FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Downtown Chicago protest held over Lebanon as Israel and Hezbollah trade air strikes, rocket fire
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dozens-gather-downtown-protest-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-trade-air-strikes-rocket-fire/15345842/
NBC5
— Three former chairs of the Maine Republican Party endorse Harris over Trump. (COMMENT: To endorse Harris is to destroy the Republican Party.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/three-former-chairs-of-the-maine-republican-party-endorse-harris-over-trump/3555153/
— Trump threatens ‘200% tariff’ if John Deere moves production to Mexico
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-threatens-200-tariff-if-john-deere-moves-production-to-mexico/3555399/
WGN9
— Trump ahead in 3 battleground states: Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/donald-trump-ahead-in-3-battleground-states-polls/
— Do you trust the current polls? (COMMENT: I do not. I learned a lot about how surveys can be manipulated while I worked for GAO as an Analyst 1990-1997 at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $126,984-$150,075/year. I focused on assuring the fairness and accuracy of two major GAO surveys. SEE: OTC DERIVATIVES Additional Oversight Could Reduce Costly Sales Practice Disputes GAO/GGD-98-5 at https://www.gao.gov/assets/160/156011.pdf and FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Actions Needed to Protect the Financial System GAO/GGD-94-133 at https://www.gao.gov/assets/160/154342.pdf . I played a major role in the construction, administration, summary, analysis, and reporting of the surveys.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/do-you-trust-the-current-polls/
WTTW
— Chicago Expects to Spend Less Than $141M to Care for Migrants in 2024: Officials
https://news.wttw.com/2024/09/24/chicago-expects-spend-less-141m-care-migrants-2024-officials
— Illinois Celebrates Dispensary Openings While Manufacturers Face Significant Challenges
https://news.wttw.com/2024/09/23/illinois-celebrates-dispensary-openings-while-manufacturers-face-significant-challenges
WBEZ
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Haitians to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/communities/2024/09/23/haiti-immigrants-trump-vance-ohio-campaign-chicago-immigrants
WBBM
— If you hate Trump, Democrats call you distinguished.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/distinguished-illinois-republicans-endorse-harris-candidacy/ar-AA1ohcH9
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Chicago to push for abortion rights, Democratic votes (COMMENT: Why are so many unwanted pregnancies?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/23/pelosi-in-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago protesters demand ceasefire after hundreds killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. Protesters, who gathered at Ida B. Wells Drive and Michigan Avenue, were heard chanting “hands off Lebanon” as they called on the U.S. government to stop aiding Israel in the war.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/09/23/chicago-protesters-demand-ceasefire-after-hundreds-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-in-lebanon
DAILY HERALD
— Bob Grogan: 2024 candidate for DuPage County Auditor
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/bob-grogan-2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-auditor/
— Richard Jorgensen: 2024 candidate for DuPage County coroner
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/richard-jorgensen-2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-coroner/
— Jeff Castle: 2024 candidate for DuPage County Forest Preserve Board District 4
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/jeff-castle-2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-forest-preserve-board-district-4/
— Annette Corrigan: 2024 candidate for DuPage County Board District 4
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-board/
— Al Murphy: 2024 candidate for DuPage County Forest Preserve Board District 6
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/al-murphy-2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-forest-preserve-board-district-6/
— Joe Soto: 2024 candidate for DuPage County Board District 6
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/local-politics/joe-soto-2024-candidate-for-dupage-county-board-district-6/
— UIC students snap up reduced Metra passes; more colleges could come on board (COMMENT: How did you get to/from college classes? To get to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I sold it in 1967 and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 with money I earned delivering mail in Park Forest. I sold it in 1968 and bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE with money I earned delivering mail in Park Forest. I used the Charger to get to/from classes at NIU.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240923/transportation/uic-students-snap-up-reduced-metra-passes-more-colleges-could-come-on-board/
SOUTHERN
