June 5, 2024

PR NEWSWIRE
— Start sending releases with the largest and most trusted content distribution network (COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The Illinois Republican Party (IRP) should issue press releases each and every day that show that the Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime and that the Republican Party platform promotes prosperity and safety. The IRP should focus on the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Constructively, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters do what the IRP should be doing. What the mainstream news media puts out a) is a summary of Democrat Party press releases and b) editorials made to look like news articles.)
https://www.prnewswire.com/account/online-membership-form/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republican walk out prevents Will County vote on raises for elected officials – MICHELLE MULLINS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/04/republican-walk-out-prevents-will-county-vote-on-raises-for-elected-officials/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/04/how-bidens-new-order-to-halt-asylum-at-the-us-border-is-supposed-to-work/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Because Trump is German American and Protestant and because Biden is not, anticipate/expect that Democrats will ever-increasingly draw attention to Hitler, to Nazi Germany, and to the Holocaust.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/06/04/hitler-nazis-review-netflix-documentary-evil-trial-joe-berlinger
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that Latinos have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/06/04/latino-college-students-graduation-afforability-latino-policy-forum-jennifer-juarez-rebecca-vonderlack-navarro
— Two teens’ promising futures end on Eisenhower Expy. — allegedly struck by drunk driver. Erik C. Cox and Shealyn Sherwood, both 18, were killed when Ashanti Gates’ car struck them in the outbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway early Sunday, prosecutors said. The teens had stopped to fix a flat tire. – Matthew Hendrickson and Emmanuel Camarillo (COMMENT: When you were in high school, did you have a “promising future,” were you viewed as being “college material?” I was not. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Because they did not have money to pay my college expenses, if I was accepted by a college, I would have to work my way through college. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My vision could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I spend my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC. My brother was not so fortunate I believe because he was wrongly held back in first grade.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/06/04/woman-driving-drunk-shoulder-eisenhower-fatally-striking-high-school-grads

DAILY HERALD
— Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden’s push – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240604/autos/many-americans-are-still-shying-away-from-evs-despite-bidens-push-an-ap-norc-epic-poll-finds/

ABC7
— U.S. Secret Service, CPD provide update on Chicago DNC 2024 security plan. Thousands of officers training for large protests.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-secret-service-cpd-provide-update-chicago-democratic/14909816/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/joe-biden-unveil-immigration-order-severely-limiting-asylum/14909729/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-joe-bidens-immigration-executive-order-migrants-in-chicago/14911391/

NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly call law enforcement officers racists. Everyone hates past, present, and future IRS employees. IRS Revenue Officers enforce federal tax laws. After working for IRS for almost 9 years as a Revenue Officer, I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. Democrats run IRS and GAO. GAO audits IRS. I should write a book about how my Democrat GAO superiors used my having worked for IRS against me.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/do-black-drivers-in-chicago-really-get-pulled-over-more-often-new-research-says-yes/3455157/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote race based preference giving.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/daca-latina-influencer-uses-platform-to-promote-latine-owned-small-businesses-in-chicago/3455084/
— Teens accused of attacking couple walking in Streeterville. The teens were both charged with misdemeanor battery in the case. (COMMENT: Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/teens-accused-of-attacking-couple-walking-in-streeterville/3455271/

CBS2
— Chicago Police training for any possible unrest at Democratic National Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl631Jm5YQ
— After migrants move out, Chicago park reopens for summer programs
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/after-migrants-move-out-chicago-park-reopens-for-summer-programs/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/president-biden-executive-migrants-chicago/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-pastor-asylum-seekers-react-to-president-bidens-immigration-order/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/what-will-president-bidens-executive-action-mean-for-migrants-in-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XshroykrhY

WGN9
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/biden-immigration-order-gets-mixed-reaction-from-chicago-area-leaders/

FOX32
— Chicago mayor welcomes residents back to facility after migrants move out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSezzyC8NB8
— Posen shuts down annual carnival due to teen chaos (CCOMMENT: Posen today, your municipality tomorrow,)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSbzBbMSH0
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced on Tuesday a significant investment aimed at keeping teens out of trouble this summer by pumping $600,000 into local neighborhoods. (COMMENT: What did you do while you were in high school and the summers in between? I did yard work while I was a freshman and sophomore. I delivered newspapers while I was a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. I washed dishes while I was a junior and senior. The aforesaid enabled me a) to buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air when I was a junior in 1964 and b) to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint when I was a senior. I then used that Pontiac to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and a) classes at UIC and b) my part-time Park Forest Post Office job.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-announces-600k-grants-support-youth-programs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6Y2eam5Pc

SOUTHERN
— National Republican Senate Committee instructs GOP candidates to support birth control ahead of vote on contraception bill – Isabella Murray and Tal Axelrod,
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/05/national-republican-senate-committee-instructs-gop-candidates-to-support-birth-control-ahead-of-vote-on-contraception-bill/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Haley, Christie and others take votes away from Trump in New Mexico primary. – Miranda Nazzaro (COMMENT: At this point, to vote for Haley, Christie, or others is to vote for Biden.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/haley-christie-and-others-take-votes-away-from-trump-in-new-mexico-primary/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrats ever-increasingly call you a racist if you do not promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2024-06-04/demographic-fears-may-be-a-driver-in-anti-immigrant-resolutions-says-civil-rights-advocate

WIFR
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2024/06/03/gov-pritzker-pushes-contraception-protections-federal-level/

ELMHURST PATCH
— Elmhurst Urged To Back Gaza Ceasefire Resolution. Residents said the city should project its values of equality and human rights. – David Giuliani
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/amp/31770479/elmhurst-urged-to-back-gaza-ceasefire-resolution

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more gambling and other vices.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/analysis-democrats-tap-gaming-cash-cow-to-help-fill-state-budget-gap

CWB CHICAGO
— After couple is attacked while walking, Streeterville buildings hire security until police ‘control the situation’ (COMMENT: Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.)
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/06/after-couple-is-attacked-while-walking-streeterville-buildings-hire-security-until-police-control-the-situation.html

CHALKBEAT
— Schools make a difference for students exposed to violence – Mila Koumpilova (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been born with a silver spoon in my mouth and having never been exposed to violence. They have always stressed that my parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. I would focus on those whose parents had way more money than mine had.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/06/04/gun-violence-hurts-student-achievement-university-of-chicago-consortium-study-finds/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-303/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-98/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What does your political future look like for you? My political future looks ever-increasingly bleak. I fully anticipate/expect that anti-Diersen leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) will do more and more and more to get one of my Republican voters in my precinct to run against me and defeat me for my precinct committeeman position. Recently a DCRCC leader angrily/rudely told me that she had thrown my April 2024 precinct letter in the trash. A copy of that precinct letter is at the end of this newsletter. They will do more and more and more a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. They will build on their past successes including: a) removing me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee, b) ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, g) ending my role as the MTRO webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) steering Committee membership in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, and k) ending my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors membership in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: What emboldens people to take adverse actions against other people? ANSWER: They believe that they can get away with it. They have more power than their victims. They know that their victims forgive those who trespass against them. I should write a book about those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial power in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who most vehemently oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. Should I abandon my policy of forgiving those who take adverse actions against me? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Republicans are given no right to complain about anything, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or they have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Too many in government and the media are trying to normalize the level of crime we see in Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/too-many-in-government-and-the-media-are-trying-to-normalize-the-level-of-crime-we-see-in-chicago-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Liberal tracker of ‘hate’ groups Southern Poverty Law Center excludes anti-Israel groups from latest list. – Susan Ferrechio (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition were hate groups.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/4/liberal-tracker-of-hate-groups-excludes-anti-israe/
— Thanks to DEI, I see antisemitism every day. Overt hostility, quiet antipathy reflect Jews’ experience at many institutions. – Dr. Benjamin A. Goldberg
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/4/thanks-to-dei-i-see-antisemitism-every-day/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— State attorneys general push American Bar Association to end race-based advocacy – F. Thies (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had health and/or other problems.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3026544/state-attorneys-general-american-bar-association/
— The border crisis comes to the classroom – Jeremiah Poff
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3027787/border-crisis-comes-to-classroom/
— Trump verdict has galvanized the GOP like Dobbs did for Democrats – Elizabeth Stauffer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3026231/trump-verdict-galvanized-gop-like-dobbs-did-democrats/
— Get married, young man, get married – Ben Rothove (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when I got married in 1978 when I was 29 years old. They had viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being someone who would never get married because I was such an extremely bad person. Further, they were even more furious because my wife had a good job and savings. With her savings as a down payment, we bought 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ).
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3026395/get-married-young-man-get-married/
— Generation Z, stop giving Taylor Swift a political platform – Anna Broussard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3026026/generation-z-stop-giving-taylor-swift-political-platform/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE officers given new instructions appearing to make it easier for migrants to claim asylum – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/us-news/ice-officers-given-new-asylum-instructions-for-migrants/
— Trump team embraces early voting and mail-in ballots in ‘Swamp the Vote’ initiative – Diana Glebova
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/trump-team-embraces-early-voting-mail-in-ballots-for-2024-election/
— 121 NYC hotels converted to migrant shelters despite concerns of cost squeeze on tourists. – Carl Campanile
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/121-nyc-hotels-converted-to-migrant-shelters-despite-concerns-of-cost-squeeze-on-tourists/
— Pride event at Maine town hall sparks backlash after drag queen with crude name performs for kids – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/drag-queen-with-crude-name-performs-for-kids-at-maine-town-hall/
— NYC parent advocacy group outlines ‘devastating impact’ migrant crisis burdens onto schools’ trauma resources – Haley Brown
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/nyc-parent-advocacy-group-outlines-how-migrant-crisis-is-overwhelming-schools-trauma-resources/
— Biden announces border ‘crackdown’ that will still let in at least 1.8 million illegally per year. – Josh Christenson, Diana Glebova, Jennie Taer and Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/biden-announces-border-crackdown-that-will-still-let-in-at-least-1-75-million-per-year/

AMEERICAN THINKER
— Biden’s border ‘crackdown’ is a con job based on another Biden bait-and-switch – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/biden_s_border_crackdown_is_a_con_job_based_on_another_biden_bait_and_switch.html
— After bankrolling illegals, FEMA says it will run out of cash for hurricane season – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/after_bankrolling_illegals_fema_says_it_will_run_out_of_cash_for_hurricane_season.html

BLAZE
— Biden executive orders suspend entry of illegal aliens, but only if border reaches certain threshold for 7 days in a row – ANDREW CHAPADOS (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America is not in a position to “suspend entry of illegal aliens.”)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-executive-orders-suspend-entry-of-illegal-aliens-but-only-if-border-reaches-certain-threshold-for-7-days-in-a-row
— Voters get brutally honest about how the Trump verdict backfired on Democrats: ‘I’m all in with the MAGA people’ – CHRIS ENLOE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/voters-back-trump-after-verdict
— Room costs in NYC soar as 1 in 5 hotels converted into shelters for illegal aliens, homeless – CORTNEY WEIL
https://www.theblaze.com/news/room-costs-in-nyc-soar-as-1-in-5-hotels-converted-into-shelters-for-illegal-aliens-homeless

BREITBART
— Couple Beaten by Teens in Chicago, Pregnant Wife Loses Baby After Attack – KATHERINE HAMILTON
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/06/04/couple-beaten-teens-chicago-date-pregnant-wife-loses-baby-attack/
— Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn Raises Pride Flag Despite Recent Ban on City Property – PAUL BOIS (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, LGBTQ leaders ever-increasingly force LGBTQ down everyone’s throat.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/05/los-angeles-county-supervisor-janice-hahn-raises-pride-flag-despite-recent-ban-on-city-property/
— Denver Democrats Pick Illegal Aliens for Jobs Needed by Americans – WARNER TODD HUSTON (COMMENT: When I was young, if there had been as many illegals in America as there are now, they would have gotten the bad jobs that I got. The jobs that I had were bad, but they enabled me to a) buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964, b) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, c) pay for my UIC and NIU expenses, and d) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 and owning that Charger.)
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/06/04/denver-democrats-pick-illegal-aliens-jobs-needed-americans/
— GOP Rips Biden’s ‘Desperate’ Election-Year ‘Border Charade’ — ‘Biden Is Gaslighting You’ – JOSHUA KLEIN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/04/gop-rips-bidens-desperate-election-year-border-charade-biden-is-gaslighting-you/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Rips Biden’s ‘Weak And Pathetic’ Executive Order On The Border: ‘It Will Actually Make The Invasion Worse’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-bidens-weak-and-pathetic-executive-order-on-the-border-it-will-actually-make-the-invasion-worse
— Biden Unveils Immigration Executive Order After Months Of Insisting There’s Nothing He Could Do – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/04/biden-immigration-executive-order-power-crisis/
— Feds Fund Film Festival Featuring ‘Queer X-Rated Cinema’ About ‘Steamy Gay Bathhouse,’ ‘Ravenous’ Male Prostitute – ROBERT SCHMAD
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/04/feds-fund-film-festival-lgbt-san-francisco/

DAILY WIRE
— Biden Signs Weak Executive Order To Address His Border Crisis After Claiming He Couldn’t Do It – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-weak-executive-order-to-address-his-border-crisis-after-claiming-he-couldnt-do-it
— Republican Attorneys General Warn American Bar Association To Steer Clear Of Race-Based Initiatives – Leif Le Mahieu (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had health and/or other problems.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-attorneys-general-warn-american-bar-association-to-steer-clear-of-race-based-initiatives

FOX NEWS
— Chicago couple brutally assaulted by teens while on date, pregnant wife loses baby after attack. The teen suspects said, ‘we own the street,’ as they mercilessly beat a husband and his pregnant wife in Chicago neighborhood. – Chris Pandolfo
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-couple-brutally-assaulted-teens-while-date-pregnant-wife-loses-baby-after-attack
— Why one Chicago Democrat wants to stop crime alerts. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth says she will no longer send out crime alerts to her constituents in Chicago because it will lead to ‘an inaccurate public perception.’ (COMMENT: When Democrats run things, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6354337378112
— Biden says world leaders are scared of another Trump presidency, tell him ‘you can’t let’ Trump win. Biden said people ‘lost confidence’ in America after Jan. 6. – Hanna Panreck (COMMENT: Those who orchestrated January 6 had to know that it would harm Trump.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-says-world-leaders-scared-another-trump-presidency-tell-him-you-cant-let-trump-win

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The Border Crisis is Reportedly Overwhelming Washington, DC Schools – Mike LaChance (COMMENT: DC schools today, your schools tomorrow.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/the-border-crisis-is-reportedly-overwhelming-washington-dc-schools/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Book publisher Scholastic announced a “Read with Pride” campaign, providing educators a list of “LGBTQIA+ stories” for “kids and teens” and vowed to use company resources to fight efforts by local school districts and parents to determine what content is appropriate for students. – ZACH KESSEL (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly do everything that they can to make children sexually active LGBTQers.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/scholastic-publishes-pride-guide-for-teachers-vows-to-distribute-lgbt-books-banned-by-schools/

TOWNHALL
— Trump Campaign Blasts Biden’s Immigration Executive Order – Leah Barkoukis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/06/04/trump-blasts-bidens-immigration-executive-order-n2639956

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Ever-increasingly, to buy things from Walmart and Target is to promote LGBTQ, that is, to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/walmart-s-pride-always-collection-stands-strong-as-target-faces-backlash-in-lgbtq-merchandise/ar-BB1nlgWK
— Nine states already banned affirmative action, what happened next? – Morgan Wolfe (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nine-states-already-banned-affirmative-action-what-happened-next/ar-AA1deBnA
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-officials-are-using-dress-codes-to-target-lgbtq-students/ar-BB1nDkqj

ABC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-decades-fear-transgender-elders-celebrate-freedom-progress/story?id=110435380

NBC NEWS
— Trump reaps post-verdict financial windfall
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-reaps-post-verdict-financial-windfall-rcna155224

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— The Trump conviction was politically driven. The adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me were politically driven. The adverse action that Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs take against me are politically driven.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republicans-trump-conviction-politically-motivated-vow-indict-left-110823249

REUTERS
— Biden calls Trump a ‘convicted felon’ who is unfit for office – Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose (COMMENT: I am unfit for any kind of office according to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. They have always stressed the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. They have always stressed the adverse actions that my superiors in the federal government took against me. They stress that to justify forcing me to take early retirement, my Democrat GAO superiors stressed that a) they had delayed my promotions and had never promoted me beyond GS-13, b) they had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, c) they had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I had worked for GAO, and d) they had forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They stressed that they had taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me even though a) I had earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, b) I had earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, and c) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97.079-$110,020/year. Previously, they stressed that my Democrat IRS superiors a) had never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) had disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. Previously, they stressed at my Democrat Post Office superiors a) had forced me to resign in 1969 and b) had disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-calls-trump-convicted-felon-2024-06-04/
— US attorney general denies politicizing justice system against Trump – Sarah N. Lynch (COMMENT: Democrats run GAO. In Diersen v. GAO, DOJ vigorously defended GAO’s forcing me to take early retirement because I had become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-attorney-general-house-republicans-i-will-not-be-intimidated-2024-06-04/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they have the power to destroy Republicans and that they will use that power to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/trump-verdict-voters.html

NEW YORK SUN
— Biden’s Last-Ditch Election Ploy on Border Security Won’t Fool Anyone. Just ask taxpayers on the street who are already footing the high-cost bills of illegal immigration. – LAWRENCE KUDLOW
https://www.nysun.com/article/bidens-last-ditch-election-ploy-on-border-security-wont-fool-anyone

