- Yvonne Bolton – National Committeewoman
