NBC5
— ‘This Is About Power’: Congresswomen Allege Harassment by Male Colleagues While rare, the accounts raise troubling questions about the boys’ club environment in Congress where male lawmakers can feel empowered to target not only staffers but even their own peers – Erica Werner and Juliet Linderman
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Congresswomen-Allege-Harassment-by-Colleagues-454915523.html
WGN TV
— Protests on DePaul campus as controversial speaker Charles Murray gives speech – TOM NEGOVAN
http://wgntv.com/2017/11/01/protests-on-depaul-campus-as-controversial-speaker-expected-to-give-speech/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Cook County Democrats to consider endorsing Lisa Madigan successor – Rick Pearson (DIERSEN: Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you sought a government office or a political office, would the majority of the members of your Republican township/ward organization, the majority of the members your Republican county party organization, your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC), and the members of the IRP SCC who have the largest weighted vote endorse you? If not, why not?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-cook-county-democrats-attorney-general-20171103-story.html
— Public takes a pass on Metra budget hearing in Clarendon Hills – Chuck Fieldman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/western-springs/news/ct-dch-metra-budget-hearing-tl-1109-20171102-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: CHA employee retires after 51 years devoted to residents – Mary Schmich (DIERSEN: Non-veteran White males who are seeking a job with the federal government should be advised that with only rare exceptions, your career will be wasted and you will be gotten rid of if you do not make GS-13 (currently $94,610) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $111,801) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $131,508) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $161,900) by age 40.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/schmich/ct-met-schmich-homer-gary-cha-20171101-story.html
— Barrington High girls in ‘misconstrued’ KKK photo sue school for defamation – Angie Leventis Lourgos
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/barrington/news/ct-met-barrington-kkk-school-photo-lawsuit-20171101-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Joe Ricketts closes DNAinfo after blasting ‘corrosive’ union dynamic – Mitchell Armentrout (DIERSEN: GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, my Democrat superiors would not have succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.”)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/dnainfo-newsrooms-ricketts/
DAILY HERALD
— Kane County: Cunningham battles cancer, residency questions in final re-election bid – James Fuller
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20171102/cunningham-battles-cancer-residency-questions-in-final-re-election-bid
— Governments’ duty when public officials ‘vanish’ – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20171102/editorial-governments-duty-when-public-officials-vanish
— Sleep Out Saturday a lesson about homelessness – Ann Piccininni (DIERSEN: What have you done to help the homeless? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) stress that they have done lots to help the homeless and b) demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me for not helping the homeless. They hint/imply/argue/shout that unlike them, I have lots of time and money to help the homeless because I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, because I have always been privileged, because I avoided the draft, because the federal government grossly overpaid me, because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, because we did not adopt, because we did not become foster parents, because my federal retirement benefits are too generous, and because I do not attend church services and give money to a church like they do.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20171101/sleep-out-saturday-a-lesson-about-homelessness
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Springfield church’s banquet honors those in need – John Reynolds (DIERSEN: Have you benefited from being raised in a traditional family? I did. Have you ever been “in need?” I have never been “in need” thanks to my outstanding parents who had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, sent me to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, had me confirmed as an MSL in 1962, sent me to Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, provided me with room and board while attended UIC 1966-1968, weekends while I attend NIU during my first semester in 1969, and the summer of 1969.)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20171102/springfield-churchs-banquet-honors-those-in-need
QUINCY HERALD WHIG
— Rauner only one in Springfield supporting us – Kyle Moore, Mayor, Quincy
http://www.whig.com/20171103/rauner-only-one-in-springfield-supporting-us#
BELOIT DAILY NEWS
— SENATOR SILVERSTEIN’S SEX-HARASSMENT ACCUSER DENISE ROTHEIMER WANTS ANSWERS ON COMPLAINT – JOHN O’CONNOR
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20171103/AP/311039940
WGLT
— Hate Group Lobbies Against ERA With B-N Robocalls – CHARLIE SCHLENKER (DIERSEN: In an editorial unethically made to look like a news article, WGLT demonizes, denigrates, and condemns the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) as being a hate group. I should write a book about individuals, organizations, companies, and governments in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois that demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me because I promote the IFI. They crow that I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a hater because I promote the IFI.
http://wglt.org/post/hate-group-lobbies-against-era-b-n-robocalls#stream/0
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
— Divisive Rhetoric: The political messages limiting our democracy – Elizabeth Lynch and Mitch Combs (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats shout at everyone that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things.)