USA TODAY
— A strong economy means more Americans are earning $400K. What’s it mean for their taxes? – Daniel de Visé (COMMENT: In 1997, in today’s dollars, GAO paid me $150,075/year. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 (NIU-management), b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976 (Loyola-MBA), 1980 (DePaul-accounting), and 1997 (IIT-financial markets and trading), c) job-related professional certifications in 1979 (CPA), 1981 (Internal Auditing), 1990 (Fraud Examining), 1994 (Government Financial Management), 1996 (Financial Services Auditor), and 1997 (Forensic Accounting), and d) a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/31/400000-tax-hike-more-americans-affected/73890456007/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/06/03/gay-transgender-least-most-welcoming-states/73909721007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/02/senate-birth-control-contraception-abortion/73949365007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/06/03/cancer-risk-lgbtq-people/73927708007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/05/30/illegal-immigration-1924-quota-act/73814694007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Trial Violated Due Process. He was denied notice of the charges, meaningful opportunity to respond, and proof of all elements. – David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley (COMMENT: What have you been charged with doing? My Democrat IRS superiors charged me with filing false tax returns and false travel vouchers. I should write a book about that. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-trial-violated-due-process-76fae047
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-border-executive-order-immigration-b1d681f8
— America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer. Drives to the office that take over an hour are becoming more common—and even more palatable. – Anne Marie Chaker (COMMENT: So that I could walk to/from work in the Loop and graduate evening business courses at Loyola, I bought a studio condo in the Outer Drive East building in 1974. In 1976, I traded that condo into the building’s developer for a one bedroom condo and then walked to/from work in the Loop and graduate accounting classes at DePaul.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/americas-commute-to-work-is-getting-longer-and-longer-0fbf79c3

DALLAS EXPRESS
— Tarrant County GOP Chair Spotlights Trans, Illegal Alien Activism at A&M – Kellen McGovern Jones
https://dallasexpress.com/education/gop-chair-spotlights-trans-illegal-alien-activism-at-am/

SAN FRANCISCO STANDARD
— California is clearing criminal records—including violent crimes—to offer second chances – Jeanne Kuang (COMMENT: Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters give Trump a second chance?)
https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/21/california-clearing-criminal-violent-records/

MEDIA MATTERS
— Laura Ingraham says Joe Biden’s “sole goal was to fundamentally change this country” through immigration. Ingraham: “They flooded America with what they hope will be future Democrat voters in order to create a permanent majority”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/laura-ingraham-says-joe-bidens-sole-goal-was-fundamentally-change-country-through

PHYS
— Democrats ever-increasingly flood America with citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, citizens of foreign countries who want, need, demand massive government assistance, who lack education and/or job skills, who have health and/or other problems and/or are liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, and/or non-protestant.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-empathy-people-similar-simple.html

YAHOO
— Men and women hold inaccurate ideas of what the opposite sex finds attractive – Caroline Allen (COMMENT: What did you do that might have made you more attractive to the opposite sex? I bought new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, and 1974. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I bought a new town home in University Park in 1972. I got promoted to GS-12 (currently $97,079/year) in 1974. I bought a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974. I traded that condo in to the building’s developer for a one bedroom condo in 1976. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. The following might have made me less attractive to the opposite sex: a) I washed dishes during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between 1964-1966, b) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966, c) I delivered mail 1966-1969, d) I lived with and helped support my mother and brother 1970-1972, e) I worked for a Firestone Store 1970-1972, and f) I worked for IRS starting in 1971.)
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/style/attractive-opposite-sex-research-145710418.html

DAILY MAIL
— Chicago woman loses unborn baby after she and husband were attacked on date night by ’14 year-old boy and 17 year-old girl’ The 41-year-old woman and her husband were battered and pepper-sprayed. Residents of Streeterville had already demanded action on rampant teen gangs. Aggravated battery is up 20 percent across Chicago in the year to date. – DOMINIC YEATMAN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13495835/Chicago-unborn-baby-streeterville-pregnant-attack-teenagers-gang.html

DIERSEN APRIL 2024 PRECINCT 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 Republicans:

March 19, 2024 DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Election Results


Registered Republican Voters – 368 Republican Ballots Cast – 136 (37%)

Votes Received
Donald Trump, U.S. President – 91
Nikki Haley, U.S. President – 33
John Booras, U.S. Congressman, 3rd Congressional District – 118
Amy Grant, Illinois Representative, 47th District – 118
Bob Berlin, Illinois State’s Attorney, DuPage County – 121
Jaye Wang, DuPage County Clerk of the Circuit Court – 115
Bob Grogan, DuPage County Auditor -115
Richard Jorgensen, DuPage County Coroner – 120
Nicole Prater, DuPage County Recorder – 116
Annette Corrigan, DuPage County Board, District 4 – 60 (write-in)
Jeff Castle, DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner, District 4 – 117
Kenton Skarin, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District – 117
Jason Helland, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District – 114
John Costello, Appellate Court Judge, 3rd Judicial District – 115
David John Diersen, Republican Precinct Committeeman – 114

Thank you for casting a Republican primary ballot. As your Republican Precinct Committeeman, my responsibilities for primary elections include encouraging Republican voter turnout. My responsibilities for general elections include encouraging 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, Castle, and Skarin. As the November 5 general election approaches, please consider displaying yard signs for them.

Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committeeman for the 3rd Congressional District Jeanne Ives has appointed me to serve on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in Collinsville May 24 and 25. Please contact me if you would like to see changes to the current platform which is at https://illinois.gop/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020PlatformoftheIllinoisRepublicanParty.pdf and/or resolutions introduced. The 2020 resolutions are at: https://illinois.gop/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/13-Resolutions.pdf .

As the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, I put together and send out a newsletter each and every morning. Please visit www.gopillinois.com and consider subscribing. The newsletters contain links to articles of interest to Illinois Republicans posted during the previous 24 hours. They are free, contain no advertising or donation requests, and I do not share your email address with anyone. Since January 1, 2005, those newsletters have included links to more than 484,500 articles.

Sincerely,

Dave Diersen

June 4, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Saint Ignatius priest grazed while confronting suspected catalytic converter thieves in Little Italy – Rob Hughes
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italy-chicago-shooting-today-st-ignatius-priest-jeremiah/14907272/
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in forcing LGBTQ on everyone.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mayor-brandon-johnson-local-leaders-raise-progress-pride/14906569/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success in promoting hatred against Republicans. I became eligible to take early retirement in 1993 when I was 45 years old. I was able to survive another 4 years before my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave by Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. If there had been as much Democrat-generated hatred within GAO against Republicans back then as there is now, they would have succeeded in forcing me to retire much sooner. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had earned my third job-related master’s degree and my sixth job-related professional certification that year. Previously, I had earned job related professional certifications in 1996,1994,1990, 1981, and 1979 and I had earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/cook-county-city-chicago-officials-encourage-community-submit/14906518/

NBC5
— ‘Flash mob’ involving hundreds of teens leads to cancellation of suburban carnival. Posen police said just before 7 p.m. Sunday that officers were working to disperse crowds after a “large fight” broke out, the second such incident to take place at the carnival since it began. – Regina Waldroup (COMMENT: Posen today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suburban-carnival-abruptly-shut-down-early-due-to-large-fight-police-say/3453275/
— Sidewalk snow removal pilot sparks intense debate among Chicago lawmakers (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/sidewalk-snow-removal-pilot-sparks-intense-debate-among-chicago-lawmakers/3453897/
— Peloton users report bike systems ‘freezing’ following latest software update (COMMENT: Recently, I bought a Gotrax Dolphin from Amazon.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/peloton-users-report-bike-systems-freezing-following-latest-software-update/3454101/

CBS2
— Catalytic converter thief fires shots at priest near Chicago Catholic school, UIC – Darius Johnson, Todd Feurer, Adam Harrington
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/st-ignatius-shots-fired-at-priest-catalytic-converter-thieves/
— Chicago alderwoman believes she was targeted with signs about Gaza because she is Jewish – Adam Harrington, Natalie Goldstick, Steffanie Dupree
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-alderwoman-signs-gaza/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/long-delays-hurdles-asylum-seekers-chicago-work-permits/

FOX32
— Chicago gunmen open fire on Jesuit priest after he catches them stealing catalytic converter
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-gunmen-open-fire-jesuit-priest-catalytic-converter-theft
— Chicago woman suffers miscarriage after she and husband attacked by teens in Streeterville
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-woman-husband-attacked-teens-streeterville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGwxkjtc3NY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-pride-month-flag-raising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM71TV2Vg6s

WTTW
— After Would-Be Illinois GOP Candidates Sue, Judge Considering Whether Slated Candidates Can Appear on November Ballot – Hannah Meisel (COMMENT: U.S. President was the only contested Republican primary race in my precinct. One office would have been “no candidate” if it had not been filled by write-in. As Democrats ever-increasingly run Illinois, anticipate/expect fewer and fewer and fewer candidates will run as Republicans. Further, anticipate/expect that fewer and fewer and fewer of them will be conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/03/after-would-be-illinois-gop-candidates-sue-judge-considering-whether-slated-candidates
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Sangamon County judge is weighing whether to block a new state law that bans the long-practiced tradition of political parties slating candidates for a general election after sitting out of a primary race. Democrats who control the General Assembly pushed the measure through the legislative process and Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law in a matter of days last month, arguing that slating is unfair to voters who didn’t get a say in a primary contest. Several would-be Republican candidates then sued over the law, claiming it’s unfair to ban the practice in the middle of an election cycle.)

WBEZ
— Ahead of the DNC, Chicago IG warns about police tactics, ‘insufficient’ training. Experts flag issues leading up to the Democratic National Convention in August, including foreign interference.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/06/03/ahead-of-the-dnc-chicago-ig-warns-about-police-tactics-insufficient-training

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Dolton trustees override Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s veto, solidifying the hiring of Lori Lightfoot as special investigator. – OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/dolton-trustees-override-mayor-tiffany-henyards-veto-solidifying-the-hiring-of-lori-lightfoot-as-special-investigator/
— Hemp can get you high. Illinois needs to better protect its minors. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/editorial-hemp-can-get-you-high-illinois-needs-to-better-protect-its-minors/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/cannabis-dispensary-with-1950s-diner-theme-to-open-in-niles/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect to see fewer and fewer and fewer people who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/fox-valley-mall-in-aurora-wins-international-award-for-its-multicultural-events/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: College graduates are concerned pro-Palestinian activism could deter future employers. – ZAREEN SYED (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not. I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/04/college-graduates-are-concerned-pro-palestinian-activism-could-deter-future-employers/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/06/03/pride-month-flag-daley-plaza
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in Civil War and Republicans as having been the Confederacy.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/06/03/juneteenth-cook-county-chicago-illinois

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrats ever-increasingly make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/06/03/city/evanston-pride-youth-car-parade-cultivates-safe-space-amidst-increased-anti-lgbtq-legislation-nationwide/

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, the more of the following that you are, the more reparations that you should pay: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/06/03/letter-to-the-editor-dont-dignify-the-lawsuit-targeting-reparations/

SOUTHERN
— Who do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want the Republican presidential candidate to be instead of Trump?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/04/majority-of-independents-and-double-haters-think-trump-should-end-2024-campaign-poll/

WMBD RADIO
— Judge considering whether slated candidates can appear on November ballot
https://wmbdradio.com/2024/06/04/judge-considering-whether-slated-candidates-can-appear-on-november-ballot/

WIFR
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more contraception.
https://www.wifr.com/2024/06/03/gov-pritzker-pushes-contraception-protections-federal-level/

25 NEWS NOW
— Democrats ever-increasingly push LGBTQ on everyone.
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2024/06/04/illinois-is-beacon-hope-lgbtq-community-says-state-lawmaker-peoria/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/03/19-chicago-lgbtq-organizations-to-support-year-round/

ILLINOIS PATCH
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in taking adverse actions against Trump. How many demographics do you share with Trump? Trump and I share lots of demographics. I should write a book about the adverse actions that my Democrat GAO, IRS, Firestone Stores, and Post Office superiors took against me. Further, I should write another book about the adverse actions that my Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, Independent plant, and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have taken and continue to take against me.
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/il-patch-readers-agree-trump-conviction-slim-margin

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-302/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois lobbyist Pat Brady, who switched from GOP to Democrats, is an ‘absolute traitor’ who ‘would sell out anyone for those thirty pieces of silver’ – Dan Proft (COMMENT: I should write a book about the many big adverse actions that Pat Brady, his operatives, and his dupes have taken against me.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/660323468-proft-illinois-lobbyist-pat-brady-who-switched-from-gop-to-democrats-is-an-absolute-traitor-who-would-sell-out-anyone-for-those-thirty-pieces-of-silver

KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 45.7% of Kane County’s districts student body in 2021-22 school year
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/660250750-enrollment-analysis-hispanic-students-comprised-45-7-of-kane-county-s-districts-student-body-in-2021-22-school-year

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/ballys-chicago-casino-to-host-diversity-vendor-fair-on-june-11/

SOUTH COOK NEWS
— There were 267,255 Hispanic students enrolled in Cook County districts in 2021-22 school year
https://southcooknews.com/stories/660250818-there-were-267-255-hispanic-students-enrolled-in-cook-county-districts-in-2021-22-school-year

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— There were 41,466 Hispanic students enrolled in Lake County school districts in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/660250754-how-many-hispanic-students-were-enrolled-in-lake-county-districts-in-2021-22-school-year

WIREPOINTS
— The evidence so far on Illinois’ ‘Evidence-Based Funding’ for K-12 schools: It’s a flop – Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/the-evidence-so-far-on-illinois-evidence-based-funding-for-k-12-schools-its-a-flop-wirepoints-special-report/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Big City Blacks, Hispanics Bail on Biden and Democrats – MARK VARGAS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/06/vargas-big-city-blacks-hispanics-bail-on-biden-and-democrats.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Harvard faculty drops mandatory diversity statements in latest blow to DEI push – Valerie Richardson (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/3/harvard-faculty-drops-mandatory-diversity-statemen/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson’s agenda will make Chicago schools less safe – Matt Lamb
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3025697/brandon-johnsons-agenda-chicago-schools-less-safe/
— Democrats launch offensive against Republican IVF initiative with new bill. – Ailin Vilches Arguello
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3026084/democrats-offensive-against-republican-ivf-initiative-new-bill/
— The anti-CPAC: A conference for conservatives that prioritize debate not grandstanding – Erin Dunne (COMMENT: I not only attended but helped sponsor many CPACs, but not recently.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1484642/the-anti-cpac-a-conference-for-conservatives-that-prioritize-debate-not-grandstanding/
— Harvard eliminates DEI requirement for some tenure-track professors – Emily Hallas (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3026670/harvard-eliminates-dei-requirement-some-tenure-track-professors/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Mexico Elects Sheinbaum as President. State of the Union: The left-populist is open to working with Trump on border enforcement. – Mason Letteau Stallings (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mexico-elects-sheinbaum-as-president/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— No vacation for the agenda: ‘Pride’ push prevails, even when school is out. – Bob Kellogg, Charlie Butts (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexual active LGBTQers?)
https://afn.net/education/2024/06/03/no-vacation-for-the-agenda-pride-push-prevails-even-when-school-is-out/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden’s sneaky back-door amnesty for illegals – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/biden_s_sneaky_back_door_amnesty_for_illegals.html

BREITBART
— Biden to Announce Symbolic Election-Year Border Curbs – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/06/03/report-biden-announce-symbolic-border-curbs/
— Backdoor Border: Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants Stay in U.S. Thanks to Case Dismissals. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/03/backdoor-border-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-stay-in-u-s-thanks-to-case-dismissals/

COLLEGE FIX
— Don’t say ‘America’: Michigan State has 140+ employees working on 222 DEI action items. – MJ CADMAN
https://www.thecollegefix.com/dont-say-america-michigan-state-has-140-employees-working-on-222-dei-action-items/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Trump Stronger After ‘Conviction’ – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/trump-stronger-after-conviction

DAILY CALLER
— There’s A Long List Of Reasons To Toss Trump’s Conviction — But His Appeal Venue Isn’t The Friendliest – KATELYNN RICHARDSON (COMMENT: The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/03/trumps-conviction-appeal-venue/

DAILY SIGNAL
— America Is Under Attack – Johnny Cochran
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/03/america-is-under-attack/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago leader to stop sharing crime alerts with constituents because they create bad ‘perception’ Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth cited research that states the over-reporting of crime negatively impacts the marginalized and underserved. – Louis Casiano (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Democrats run the news media. Anticipate/expect ever-increasing underreporting of poverty and crime.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-leader-stop-sharing-crime-alerts-constituents-because-create-bad-perception
— Trump vows to fire generals who push wokeness: ‘You can’t have a woke military’ Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ US has a ‘great military’ that must be focused on winning wars. – Bailee Hill
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-vows-fire-generals-push-wokeness-cant-woke-military
— Epoch Education CEO Dr. Nancy Dome called employees who don’t accept notions included in CRT, such as the existence of “White privilege,” a “poison to culture and climate,” and criticized equality in favor of equity. The DEI firm’s YouTube videos, meanwhile, espouse CRT’s tenets and indicate that color blindness isn’t sufficient. – Hannah Grossman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/school-district-dei-trainer-says-american-flag-hate-symbol-resisting-employees-fired

JUDICIAL WATCH
— TRUMP VERDICT OUTRAGE: CAN THE COUNTRY BE SAVED?!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/trump-verdict-outrage-can-the-country-be-saved/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Harvard Faculty End Mandatory DEI Statements in Hiring – CAROLINE DOWNEY
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-faculty-end-mandatory-dei-statements-in-hiring/

PJ MEDIA
— Barack Obama Offered Jeremiah Wright Hush Money During 2008 Campaign – MATT MARGOLIS
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/03/obama-offered-jeremiah-wright-hush-money-during-2008-campaign-n4929574

TOWNHALL
— Crime and Punishment in Joe Biden’s America – Brent Bozell III
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozelliii/2024/06/04/crime-and-punishment-in-joe-bidens-america-n2639947#google_vignette

TURNING POINT USA
— State Department DEI Practices have led to Inefficiencies in Hiring – Stephen Davis (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.tpusa.com/live/new-report-claims-state-department-dei-practices-have-led-to-inefficiencies-in-hiring

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4700827-biden-campaign-looks-to-mobilize-lgbtq-voters-with-pride-month-media-blitz/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://apnews.com/article/ceo-pay-compensation-ratio-workers-fa25db3338b68ad9eb395dfd46190383

MSN
— What Car Is The Most Woke? – Amber DaSilv (COMMENT: The vehicles that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/what-car-is-the-most-woke/ar-BB1nymHl

NEW YORK TIMES
— Another Milestone in Mexico: Its First Jewish President – Simon Romero and Natalie Kitroeff
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/world/americas/claudia-sheinbaum-jewish-mexico-president.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
— Benjamin B. Bolger has 14 advanced degrees, plus an associate’s and a bachelor’s. I have only 4 degrees, a 1997 master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT, a 1980 master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, a 1976 MBA from Loyola, and a 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html

