CHICAGO (AP) — Under mounting pressure from prominent Republican leaders, the Illinois GOP’s central committee canceled a meeting Saturday in which members were to consider firing party chairman Pat Brady, largely because he spoke out in favor of a bill to end the state ban on gay marriage.It was unclear if the committee had enough votes to fire Brady. State Sen. Jim Oberweis, one of the GOP committeemen leading the charge to oust Brady, said it was “certainly a possibility” that the issue could come up again at the party’s meeting in April.
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