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2017/11/divisive-rhetoric-political-messages-limiting-democracy/
KWQC
— IL Gov. Candidates give millions to their own campaigns – James Stratton
http://www.kwqc.com/content/news/IL-Gov-Candidates-give-millions-to-own-campaigns-454844943.html
WREX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps promote illegals in Rockford.
http://www.wrex.com/story/36752300/2017/11/Thursday/city-leaders-are-called-on-the-dream-act
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Plaintiff: BuzzFeed isn’t a real news organization Russian tech executive wants source revealed – TOM KLUDT AND KATELYN POLANTZ (DIERSEN: Should I publish a list of individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that hint/imply/argue/shout that GOPUSA ILLINOIS is not a “real news organization?” These same individuals, organizations, companies, and governments a) treat Capitol Fax as being a “real news organization,” b) glorify and praise Capitol Fax, c) pander to Capitol Fax, d) serve as operatives or as dupes for Capitol Fax, e) give money to Capitol Fax, and/or f) give scoops to Capitol Fax. They empower Capitol Fax to destroy individuals, organizations, companies, and governments.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/plaintiff-buzzfeed-isnt-a-real-news-organization/850456052
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Lawyers for a Russian tech executive are asking a federal judge to force BuzzFeed to reveal its source for an unverified dossier about Donald Trump that it published in full earlier this year. Their argument: BuzzFeed isn’t a real news organization. In court papers filed Wednesday in Florida federal court, attorneys representing Aleksej Gubarev and his companies tried to prove that BuzzFeed does not qualify for the reporters’ privilege that would allow it to avoid naming its source because it is not “a newspaper, news journal, news agency, press association, wire service, radio or TV station, network, or news magazine.” As such, the plaintiffs argue, BuzzFeed does not qualify for the privilege under a 1998 Florida law. While the filings cite an arcane statute, the argument also has echoes of an era when BuzzFeed was thought of more as a supplier of listicles and cat videos and less about its reporting. It also goes back to a time when news websites and bloggers were often looked down upon by more traditional journalists.)
— New York attacker is a ‘soldier of the caliphate,’ ISIS says – NICOLE CHAVEZ AND HAMDI ALKASHALI (DIERSEN: How many soldiers of the caliphate have the Democrats and the RINOs brought into America, into Illinois, into your county, into your township/ward, into your municipality, and into your precinct?)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/new-york-attacker-is-a-soldier-of-the-caliphate-isis-says/850335654
DAILY ILLINI
— Illinois Student Government faces backlash after Homecoming protests – CORI LIPPERT
https://dailyillini.com/news/2017/11/02/isg-faces-backlash-homecoming-protests/
LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— McConchie calls for debate on measure to reverse part of new abortion law – Karen Kidd
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/511258281-mcconchie-calls-for-debate-on-measure-to-reverse-part-of-new-abortion-law
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Former House member Pihos pleads not guilty in theft case – W.J. Kennedy
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511258673-former-house-member-pihos-pleads-not-guilty-in-theft-case
WIRE POINTS
— South suburban home prices and taxes: a study in the trajectory of a death spiral – Mark Glennon
http://www.wirepoints.com/south-suburban-home-prices-and-taxes-present-an-interesting-study-in-the-trajectory-of-a-death-spiral-wirepoints-original/
— Rauner admin: Legislature breaking promises by passing unbalanced budgets – INN
http://www.wirepoints.com/rauner-admin-legislature-breaking-promises-by-passing-unbalanced-budgets-inn/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives: Silverstein ‘abused his position and authority’ – Keri Carbaugh
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511258239-ives-silverstein-abused-his-position-and-authority
— Understanding the numbers behind Illinois’ dramatic pension shortfall – Ted Dabrowski
http://www.wirepoints.com/understanding-the-numbers-behind-illinois-dramatic-pension-shortfall-wirepoints-original/
— Naperville assessor Warren Dixon III says schools won’t get fair funding until property taxes are fair – Karen Kidd
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511256865-naperville-assessor-says-schools-won-t-get-fair-funding-until-property-taxes-are-fair
AMERICANS FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
— Wisconsin Office Max Refuses to Print Poster Advertising LaBarbera Speech Exposing ‘Homosexual Agenda’ – Peter LaBarbera
https://americansfortruth.com/2017/11/01/wisconsin-office-max-refuses-to-print-flier-advertising-labarbera-speech-exposing-homosexual-agendaf/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— IN ‘SPRING[FIELD] VEGAS,’ A TOXIC CULTURE THRIVES IN THE DARK The culture of silence will end eventually. And when it does, it will be with a deafening roar. – Austin Berg
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/in-springfield-vegas-a-toxic-culture-thrives-in-the-dark/#new_tab
ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Former Chicago IG ‘appalled’ over 27 uninvestigated ethics complaints at Capitol – Greg Bishop and Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/justice/former-chicago-ig-appalled-over-uninvestigated-ethics-complaints-at-capitol/article_f65281cc-bfdd-11e7-b9e6-e73631623a1b.html
HEADLINE CLUB
— On the loss of DNAinfo and Chicagoist, and the gap they leave in our city (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Which individuals, organizations, companies, and governments would be heartbroken if GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails disappeared? ANSWER: Certainly NOT those that a) glorify and praise Capitol Fax, b) pander to Capitol Fax, c) serve as operatives or as dupes for Capitol Fax, d) give money to Capitol Fax, and/or e) give scoops to Capitol Fax.)