WASHINGTON POST
— If Trump is not elected president on November 5, 2024, no Republican president will ever be elected president again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/03/mexico-sheinbaum-morena-one-party-state/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats focus on getting everyone to despise/hate Republicans. I should write about what my Democrat GAO superiors did to get my Black GAO subordinates to despise/hate me. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they succeeded in forcing me to retire and they gave one of my Black subordinates my job and my preferred corner office.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-03/we-refuse-american-history-juneteenth

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/06/03/gay-transgender-least-most-welcoming-states/73909721007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Mexico Hands More Power to the Left. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and her Morena party win big. The peso and stock market fell in response. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-presidential-election-amlo-xochitl-galvez-f70301fd

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexico-election-president-claudia-sheinbaum-af55cbce

FORBES
— Garmin DriveCam 76 Review: Finally, A GPS Device With A Built-In Dash Camera – William Roberson (COMMENT: I am considering buying this for my 2018 Chevrolet Cruze LT.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billroberson/2023/02/28/garmin-drivecam-76-finally-a-gps-device-with-a-built-in-dash-camera/

HARVAD BUSINESS REVIEW & FORBES & INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2024/06/research-why-companies-should-disclose-their-lack-of-progress-on-dei
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2024/06/03/stop-the-dei-backslide-with-these-4-steps/?sh=3d3bdc484910
https://www.inc.com/sarah-lynch/business-leaders-arent-abandoning-dei-even-if-staying-quiet.html

SOUTH COAST TODAY
— What are e-bikes? Here’s what riders say you need to know. – Matthew Ferreira (COMMENT: Recently, I bought a Gotrax Dolphin from Amazon.)
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2024/06/03/what-are-e-bikes-and-can-you-ride-them-on-the-road-cycling-experts-give-pros-and-cons/73909707007/

POLITICO
— More Republicans now identify as working or lower class than Democrats. And white voters without a college education, once a core Democratic constituency, remain a key element of Trump’s reelection bid heading into November. – TOM MCGRATH (COMMENT: My parents were conservative Republicans. Neither of them attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He often decried his not having a college degree. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/04/yuppies-donald-trump-book-excerpt-00160689

June 3, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As police response times grow, people are taking defense into their own hands – Rob Chadwick (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect ever-increasing poverty and crime.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/opinion-chicago-911-response-time-firearms-concealed-carry/
— Will County township supervisor has no regrets flying inverted U.S. flag outside public offices for Trump – RICK PEARSON (COMMENT: If Trump had been found innocent, how would the Democrats have protested?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/02/will-county-township-supervisor-has-no-regrets-flying-inverted-u-s-flag-outside-public-offices-for-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Thousands of Mexican nationals in Chicago turn out to vote, some waiting over 10 hours – LAURA RODRÍGUEZ PRESA (COMMENT: Countries always have conflicting interests. Mexico has tremendous conflicting interests with America. One cannot be loyal to two countries at the same time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/02/mexico-election-chicago/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders promote race-based politics.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/asian-americans-working-to-translate-growing-numbers-in-chicago-into-political-power/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their convicting Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/02/donald-trump-felony-hush-money-conviction-steinberg

ABC7
— Posen carnival shut down early after ‘large fight’ leads to multiple arrests (COMMENT: Posen today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/posen-park-fest-2024-carnival-shut-early-after/14904900/
— Half of Americans think Trump’s guilty verdict was correct, should end campaign. 47% say they think the charges against Trump were politically motivated. – Isabella Murry (COMMENT: Democrats run the news media in America. From the beginning, they have shouted that the prosecution was warranted and that Trump is guilty.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-poll-half-americans-guilty-verdict-correct-2024-election/14903586/
— Thousands of Mexicans vote in-person at Chicago consulate for historic Mexico presidential election – Christian Piekos and Cate Cauguiran (COMMENT: Countries always have conflicting interests. Mexico has tremendous conflicting interests with America. One cannot be loyal to two countries at the same time.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/time-thousands-elect-new-president-mexico-person-mexican/14902679/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pride-month-events-thousands-line-streets-6th-annual-buffalo-grove-parade-2024/14904036/

NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pride-month-celebrations-kick-off-across-the-chicago-area/3452912/

CBS2
— Posen carnival shut down due to large fight – Beth Lawrence, Elyssa Kaufman, Marissa Perlman (COMMENT: Posen today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/posen-carnival-shut-down-due-to-large-fight/
— Thousands in Chicago line up to vote in historic Mexican election – Sara Machi (COMMENT: Countries always have conflicting interests. Mexico has tremendous conflicting interests with America. One cannot be loyal to two countries at the same time.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-vote-mexican-election/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/hundreds-left-outside-after-doors-close-at-chicagos-mexican-consulate-during-historic-election/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy702yZh0-I

WGN9
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicagos-queer-fam-pride-jam-unites-lgbtq-families-at-millenium-park/
— Mexican nationals in Chicago line up to vote in historic presidential election (COMMENT: Countries always have conflicting interests. Mexico has tremendous conflicting interests with America. One cannot be loyal to two countries at the same time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qdp0viNCjY

FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump verdict makes significant number of Republicans less likely to support him.” In Illinois, in your county, in your township, and your municipality, how many hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who are the following will use Trump’s conviction to officially become Democrats: a) leaders of Republican organizations, b) Republican elected officials, c) Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct, d) major donors, e) etc.? To be a Democrat is to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, patronage, political affiliation, discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-verdict-republicans-poll-less-likely-support-him
— Tattoos may increase risk of developing lymphoma, alarming new study finds – Kyra Colah
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/tattoos-may-increase-risk-developing-lymphoma-alarming-new-study-finds

WGN RADIO
— An update on the Christopher Columbus statue – Jack Heinrich (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will destroy any remaining statues of German Americans.)
https://wgnradio.com/karen-conti/an-update-on-the-christopher-columbus-statue/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois among worst states for pay gaps between men and women – Claire Grant (COMMENT: If I had not been denied my 7th Amendment rights in Diersen v. GAO, I would have presented a jury with evidence that all my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2024/06/03/study-illinois-among-worst-states-for-pay-gaps-between-men-and-women/73924500007/

SOUTHERN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their convicting Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/02/half-of-americans-think-trumps-guilty-verdict-was-correct-should-end-campaign-poll/

EVANSTON NOW
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Evanston.
https://evanstonnow.com/all-welcome-at-family-pride-festival/

WJBC
— U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson headlines Peoria-Tazewell Lincoln Day Dinner
https://www.wjbc.com/2024/06/03/u-s-house-speaker-mike-johnson-headlines-peoria-tazewell-lincoln-day-dinner/

25 NEWS NOW
— House Speaker Mike Johnson addresses Trump verdict in Peoria – Jon Schoenheider
https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/06/02/house-speaker-mike-johnson-addresses-trump-verdict-lincoln-day-dinner-peoria/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump says he’s ‘OK’ with prospect of jail time, house arrest after hush money conviction – Miranda Nazzaro
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-says-hes-ok-with-prospect-of-jail-time-house-arrest-after-hush-money-conviction/
— Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach. – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-republicans-make-bidens-ev-push-an-election-year-issue-as-democrats-take-a-more-nuanced-approach/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Donald Trump is a convicted felon. How is that shaping his campaign messaging? -Danielle Kurtzleben, Scott Detrow (COMMENT: While I am not a convicted felon, I am someone who the federal government forced into early retirement at age 49 and took many other adverse actions against before that even though I had earned a) a job-related professional license, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) three job-related master’s degrees. My critics/opponents continue to use the aforesaid against me big time.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-06-02/donald-trump-is-a-convicted-felon-how-is-that-shaping-his-campaign-messaging

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Speaker Mike Johnson’s Illinois swing – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/06/03/speaker-johnsons-illinois-swing-00161230
(FROM THE ARTICLE: PEORIA, Illinois: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson headlined the annual Peoria-Tazewell Lincoln Day Dinner, where he railed on the guilty verdicts against Donald Trump and pumped up the IL-17 congressional race. It was a scene: More than 400 Republican attendees gathered to hear Johnson speak at the Four Points by Sheraton Peoria. Reporters weren’t allowed into the ballroom, but Johnson did speak to us before the event. On Trump: Johnson said, “He is not just our nominee, not just an individual running for president. I think now he’s seen as a symbol, a symbol of one who is willing to fight back against that corruption, the deep state and all the rest.” Here’s POLITICO’s full report with quotes from Illinois Republicans Joe Walsh, Jeanne Ives, Rhonda Belford and Jim Rule. During the presser: Johnson stood with Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16) and Joe McGraw, a retired judge who’s challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Eric Sorensen in the IL-17 District in November.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— PRESS RELEASE: Democrat Fear Mongering Reaches Absurdity. CHICAGO — Last week, Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen, declared that our economy would shut down in THREE days if we secure our border. “The economy of the United States would end in 3 days. We have 3 days of what we need in the United States, so if we just shut down the entire southern border, it would be to the detriment of our country.” – Eric Sorensen Bottom Line: Our southern border is a national security threat as we’ve seen record crossings of migrants after Biden’s reversal of the Trump Administration border policies. We can’t afford naive, fear-mongering Democrats like Sorensen that vote against legislation to secure our border and destroy the Republican agenda to secure our border.
www.illinois.gop

WIREPOINTS
— ‘Justice-impacted individuals’: More of the same as Chicago’s violent crimes continue their six-year high – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/justice-impacted-individuals-more-of-the-same-as-chicagos-violent-crimes-continue-their-six-year-high-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION CONTRACT COULD COST AT LEAST $10.2B TO $13.9B – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-contract-could-cost-at-least-10-2b-to-13-9b/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sen. Tim Scott says Trump verdicts have unified Republicans more than ever. – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/2/inside-beltway-tim-scott-says-donaldtrump-verdicts/
— June and Pride Month: Humiliation for our divided and suffering country – Everett Piper (COMMENT: I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. Because of that, those who promote LGBTQ have taken many big adverse actions against me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/2/june-and-pride-month-humiliation-for-our-divided-a/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s the weekend of June 1, and for the next 30 days, we will be inundated with our country’s monthlong celebration of pride. We will see it everywhere. It will be pervasive. The rainbow’s ever-increasing colors will be inescapable. We will see it in the news. We’ll see it at Target. We’ll see it in Walmart. We’ll see it in our public parks and at our schools. We’ll see it in our theaters. We’ll see it on T-shirts, umbrellas, bumper stickers, and even at our churches. Pride, pride, pride! This is the singular message that silences all others. Say it with me and say it over and over again: “We are loud and are proud!” If you refuse to do so, you’re a bigot.)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump calls on U.S. Supreme Court to prevent his sentencing for New York conviction – Jenny Goldsberry
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3025673/trump-calls-on-supreme-court-to-prevent-his-sentencing-for-new-york-conviction/
— Milwaukee’s deep-blue hue contrasts sharply with GOP faithful set to nominate Trump there. – John Lewinski (COMMENT: How strongly has your municipality moved to the left? I should write a book about how strongly Wheaton has moved to the left since 1978.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-washington-briefing/3004544/milwaukees-deep-blue-hue-contrasts-sharply-gop-faithful-set-nominate-trump-there/
— The anti-Americanism of globalized universities – Jay P Greene and Tommy Huska
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3022649/the-anti-americanism-globalized-universities/
— Four ways Republicans are trying to punish Democrats for Trump conviction – Ross O’Keefe (COMMENT: I should write a book about high-profile Illinois “Republicans” who sided with GAO in Diersen v GAO.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3025779/four-ways-republicans-trying-punish-democrats-trump-conviction/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Columbia Protesters Reestablish Encampment and President Shafik Returns to the Negotiating Table – Jessica Costescu
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-protesters-reestablish-encampment-and-president-shafik-returns-to-the-negotiating-table/

NEW YORK POST
— Biden keeps rewarding illegal migrants for jumping the border – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinion/bidens-asylum-dismissal-policy-is-granting-amnesty-to-masses-of-migrants/
— Biden breaks law to give millions of migrants work permits – Don Barnett
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinion/biden-breaks-law-to-give-millions-of-migrants-work-permits/
— Biden admin offers ‘mass amnesty’ to migrants as it quietly terminates 350,000 asylum cases – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/biden-admin-offers-mass-amnesty-to-migrants-as-it-quietly-terminates-350000-asylum-cases-sources/
— Navy SEALs mocked for going ‘woke’ with Pride month post: ‘Slap in the face’
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/navy-seals-mocked-for-going-woke-with-pride-month-post-slap-in-the-face/
— Trump says guilty verdict ‘tougher on’ Melania and Barron than him – Isabel Keane
https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-news/trump-says-guilty-verdict-tougher-on-melania-and-barron/

AMAC
— Trump’s Phony Conviction – Cannot Stand – Robert B. Charles
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trumps-phony-conviction-cannot-stand/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Navy SEALs command structure goes woke to greet Pride Month – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/06/02/this-is-terrifying-navy-seals-command-structure-goes-woke-to-greet-pride-month-1463201/

BLAZE
— Biden administration offers ‘mass amnesty’ to illegal immigrants by quietly terminating 350,000 asylum cases: – PAUL SACCA
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-administration-mass-amnesty-migrants-asylum-cases
— Sanctuary mayors’ strange love for illegal aliens – BRIAN LONERGAN
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sanctuary-mayors-strange-love-for-illegal-aliens

CAMPUS REFORM
— NIU, an Illinois school with history of social justice events, hosts segregated graduations. NIU hosted segregated graduations for black students and LGBT-identifying students this May. The school previously hosted a ‘Social Justice Summer Camp for Educators’ and social justice workshops discussing subjects like ‘racial battle fatigue.’ – Brendan McDonald (COMMENT: I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997. What does the college(s) that you graduated from think of you now?)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/illinois-school-history-social-justice-events-hosts-segregated-graduations-/25541

DAILY SIGNAL
— Big Labor Exploits Border Crisis for Its Own Selfish Gain – Maddie Dermon (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/03/big-labor-exploits-border-crisis-for-its-own-selfish-gain/

DAILY WIRE
— Woke Ideology Is Part Of Military Training – Ben Shapiro
https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-ideology-as-part-of-training-ben-shapiro-talks-wokeness-in-the-military-with-fox-news-pete-hegseth

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— House of Representatives Votes to Overturn D.C. Law Allowing Aliens to Vote – Carlos Montero
https://www.fairus.org/news/congress/house-representatives-votes-overturn-dc-law-allowing-aliens-vote
— California Improperly Used Federal Medicaid Dollars to Pay for Illegal Aliens – Hannah Davis
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/california-improperly-used-federal-medicaid-dollars-pay-illegal-aliens

FOX NEWS
— Speaker Johnson vows to ‘fight back… with everything in our arsenal’ after Trump verdict. Johnson emphasized that Republicans will remain within the ‘rule of law’ – Anders Hagstrom
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/speaker-johnson-vows-fight-back-everything-our-arsenal-trump-verdict
— Blue city rethinking ‘sanctuary’ status amid migrant flood. Mayor Adams has not yet indicated support for the legislation. – Michael Lee
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bipartisan-bill-would-roll-back-nyc-sanctuary-city-laws
— Biden admin quietly dismisses over 350K asylum applications from immigrants since 2022. The Biden administration is looking to cap the number of encounters to an average of 4,000 per day over a week. – Greg Wehner
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-quietly-dismisses-over-350k-asylum-applications-from-immigrants-since-2022-trac
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Once cases are terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim, the migrants are removed from the legal system, and they are not required to check in with authorities. It also means the migrants can legally go anywhere they want inside the U.S. without having to worry about being deported.)

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Progressive questionnaire confirms Boston Mayor’s blatant anti-police policies. – Matthew Holloway
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/progressive-questionnaire-confirms-boston-mayors-blatant-anti-police-policies

NEWSMAX
— Trump: ‘Supreme Court Must Decide’ N.Y. Case – Charlie McCarthy
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-supreme-court-new-york/2024/06/03/id/1167246/
— Biden Administration Gives ‘Mass Amnesty’ – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/amnesty-immigration-joe-biden/2024/06/02/id/1167179/

TOWNHALL
— Speaker Mike Johnson: Democrats Risk Destroying America’s Judicial System – Tom Tradup
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomtradup/2024/06/03/speaker-mike-johnson-democrats-risk-destroying-americas-judicial-system-n2639894#google_vignette
— How the Mexican President Is Helping Joe Biden Win the Election. – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America. Constructively, Democrats have declared war on Republicans. Constructively, Democrats have joined Mexico in declaring war on America.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/06/02/how-the-mexican-president-is-helping-joe-biden-win-the-election-n2639867
— Democrats’ Bogus Lawfare Takedowns Rooted In Fear and Loathing – John Ullyot
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnullyot/2024/06/02/democrats-bogus-lawfare-takedowns-rooted-in-fear-and-loathing-n2639843

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their convicting Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4699329-half-say-trump-verdict-correct-should-end-campaign-poll/

CBS NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly use IVF to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivf-senate-democrats-reproductive-rights-push/

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/trump-republicans-jury/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/06/03/gay-transgender-least-most-welcoming-states/73909721007/

MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more LGBTQ in Los Angeles.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pride-flag-to-fly-above-la-city-hall-for-the-first-time/ar-BB1nslTN
— America is a land of justice, not systemic racism – Jeffrey H. Anderson (COMMENT: Yes, but ever-increasingly, America is a land of preference for Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger and a land of discrimination against Republicans who are White, male, and/or older.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/america-is-a-land-of-justice-not-systemic-racism/ar-BB1nrEWy
— What caste were you born into? From what I see, if your parents do not have college degrees, you were born into the lowest caste. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-i-was-born-into-india-s-lowest-caste-but-nothing-will-stop-me-from-embracing-my-joy/ar-BB1nvhc1

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly attack Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-call-judicial-system-weaponized-after-trump-conviction-2c876bdb
— New York Prosecutor Was First to Charge a Former President. Now He Weighs Seeking to Imprison One. Alvin Bragg, the first Black Manhattan district attorney, campaigned on the promise of enforcing the laws equally among the rich and poor. – James Fanelli and Corinne Ramey (COMMENT: What have you done that resulted in adverse actions against you? When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They retaliated against me a) by immediately throwing me off audits of IRS, b) by immediately giving me a very bad job assignment, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisal, c) by always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and d) by forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. They took the aforesaid retaliatory actions against me even though I earned job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and I earned a job-related master’s degree in 1997. They took the aforesaid retaliatory actions against me even though I had previously earned job-related professional certifications in 1979 and 1981, a job-related professional license in 1981, and job-related master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/new-york-prosecutor-was-first-to-charge-a-former-president-now-he-weighs-seeking-to-imprison-one-0895ea4e
— Making the Case for Taking Your Job Part-Time – Rachel Feintzeig (COMMENT: My working part-time pumping gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights 1971-1972 helped me a) buy a new Corvette in 1971, b) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola, and c) but a new town home in University Park in 1972.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/making-the-case-for-taking-your-job-part-time-ce84c1dd

GUARDIAN
— The psychology of anger and aggression – Dean Burnett (COMMENT: The more demographics that you share with a person, that more that you are presumed to support that person. Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster/more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will destroy you. Trump is heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, draft-avoider, married, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I share all the aforesaid demographics with Trump. Since 2015, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters and their operatives and their dupes have a) gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, b) ended my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, c) ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and d) removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024.)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/aug/06/anger-aggression-psychology-screw-you
(FROM THE ARTICLE: However, it’s often difficult to do anything about these frustrations, so it’s likely to result in displaced aggression. This is where you can’t respond to the thing that’s frustrating you due to it being unavailable or, more frustratingly, something or someone who has the greater ability to harm you if you react. The arousal of anger doesn’t dissipate quickly, so it’s often transferred to less deserving but more convenient targets.)