— Democrats used to promote integration, but now, to impower minorities, Democrats promote segregation.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/09/23/us-schools-still-struggle-with-segregation-70-years-after-brown-v-board-of-education/
ELMHURST PATCH
— 2 Hopefuls Vie For Elmhurst-Based House Seat. The candidates responded to Patch’s questionnaire about issues.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/2-hopefuls-vie-elmhurst-based-house-seat
— Dennis Reboletti, District 45 State Representative Candidate. He is running in the Nov. 5 election.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/dennis-reboletti-district-45-state-representative-candidate
— Parties Shower Elmhurst State Hopefuls With Cash. The candidates rake in tens of thousands of dollars in cash from their political parties.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/parties-shower-elmhurst-state-hopefuls-cash
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrats confident they can expand supermajority in Springfield
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2024/09/23/illinois-statehouse-races-to-watch
POLITICO
— Pelosi thanked Personal PAC board member Pat Brady for his courage — he’s a Republican, after all.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/09/24/pelosi-headlines-abortion-rights-fundraiser-in-chicago-00180668
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/09/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-168/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— My plan was to hand-deliver the sample ballot to all the residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter. But the font used for the ballot is extremely small a) because it is printed in two languages and b) because it has six propositions. A copy of my draft precinct letter is at the end of this newsletter. Your comment/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
COOK COUNTY WIRE
— Third District Appellate race shines light on Democrat Will County judge’s past run-ins with law
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/664460713-third-district-appellate-race-shines-light-on-democrat-will-county-judge-s-past-run-ins-with-law
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Despite four DUIs resulting in one death, two injuries and time behind bars, illegal alien almost certain to remain in country
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/664247802-despite-four-duis-resulting-in-one-death-two-injuries-and-time-behind-bars-illegal-alien-almost-certain-to-remain-in-country
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Department of Corrections has no intention of notifying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when it discharges Vicente Torres-Vasquez, an illegal alien responsible for the 2011 DUI death of a Wauconda man, from the work-release program in which he’s currently enrolled in 2028. A spokesperson for IDOC told Chicago City Wire that the Department “complies with the Illinois Trust Act and its prohibitions on most communications with federal immigration authorities.” The Trust Act, signed in 2017 by former Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, made Illinois a sanctuary state, one that “generally prohibits local law enforcement in Illinois from participating in immigration enforcement,” according to the Illinois Attorney General’s website.)
WIREPOINTS
— No ShotSpotter and no cash bail in Chicago is a big mistake. 8 reasons why. – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/no-shotspotter-and-no-cash-bail-in-chicago-is-a-big-mistake-8-reasons-why-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Vote Your Opinion on Illinois’ 3 Ballot Initiatives
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/make-a-difference-vote-your-opinion-on-illinois-3-ballot-initiatives/
ILLINOIS GOP
— Democrat Chaos Consumes Schools
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Dissecting the Cheneys’ blind hatred of Trump. Sore loser Liz and Darth Vader Dick embrace radical Harris, the country be damned. (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/23/dissecting-cheneys-blind-hatred-of-trump/
— Trump says he doesn’t trust DOJ or FBI to investigate assassination attempts against him
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/23/donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-trust-doj-or-fbi-to-in/
— House moves toward averting a shutdown, sidestepping a Trump demand. Defying former president Donald Trump, a bloc of GOP hard-liners is set to block a vote on a stopgap spending bill that would avert a shutdown set to strike Oct. 1.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/23/house-republicans-avert-shutdown/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— GOP owns nine of 10 issues, election is Trump’s ‘to lose’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3163950/gallup-shocker-gop-owns-nine-10-issues-election-trump-to-lose/
— Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? becomes highest grossing documentary of 2024
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3162937/matt-walsh-highest-grossing-documentary-2024/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Illegal Aliens Added to Voter Rolls by DMV Despite Confessing to Being Non-Citizens