http://prod.headlineclub.org/2017/11/02/on-the-loss-of-dnainfo-and-chicagoist-and-the-gap-they-leave-in-our-city/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Chicago Headline Club is heartbroken to learn that DNAinfo Chicago and Chicagoist have shut down today. Their departure is terrible news for journalism, Chicago and democracy at large. The two publications — along with their sibling outlets in New York, Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles — have been an incredibly valuable source of news and information, providing a vital look at the cities we live in. During DNAinfo’s five-year history in Chicago, its staff and reporters have won more than a dozen of the Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Awards. Chicagoist’s pithy and incisive coverage of news and culture has captured the city’s collective id better than many other outlets in the city. Their disappearance leaves a huge hole in the local and national media fabric that will be hard to refill. The Headline Club stands ready to help the reporters affected. Our website, headlineclub.org, offers a Chicago-centric list of media jobs through JobFile. Our Watchdog Fund can also compensate journalists for costs related to the reporting of an investigative story. We’ll also waive registration fees for any employee of DNAinfo or Chicagoist who wants to attend any of our educational programs, like FOIAFest, through the end of 2018. Emailprogramming@headlineclub.org to sign up. Our hearts go out to the hard-working journalists and the readers who depended on them. Stay strong.)
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Former Politico reporter Peter Sterne, who now runs U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, created this list of DNAinfo journalists who should be hired. – Natasha Korecki (DIERSEN: It would have been great if during the 1980s and 1990s someone had created and posted a list of GAO employees “who should be hired.” During the 1980s and 1990s, GAO got rid of virtually all its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran who had not made GS-13 (currently $94,610) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $111,801) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $131,508) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $161,900) by age 40.)
https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/illinois-playbook/2017/11/03/rauner-admin-stonewalls-on-attorneys-exit-223151
BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, “religious leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the anti-religious Democrat Party.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/02/rejecting-dreamers-rejecting-jesus-christ-says-amnesty-advocate/
BLAZE
— Poll: More millennials would prefer to live under socialism than capitalism – Kate Scanlon (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrat teachers crank out “good little Democrats” who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/02/poll-more-millennials-would-prefer-to-live-under-socialism-than-capitalism/
— Democratic National Committee denounces email discriminating against ‘straight white males’ for jobs – Dave Urbanski
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/02/democratic-national-committee-denounces-email-discriminating-against-straight-white-males-for-jobs/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Takes On ‘Hollywood Depravity’ With Laura Ingraham – Justin Caruso
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/03/trump-takes-on-hollywood-depravity-with-laura-ingraham-video/
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
— Digging Up Dirt on Political Opponents as Benefactor of Schmutz: What Would Jesus Obama Do? The ethics of opposition research and campaign smears from the holiest of our political giants. – DOV FISCHER
https://spectator.org/digging-up-dirt-on-political-opponents-as-benefactor-of-schmutz-what-would-jesus-obama-do/
LIFE SITE NEWS
— OfficeMax refuses to print poster for event exposing homosexual agenda – Dorothy Cummings McLean
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/office-max-refuses-to-print-flyer-advertising-homosexual-agenda-expose
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— How Class Realignment Broke the Democrats – Matthew Continetti
http://freebeacon.com/columns/class-realignment-broke-democrats/
GOPUSA
— Liberal ‘journalists’ caught in workplace harassment scandals
http://www.gopusa.com/liberal-journalists-caught-in-workplace-harassment-scandals/
DAILY WIRE
— DNC Official Says She Doesn’t Want To Recruit ‘Cisgender Straight White Males’ They don’t want more individuals in the “majority” having jobs within the party … – ELLIOTT HAMILTON
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22939/exclusive-dnc-official-discriminates-against-elliott-hamilton
DAILY CALLER
— Nearly 1 In 5 Millennials Consider Joseph Stalin And Kim Jong Un ‘Heroes’ – Rob Shimshock (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrat educators crank out “good little Democrats” who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/02/nearly-1-in-5-millennials-consider-joseph-stalin-and-kim-jong-un-heroes/
THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, “religious leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the anti-religious Democrat Party.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/358420-america-will-lose-a-lot-by-not-advancing-the-dream-act
CNBC
— The GOP tax bill would wipe out key deduction for nursing home residents The GOP tax bill proposes the repeal of the medical expense deduction.