June 2, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Donald Trump’s felony convictions likely bring new restrictions for his rights. Trump still faces three other felony indictments. – Julia Reinstein
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-felony-convictions-restrictions-his-rights/14900903/
— Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with University of Chicago police near graduation in Hyde Park. One woman says she was pepper sprayed in the face. – Evelyn Holmes
https://abc7chicago.com/post/convocation-uchicago-pro-palestinian-protest-hyde-park-clashes/14900556/
— At least 13 shot, 2 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-13-people-shot-2-fatally/14900917/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Republicans join Trump’s attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7Fixt7_vg

NBC5
— Some students walk out of University of Chicago graduation as 4 diplomas withheld over protests. – Courtney Sisk
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/university-of-chicago-diplomas-withheld-protests-commencement-palestine-war-in-gaza/3452641/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-pride-lgbtq/pride-chicago-2024-its-ok-to-ask-questions/3446180/

CBS2
— University of Chicago withholds diplomas from four students involved in encampment
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/university-of-chicago-withholds-diplomas-from-four-students-involved-in-encampment/
— Concealed carry license holder scares off would-be carjackers in Chicago – Beth Lawrence
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-attempted-carjacking-concealed-carry-license-holder/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/ccl-holder-shoots-three-men-during-attack-in-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMF5gh6ILE

WGN9
— Girls ever-increasingly advance over boys.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/girls-inc-of-chicago-empowers-young-girls-with-innovate-her-festival/

FOX32
— GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts Trump convictions will boost election chances
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/gop-house-speaker-mike-johnson-predicts-trump-convictions-boost-election-chances
— Chicago concealed carry holder scares off armed carjackers in Irving Park – Nic Flosi
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-concealed-carry-holder-scares-off-armed-carjackers-irving-park

WGN RADIO
— Chicago among top cities for mail carriers bitten by dogs – Austin Turner
https://wgnradio.com/news/chicago-among-top-cities-for-mail-carriers-bitten-by-dogs/
— Chicago among the top ‘move-out cities’ – Kelsey Thompson, Jeremy Tanner
https://wgnradio.com/news/chicago-among-the-top-move-out-cities-according-to-pods-moving-company/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hundreds walk out of U. of C. convocation protesting war in Gaza, one person arrested. – KATE ARMANINI
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/01/hundreds-walk-out-of-u-of-c-convocation-in-support-of-palestine-one-person-arrested/
— Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/02/column-reparations-evanston-judicial-watch-lawsuit-page/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 1 arrested, protesters pepper sprayed at University of Chicago graduation. One person, who school officials said was not affiliated with the university, was arrested during a protest against the war in Gaza on Saturday during graduation ceremonies at the University of Chicago. – Violet Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/06/01/1-arrested-protesters-pepper-sprayed-at-university-of-chicago-graduation
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/pride/2024/06/01/chicagos-lgbtq-community-tell-us-your-story
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/pride/2024/06/01/pride-drag-banned-kids-queer-joy
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2024/05/31/migrants-adjust-life-in-their-new-city-learning-english
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Russian propaganda push expected in Chicago for Democratic National Convention, experts say. “This is just a target-rich stew for the Russians to try lots of things and see what works,” says Max Bergmann of the Center for Strategic International Studies. – Tom Schuba and Frank Main
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/05/31/russia-propoganda-democratic-national-convention-dnc-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— With new state law, county clerk should accept ‘clarity’ on spending duties – Editorial
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240601/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-with-new-state-law-county-clerk-should-accept-clarity-on-spending-duties/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2024/06/01/wheaton-north-students-raise-3500-for-northern-illinois-food-bank/

WSIL TV
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Republicans join Trump’s attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict.”
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/republicans-join-trumps-attacks-on-justice-system-and-campaign-of-vengeance-after-guilty-verdict/article_74639365-c6f9-5f42-b79e-2328267c09ce.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/top-stories/southern-illinois-lgbtq-community-comes-together-for-pride-run/article_c686e620-2059-11ef-947a-239f541ee40d.html

WAND TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attacks-on-us-justice-system-after-guilty-verdict-could-be-useful-to-autocrats-like/article_2678b4a4-63fe-5e94-880d-3f94fbbe945c.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois thumbs nose again at free speech rights: no discussing politics or religion at employee meetings – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-thumbs-nose-again-at-free-speech-rights-no-discussing-politics-or-religion-at-employee-meetings-wirepoints-quickpoint/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Here’s a funny part: While the bill has some exceptions for certain nonprofit organizations, there is none for 501(c)(3) organizations like Wirepoints. Countless 501(c)(3) nonprofits like us research and advocate for policy positions of all kinds. That’s what we do. We meet discuss those political matters constantly. Illinois thinks they could bar us from making those meetings mandatory? Good luck.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— New polls show little shift against Trump after conviction; Republicans have his back. – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/1/new-polls-show-little-shift-against-trump-after-co/
— Democrats cross the Rubicon with Trump guilty verdict – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/31/editorial-democrats-cross-rubicon-with-trump-guilt/
— Speaker Johnson expects GOP to ‘drag’ New York D.A. Bragg to Congress for testimony on Trump verdict. – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/1/mike-johnson-expects-gop-drag-new-york-da-alvin-br/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Battleground Republicans prepare to run with felon Trump at top of ticket – Rachel Schilke and Cami Mondeaux (COMMENT: What positions do the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct take on Trump? I should write about the positions that the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers take on Trump and on me.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3024440/battleground-republicans-prepare-run-felon-trump-ticket/
— Republicans vow lawfare revenge after Trump’s guilty verdict. – Cami Mondeaux
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3024713/republicans-vow-lawfare-revenge-trump-guilty-verdict/
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly use Kinzinger to promote mote hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3025423/kinzinger-johnson-trump-verdict-comments/

NEW YORK POST
— DA Alvin Bragg committed ‘political malpractice’ by taking NY Trump case, Mitt Romney says – Rich Calder
https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/mitt-romney-shames-alvin-bragg-for-taking-taking-on-ny-trump-case/

CENTER SQUARE
— Some Democrats distancing themselves from Biden policies in campaign ads – Bethany Blankley
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_a26a9a24-1eac-11ef-945c-4f4d2130ebde.html

DAILY CALLER
— Trump’s Sentence Shouldn’t Involve Jail Time — But With This Judge, Anything Is Possible – KATELYNN RICHARDSON
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/01/trumps-sentence-shouldnt-involve-jail-time-but-with-this-judge-anything-is-possible/

DAILY SIGNAL
— How Republicans Plan to Stymie Democrats After Controversial Trump Verdict – Rob Bluey
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/01/republican-senators-pledge-to-block-democrat-agenda-following-trump-verdict/

FOX NEWS
— Ron DeSantis touts Florida’s education system, slams ‘woke’ academia in Sarasota address. ‘What you’re seeing in academia is what happens when leftist ideology infects an institution’ – David Unsworth, Jasmine Baehr
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-touts-floridas-education-system-slams-woke-academia-sarasota-address
— House Dem who challenged Biden in primary calls on Gov. Hochul to pardon Trump for ‘good of the country’ Dem Rep. Dean Phillips warned the conviction made Trump a ‘martyr’ and boosted his fundraising. – Kyle Morris
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dem-dean-phillips-biden-calls-gov-hochul-pardon-trump-good-country
— Romney scorches Bragg’s ‘political decision’ in Trump case: ‘Malpractice’ ‘Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen,’ Romney said. – Julia Johnson (COMMENT: I should write a book about how the many big adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors took against me that motivated me to do things. For example, their keeping me off audits of IRS after 1988 and assigning me to audits of federal financial industry regulators motivated me to a) earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, b) become a Forensic Accountant in 1997, c) become a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, d) become a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, and e) become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990. For example, their keeping me off audits of IRS 1980-1985 motivated me to a) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) become a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/romney-bragg-political-decision-trump-case-malpractice
— Trump rails against ‘rigged’ conviction as campaign rakes in donations after guilty verdict.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-31-trump-guillty-verdict

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Pardon Trump, Says Dean Phillips, House Democrat, to New York Governor Hochul – BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pardon-trump-says-dean-phillips-house-democrat-to-new-york-governor-hochul/

NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS Cues Disgruntled Ex-Republican Joe Walsh to Slam ‘Far Right Gun-Loving Kook’ – Brad Wilmouth
https://newsbusters.org/node/284410/print

TOWNHALL
— If Ignorance is Bliss, with the Trump Verdict, Liberals Are Euphoric – Jeff Davidson
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2024/06/02/if-ignorance-is-bliss-with-the-trump-verdict-liberals-are-euphoric-n2639794
— Democrats Deserve Everything Bad That Comes Their Way…And More – Derek Hunter
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/06/02/democrats-deserve-everything-bad-that-comes-their-wayand-more-n2639853

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.aol.com/news/defending-trump-gop-attacks-justice-100000270.html
— Vulnerable Republicans stay silent on Trump conviction – MIKE LILLIS (COMMENT: How vulnerable are the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct?)
https://www.aol.com/news/vulnerable-republicans-stay-silent-trump-225957437.html

YAHOO
— ‘Now he’s seen as a symbol’: Republicans rally around Trump – Shia Kapos and Lisa Kashinsky (COMMENT: How vulnerable are the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct? What positions do they take on Trump? I should write about the positions that the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers take on Trump and on me.)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/now-seen-symbol-republicans-rally-022335677.html
— Donald Trump rails against ‘disgrace’ verdict – and rages the US ‘has gone to hell… is a nation in decline’ – Ariana Baio
https://au.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-rails-against-disgrace-213345561.html

CNN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Kinzinger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi6xwe5xbE

MSN
— Franklin Graham Slams ‘Woke’ Boy Scouts, Offers New Alternative – Bo Beard
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/franklin-graham-slams-woke-boy-scouts-offers-new-alternative/ss-BB1np7ti
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-legislators-parrot-anti-gay-group-in-natural-family-month-proclamation/ar-BB1np7xO
— Biden Stakes Re-Election Campaign on Reviving Bad Memories of Trump. – Aaron Zitner, Catherine Lucey (COMMENT: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress their success in a) removing me from the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member ship in 2011, g) ending my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004, and k) ending my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors membership in 2004. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-stakes-re-election-campaign-on-reviving-bad-memories-of-trump/ar-BB1nqgPy

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-nyc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/trump-speech-fact-check.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use charities to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html
— Stuck in a Starter Home – Rukmini Callimachi (COMMENT: In 1978, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes were furious when my wife and I could afford to buy and did buy 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ). In 1984, they were even more furious that we could afford to have built and did have built 915 Cove Court in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/915-Cove-Ct-60189/home/18126600 ). They have always viciously attacked me as being overpaid. In my defense, I stress that I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, that I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/realestate/housing-market-rates-prices-slow.html
— Boys and men ever-increasingly crash and burn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/melinda-french-gates-reproductive-rights.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump. To justify their success in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors stressed “off the record” their success in a) always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delaying my promotions and never promoting me beyond GS-13, c) keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, and d) forcing me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-guilty-felony.html
— 6 Common Campaign Themes of Democrats Leading in the Polls – David Leonhardt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/briefing/democrats-who-are-winning.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats weigh tying GOP candidates to Trump’s hush money verdict. House Democrats steered clear of Trump’s personal scandals in their 2018 campaign, but now candidates are pressing the case. – Paul Kane
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/01/democrats-trump-guilty-verdict-campaign/
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/russia-trump-putin-us-election/709d4862-209f-11ef-becb-2cf8dbfd9eb9_story.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/01/pride-month-lgbtq-rights-gay-trans/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2024-06-01/opinion-newsletter-trump-got-a-fair-trial-opinion

ABC AUGUSTA
— Columbia County Republican Party hosted a Rally to show support for former President Trump and encourage voting. (COMMENT: What are the following doing to show support for Trump: a) your Republican county party organization and b) your Republican township/ward party organization?)
https://www.wjbf.com/news/columbia-county-republican-party-host-trump-solidarity-rally/

NBC LOS ANGELES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/lgbtq-pride-month-is-starting-to-show-its-colors-around-the-world-what-to-know/3426443/

NPR PITTSBURGH
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2024-06-01/first-lady-jill-biden-pittsburgh-pride-president

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— For the roughly one-third of American voters who remain up for grabs in the presidential election, Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush-money case could push them toward backing him, President Biden or another option. – Vivian Salama and Eliza Collins
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-guilty-verdict-voters-2024-election-a5d7d68f

POLITICO
— Trump faces the cost of conviction – RYAN LIZZA, EUGENE DANIELS and RACHAEL BADE (COMMENT: Since I was 49 years old in 1997, I have had to pay the price of being forced into early retirement by my Democrat superiors. Further, I have had to pay the price of their a) always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes since 1989, b) delaying my promotion to GS-13 until 1986 and never promoting me beyond GS-13, c) keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, and d) forcing me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/06/01/trump-faces-the-cost-of-conviction-00161143

June 1, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Republicans slam Trump conviction. ‘Stalin would be proud’ said state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dieterich. Even more moderate Illinois Republicans who don’t support the former president said they were “troubled” by the case that resulted in a conviction on 34 felony counts in New York. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/31/donald-trump-hush-money-conviction-illinois-republicans-reaction
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a state where Donald Trump has divided many Republicans, Illinois GOP leaders were united in their condemnation of the former president’s conviction for falsifying business records, blasting what they deemed a “sham trial,” a “fraud case” — and downright “chicken s—.” Soon after a New York jury on Thursday found the presumptive GOP presidential nominee guilty in a hush-money case, Illinois Republican Party chairman Don Tracy called it “a political prosecution the likes of which occur in banana republics but not previously in these United States.” “Democrat activist investigators and prosecutors have relentlessly hounded President Trump for years,” Tracy said in a statement. “This weaponization of the judicial system has weakened our country here and in the eyes of the world, which I’m sure President Biden will savor while he vacations in Delaware as his handlers make critical decisions for the country.” Illinois Republican National Committee member Richard Porter, who has criticized Trump — and who backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primary — accused Democrats of “perverting the judicial system for political purposes.” “Everyone sees what happened in Manhattan, the second most Democrat county in the nation — where Democrat prosecutors are trying to take his money, with a fraud case in which no one was defrauded, and take his liberty with a criminal case in which no crime was committed,” Porter said in an email. “It’s just another example of how Democrats turn all institutions against the people they are supposed to be serving. Democrats will rue the day that they chose this path,” he said, suggesting President Joe Biden could face prosecution down the line. “There are many, many more Republican county prosecutors than Democrat county prosecutors across the country, and they are watching what the New York County district attorney did and are taking notes,” Porter said. “Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, too.” How will the Biden campaign exploit the Trump hush money guilty verdict? Even self-declared “Never-Trump” Illinois Republicans slammed the verdict, including former Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, who said he was “troubled by how this case was charged.” “People in Manhattan were looking for a reason to convict. He was low-hanging fruit, based on electoral results in that area,” Durkin said, adding that he thought the case should have been brought to election authorities, not a criminal court. “It’s easy to dislike Donald Trump… But I also have respect for the way the justice system is applied, and I thought this was an egregious example of selective prosecution by the Manhattan district attorney,” Durkin said. “Now he can say he got a conviction on Donald Trump. I’m still not sure what crime it was.” The barbs were even sharper from Republicans downstate, where Trump remains immensely popular outside the solid blue Chicago area. “Joseph Stalin would be proud,” said state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dieterich, a member of the far-right Illinois Freedom Caucus of the General Assembly. “The Democrats have shown that they cannot be trusted to be anywhere near power. They must be stopped and the only way to do that is for Donald Trump to win in a landslide in November.” Fellow Freedom Caucus Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, bemoaned “the trampling of our Constitution by the worst people imaginable.” “The same people who allow criminals to murder, rape, and commit unspeakable acts of violence have the audacity to prosecute a former President of the country,” Wilhour said in a statement. “The American people see right through this, and they will come out in huge numbers to vote for President Trump because they understand the battle facing us is not one of politics and political disagreement — it is truly good versus evil.” Former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Darren Bailey — and a former Freedom Caucus member until he gave up his southern Illinois state Senate seat — exclaimed on social media: “I don’t cuss, but this is chicken s—!” Rep. Mike Bost, a staunch Trump supporter who beat Bailey as GOP nominee for the 12th Congressional District, said “New York’s six-week sham trial against President Trump has eroded the public’s trust in our legal system in a way that will take years to overcome… Even after today’s verdict, he is strengthened with an American public that is fed up with liberals weaponizing the legal system for their partisan political gain.” Rep. Darin LaHood, the central Illinois congressman who has periodically criticized Trump but endorsed his 2024 comeback bid, said, “This political prosecution undermines the rule of law and faith in our justice system. It should be overturned on appeal.” LaHood is hosting House Speaker Mike Johnson Saturday at the Peoria-Tazewell Lincoln Day Dinner, a marquee event on the state GOP calendar. “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” Johnson said in a statement. “President Trump will rightfully appeal this absurd verdict—and he WILL WIN.”)
— 10,560 Illinois-based Mexican nationals to vote in historic presidential election. Up to 1,500 Mexicans with a voting ID will be eligible to vote at the Mexican Consulate of Chicago by 6 p.m. on Sunday. – Andrea Flores (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2024/05/31/mexican-nationals-to-vote-in-historic-presidential-election
— Mexican nationals in Chicago get to vote for the first time to elect Mexico’s president. The election marks the first time that Mexicans abroad are able to vote by mail, electronically or in person across 23 locations around the world, including several U.S cities. – Adriana Cardona-Maguigad (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/06/01/mexico-historic-presidential-election-chicago-mexican-nationals-vote-sheinbaum-galvez
— Michigan Avenue, once a picture-perfect postcard, is now a depressing mess. “I inhale smoke from so much weed I wonder why I don’t feel high. Adults, apparently mentally ill, scream on street corners.” – Carol Felsenthal (COMMENT: During 1974, 1975, and 1976, I walked Michigan Avenue to/from my IRS job in the Loop, graduate evening business classes at Loyola, and my Outer Drive East condo.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/05/31/michigan-avenue-grim-depressing-mess-once-beautiful-richard-daley-brandon-johnson-carol-felsenthal
— University of Chicago faculty, City Council members criticize withholding degrees of encampment protesters. At a news conference Friday morning, Denis Hirschfeldt, a math professor at the university, said its disciplinary process had lost “all credibility.” – Violet Miller (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/31/university-of-chicago-faculty-alderpeople-pro-palestinian-protester-degrees
— Breaking down tense moments in the Illinois House as it passed a budget package. You really have to wonder if House Speaker Chris Welch could’ve mollified a few more of his members before he locked in a budget deal. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/31/illinois-house-budget-package-passes-speaker-chris-welch-winning-ugly-jb-pritzker-rich-miller
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/chicago-pride-2024-events-calendar-lgbtq
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/31/donald-trump-hush-money-joe-biden-conspiracy-murder-gene-lyons

