October 15, 2024

To not vote for Trump/Vance is to vote for Harris/Waltz.  Biden got elected by falsely painting himself as being a moderate/centrist. Harris is trying to get elected by painting herself as being a moderate/centrist.

C-SPAN
— WATCH LIVE OCTOBER 15 AT 11AM CST: Trump Interview with the Economic Club of Chicago
https://www.c-span.org/video/?539131-1/president-trump-interview-economic-club-chicago

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Yard signs indicate change in DuPage County’s political landscape ahead of 2024 election  (COMMENT: I am displaying two beautiful 4X4 “Vote Republican” signs on busy streets in my precinct.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/yard-signs-supporting-kamala-harris-donald-trump-indicate-change-dupage-countys-political-landscape-ahead-2024-election/15428933/

NBC5
— Donald Trump to speak at event in Chicago Tuesday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/donald-trump-to-speak-at-event-in-chicago-tuesday/3573998/

CBS2
— Trump is against illegal immigration, not legal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rhetoric-enemy-anti-immigrant/

WGN RADIO
— A new Illinois bill aims to regulate AI for employers by January 2026 (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will use AI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/a-new-illinois-bill-aims-to-regulate-ai-for-employers-by-january-2026/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Harris is laying out a new plan to empower Black men as she tries to energize them to vote for her. (COMMENT: Harris could stress what my Democrat GAO superiors did. They forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black male subordinate. He was younger than I was. He had less work experience than had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one that I had had for 16 years.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/14/harris-and-trump-will-both-campaign-in-battleground-pennsylvania-on-monday/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/14/82-cannabis-stores-opened-in-illinois-but-social-equity-owners-remain-on-the-margins/
— To get more votes from women, anticipate/expect that Harris will ever-increasingly promise to use government to give women more preference if elected.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/15/opinion-kamala-harris-gender-woman/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Nov. 5 referendums in Chicago’s suburbs: School building projects, backyard chickens and even a roundabout
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/15/nov-5-referendums-from-school-building-projects-to-backyard-chickens-and-even-a-roundabout/
—  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Joseph Czuba to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/14/plainfield-palestinian-boy-stabbing-anniversary/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run elections and everything else in America and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/10/14/election-integrity-misinformation-cyberattacks-illinois-officials-voting-polling-places-judges

DAILY HERALD
— Endorsement: Grant for Illinois House District 47
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241015/endorsements/endorsement-grant-for-illinois-house-district-47/
— Endorsement: Sanalitro for Illinois House District 48
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241015/endorsements/endorsement-sanalitro-for-illinois-house-district-48/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: Undeterred by previous losses, Hanson again challenging Quigley in 5th District
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241014/news/undeterred-by-previous-losses-hanson-again-challenging-quigley-in-5th-district/

IPM NEWS
— Amid issues with the Champaign County auditor, voters will decide if the office should be eliminated (COMMENT: Since 1997, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) have done everything they could to discourage me from running for DuPage County Auditor, a) even though I have never come close to hinting that I might want to do that and b) even though I did everything that I could to help elect Jim Rasins in 2000 and 2004 and Bob Grogan in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 and I am doing everything that I can to help elect him this year. They have ignored, dismissed, belittled, and badmouthed my qualifications. I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115-439-$150,075/year: I worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt in 1981. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on those DCRCC leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://ipmnewsroom.org/amid-issues-with-the-champaign-county-auditor-voters-will-decide-if-the-office-should-be-eliminated/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Harris condemned nation’s ‘shameful past’ during 2021 Columbus Day address (COMMENT: How long have your ancestors been in America? To get even more votes from recent immigrants, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America’s past, that is, the demonize, denigrate, and condemn those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My ancestors have been in America since 1844. In their defense, on my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago for 10 years and then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/harris-condemned-shameful-past-of-columbus-day-in-2021-address-vice-president-kamala-harris-indigenous-peoples-day-christopher-columbus-mike-huckabee-nile-gardiner-glen-sturtevant

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-us-law-entitles-immigrant-children-to-an-education-some-conservatives-say-that-should-change/

NPR ILLINOIS & NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly a) promotes Harris and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-10-14/harris-brings-a-bit-of-trump-into-her-rally-to-try-to-show-him-as-unhinged
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-10-14/harris-brings-a-bit-of-trump-into-her-rally-to-try-to-show-him-as-unhinged