That deduction allows people who spend more than 10 percent of their income on out-of-pocket health costs to write them off. This tax deduction is used by 5 percent of tax filers, but for the old and the sick it can be significant. – Bertha Coombs (DIERSEN: Because of high out of pocket health costs, a) my wife and I have paid less federal income tax in recent years and b) my 87-year-old aunt who is in an assisted living facility has paid less federal income tax.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/the-gop-tax-bill-would-wipe-out-key-deduction-for-nursing-home-residents.html
REUTERS
— House Republicans propose to scrap $7,500 electric vehicle credit – David Shepardson
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-vehicles/house-republicans-propose-to-scrap-7500-electric-vehicle-credit-idUSKBN1D2282
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Trump’s Female Accusers Feel Forgotten. A Lawsuit May Change That. – Megan Twohey
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/trumps-female-accusers-feel-forgotten-a-lawsuit-may-change-that.html
— Japanese Company Offers Extra Days Off to Workers Who Don’t Smoke – Matthew Haag (DIERSEN: Are/were you a smoker? I have never been a smoker. While I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, many of my superiors and supervisors were smokers. They gave preference to their employees who were smokers, that is, they discriminated against their employees like me who were not smokers.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/world/asia/japan-smokers-vacation.html
MIAMI HERALD
— Caterpillar distributor is first U.S. company to get green light to set up shop in Cuba’s Mariel zone – MIMI WHITEFIELD
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article182406136.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How GOP Tax Plan Could Hobble Housing Market Builders, lenders and brokers say removing incentives to homeownership will hurt their businesses – Laura Kusisto, Christina Rexrode and Chris Kirkham (DIERSEN: Government should encourage homeownership.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-gop-tax-plan-could-hobble-housing-market-1509660719
FORBES
— Writing A Press Release? 14 Elements You Need To Include
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/11/02/writing-a-press-release-14-elements-you-need-to-include/#936cd0f719f7
PEW RESEARCH
— More Americans are turning to multiple social media sites for news – ELIZABETH GRIECO (DIERSEN: GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails contain links to articles that members of the following groups do not want you to see: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/02/more-americans-are-turning-to-multiple-social-media-sites-for-news/
FEDERAL TIMES
— GAO: Census costs skyrocket as effectiveness declines – Jessie Bur (DIERSEN: Ever since GAO got rid of virtually all its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran during the 1980s and 1990s, GAO is just a shell of what it once was.)
https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2017/11/02/gao-census-costs-skyrocket-as-effectiveness-declines/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— House Panel Backs Two-Year ‘Cooling-Off Period’ for Appointees Looking to Burrow In – Eric Katz (DIERSEN: GAO audits IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors acted like I needed a “cooling-off period” before I could be assigned to audits of IRS. They stressed that my Democrat IRS superiors had not promoted me beyond GS-12, had disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and had disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors used that pretext to keep me off audits of IRS 1980-1985 and 1989 until they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. While the GAO manager who hired me in 1980 finally succeeded in getting me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and finally succeeded in promoting me to GS-13 in 1986, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in getting rid of him in 1987. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $79,563-$90,173. But my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS’ Collection Division during the entire almost 18 years that I worked for IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted my knowledge of IRS.)
http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2017/11/house-panel-backs-two-year-cooling-period-appointees-looking-burrow/142252/
THINK PROGRESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, “religious leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the anti-religious Democrat Party.
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-tax-reform-bill-politicize-churches-215bd7f610c4/