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ – AP (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I not only questioned, I opposed their race and gender based preference giving, that is, I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/biden-says-questioning-trumps-guilty-verdicts-is-dangerous-and-irresponsible/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/trump-conviction-voters-november-election/
— Chicago to provide free sidewalk snow removal services in four areas next year, Mayor Brandon Johnson announces. – ALICE YIN (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/chicago-free-sidewalk-snow-removal-pilot/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Not surprisingly, suburban political leaders divided on Trump verdict – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/nation-and-world-politics/not-surprisingly-suburban-political-leaders-divided-on-trump-verdict/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Across the aisle, Will County Republican Party Chair Christina Clausen defended Trump and said the verdict “represents a profound crisis for our democratic process.” Clausen, of Homer Glen, alleged the trial was unfair and said the verdict interferes with the upcoming presidential election.
“It is deeply troubling that, despite living in what many consider the most free and fair society in history, a judge and prosecutor in New York City can wrongfully condemn and imprison one of our nation’s greatest presidents,” said Clausen, overlooking that a jury handed down the verdict. “I stand firmly with Donald Trump during these challenging times and hope that justice will prevail, demonstrating his innocence to the world.” Republican congressional candidate Mark Rice of Chicago, who’s challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg in the entirely suburban 8th District, said he expects the verdict will be overturned by an appellate court. “What a farce,” Rice said Friday in a Facebook post. . .In a statement on social media, Seth Cohen, a Skokie resident and the GOP’s nominee for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District seat, supported “the role and authority” of the justice system while “respectfully” disagreeing with the verdict. Cohen also said he opposes the weaponization of the system by members of either major political party. Cohen is vying to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th District, which includes parts of Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. . .Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin of Barrington Hills turned to social media after the verdict, posting a photo of the U.S. flag displayed outside his office and a jab at the people of New York City. “I left the office flag flying high and proud,” wrote McLaughlin, of the 52nd District. “Thankfully there are still a lot of ‘Old Souls’ still present in our Great Nation if not in Manhattan. Blue skies ahead.”)
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump responds to his guilty verdict by falsely blasting a ‘rigged trial’ and attacking star witness.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/crime/trump-responds-to-his-guilty-verdict-by-falsely-blasting-a-rigged-trial-and-attacking-star-witness/
— What do you say to those who promote opioid abuse?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/news/wheaton-providing-narcan-overdose-antidote/
— College of DuPage board appoints interim president – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/education/college-of-dupage-board-appoints-interim-president/

ABC7
— 16 alderpersons call on UChicago to reconsider withholding diplomas for 4 sanctioned students – Mark Rivera (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/university-chicago-students-faculty-speak-disciplinary-process-participants/14894627/
— Mayor Johnson unveils sidewalk snow removal pilot; alderman says it will bring blizzard of trouble – Fran Spielman (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-unveils-sidewalk-snow-removal/14897709/
— Mexico presidential election: Chicago Mexicans to vote in-person at consulate for 1st time. Mexican voters set to make history with expected election of female president. – Sarah Schulte (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mexico-election-2024-chicago-mexicans-vote-claudia-sheinbaum/14897226/

NBC5
— President Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdict is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ – AP (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I not only questioned, I opposed their race and gender based preference giving, that is, I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/biden-slams-questioning-trump-verdict/3451959/
— Diplomas withheld from 4 University of Chicago students following pro-Palestine encampment. The four students on Friday were supported by two professors who believe the decision is inconsistent with free speech values. – Natalie Martinez (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/university-of-chicago-withholds-diplomas-from-4-students-who-took-part-in-pro-palestine-protest/3452355/
— Donald Trump holds news conference day after guilty verdict in hush money trial
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/watch-live-trump-news-conference-friday-time/3451650/

CBS2
— Private security patrols come to Chicago’s Fulton Market District – Jermont Terry (COMMENT: As crime ever-increasingly increases under the Democrats and under the RINOs, how soon, if not already, will your neighborhood have to hire private security?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/private-security-patrols-come-to-chicagos-fulton-market-district/
— Chicago minister gets another “Chance” as his church is rebuilt after fire – Shardaa Gray (COMMENT: When my father was a leader of the Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Crete, he questioned the need to replace the congregation’s existing wooden church with a brick one and he paid the price for doing that.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-chance-ministries-church-rebuilt/
— University of Chicago withholding degrees from four students
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/university-of-chicago-withholding-degrees-from-four-students/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moS3HybYz1w
— Chicago kids swing into confidence through First Tee Chicago (COMMENT: Because I majored in business at UIC 1966-1968, UIC required me to take a course in either golf or bowling.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-students-life-skills-golf-lessons/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-kids-swing-into-confidence-through-first-tee-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNhLDZ0qM1Y

WGN9
— Where do Chicago, other Midwest cities rank in retiree Social Security income? – Katie Smith, Jeremy Tanner (COMMENT: I paid into Social Security 1964-1974. But my Social Security is only $2,935/year because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/where-do-chicago-other-midwest-cities-rank-in-retiree-social-security-income/

FOX32
— Chicago aldermen criticize CPS budget cuts to top-performing schools. Some Chicago City Council members are voicing concerns that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is disproportionately making budget cuts to top-performing schools in favor of increasing funds for under-enrolled neighborhood schools.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1464426

WBEZ
— Illinois legislative staff union sues Speaker Welch demanding recognition. Members of the Illinois Legislative Staff Association filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch Friday, alleging he’s violating their right to organize as workers. – Alex Degman
https://www.wbez.org/2024/05/31/illinois-legislative-staff-union-sues-speaker-welch-demanding-recognition

SPRINGFIELD STATE JORNAL REGISTER
— Are Illinois Republicans still backing Trump after being found guilty? – Patrick M. Keck (COMMENT: How many of those who could/should have attended the Illinois Republican Party State Convention but failed/refused to do so to protest Trump?)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/31/trump-convicted-are-illinois-republicans-still-supporting-him/73922423007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot in Danville.
https://www.news-gazette.com/business/entrepreneurs/latest-proposal-for-danville-cannabis-dispensary-includes-truck-stop-restaurant/article_d5e5f7a8-a5e2-5e2b-9ea7-88347124919c.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/third-danville-cannabis-site-the-charm/article_d5e5f7a8-a5e2-5e2b-9ea7-88347124919c.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/lgbtq-pride-month-is-starting-to-show-its-colors-around-the-world-what-to-know/article_0990923f-8b23-50dd-abd2-51ebdf5527e2.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER & HERALD & REVIEW
— Chicago police misconduct records to be searchable by officer name – SAM CHARLES (COMMENT: Constructively, federal employment records are in the public realm. Potential employers could find out about the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me including a) GAO forcing me to take its early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old, b) GAO always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, c) GAO never promoting me beyond GS-13, d) GAO requiring me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, e) IRS never promoting me beyond GS-12, f) IRS disallowing my education deductions in 1978, g) IRS disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, h) the Post Office forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_40cd398b-9afe-52da-976e-0763662c672d.html
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_6035e1d7-6545-5117-bed9-f0cc00df2c6e.html
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_23369fad-5acb-534c-bdd9-a824ba9fd51e.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Several GOP senators on Friday signed a forceful letter to their Democratic colleagues revoking their cooperation on any legislation that does not affect the safety of the American people in the wake of the verdict against former President Donald Trump.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/gop-senators-sign-letter-refusing-to-cooperate-with-dems-after-trump-conviction-sens-tommy-tuberville-r-ala-marsha-blackburn-r-tenn-roger-marshall-r-kan-jd-vance-r-ohio-eric-schmitt-r-mo-rick-scott-r-fla-and-marco-rubio-r-fla-mike

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans join Trump’s attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-join-trumps-attacks-on-justice-system-and-campaign-of-vengeance-after-guilty-verdict/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-carries-the-stain-of-conviction-like-a-crown-will-the-verdict-matter-to-voters/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Legal experts say Trump’s conviction is unlikely to lead to a prison sentence
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-30/legal-experts-say-trumps-conviction-is-unlikely-to-lead-to-a-prison-sentence
— Trump allies say his felony conviction has helped unify Republicans – Franco Ordoñez
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-31/trump-allies-say-his-felony-conviction-has-helped-unify-republicans

WJPF
— Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy joined WJPF to discuss upcoming elections and the importance of engagement and participation.
https://x.com/ILGOP/status/1793673251408990413

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISON
— Replica Vietnam Memorial Wall at College of DuPage honors veterans – Jesus Cortez,
https://www.nctv17.org/news/replica-vietnam-memorial-wall-at-college-of-dupage-honors-veterans/
— New legislation could end feud between DuPage County Board and county clerk – Will Payne
https://www.nctv17.org/news/new-legislation-could-end-feud-between-dupage-county-board-and-county-clerk/

SIU
— SIU uses $186K grant to fully fund training for counselors as drug, alcohol problems rise. – Christi Mathis (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more vice.)
https://news.siu.edu/2024/05/053124-siu-uses-186k-grant-to-fully-fund-training-for-counselors-as-drug-alcohol-problems-rise.php

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Chicago Could Start Plowing The Sidewalks Under Pilot Program. The pilot program launching in late 2025 and would target specific “zones” throughout the city. If the initiative moves forward, Chicago would be the largest city in the U.S. to pilot a sidewalk plowing program. – Molly DeVore (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/31/chicago-could-start-plowing-the-sidewalks-under-pilot-program/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— IL Supreme Court rewrites attorney ‘discrimination’ rule; Critics predict court challenges forthcoming
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/660076176-il-supreme-court-rewrites-attorney-discrimination-rule-critics-predict-court-challenges-forthcoming

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 96)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-96/

NEW YORK POST
— Institutions have violated the trust of Americans, and a new revolution is coming – Victor Davis Hanson
https://nypost.com/2024/05/31/opinion/institutions-have-violated-the-trust-of-americans-and-a-new-revolution-is-coming/

AMAC
— Mass Migration Hurting, Not Helping, Western Economies – Andrew Shirley
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/study-mass-migration-hurting-not-helping-western-economies/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Worse Than Woke, the Libertarians Have Gone Globalist – M. Walter
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/worse_than_woke_the_libertarians_have_gone_globalist.html

BLAZE
— Armed thugs try to steal Chicago homeowner’s Ferrari and Range Rover, but he grabs his gun and foils their plan – CARLOS GARCIA (COMMENT: What are you doing to protect your vehicles from theft?)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-ferrari-firefight-homeowner-thieves
— Even Dems alarmed as illegal aliens, 11-year-olds allowed to vote on some Boston expenditures – CORTNEY WEIL
https://www.theblaze.com/news/even-dems-alarmed-as-illegal-aliens-11-year-olds-allowed-to-vote-on-some-boston-expenditures

BREITBART
— ‘We’re Going to Fight’: Donald Trump Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/31/were-going-to-fight-donald-trump-vows-to-appeal-guilty-verdict/
— Migrants Arriving from ‘Corners of the Globe’ – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/31/donald-trump-migrants-arriving-border-corners-globe/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Campaign Says It Raked In $34 Million After Guilty Verdict – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/donald-trump-campaign-rakes-34-million-guilty-verdict/
— Rod Blagojevich Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict – HAILEY GOMEZ (COMMENT: Blagojevich defeated Jim Ryan in 2002. I should write a book about those who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for that. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Organization, b) Republican leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, c) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/rod-blagojevich-democrat-black-voter-donald-trump-2024-presidential-election/
— Democrats Are The Real Racists. But There’s An Even Bigger Problem – GAGE KLIPPER
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/democratic-racism-demand-for-hate-crime-hoax-documentary/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Soros-Backed DA’s Office Gave Free Consultations to Illegal Aliens Charged With Violent Crimes – Jason Hopkins
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/01/soros-backed-das-office-gave-free-consultations-to-illegal-aliens-charged-with-violent-crimes/
— The Sick, Sociopathic Symbiosis of the Woke Left and Jihadi Enthusiasts – Peter Berkowitz
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/01/confronting-woke-left-jihad-enthusiast-alliance/

DAILY WIRE
— Elon Musk Slams Politically-Motivated Trump Trial: ‘Great Damage Was Done’ To America – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-slams-politically-motivated-trump-trial-great-damage-was-done-to-america

FOX NEWS
— Chicago watchdog agency warns police unprepared for protests ahead of Democratic National Convention. Democratic National Convention will be held in August. – Lindsay Kornick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-watchdog-agency-warns-police-unprepared-protests-ahead-democratic-national-convention

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Illegal Immigrants Driving up NYC Hotel Costs
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/05/31/illegal-immigrants-driving-up-nyc-hotel-costs/

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Biden’s Border Crisis Promotes Foreign Espionage in Plain Sight – Simon Hankinson
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/bidens-border-crisis-promotes-foreign-espionage-plain-sight

HOT AIR
— Biden’s Latest on Handling Illegal Immigration: Send Them to Greece or Italy – KAREN TOWNSEND
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/05/31/bidens-latest-on-handling-illegal-immigration-send-them-to-greece-or-italy-n3789388

JUDICAL WATCH
— Judicial Watch Denounces Abuse of Trump!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/abuse-of-trump/
— Air Force Paid For Drag Queen To Appear At ‘Bingo’ Event And ‘Glow Party’
https://www.judicialwatch.org/air-force-paid-for-drag-queen-to-appear-at-bingo-event-and-glow-party-docs-show/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Denver, which cut police and fire budget, issues ‘playbook’ for handling illegal immigrants, calls them ‘newcomers’ – Matthew Holloway (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a newcomer. They stress that I have lived in Wheaton only since 1978.)
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/denver-govt-issues-playbook-for-handling-illegal-immigrants-calling-them-newcomers

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Conviction Probably Isn’t Good for Trump’s Electoral Prospects – CHARLES C. W. COOKE
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-conviction-probably-isnt-good-for-trumps-electoral-prospects/

NEWSMAX
— Biden Wants Illegals Voting – Texas AG Paxton
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ken-paxton-newsmax-joe-biden/2024/05/31/id/1167067/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/pride-month-lgbtq-2024/2024/06/01/id/1167071/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Facebook Being Used to Facilitate Illegal Immigrants’ Infiltration of the US, from Border Crossing to Fake Work Credentials – Christine Favocci
https://www.westernjournal.com/facebook-used-facilitate-illegal-immigrants-infiltration-us-border-crossing-fake-work-credentials-report/

ZERO HEDGE
— 10 Million Illegals Later, Biden To Use Executive Orders To Fix It. – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/10-million-illegals-later-biden-use-executive-orders-fix-his-f-report

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— How Trump’s Most Loyal Supporters Are Responding to the Verdict – Elizabeth Dias and Richard Fausset (COMMENT: Who heads the Trump campaign in Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/trump-verdict-voters.html
— Trump Verdict Hardens Many Views, but Changes Some, Too. For the remaining undecided voters, the decision to pick former President Donald J. Trump could be more difficult now that he is a felon. – Jonathan Weisman, Kellen Browning and Maya King (COMMENT: Generally, the more adverse actions that are taken against you, the more that people dump you. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/us/politics/trump-verdict-voters-election.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in destroying him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-nyc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/trump-speech-fact-check.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/lgbtq-movies-documentaries.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/01/pride-month-lgbtq-rights-gay-trans/

MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “The Texas GOP’s new platform is a terrifying preview of MAGA’s future. There are many, many horrors to behold in the latest platform.” Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions have never been anywhere near as conservative as the Texas GOP platforms and resolutions. But nevertheless, Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs who run Republican organizations in Illinois have always a) demonized, denigrated, and condemned Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions as being too conservative and b) blamed Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions for Republican defeats.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-republican-party-platform-trump-rcna154805
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now, their latest platform, which delegates voted on last weekend, endorses the conspiracist “great reset” theory, declares that “abortion is not health care, it is homicide,” and calls for a new election law requiring candidates running for statewide offices to win a majority of Texas’ 254 counties, effectively barring any Democrat from the position. And that’s just the start. Yet the chief politics reporter for the Austin American Statesman just called the platform “more of a wish list for the most activist members of the GOP than a road map that will be followed to the letter by lawmakers in Austin or Washington.” Even the Texas Tribune’s otherwise thoughtful, comprehensive reporting on the convention describes the party platform as “traditionally … seen not as a definitive list of Republican stances, but a compromise document that represents the interests of the party’s various business, activist and social conservative factions.” . . . There are many, many horrors to behold in the latest platform, and they must be taken seriously not in spite of how terrifying the document is, but because of how terrifying the document is. It is because the latest Texas GOP platform endorses “prohibiting the teaching of sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity” that we should take it seriously. It is because the platform equates abortion and murder that we should take it seriously. It is because the platform aims to ban any Democrat — and indeed, any noncompliant Republican — from ever holding statewide office, that we should take it seriously.)