LAGRANGE PATCH
— La Grange Political Sign Thefts Discussed. It’s not unusual for people to steal or damage signs they dislike.
https://patch.com/illinois/lagrange/la-grange-political-sign-thefts-discussed

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/10/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-386/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do so many reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, why do so many want Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, why do so many want a) patronage, b) political affiliation discrimination, c) reverse discrimination, d) age discrimination, e) religious discrimination, and f) national origin discrimination? Reasons include their benefitting from the AA and DEI a) because they are Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or their ancestors have not been in America for a long time and/or b) because their spouse, children, and/or grandchildren are the aforesaid. Reasons included their wanting to curry favor with and/or to pander to those who are the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— It’s obvious why Chicago politicians hate what Donald Trump says about the city
https://wirepoints.org/its-obvious-why-chicago-politicians-hate-what-donald-trump-says-about-the-city-wirepoints/
— When it comes to budgets and taxes, you simply can’t trust lawmakers to follow through on their promises
https://wirepoints.org/when-it-comes-to-budgets-and-taxes-you-simply-cant-trust-lawmakers-to-follow-through-on-their-promises-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Harris pledges plan to help Black men ‘build wealth’ as they gravitate toward Trump (COMMENT: Harris could stress what my Democrat GAO superiors did. They forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black male subordinate. He was younger than I was. He had less work experience than had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one that I had had for 16 years.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/14/kamala-harris-announces-opportunity-agenda-for-bla/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harris targets black men with new economic proposals to boost support
Harris outreach to Black men includes proposals on marijuana, crypto business

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Honest Mistake: McDonald’s Cashier Thought Bill Clinton Was Joe Biden. Slick Willy has a lot in common with Sleepy Joe.
https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/democrats/honest-mistake-mcdonalds-cashier-thought-bill-clinton-was-joe-biden/

NEW YORK POST
— Harris scrambles to court black men with new outreach plan while battling anemic polling
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/kamala-harris-scrambles-to-court-black-men-with-new-outreach-plan-while-battling-anemic-polling/
— Harris’ past proposals show her true intentions with ICE and the border
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/opinion/kamala-harris-past-proposals-show-her-true-intentions-with-ice-and-the-border/
— NYC’s ‘sanctuary city’ status largely keeps NYPD from breaking up migrant youth gang in shelter system
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/sanctuary-city-status-bars-nyc-cops-from-breaking-up-migrant-youth-gang-at-shelter/
— Vance immigration slapdowns show Kamala Harris media lapdogs running headfirst into reality
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/opinion/jd-vance-immigration-slapdowns-show-kamala-harris-media-lapdogs-running-headfirst-into-reality/
— Woke NY House members, including AOC, Jamaal Bowman, accused of spreading ‘hate’ by pushing to scrap Columbus Day
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/ny-house-reps-ripped-for-bid-to-ban-columbus-day/
— Asian enrollment at top colleges Princeton, Yale and Duke down —admissions group claims discrimination
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/princeton-yale-asian-students-decline-despite-affirmative-action-ruling/
— Majority of voters favor a federal ban on transgender procedures for minors
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/majority-of-voters-favor-a-federal-ban-on-transgender-procedures-for-minors/
— CNN contributor says Harris losing black male voters because Dems ‘care more about dudes who want to become women’
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/media/cnn-contributor-explains-why-he-thinks-harris-is-losing-black-male-voters-support/

AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— Woke Antisemites Won’t Stop with Jewish Students
https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/woke-antisemites-wont-stop-with-jewish-students

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Majority Favors Federal Ban on Transgender Surgeries for Minors
https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/14/poll-majority-favors-federal-ban-on-transgender-surgeries-for-minors/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Managing Initial Mass Deportation
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/managing_initial_mass_deportation.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) predicts that non-citizens are going to vote in the 2024 election, calling out the Biden-Harris administration for paving the way.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/10/14/speaker-johnson-says-straight-up-there-will-be-some-cheating-in-this-election-noncitizens-are-going-to-vote-1494602/

CITY WATCH
— Netanyahu, Leader of the Free World
https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/29712-netanyahu-leader-of-the-free-world

DAILY CITIZEN
— Disney Pushes LGBT Agenda — Again — With Transgender Clone Trooper
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/disney-pushes-lgbt-agenda-again-with-transgender-clone-trooper/