https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/23/illegal-aliens-added-to-voter-rolls-by-dmv-despite-confessing-to-being-non-citizens/
— What About Safety? United Airlines Emphasizes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO companies and organizations ever-increasingly emphasize DEI over everything else. Soon, if not already, they will officially use DEI to get rid of Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/23/what-about-safety-united-airlines-emphasizes-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
— New Poll Shows Trump Leading in Sunbelt Battleground States
https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/24/morning-greatness-new-poll-shows-trump-leading-in-sunbelt-battleground-states/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— AOC boasts she’s leading Dem censorship effort: ‘They’re coming for X’ (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who since 2000 have worked the hardest to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, and failing that, have worked the hardest to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/09/23/aoc-boasts-shes-leading-dem-censorship-effort-theyre-coming-for-x-1489445/
BREITBART
— Harris Campaign Refuses to Discuss Her Amnesty Plan for Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/23/kamala-harris-campaign-refuses-discuss-amnesty-plan-illegals/
— Most Arrests Involve Illegal Aliens; NYC Dealing with ‘Third World Crime’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2024/09/23/exclusive-nyc-councilwoman-vickie-paladino-most-arrests-involve-illegal-aliens-nyc-dealing-with-third-world-crime/
— Footage Surfaces of Kamala Harris Protesting Against Deporting Illegal Aliens: ‘Down, Down with Deportation!’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/23/footage-surfaces-kamala-harris-protesting-against-deporting-illegal-aliens-down-down-deportation/
— Over 700 Deep State Members Back Harris — Including Some Who Signed the Hunter Biden Laptop Letter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/23/over-700-deep-state-members-back-harris-including-some-who-signed-the-hunter-biden-laptop-letter/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Stanford class forces applicants to submit DEI statement
https://www.campusreform.org/article/stanford-class-forces-applicants-submit-dei-statement-/26405
COLLEGE FIX
— Black, Hispanic enrollment drops at elite colleges post-affirmative action ban (COMMENT: Did you apply to elite colleges? I did not. Did you apply for scholarships? I did not. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Further, my parents and I did not have enough money to pay for tuition, books, and room and board at an elite college.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-hispanic-enrollment-drops-at-elite-colleges-post-affirmative-action-ban/
DAILY CALLER
— Columbia University Says Race ‘Neutral’ Policies ‘Constitutes Discrimination’ (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all the problems that they have: liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/23/elite-university-neutral-race-policies-constitutes-discrimination/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago school board approves measure to do away with ‘ranking’ schools after ‘longstanding structural racism’ Chicago Public Schools’ leader says former model encouraged ‘families to select schools with the highest rating and pitted schools against each other’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame racism, that is, blame Republicans, for all the problems that minorities have.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-school-board-approves-measure-do-away-ranking-schools-longstanding-structural-racism
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Mexico Goes into Overdrive to Help Biden-Harris Administration Slow Illegal Immigration (COMMENT: This is being done to elect Harris/Walz.)
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/mexico-goes-overdrive-help-biden-harris-administration-slow-illegal-immigration
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— t’s Time for the Supreme Court to Repudiate Gender Ideology
https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/its-time-the-supreme-court-repudiate-gender-ideology
LIFEZETTE
— MTG Slams Speaker Johnson’s ‘Fake Fight’ Over The SAVE Act, Keeping Illegals From Voting
https://www.lifezette.com/2024/09/mtg-slams-speaker-johnsons-fake-fight-over-the-save-act-keeping-illegals-from-voting-watch/
MRC
— Musk Posts MRC Story on National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Endorsing Harris (COMMENT: I was a NTEU member while I worked for IRS 1971-1980. My critics/opponents have always used that against me viciously. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I was grossly overpaid because I was a union member. In today’s dollars, my salary increased from $54,728/year to $110,020/year. In my defense, I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for Firestone Stores as a Retail Sales Manager 1970-1971. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980.)