MSN
— Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is “abnormal” – Daniel Villarreal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-platform-calls-for-ban-on-same-sex-parenting-because-being-gay-is-abnormal/ar-BB1ndhH9
— 50,000 New Yorkers died fighting slavery — is that not reparations? – Bob McManus (COMMENT: Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/50-000-new-yorkers-died-fighting-slavery-is-that-not-reparations/ar-AA1cjmz9

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters say “Texas Republicans want rural voters to count more than city slickers, pushing radical policies.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-republican-platform-elections-19484820.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders have made it impossible for Trump to get a fair trial. Further, the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially being conservative, Republican, Protestant, and/or German American, the more that you will be discriminated against if not gotten rid of.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-was-convicted-by-a-jury-not-by-his-political-enemies-13f2654e
— The Long View of Higher Ed’s Decline. Harvey Mansfield arrived at Harvard in 1949. By the time he retired last year, he was practically the last conservative standing. – Tunku Varadarajan (COMMENT: In 1966, 1971, and 1980, I was one of last Republicans that the Post Office, IRS, and GAO hired respectively.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-view-of-higher-eds-decline-college-university-professor-conservative-harvard-96bb22a5

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters say “Texas GOP Exposes Ugly Truth About Letting States Ban Abortion.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/texas-gop-abortion-platform.html

NEW YORKER
— Will Mexico Decide the U.S. Election? Top officials from the two countries are wrangling over immigration policy. What they resolve will have huge implications on both sides of the border. – Stephania Taladrid (COMMENT: How many millions of Mexican illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/will-mexico-decide-the-us-election

FEDWEEK
— Court Takes Restrictive Reading on Completing Probationary Period (COMMENT: In 1970, Firestone Store’s Chicago district office hired me and assigned me to its Chicago Heights store. My Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss would never had hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana store before he would let me report to work. He disapproved of my having avoided the Vietnam War draft, my having more education than he did, my having been a federal employee for almost 3 years, my being Protestant, my being German American, and my ancestors having been in America for a long time. In 1980, when I transferred from IRS to GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could just fire me because I had already passed the federal employee probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/court-takes-restrictive-reading-on-completing-probationary-period/

QUORA
— Good old days (COMMENT: When you were working, when were your good old days? For me, they were 1971-1974 when IRS promoted me from GS-7 (currently $54,728/year) to GS-12 (currently $97,079/year). During that time, I bought a new Corvette, a new town home, and a studio condo and I completed 12 graduate evening business courses at Loyola. But then my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Then the good old days for me were 1986-1988 when the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 was finally able to get me assigned me to audits of IRS in 1986 and to promote me to GS-13 (currently $115,439/year) in 1986. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $123,136/year in 1988. But then my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of him.)
https://www.quora.com/When-were-the-good-old-days

May 30, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. It is not “Democrat-Lite.” The only legitimate reason a) to be a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, b) to be an Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention Delegate, c) to serve on an IRP State Convention committee, d) to be an officer of a Republican township/ward or county party organization, e) to be an IRP State Central Committee (SCC) member, f) to be an IRP National Committeeman or Committeewoman, and g) to be the IRP chairman is to help elect candidates in Illinois who can and will defend and advance the Republican Party platform. But in Illinois, in DuPage County, and in Milton Township, far too many of the aforesaid reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Far too many of the aforesaid get rid of those like me who promote the aforesaid planks. Ever-increasingly, Republican candidates in Illinois paint themselves as being Democrat-Lite if not anti-conservative. Ever-increasingly, they talk and/or act like the Republican Party platform does not exist. The current process for electing IRP SCC members has caused the aforesaid. Should I start writing about the aforesaid who have the most clout, who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform, who have done the most to destroy those like me who support those planks, who use the current system for electing IRP SCC members to stay in power, who had me removed from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

SPECTRUM NEWS
— 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee leadership announced – Aly Prouty (COMMENT: Which man and which woman will represent Illinois Republicans on the RNC Platform Committee in Milwaukee? I certainly hope that the new RNC platform continues to promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, opposition to pot, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).)
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2024/05/15/2024-rnc-platform-committee
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican National Committee and Trump Campaign announced its leadership team for the 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee. The committee includes one man and one woman from every U.S. state and territory. It will create an outline of the GOP’s core principles and values.)

TIMES TRIBUNE NEWS
— IL Republican State Convention Returns To The Metro East For The First Time In 20 Years – Stephanie Malench
https://www.timestribunenews.com/2024/05/27/il-republican-state-convention-returns-to-the-metro-east-for-the-first-time-in-20-years/

FREE REPUBLIC
— My last take on the state convention (Illinois GOP) – Thomas Devore
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4240809/posts

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Pro-Palestinian protesters march through streets in the Loop, demand ceasefire in Gaza
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pro-palestinian-protesters-march-streets-loop-downtown-chicago/14888475/
— Winnetka-based company wins bid to purchase Oberweis Dairy after bankruptcy protection filing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hoffmann-family-companies-wins-bid-buy-oberweis-dairy/14888430/

NBC5
— Illinois House passes $53.1B budget with tax changes, migrant funding and more. Just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, as discussions lasted well into the overnight hours, lawmakers voted to pass the budget with a 65-45 vote.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-house-passes-53-1b-with-tax-changes-migrant-funding-and-more/3449241/
— Thornton Township residents demand transparency amid budget controversy
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/thornton-township-residents-demand-transparency-amid-budget-controversy/3449871/

CBS2
— Trump trial ends first day of jury deliberations without a verdict – Graham Kates, Katrina Kaufman, Olivia Rinaldi
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/trump-trial-verdict-jury-deliberations-judge-instructions/
— Suburban Oberweis Dairy has a new owner
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/suburban-oberweis-dairy-has-a-new-owner/

WGN9
— Pro-Palestine protesters march streets of downtown Chicago – Alonzo Small, Micah Materre, Ray Cortopassi
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/pro-palestine-protesters-march-streets-of-downtown-chicago/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. If you push pot, it should be presumed that you use pot.
https://wgntv.com/news/northwest-suburbs/cannabis-friendly-music-festival-returns-to-suburb-later-this-summer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23Wz1uRSag
— Stolen SNAP benefits top $4.5M during recent six-month span in Illinois – Lourdes Duarte, Andrew Schroedter
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/stolen-snap-benefits-top-4-5m-during-recent-six-month-span-in-illinois/

FOX32
— Pro-Palestine protesters gather downtown demanding cease-fire in Israel-Hamas conflict – Kasey Chronis
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pro-palestine-protesters-gather-downtown-demanding-cease-fire-israel-hamas-conflict

WBEZ
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/chicago/2024/05/30/after-challenging-journeys-migrants-in-chicago-adjust-to-life-in-their-new-city

WBBM
— Illinois Republicans blast Dems’ tactics after $53B state budget barley passes – Mike Krauser
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/illinois-republicans-blast-dems-tactics-after-usd53b-state-budget-barley-passes

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Winnetka private equity firm wins bankruptcy auction for Oberweis Dairy – ROBERT CHANNICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/29/oberweis-dairy-bankruptcy-auction/
— Democrats ever-increasingly encourage Blacks and everyone else to hate law enforcement. IRS Revenue Officers enforce tax laws. I was an IRS Revenue Officer for almost 9 years. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes continue to promote hatred against me because I was an IRS employee.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/29/say-their-names-project-memorializes-black-americans-killed-by-law-enforcement-were-tired-of-living-it/
— Illinois lawmakers fail again to pass hemp regulations and medical cannabis expansion – ROBERT MCCOPPIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/29/illinois-lawmakers-fail-again-to-pass-hemp-regulations-and-medical-cannabis-expansion/
— Chicago Public Schools robs Peter to pay Paul to pursue an unaffordable Brandon Johnson vision – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/29/editorial-chicago-public-schools-budget-brandon-johnson/
— Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget expands bureaucracy and does little to better Illinoisans’ lives – Willie Wilson
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/30/opinion-governor-pritzker-budget-migrants/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Daily marijuana use is increasing. That’s cause for concern. Millions of people drinking daily was already a problem, and millions more now getting high is another. Adults have to be smart about the risks of heavy cannabis use. – Editorial (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. If you push pot, it should be presumed that you use pot.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/05/29/daily-marijuana-drug-use-increasing-cannabis-legalization-editorial
— Illinois House ekes out $53.1 billion budget, hits state with more than $700 million in tax hikes. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office optimistically put out a statement to celebrate the budget’s spending measure after it cleared the Illinois House. But the revenue measure was trickier. – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/29/illinois-general-assembly-budget-passage-jb-pritzker
— Delta skate? Lawmakers leave Springfield without regulating delta-8, other hemp products. A bill that would’ve banned sales of pot-like delta-8 products sailed through the Illinois Senate, but never made it to the floor of the state House. That means the mind-altering products will be unchecked for yet another summer in Chicago and beyond. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/29/delta-8-hemp-ban-illinois-regulations
— Sen. Dick Durbin can help reverse the decline of American press freedom. Durbin chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering a bipartisan bill to enact a press shield law. Durbin is a co-sponsor of the bill, but has yet to schedule it for a markup. (COMMENT: I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. I should write about those who continue to blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP). I would focus on those who have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/05/29/press-freedom-illinois-senator-dick-durbin-clayton-weimers-reporters-without-borders-letters

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County clerk controversy prompts push for change in state law – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240529/local-politics/dupage-county-clerk-controversy-prompts-change-in-state-law/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Oberweis Dairy sold in bankruptcy auction – Ally Marotti
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/oberweis-dairy-sold-bankruptcy-auction
— Alito rejects Durbin’s call for recusal from election interference cases
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/alito-rejects-durbins-call-recusal-election-interference-cases
— Cannabis legislation falls apart at the last minute in Springfield — again – John Pletz
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/illinois-hemp-regulations-talks-end-stalemate

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Has Memorial Day gotten ‘too celebratory?’ Huntley American Legion ends local parade sponsorship.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2024/05/28/has-memorial-day-gotten-too-celebratory-huntley-american-legion-ends-sponsorship-of-local-parade/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Profiles in Cowardness? – Mike Lowry
https://www.thenews-gazette.com/article/6415,profiles-in-cowardness

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— The average age for a woman and man to retire in Illinois? – BILL FLICK (COMMENT: Are you retired? To take regular retirement, federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System need 30 years of service and age 55. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer.” By doing that, they flushed down their toilet a) my almost 18 years of GAO work experience, b) my almost 9 years of IRS work experience (GAO audits IRS), c) my six job-related professional certifications, d) my job-related professional license, e) my three job related master’s degrees, and f) my job-related bachelor’s degree. My critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party a) have absolutely no problem with the aforesaid and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that GAO grossly overpaid me.)
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/column/flick-fact-the-average-age-for-a-woman-and-man-to-retire-in-illinois/article_78be0678-1891-11ef-90cf-0702126f21b6.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— An anti-immigrant resolution in DeKalb County fails – Maria Gardner Lara (COMMENT: Sooner or later, Democrat and RINO leaders will destroy you if you do not promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-05-29/an-anti-immigrant-resolution-in-dekalb-county-fails

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Illinois lawmakers set for another raise, pushing salaries over $93,000 – Carson Gourdie
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-lawmakers-set-for-another-raise-pushing-salaries-over-93000#

WCIA & WSIL TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. If you push pot, it should be presumed that you use pot.
https://www.wcia.com/news/cannabis-friendly-music-festival-returns-to-illinois-later-this-summer/
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/move-over-alcohol-it-s-weed-s-turn-but-is-marijuana-a-healthier-option/article_cd4025c4-51df-52da-a46a-82d113a96678.html

CHICAGO PATCH
— Chicago Metro Among America’s Worst For ‘Brain Drain’ At the state level, Illinois also lost more degree holders than it gained in 2023, the study said. –
Anna Schier (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilet a) my almost 18 years of GAO work experience, b) my almost 9 years of IRS work experience (GAO audits IRS), c) my six job-related professional certifications, d) my job-related professional license, e) my three job related master’s degrees, and f) my job-related bachelor’s degree.)
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/chicago-metro-among-americas-worst-brain-drain-study

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-300/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-95/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CARBONDALE REPORTER
— Rep. Severin criticizes $53.1 billion Illinois budget over tax hikes and immigrant services
https://carbondalereporter.com/stories/660064415-rep-severin-criticizes-53-1-billion-illinois-budget-over-tax-hikes-and-immigrant-services

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Former employee alleges race-based discrimination against retail giant Meijer (COMMENT: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and the Post Office 1966-1969, none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, or subordinates who were minority and/or female filed any kind of race or gender discrimination complaint. All the employees who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, older, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had major performance problems. My Democrat GAO superiors did everything that they could to turn my supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/660054414-former-employee-alleges-race-based-discrimination-against-retail-giant-meijer

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— In Chicago, violent crime goes up as arrests go down
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/policy-shop/the-policy-shop-in-chicago-violent-crime-goes-up-as-arrests-go-down/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The new Yale President will discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3021414/yale-president-affirmative-action-ruling-will-not-affect-diversity/
— UCLA medical school paid first-year students to write left-wing course requirements – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3020882/ucla-medical-school-left-wing-course-requirements/
— Less than half of young adults ‘proud’ to be American – Peter Cordi
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3021196/less-half-young-adults-proud-american/

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago to hand $150M to real estate developers to transform vacant office buildings into apartments – Ariel Zilber (COMMENT: In 1974, when I was a 25 year old IRS employee and newly promoted to a GS-12 (currently $97,079/year) job in the Loop, I bought a studio condo in the Outer Drive East Building. Two years later, I traded it into the building’s developer for a one bedroom condo.)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/29/business/chicago-to-hand-150m-to-real-estate-developers-to-transform-vacant-office-buildings-into-apartments/
— DEI is finally dying in the US — and response to Oct. 7 Hamas attacks highlighted its hypocrisy – Rikki Schlott (COMMENT: Because Democrats and RINOs run Illinois, DEI is not dying in Illinois.)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/29/us-news/dei-is-dying-and-response-to-oct-7-highlighted-the-hypocrisy/

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
— Walmart goes all “out” for Pride month (COMMENT: Sooner or later, Democrat and RINO leaders will destroy you if you do not promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.afa.net/activism/action-alerts/2024/walmart-goes-all-out-for-pride-month/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump is Correct About Deportation – Warren Beatty
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/trump_is_correct_about_deportation.html

BLAZE
— Illegal aliens’ attempted breach of military base was ‘dry run’ for future attack, says former staffer – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/illegal-aliens-attempted-breach-of-military-base-was-dry-run-for-future-attack-says-former-staffer

BREITBART
— Republican State Senator Dan McConchie: ‘We Raised Your Taxes $1 Billion Just to Spend on Migrants’ – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/29/illinois-senator-we-raised-your-taxes-1-billion-just-to-spend-on-migrants/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Jewish prof set for early retirement after ‘outright institutional antisemitism’ Dr. Barbara Risman recently announced her plans to retire from teaching at the University of Illinois Chicago in response to the rise of anti-Semitism on UIC’s campus. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they forced my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many adverse actions against me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/jewish-prof-set-early-retirement-outright-institutional-antisemitism/25527
— Students sue University of Oklahoma, say school offers financial aid based on race (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders continue to give preference big time to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and RINOs, that is, they continue to discriminate against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/students-sue-university-oklahoma-say-school-offers-financial-aid-based-race/25533
— The death of DEI approaches– right on schedule – Celine Ryan Ciccio (COMMENT: Because Democrats and RINOs run Illinois, DEI is not dying in Illinois.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/death-dei-approachesright-schedule/25542

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— CBP Stats Reveal the World Is Coming Illegally to the Southwest Border. Nearly half of CBP encounters in FY 2024 involve ‘extra-continental’ aliens. – Andrew R. Arthur
https://cis.org/Arthur/CBP-Stats-Reveal-World-Coming-Illegally-Southwest-Border

COLLEGE FIX
— Arizona State University still asks for DEI commitments in hiring despite board directive prohibiting it – DAVID GLASSER (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO businesses and organizations will ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/asu-still-asks-for-dei-commitments-in-hiring-despite-board-directive-prohibiting-it/

DAILY CITIZEN
— ‘USA Today’ Deletes U.S. Senator’s Editorial for Being Biologically Truthful
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/usa-today-deletes-u-s-senators-editorial-for-being-biologically-truthful/

FEDERALIST
— Republicans’ Defense Amendment Would Rescue Military Kids From Lefty Indoctrination In DOD Schools – MAX EDEN AND AMY HAYWOOD
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/30/republicans-defense-amendment-would-rescue-military-kids-from-lefty-indoctrination-in-dod-schools/

FOX NEWS
— White teacher sues California union after allegedly blocking him from leadership for being White. ‘This kind of racial litmus test is illegal, and it’s un-American, and that’s why I’m taking them to court,’ the California teacher said. – Hannah Grossman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-teacher-sues-california-union-allegedly-blocking-leadership-being-white
— Illinois Democrats think they can magically cure the crime devastating Chicago with a few words. Rooftop Revelations: I wish I could laugh at this foolishness in my state, but I can’t. – Corey Brooks
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/illinois-democrats-think-magically-cure-crime-devastating-chicago-few-words

MANHATTEN INSTITUTE
— Americans for Meritocracy (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs oppose meritocracy because conservative Republicans do better on tests.)
https://manhattan.institute/article/americans-for-meritocracy

NEWSMAX
— Illinois Senator Dan McConchie: We Raised Taxes $1B to Pay for Migrants – Michael Katz
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illinois-budget-illegal-immigrants/2024/05/29/id/1166697/
— Tyson Accused of Favoring Illegals Over US Workers (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers want cheap labor.)
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/tyson-foods-illegal-immigrants/2024/05/29/id/1166692/
— DOJ Tracked Moms for Liberty as a Hate Group – Sandy Fitzgerald (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who treated TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) as though they were hate groups. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT and ICRC. I would focus on leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP). I would focus on those who have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doj-crs-moms-for-liberty/2024/05/29/id/1166674/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— San Diego Border Overrun By Illegal Immigrants From China – Stella Escobedo
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/san-diego-border-overrun-by-illegal-immigrants-from-china/
— Illegal Alien Crosses U.S. Border, Freaks Out About How Easy It Really Is
https://www.oann.com/video/tipping-point-video/illegal-alien-crosses-u-s-border-freaks-out-about-how-easy-it-really-is/