FEDERALIST
— Vance Is Beating The Media, Which Means They’ll Soon Try Taking Him Out For Good (COMMENT: The more job-related college degrees (1970, 1976, 1980, and 1997), professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and a professional license (1981) that I earned, the more that my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors did to get rid of me. Virtually all my coworkers were Democrats who did not use their personal time or money to improve their job skills. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications than I had or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and b) were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/14/j-d-vance-is-beating-the-media-which-means-theyll-soon-try-taking-him-out-for-good/

FOX NEWS
— ‘SHUT DOWN THE BORDERS, BUILD THE WALL’: Voters grapple with illegal immigration fallout. Voters in Detroit, Chicago and Atlanta discuss long-term effects of the ongoing border crisis.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363254356112
— Harris admin will ‘try to sneak through’ health care benefits for illegal immigrants
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-gop-governor-warns-harris-admin-will-try-sneak-through-healthcare-benefits-illegal-immigrants
— Jesse Watters says Kamala Harris’ policies are “reparations in disguise”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse-watters-says-kamala-harris-policies-are-reparations-disguise

HOT AIR
— Mayorkas Is An Evil Liar
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/14/mayorkas-is-an-evil-liar-n3795787

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Oregon Employee Placed on Leave for Hiring on Merit, Not Diversity
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/oregon-employee-placed-on-leave-for-supposedly-hiring-on-merit-not-diversity/

MRC TV
— PBS Presses Emotional Hot Buttons to Push Biden’s Citizenship Plan for Illegals
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/pbs-presses-emotional-hot-buttons-push-bidens-citizenship-plan-illegals
— Not-Columbus Day: Harris Blasts Europeans For ‘Perpetrating Violence, Stealing Land, and Spreading Disease’
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/not-columbus-day-harris-blasts-europeans-perpetrating-violence-stealing-land

NEWS BUSTERS
— Zuckerberg’s Meta Spouts Woke Propaganda on Columbus Day WITH NO SHAME
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-olohan/2024/10/14/zuckerbergs-meta-spouts-woke-propaganda-columbus-day-no

NEWSMAX
— Trump Campaign Targets Harris on Immigration After Clinton’s Remarks
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-bill-clinton-kamala-harris/2024/10/14/id/1184032/

TOWNHALL
— Here’s What Kamala Harris Said About Eliminating Columbus Day
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/10/14/kamala-harris-criticizes-european-explorers-on-columbus-day-n2646187

ZERO HEDGE
— Illinois Bill Would Give Colleges Taxpayer Dollars For Each Minority Student Enrolled
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/illinois-bill-would-give-colleges-taxpayer-dollars-each-minority-student-enrolled
— “Do You Hear Yourself?” – Vance Shuts Down Reporter’s Absurd Defense Of Illegals
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/do-you-hear-yourself-vance-shuts-down-reporters-absurd-defense-illegals?ref=biztoc.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-law-entitles-immigrant-children-education-conservatives-change-114802103

NEWSWEEK
— Progressives Are Pushing for an Economy Built on Migrant Serfdom
https://www.newsweek.com/progressives-are-pushing-economy-built-migrant-serfdom-opinion-1968784

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Harris Steps Up a Major Push for Black Voters
The vice president released a plan to help Black men financially, held interviews with two Black media outlets and put out targeted ads in battleground states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/politics/harris-policies-black-men.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURES: Attention Kmart Shoppers: It’s Closing Time. As the last full-size Kmart in the continental United States prepares to close, shoppers reminisced about the store that once sold everything, everywhere. (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/business/kmart-closing-long-island.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The first Kmart opened in 1962 in Garden City, Mich., though the company’s roots go back much further, to a chain of S.S. Kresge variety stores that started in Michigan in 1899. Kmarts quickly spread across the country by offering everything from food to fashion, according to Mark A. Cohen, former chief executive of Sears Canada. “They grew to be an enormous feature in retailing back in the day,” Mr. Cohen said.)