https://info.mrc.org/webmail/752103/2038246126/bdfac298988fa2823b83f1085d240f8d267eac37b75f3093e4dc1e522ab003d8
NEWSMAX
— Deep State Wants More Bureaucracy, Your Freedom
https://www.newsmax.com/jeffcrouere/deep-state-freedom-kamala-harris/2024/09/23/id/1181368/
POST MILLENNIAL
— New York City suburbs lean toward Trump ahead of Election Day over crime, illegal immigration
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-york-city-suburbs-lean-toward-trump-ahead-of-election-day-over-crime-illegal-immigration-report#google_vignette
TOWNHALL
— Israel Derangement Syndrome
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2024/09/24/israel-derangement-syndrome-n2645174
— Venezuelan Prison Gang Members Are Clashing With Local Gangs in Chicago
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/09/23/tren-de-aragua-chicago-gang-n2645134
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Careerism Is Ruining College (COMMENT: I earned four college degrees to qualify myself for better paying jobs. My Democrat superiors wasted what I learned and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/opinion/college-linkedin-finance-consulting.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/09/24/abortion-laws-georgia-alabama-tennessee-restrictions-doctors-healthcare/75210144007/
— RINOs reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs get rid of Republicans who promote the planks that they reject. RINOs are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, or Independent plants. RINOs destroy the Republican Party.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
NEW YORK SUN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Taylor Swift.
https://www.nysun.com/article/after-taylor-swift-shares-voter-resources-online-young-americans-register-in-record-breaking-numbers
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— To get rid of Republicans, Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI, that is, they use race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write a book about how Democrat and RINO leaders have used the aforesaid to get of me.
https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-naval-academy-says-considering-race-in-admissions-helps-create-a-cohesive-military/KS3JEQJLZ5DYTBPZBCCMBEEJUA/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Matt Walsh’s “Am I Racist?” film is both laugh-out-loud funny and sad. But it was mostly eye-opening in demonstrating how extensive the financial scam of DEI has become.
Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? becomes highest grossing documentary of 2024
— Chicago’s Mayor of Mayhem. Brandon Johnson kills a technology that detects shootings and saves lives.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-shotspotter-mayor-brandon-johnson-city-council-11f3a13f
SATURDAY EVENING POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying those who do not promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/09/considering-history-anti-immigrant-myths-have-been-strikingly-consistent-and-consistently-wrong/
COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN
— Give Happy (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they put lots of pressure on their employees to give money to Democrat charities.)
https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/welcome
PR WEEK
— Agencies tell us what they are doing to close their pay gaps (COMMENT: I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI to give bigger pay increases and promotions to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.prweek.com/article/1888376/agencies-tell-us-doing-close-pay-gaps
HR ZONE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a ) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hrzone.com/how-to-address-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-backlash/
HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTION
— Civil rights groups ask Fortune 1000 leaders to defend DEI ‘unequivocally’
https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/diversity-inclusion/civil-rights-groups-ask-fortune-1000-leaders-to-defend-dei-unequivocally/506763
DRAFT PRECINCT COMMITTEEMAN LETTER
David John Diersen
DuPage County Milton Township Republican Precinct 59 Committeeman
915 Cove Court, Wheaton, Illinois 60189-6326 Phone: 630-653-0462
Email: diersen@aol.com Website: www.gopillinois.com
Dear fellow DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican and Independent voters:
A copy of our sample ballot is available at: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/elected_officials/election_and_voter_information/voting_information/view_sample_ballot.php
Please vote for all the Republican candidates on the ballot:
— Donald J. Trump, U.S. President and JD Vance, Vice President
— John Booras, U.S. Congressman, 3rd Congressional District
— Amy Grant, Illinois Representative, 47th District
— Bob Berlin, Illinois State’s Attorney, DuPage County
— Jaye Wang, DuPage County Clerk of the Circuit Court
— Bob Grogan, DuPage County Auditor
— Richard Jorgensen, DuPage County Coroner
— Nicole Prater, DuPage County Recorder
— Annette Corrigan, DuPage County Board, District 4
— Jeff Castle, DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner, District 4
— Kenton Skarin, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District
— Jason Helland, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District
— John Costello, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District
Thanks again to those who caste a Republican primary ballot. As your Republican Precinct Committeeman, my responsibilities for general elections include encouraging Republican voter turnout and votes for Republican candidates. Please contact me if you have questions and/or comments concerning the candidates. As a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, I have heard many of them speak at political events, including Booras, Grant, Berlin, Grogan, Jorgensen, Prater, Corrigan, and Castle. As the November 5 general election approaches, please consider displaying yard signs for them.
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Sincerely,
Dave Diersen