TENNESSE CONSERVATIVE
— Knoxville Couple Sentenced For Producing More Than 100 Fake ID For Illegal Immigrants
https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/knoxville-couple-sentenced-for-producing-more-than-100-fake-id-for-illegal-immigrants/

ZERO HEDGE
— NYU Grads Go Into Debt For These Worthless Degrees – TYLER DURDEN (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered WORTHLESS my job-related a) bachelor’s degree (1970), b) three master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), c) six professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and d) professional license (1981). I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-nyu-grads-go-debt-these-worthless-degrees

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WASHINGTON POST
— If convicted in his hush money trial, here’s what Trump could face next. A guilty verdict for Trump in the New York trial would mean a mix of routine court processing and extraordinary logistical considerations, legal experts say. – David Nakamura
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/trump-if-convicted-hush-money-trial-new-york/

THE HILL
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4692206-yale-first-female-president-diversity-supreme-court-student-protests-slavery/

REUTERS
— Illinois adopts revamped bar exam, marking gain for new lawyer licensing test – Karen Sloan
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-adopts-revamped-bar-exam-marking-gain-new-lawyer-licensing-test-2024-05-29/

AOL
— 6 Unrecognizable Signs of Growing Up Wealthy – G. BRIAN DAVIS (COMMENT: All my critics/opponents have/had parents who have/had way more money than my parents had. None of my critics/opponents had to work their way through college like I had to.)
https://www.aol.com/finance/6-unrecognizable-signs-growing-wealthy-110223214.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting illegal immigration.
https://www.aol.com/america-turned-against-migrant-detention-185952737.html

MSN
— US Civil Rights Commission Report Found Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Poorer – Andrew Rodriguez (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers want cheap labor.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-civil-rights-commission-report-found-illegal-immigration-makes-black-americans-poorer/ar-AA1n7Q6l%3Focid%3Dob-fb-frfr-839
— Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting – Daniel Villarreal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-platform-calls-for-ban-on-same-sex-parenting-because-being-gay-is-abnormal/ar-BB1ndhH9

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/05/30/what-is-asexuality-define-meaning/73643206007/
— Little or no experience? You’re hired! – Paul Davidson (COMMENT: My first 6 months as an IRS Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/23/more-jobs-with-no-experience/73807898007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Inside Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Growing Alliance. Donald Trump is weighing an advisory role for the Tesla leader in the event the former president reclaims the White House – Emily Glazer, Robbie Whelan, Alex Leary, Cara Lombardo, and Dana Mattioli
https://www.wsj.com/politics/donald-trump-elon-musk-alliance-d1fe43e3
— Democrats Plan $100 Million Push on Abortion Rights to Win House. House Majority PAC’s new fund will be spent in swing districts for advertising and voter mobilization. – Natalie Andrews (COMMENT: How much success have Democrat and RINO leaders had getting women in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct to believe that getting immediate free abortions should be their top priority, that is, that having unprotected sex should be their top priority?)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-plan-100-million-push-on-abortion-rights-to-win-house-a2106302
— How Much Happiness Can Your Salary Buy? Researchers Can’t Agree. When it comes to income, there is no magic number. – Joe Pinsker (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $18.99/hour in 1966 to $150,075/year in 1997. In my defense, during that time, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. I would focus on their parents’ wealth. I would focus on what they did to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-salary-brackets-happiness-1eb80a76
— Will A Second Trump Term Fix the Border Crisis? – Gerry Baker (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders do not the border crisis to be fixed. They want ever-increasingly more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders what illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.)
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-free-expression/will-a-second-trump-term-fix-the-border-crisis/65788b25-dc9e-479e-8570-e887a99ab59e

INC. & FORTUNE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/5-ways-to-be-an-inclusive-leader.html
https://fortune.com/2024/05/29/fortune-100-diversity-communications-comms-messaging-dei/

BLOOMBERG LAW
— To be progressive is to be against those who are the following: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, gun owner, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/biden-tells-black-voters-hell-pick-progressive-supreme-court

May 28, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What steered you away from vices, poverty, and crime? What steered you toward your successes in life? For me, it was my parents who were conservative Republicans who stressed personal responsibility and becoming a productive member of society. They had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL), raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL. Even though neither of them attended college and my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma and my mother never attended high school, their upbringing of me motivated/enabled me to work my way through college and earn a bachelor’s degree, three masters degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party a) to issue a detailed press release on its State Convention and b) to post on its website its new platform and its 12 new resolutions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Do you know who represented you at the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention on its National Committeeman and National Committeewoman Committee and on its Platform and Resolutions Committee? Do you know how they voted and why? Questions for your representative on the National Committeeman and National Committeewoman Committee: when the final vote was taken, a) did you vote for White or for Shaw for National Committeeman and why and b) did you vote for Belford or for Lasonde for National Committeewoman and why? Which candidates did you vote for in earlier rounds of voting and why? Questions for your representative on the Platform and Resolutions Committee, when the final vote was taken, did you vote for or against the following and why a) each of the proposed resolutions including direct election of IRP State Central Committee members and b) the IRP platform? How did you vote in earlier rounds of voting and why? If I had not been removed from the Platform and Resolutions Committee, I would have answered the aforesaid questions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— In my opinion, Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains should include the following in their next precinct letter concerning the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention: a) who the speakers were, b) how many delegates there were in total and from their congressional district (CD), county, and township/ward, c) the names of the delegates from their CD, county, and township/ward, d) who their IRP State Central Committee (SCC) member appointed to represent them on the IRP State Convention committees and how they voted on the new IRP platform, the 12 new resolutions, direct election of IRP SCC members, National Committeeman, and National Committeewoman, e) links to the new platform and to the 12 new resolutions on the IRP website, and f) lots of information on the new IRP National Committeeman Dean White and the new IRP National Committeewoman Rhonda Belford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— PARTY POLITICS: Illinois Republicans united behind former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during their state convention in Collinsville over the weekend. They also got behind a platform that attacks Democrats for supporting abortion rights, eliminating cash bail and promoting transgender identity, according to the Tribune’s Rick Pearson and Jeremy Gorner. Cheering for Trump: “Joe Biden’s vision for the country and JB Pritzker’s vision for the state is, it’s a disaster, and may I say, even that it’s evil,” Congresswoman Mary Miller, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said during the conference. Roll call: Miller was also elected to be the delegation leader of Illinois and could be the voice we hear during roll call to support Trump at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. There was drama: The election to determine the new Republican National Committee members became divisive. An election had to be held because current members Richard Porter and Demetra DeMonte will see their terms come up at the end of the convention. How it played out: Republican State Central Committeeman Dean White was elected to replace Porter after Lake County GOP Chair Mark Shaw was twice rejected during voting on the convention floor. Shaw dropped out, opening the lane for White. Rhonda Belford, the Hardin County GOP chair, will replace DeMonte after the convention. “There are always going to be disagreements. You see that among Democrats, too,” DeMonte told Playbook after the convention. Her take: “There wasn’t any disunity.” If you are Mark Shaw, Playbook would like to hear from you. Email skapos@politico.com – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/05/28/state-budget-still-up-in-the-air-00160091

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 41 shot, 9 fatally, in citywide Memorial Day weekend violence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-memorial-day-gun-violence-police/14877210/
— Dad gets into shootout with group trying to steal cars while 5 daughters sleep inside Winnetka home. Suspects broke into Sheridan Road house to steal keys before trying to take Range Rover, Maserati. (COMMENT: Winnetka today, your municipality tomorrow. What are you doing to avoid car theft? While I worked for IRS in Chicago, my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/winnetka-homeowner-exchanges-fire-suspects-steal-car-sheridan/14877966/

NBC5
— Winnetka homeowner exchanges gunfire with suspect in attempted car theft. The suspects fled the scene after the exchange of gunfire. (COMMENT: Winnetka today, your municipality tomorrow. What are you doing to avoid car theft? While I worked for IRS in Chicago, my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/winnetka-homeowner-exchanges-gunfire-with-suspect-in-attempted-car-theft/3447578/

CBS2
— UChicago to withhold degree from at least one pro-Palestinian demonstrator – Sabrina Franza
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/uchicago-withhold-degree-palestinian-demonstrator/
— What happens if Trump is convicted in New York? No one can really say – Graham Kates
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-happens-if-trump-is-convicted-in-new-york-trial/
— Activists, leaders work to prevent violence in Chicago this summer (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/leaders-activists-push-safety-violent-memorial-day-weekend-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0Y-JSDhYU
— 5-year-old among 9 killed, 30 hurt in Chicago shootings during Memorial Day weekend – Jeramie Bizzle, Beth Lawrence (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-shootings-memorial-day-weekend-may-24-to-28/
— Winnetka homeowner exchanges gunfire with suspects trying to steal car – John Dodge (COMMENT: Winnetka today, your municipality tomorrow. What are you doing to avoid car theft? While I worked for IRS in Chicago, my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/winnetka-car-theft-gunfire/

WGN9
— Over 30 fall victim to shootings over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://wgntv.com/news/over-30-fall-victim-to-shootings-over-memorial-day-weekend-in-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjYWC31GLVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs8akgzKqmE

FOX32
— Chicago crime: 27 shot, 7 killed so far in Memorial Day weekend violence – Tia Ewing (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-crime-memorial-day-weekend-violence

WBBM
— Chicago police officer takes teens on a camping trip to give them a ‘safe place’ over Memorial Day weekend. – (COMMENT: When you were young, how safe was your municipality? While I lived in Crete 1948-1972, it was very safe.)
https://www.wtvy.com/2024/05/27/police-officer-takes-teens-camping-trip-give-them-safe-place-over-memorial-day-weekend/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? A major week looms in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. – ERIC TUCKER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/27/major-week-trump-hush-money-trial/
— FRONT PAGE: Gov. J.B. Pritzker continues clashing with Illinois Senate over parole board – DAN PETRELLA and JEREMY GORNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/28/gov-j-b-pritzker-continues-clashing-with-illinois-senate-over-parole-board/
— FRONT PAGE: CTA could provide up to 250 buses for use during the DNC. Will that leave enough for regular bus service? – Sarah Freishtat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/cta-could-provide-up-to-250-buses-for-use-during-the-dnc-will-that-leave-enough-for-regular-bus-service/ar-BB1nbmSu

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 9 killed, 30 wounded in Memorial Day weekend gun violence across Chicago. Among the dead are 5-year-old Reign Ware, who was fatally shot in the abdomen while sitting in a parked car in the 200 block of South Campbell Avenue. (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/27/memorial-day-weekend-2024-continues-violent-trend-28-shot-7-killed
— 2 ex-jail officials say they were fired after claiming they were coerced into political work for Sheriff Tom Dart. Drake Carpenter and Aracelis Gotay were suspended without pay in March of 2022 amid a federal investigation involving the sheriff’s office. – Andy Grimm
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/05/27/cook-county-jail-officials-fired-coerced-political-work-sheriff-tom-dart

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Prairie Band Potawatomi land deal clears Illinois Senate, returns to House – PETER HANCOCK (COMMENT: If you run for a government office or for a political office as a Republican, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if any of your ancestors homesteaded a farm, Democrats and RINOs will use that against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that you directly, substantially, and unfairly benefitted from that and that therefore, you should pay reparations. If I ran for an office, they would stress a) that my ancestors on my father’s side homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854, b) that they sold that land and bought 10 acres just northeast of downtown Crete in 1864, c) that my grandfather had a home built on that land in 1926, d) that I lived in that home 1954-1972, and e) that I inherited that home and sold it in 2022.)
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/prairie-band-potawatomi-land-deal-clears-illinois-senate/article_af1d1eb4-1c71-11ef-856a-3f6519303841.html

WQAD
— Illinois Senate Democrats send $53.1B spending plan to House – Jerry Nowicki
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/illinois-senate-democrats-531-billion-spending-plan-house-capitol-news/526-456b2ed3-b494-4894-b78e-b418c7d24bdd

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Pastor Criticized For No Transit Experience Withdraws From RTA Board Nomination. Rev. Ira Acree said the City Council and most agency boards should be vacated if alderpeople now want to only go off experience. – Mack Liederman (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. After working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old. The Democrats who ran GAO wasted my knowledge of IRS. The kept me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988 and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/24/pastor-criticized-for-no-transit-experience-withdraws-from-rta-board-nomination/

HOODLINE
— CHICAGO CONFRONTS DISMAL MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WITH 7 DEATHS AMID SURGE IN GUN VIOLENCE – Damon R. Sheffield (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://hoodline.com/2024/05/chicago-confronts-dismal-memorial-day-weekend-with-7-deaths-amid-surge-in-gun-violence/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-298/
— Welch to convene House at noon Tuesday.
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/27/welch-to-convene-house-at-noon-tomorrow/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— In Part 2 of our interview w/the Big Tent Coalition’s CEO, Tim Ozinga, the discussion focuses on the dearth of real political leaders in IL and the key challenges facing the State. – Alana Goodman
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/in-part-2-of-our-interview-wthe-big

WIREPOINTS
— New Trier School District set to produce next $8 million superintendent pensioner – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/new-trier-school-district-set-to-produce-next-8-million-superintendent-pensioner-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOSE 127,000 STUDENTS – Hilary Gowins (COMMENT: Illinois parents a) who cannot avoid public schools because they cannot afford religious schools and b) who do not want Illinois teachers to make their children “good little Democrats,” take their children and move out of Illinois. My parents sent me to religious schools 1953-1962 even though my father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and my mother never worked outside of the home until after he died.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/editorial-illinois-public-schools-lose-127000-students-since-pandemic/
— How Illinois can give parents more choice within public school system. – Hannah Schmid (COMMENT: Yes, but ever-increasingly, Illinois parents are Democrats who therefore by definition are anti-conservative and anti-Republican and want teachers a) to make their children sexually active LGBTQers and b) to promote dependency on government and charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and race and gender based preference giving, that is, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/report-how-illinois-can-give-parents-more-choice-within-public-school-system/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— NewsGuard primes children in public schools for life of leftist activism. The latest way K-12 students are being indoctrinated. – John Tillman
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/27/newsguard-primes-children-in-public-schools-for-li/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Harvard Graduation Marred by Anti-Semitism Controversy as Speaker Accuses Critics of Smearing Her for ‘Money and Power’ Commencement speaker Maria Ressa employs anti-Semitic trope to blast critics, prompting Harvard rabbi to walk off the stage. – Alana Goodman
https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-commencement-speaker-told-graduates-her-critics-had-smeared-her-for-money-and-power-new-translation-confirms-the-critics-were-correct/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Because I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called anti-Semitic by money and power because they want money and power,” she told Harvard graduates during the May 23 ceremony.)

NEW YORK POST
— Here’s why the case against Trump should end in ‘not guilty’ – Jonathan Turley
https://nypost.com/2024/05/27/opinion/heres-why-the-case-against-trump-should-end-in-not-guilty/

BREITBART
— Denver Offers How-To Guide on Turning Cities into Taxpayer-Funded Immigrant Sanctuaries – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/27/denver-offers-how-to-guide-on-turning-cities-into-taxpayer-funded-immigrant-sanctuaries/

FEDERALIST
— America Has Become The Land Of The Selfish, Home Of The Indoctrinated – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/27/america-has-become-the-land-of-the-selfish-home-of-the-indoctrinated/
— Trans Activists Quietly Build ‘Gender-Affirming’ Monopoly On Centers For Abused Children – LAURA BRYANT HANFORD
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/28/trans-activists-quietly-build-gender-affirming-monopoly-on-centers-for-abused-children/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— States and Localities Can Determine Whether to Resettle Refugees In Their Communities – Shari Rendall
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/states-and-localities-can-determine-whether-resettle-refugees-their

NEW AMERICAN
— Non-white Privilege? Anti-white Racism Reigns in U.S., Says Jeremy Carl – Selwyn Duke (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, to get more votes from non-Whites, candidates, elected officials, and party leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that they are anti-White.)
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/non-white-privilege-anti-white-racism-reigns-in-u-s-says-jeremy-carl/

NEWSMAX
— Sheltering Migrants Jacks Up Costs of NYC Hotel Rooms – Mark Swanson
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nyc-hotels-prices/2024/05/27/id/1166352/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/arts/pride-events-nyc.html

USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have bombarded the jurors, as well as everyone else in the world, with ever-increasing hatred against not only Trump, but against those who share his demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. The aforesaid has hurt Biden because Biden shares the aforesaid demographics with Trump except that Biden is liberal, Democrat, Catholic, and Irish American.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/05/22/trump-defense-rests-hush-money-trial-jury-duty/73772795007/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “How a right-wing internet broadcaster became Trump’s loyal herald.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rallies-right-side-broadcasting-maga-election-27befda2383b917ab6e1213df19e5813

MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-to-change-the-gender-on-your-driver-s-license/ar-AA1cVZim