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame “DEI backlash” for everything that is bad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/15/dei-backlash-threatens-efforts-explore-health-race-nexus/

USA TODAY
— As US election nears, Mexico keeps up border enforcement, blocks migrants.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/13/mexico-blocks-migrants-us-election-nearing/74907663007/
— Harris outreach to Black men includes proposals on marijuana, crypto business
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/14/harris-proposes-legalizing-marijuana-industry-black-men/75670888007/

VILLAGES NEWS
— Democrats and RINOs say that illegals a) will not vote and b) take jobs that Americans will not take. Would illegals take the jobs that I took? According to my critics/opponents, they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://www.villages-news.com/2024/10/14/illegals-cant-vote-but-will-do-jobs-americans-wont-do/

WJAR
— 28% of college-bound students rule out schools based on state politics  (COMMENT: Democrats run Illinois. They ever-increasingly a) give preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) discriminate against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Sooner or later, if not already, all college students in Illinois will be liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time, troubled, citizens of foreign countries, etc.)
https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/28-of-college-bound-students-rule-out-schools-based-on-state-politics-new-survey-abortion-lgbtq-laws-higher-education-liberal-conservative-art-and-science-group-studentpoll

BUSINESS JOURNALS
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/10/14/dei-forum-panelists-say-work-must-continue.html

POLITICO
— Trump claims Fox News ‘has totally lost its way’ after the network announces it will interview Harris. He accuses the network of being too soft on Democrats. (COMMENT: Would Trump accuse me of being too soft on Democrats?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/14/trump-criticize-fox-news-kamala-harris-00183614

BEAST
— Harris Pledges to Help Black Men by Legalizing Marijuana (COMMENT: To push pot on a person, group, or country is to drive that individual, group, or country down. I have never used pot and I never will. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, or earn a professional license. The Post Office, IRS, and GAO would not have hired me. I would not have been able to buy cars, buy real estate, or get married.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/harris-pledges-to-help-black-men-by-legalizing-marijuana
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly run America. Anticipate/expect that they will ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump and his supporters are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpvance-event-sees-supporters-holding-up-placards-with-white-supremacist-slogans

EDUCATION WEEK
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-how-can-educators-strike-a-healthy-balance-on-diversity-and-inclusion/2024/10

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harris’s Pitch to Black Men. Will more pot smoking and forgivable loans peel them from Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harris-black-men-voters-pitch-donald-trump-2024-election-a3db10d9
— Barack Obama and the Democrats’ Politics of Contempt. Obama’s lecture to black men is the latest example of a peculiar strategy: talking down to voters. (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who show the most contempt of me, who look down on me the most.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-politics-of-contempt-obama-lectures-black-men-2024-presidential-campaign-64a792e6
— FRONT PAGE: With Tim Walz in the Spotlight, a Nation Fixates on Finding Irish Roots. Genealogists try to trace Irish heritage wherever they can. With Kamala Harris’s running mate, things got complicated. (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who hint/imply/argue/shout a) at Irish Americans that I am 100% German national origin and b) at Catholics that I am Protestant..)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/tim-walz-presidential-campaign-kamala-obama-biden-irish-d32aac0a

CPA JOURNAL
— Against DEI  (COMMENT: This article shows why my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black CPA subordinate. He was younger than I was. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had five  fewer professional certifications than I had. He had no professional license like the CPA license I had had for 16 years.)
https://www.cpajournal.com/2024/10/14/against-dei-2/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unfortunately, Equality of Merit and Equality of Opportunity rhetoric doesn’t hold up against the data. For example, the AICPA’s 2021 Trends report notes that in 2020 a mere 2% of qualified CPAs and partners were Black in the United States, while a mere 5% Latino/Hispanic were partners and CPAs. (Note that the 2023 report is available but does not breakdown analysis into qualified CPAs by race. The opening paragraph infers that this might be due to a poor response rate. Therefore, the most complete data freely available remains the 2021 Trends Report; see http://www.nysscpa.org/2021-trends .) Going back further, the 2015 AICPA Trends Report noted that new accounting Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates hired by CPA firms by race and ethnicity from 2000–2014 was 3% for Blacks/African Americans and Hispanic/Latino accountants. Compare this with the 2020 U.S. Census, which records African Americans (alone) as 12.4% of the populace and those of Latino/Hispanic origin 18.7%, and we see that accounting has a problem of Black and Brown representation compared to the population at large ( https://tinyurl.com/4yrnh5w3 ).  This is a long-standing problem: Theresa Hammond, a noted historian of the African American accountant, has pointed out that in 1997 less than 1% of CPAs were Black. Hammond was also one of the first to chronicle African American disenfranchisement in the profession from its inception to modern times, citing that the first African American CPA did not exist until 1921 (A White-Collar Profession, University of North Carolina Press, 2002). She goes on to note that: African-Americans struggled against incredible barriers in order to become CPAs and were virtually invisible. (A. Dennis, “Black CPA Centennial celebrates first Black CPA,” Journal of Accountancy, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/ytff7fn2 )

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.