May 27, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) a) to issue a detailed press release on its State Convention and b) to post on its website its new platform and its 12 new resolutions. At the convention, there was very strong support for Trump and for Dean White for IRP National Committeeman, but there were very few delegates from DuPage County. IRP chairman Don Tracy spoke vehemently against direct election of IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members. Many of the delegates who I spoke with had been strongly lobbied by opponents of direct election against direct election. Tracy’s IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee (PRC) killed direct election. Illinois Republicans who want direct election are overwhelmingly conservative. Illinois Republicans who oppose direct election are overwhelming moderate, that is, they reject some, many, most, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. It seems that to get PRC members to kill direct election, those who oppose direct election a) loaded the PRC with members who oppose direct election or could be made to oppose direct election and b) dumped efforts to move the platform to the left. I was appointed to the PRC even though I have always promoted direct election. But that appointment was made before those who oppose direct election knew that major efforts were going to be made to promote direct election. Therefore, because of that, I was removed from the PRC before its first meeting. The Democrat news media at the convention again demonstrated its rudeness and hostility toward me. I have attended as a delegate and as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor all the IRP State Conventions since 2000. The 2020 convention was by Zoom. The last big push for direct election was at the 2008 convention. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Do you know who represented you at the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention on its National Committeeman and National Committeewoman Committee and on its Platform and Resolutions Committee? Do you know how they voted and why? Questions for your representative on the National Committeeman and National Committeewoman Committee: when the final vote was taken, a) did you vote for White or for Shaw for National Committeeman and why and b) did you vote for Belford or for Lasonde for National Committeewoman and why? Which candidates did you vote for in earlier rounds of voting and why? Questions for your representative on the Platform and Resolutions Committee, when the final vote was taken, did you vote for or against the following and why a) each of the proposed resolutions including direct election of IRP State Central Committee members and b) the IRP platform? How did you vote in earlier rounds of voting and why? If I had not been removed from the Platform and Resolutions Committee, I would have answered the aforesaid questions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What does the future look like for your elected Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC)? I have been an elected RPC since 2000. My future as a RPC looks ever-increasingly bleak for me. The leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization ever-increasingly blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They ever-increasingly blame me and blame my newsletters for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They stress that I promote direct election of IRP State Central Committee members. They stress that I promote planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They stress my bad demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, old, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. They stress the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. One of them recently rudely told me that she threw my precinct letter away. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— In my opinion, Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains should include the following in their next precinct letter concerning the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention: a) who the speakers were, b) how many delegates there were in total and from their congressional district (CD), county, and township/ward, c) the names of the delegates from their CD, county, and township/ward, d) who their IRP State Central Committee (SCC) member appointed to represent them on the IRP State Convention committees and how they voted on the new IRP platform, the 12 new resolutions, direct election of IRP SCC members, National Committeeman, and National Committeewoman, e) links to the new platform and to the 12 new resolutions on the IRP website, and f) lots of information on the new IRP National Committeeman Dean White and the new IRP National Committeewoman Rhonda Belford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP’s Grassroots ride Dean White into the Winner’s Circle in Collinsville, IL. Could this be a turning point for the IL GOP?
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gops-grassroots-ride-dean-white
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Yesterday, about 300 “Grassroots” county delegates to the IL GOP convention overcame strong recent GOP historical precedent and took control of the Party, at least for an afternoon. The grassroots wrested control away from the Establishment IL GOP State Central Committee (“SCC”). Usually, the seventeen member SCC chooses the IL RNC Committeeman and Committeewoman and the delegates in attendance at the convention docilely ratify the choice, almost proforma. But, not yesterday. Choice of a new IL GOP RNC Committeeman. This weekend, about five hundred IL Republicans gathered in Collinsville, IL to choose their new IL RNC committeeman and committeewoman to serve on the 168 member Republican National Committee, as IL committeeman Richard Porter, watch by clicking here (12 (10?) years of service) and IL committeewoman Demetra Demonte (16 years of service) were both term limited from continuing on the RNC. The main job of an RNC committeeman is to be the link or nexus between the state GOP and the RNC on national campaigns. Large elements of that nexus include national fundraising, message development and political organizing, especially for the national Presidential and mid-term elections. The primary interest of the IL GOP grassroots is the recruiting and election of quality state and local candidates and a party apparatus related thereto, not a national committeeman. But the symbolism and precedent of yesterday’s reversal of the establishment SCC was important to the grassroots, and they seemed to shout, as they descended on Collinsville, Carpe Diem, sensing victory would be theirs. On the other hand, get a sense of what could happen if these two often divergent parts of the IL GOP worked together— by watching RNC Committeeman Porter, linked to above (18:58-19:58), as he explains more than three years ago, the potential interaction between IL State operators, GOP U. S. Senators, the entire Congress and the RNC to solve Illinois’ fiscal issues, including the need to lower public sector pension and education costs— and taxes to make IL more fiscally stable and attractive in the long run to taxpayers and residents. . .Rhonda Belford, GOP Chair of Hardin County, was the SCC’s choice over Joan Lasonde for IL GOP Committeewoman, and Belford was easily approved by the Delegates in the Hall. Lasonde, residing on Chicago’s North Shore, is the 9th CD member of the SCC. The next steps for the IL GOP. So, we’ll find out in due course if Dean White, who is a bit of an unknown commodity in IL GOP politics, is everything the grassroots hope he will be. More importantly, we will no doubt learn soon if the SCC has learned how to make effective use of the grassroots’ energy to start producing some general election wins, perhaps even for IL Governor, since the stakes for IL are so high. And, many in the IL GOP almost surely will start chanting that familiar phrase: “Now is the time for all good men [and women] to come to the aid of their Party.”)

AUSTIN AMERICAN STATEMAN
— Texas Republican convention shows ultraconservative flank still controls the party. The dueling themes of party unity and purging the GOP of “RINOs” were the subplots of the Texas State Republican Convention. – John C. Moritz (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the Texas Republican Party with the Illinois Republican Party. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. RINOs paint themselves as being Democrat-Lite if not as being anti-conservative. RINOs reject some, many, most, if not virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject. I should write a book about the biggest past and present RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/26/texas-gop-still-controls-state-politics-can-they-unite-in-2024-campaign/73853421007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I made a big decision in January of this year,” Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told the cheering delegates Saturday as the three-day Texas State Republican Convention was heading into its final hours. “I announced that I was declaring open season on RINOs with no bag limits.” Miller, an irrepressible conservative who likes to bill himself as “Donald Trump’s man in Texas,” was referring to that strain of the GOP faithful that has been castigated as “Republicans In Name Only” because of a willingness to sometimes seek common ground with Texas’ minority party. His remarks, which were presaged by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton, came in the final weekend before Tuesday’s runoffs, in which several Republican members of the state House — including Speaker Dade Phelan, who in the minds of many of the delegates and some of the GOP officeholders is Texas’ RINO-in-chief — are fighting for their political lives in the face of challengers backed by deep-pocket conservative donors and an army of activists from the party’s right flank. That right flank emerged as the dominant force among the almost 10,000 delegates and alternates who chose to spend at least the first part of their holiday weekend shaping the future of the Texas Republican Party, which has held unchecked power in the state for more than two decades.)

NEWSWEEK
— Texas Republicans voted on Saturday on a motion over whether the state party should back a referendum on the Lone Star State seceding from the United States and becoming an independent country. Once the votes have been tallied up, the party is expected to finalize its policy platform this week. – James Bickerton
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-vote-call-independence-referendum-1904934

HOODLINE
— ILLINOIS GOP EMBRACES TRUMP AT STATE CONVENTION AS LIBERTARIANS CHALLENGE HIS VIEWS IN CHICAGO SPEECH – Damon R. Sheffield (COMMENT: I should write a book about those Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Libertarians promote booze, gambling, pot, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, etc.)
https://hoodline.com/2024/05/illinois-gop-embraces-trump-at-state-convention-as-libertarians-challenge-his-views-in-chicago-speech/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republicans threw their full weight behind former President Donald Trump during their state convention this past Saturday, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. The GOP adopted a platform that fiercely criticized Democrats for their stance on abortion rights, bail reform, and transgender issues. U.S. Rep. Mary Miller did not hold back in her condemnation of President Joe Biden and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, calling their vision for the country and state “a disaster” and even labelling it “evil.”. . . The dichotomy of the two events emphasizes the divisive figure Trump continues to represent, even within varied conservative circles. Illinois Republicans, particularly in rural regions, remain staunchly pro-Trump, with GOP Chair Don Tracy suggesting that Republican enthusiasm for the former president was on the rise. Meanwhile, Trump’s reception at the Libertarian convention exposes the frictions within a party known for its commitment to individual liberties and small government—a party where some view Trump as antithetical to their values. The Illinois GOP’s adopted platform attacks Democrats on a number of fronts, including abortion, law enforcement, and election integrity, according to the Chicago Tribune. They vehemently oppose the state’s pro-abortion laws and have added new language to their platform on gender identity, aligning closely with Trump’s traditional conservative views. Their actions signal an intention to fiercely fight to regain a foothold in suburbia, despite the potential risks of alienating moderate voters with their undiluted embrace of Trump.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Chicago shootings: At least 29 shot, 5 killed in Memorial Day weekend violence across city. (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-memorial-day-gun-violence-police/14874004/

NBC5
— National Spelling Bee reflects the economic success and cultural impact of immigrants from India – AP (COMMENT: What is your national origin? How long have your ancestors been in America. How successful have they been? What have their successes been attributed to? I am 100% German national origin. All my ancestors were farmers who immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. Immigrants from other nations have been more successful than immigrants from Germany. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Critics/opponents of German Americans attribute the success that German Americans have had to their benefitting from discrimination against immigrants from other nations. Further, they stress WWI and WWII and the Holocaust. I should write a book about the aforesaid. I would cite examples in which my critics/opponents have used negative German American stereotypes and my German national origin against me. It is called national origin discrimination.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/national-spelling-bee-immigrants-india/3447166/

FOX32
— Child among 5 killed in slew of shootings during Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. – Nate Rodgers (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/young-girl-among-5-killed-over-three-dozen-shootings-during-memorial-day-weekend-chicago

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Park Ridge provisionally OKs $861,000 bid for security upgrades – RICHARD REQUENA (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/park-ridge-provisionally-oks-861000-bid-for-security-upgrades/


— Illinois Senate Democrats boost budget plan after House leaves town – OLIVIA OLANDER, JEREMY GORNER, DAN PETRELLA, OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/illinois-senate-democrats-boost-budget-plan-after-house-leaves-town/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/clarence-page-supreme-court-samuel-alito-dick-durbin/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Senate approves $53.1 billion budget plan. Senate Democrats on Sunday night called the state’s budget “fair” and a “statement of our priorities.” Republicans called it “another example of a long list of misplaced priorities.” – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2024/05/26/illinois-senate-begins-voting-on-53-1-billion-budget-springfield-legislature-pot-migrants-pritzker
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/05/24/justice-samuel-alito-upside-down-flag-jan-6-insurrection-supreme-court-democracy-solutions-project-editorial
— Pro-Palestinian student says University of Chicago is withholding degrees from 4 protesters. Youssef Hasweh, a fourth-year student, is having his degree withheld until the disciplinary measures are ‘resolved.’ He believes the ‘disproportionate response’ is aimed at deterring other student protesters. – Violet Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/25/pro-palestinian-student-university-chicago-hyde-park-withholding-degrees-protesters-israel-hamas-war

WBBM
— Pedestrians twice as likely to be hit by an electric or hybrid car than a gas-powered one – Mark Menard
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/national/study-electric-or-hybrid-car-twice-as-likely-to-hit-someone

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Here’s what’s in the Illinois state budget, passed by Senate and sent to House for vote – JERRY NOWICKI
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article288777295.html

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success pushing pot. Pot is poison. – Chris Breach
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/05/20/illinois-among-top-5-states-for-marijuana-sales-tax-revenue/73504372007/

KANKAKEE DAIL JOURNAL
— Gotion buys 231 acres for targeted expansions, power plant –
https://daily-journal.com/news/local/gotion-buys-231-acres-for-targeted-expansions-power-plant/article_47e9a7e2-1930-11ef-b1d2-83309955f2cd.amp.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Americans report using marijuana more frequently than alcohol. What are the risks of both? – Scott Detrow (COMMENT: Pot is poison.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-05-26/americans-report-using-marijuana-more-frequently-than-alcohol-what-are-the-risks-of-both

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Libertarians nominate Chase Oliver for president, spurning both Trump and Kennedy – AP (COMMENT: I should write a book about those Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Libertarians promote booze, gambling, pot, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, etc.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libertarians-nominate-chase-oliver-for-president-spurning-both-trump-and-kennedy/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ASSAULTS UP 6.7% PAST 12 MONTHS, MORE VIOLENT – Patrick Andriesen and Jon Josko
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-crime-assaults-up-6-7-past-12-months-more-violent/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left is turning America into a Third World country. Buying votes by the billions. – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/26/left-is-turning-america-into-third-world-country/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats look to expand abortion playbook to target Republicans on IVF – Cami Mondeaux
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3016549/democrats-look-expand-abortion-playbook-ivf/

WASHINGTON POST
— Alan Dershowitz compares anti-Israel campus protests by ‘Hitler Youth’ to Nazi Germany: ‘They are our future leaders’ – Carl Campanile
https://nypost.com/2024/05/26/us-news/alan-dershowitz-likens-campus-protests-to-nazi-germany/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— It’s Time For The Republican Party to Unite Behind Trump Now. There is no denying that under Trump, America was stronger, safer, wealthier, and more prosperous. – David Keltz
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/27/its-time-for-the-republican-party-to-unite-behind-trump-now/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Like terrorists in the White House – Lynne Lechter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/like_terrorists_in_the_white_house.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Biden props George Floyd up as an American hero on anniversary of death – X responds – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/26/biden-props-george-floyd-up-as-an-american-hero-on-anniversary-of-death-x-responds-1461780/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Congress considering bill to curb DEI in med schools – Haika Mrema (COMMENT: To implement DEI is to lower standards.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/congress-considering-bill-curb-dei-med-schools-/25518

EPOCH TIMES
— Everything You Need to Know as Trump Trial Heads to Verdict. The charges, the witnesses, those who didn’t testify, and the final arguments before the jury takes control. – Catherine Yang (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have bombarded the jurors, as well as everyone else in the world, with ever-increasing hatred against not only Trump, but against those who share his demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. The aforesaid has hurt Biden because Biden shares the aforesaid demographics with Trump except that Biden is liberal, Democrat, Catholic, and Irish American.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/everything-you-need-to-know-as-trump-trial-heads-to-verdict-5655809

FEDERALIST
— Public Elementary Schools Deploy Leftists’ Favorite DEI Terms — And Refuse To Define Them – STEPHANIE LUNDQUIST-ARORA
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/27/public-elementary-schools-deploy-leftists-favorite-dei-terms-and-refuse-to-define-them/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Biden, the king of gaslighting, again falsely blames Republicans for HIS border crisis – Pat Droney (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest gaslighters in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.)
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/biden-the-king-of-gaslighting-again-falsely-blames-republicans-for-his-border-crisis

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Finally, Transgender Sports Rules That Make Sense – GEORGE LEEF (COMMENT: Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against other transgender athletes.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/finally-transgender-sports-rules-that-make-sense/

NEWSMAX
— Mass Migration Overwhelming Sanctuary City Schools – Eric Mack (COMMENT: Sanctuary city schools today, your schools tomorrow.)
https://www.newsmax.com/us/illegal-immigration-crowding/2024/05/26/id/1166259/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Biden to face at least 35 ‘uncommitted’ delegates at Chicago DNC
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-to-face-at-least-35-uncommitted-delegates-at-chicago-dnc

TOWNALL
— Over 40 Mayors Beg Joe Biden to Create Jobs Program for Illegal Immigrants – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: If there had been as many illegals in America when I was young, they would have gotten the bad jobs that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs like I did, they did not have to work their way through college. Their parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/26/over-40-mayors-beg-joe-biden-to-create-jobs-program-for-illegal-immigrants-n2639541
— A President Who Exalts Evil – Mark Lewis
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/05/27/a-president-who-exalts-evil-n2639560
— Here’s How Many Times Non-Citizens Try to Infiltrate US Navy Bases Every Week – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/05/27/us-admiral-were-seeing-non-citizens-trying-to-infiltrate-naval-bases-2-3-times-per-week-n2639572

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCESSOUTHERN

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promote Hillary Clinton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-abortion.html
— Democrats say “How Donald Trump Still Lives in the 1980s. The greed-is-good era was the last time his preferred public image was intact, and he’s been returning there in ways large and small as he sits through his criminal trial in Manhattan.” What did you do during the 1980s? I worked as an Analyst for the Democrats who ran GAO. In 1980, I completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. In 1981, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA. In 1984, my wife and I had own home built in Wheaton. In 1986, the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS was finally able to get me assigned to audits of IRS and to promote me to GS-13, currently $115,439/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire in 1987. In 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. In 1989, in retaliation, they threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment and performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/trump-1980s-manhattan.html
— FRONT PAGE: Free Food? Modi Makes Sure Every Indian Knows Whom to Thank for It. India’s welfare programs improve lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party uses its vast machinery to ensure the handouts also create loyal voters. – Suhasini Raj and Alex Travelli (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly buy votes.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/world/asia/india-welfare-modi.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hotels in N.Y. Pick Migrants Over Tourists| – Luis Ferré-Sadurní
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/nyregion/hotels-prices-migrants-nyc.html

WASHINGTON POST
— A vote for the soul of the Republican Party (COMMENT: What does the future look like for your elected Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC)? I have been an elected RPC since 2000. My future as a RPC looks ever-increasingly bleak for me. The leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization ever-increasingly blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They ever-increasingly blame me and blame my newsletters for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They stress that I promote direct election of IRP State Central Committee members. They stress that I promote planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They stress my bad demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, old, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. They stress the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. One of them recently rudely told me that she threw my precinct letter away.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/a-vote-for-the-soul-of-the-republican-party/
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly promise to give Blacks more preference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/27/ncaa-settlement-racial-injustice/

USA TODAY
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly promise to give Blacks more preference.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/25/george-floyd-death-anniversary-racism-progress-slow/73540226007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Massive Immigration Wave Hitting America’s Classrooms – Jon Kamp and Alicia A. Caldwell
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/the-massive-immigration-wave-hitting-americas-classrooms-3c7d7943
— Young professionals graduating from public universities charging in-state tuition often receive a degree that is worth the money—with one caveat. New graduates need to earn at least $50,000 a year, on average, in their first decade off campus for the degree to pay off, according to new research from Strada Education Foundation, a nonprofit that analyzed federal education and earnings data. If they can land that salary, or make $500,000 before taxes over 10 years, state school graduates across sectors will find the investment worth it and should be able to pay off their loans, Strada says. – Alyssa Lukpat (COMMENT: During the almost 9 years that I worked for IRS 1971-1980, IRS paid me more than $800,000 in salary In today’s dollars. My IRS salary increased from $54,728/year (GS-7 Step 1) to $110,020/year (GS-12 Step 5). I earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/public-college-value-salary-career-7dc157e5

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— The Christian Nationalist Danger Behind the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag – Sarah Jones (COMMENT: What is your religion? How are members of your religion stereotyped? What are members of your religion blamed for? What have their successes been attributed to? I am Protestant. My parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. Protestants are ever-increasingly negatively stereotyped as being patriotic and even worse things. Protestants are ever-increasingly blamed for all the problems that America has. The successes that Protestants have is ever-increasingly attributed to their benefitting from discrimination against non-Protestants. I should write a book about the aforesaid. I would cite examples in which my critics/opponents have used negative Protestant stereotypes and my being Protestant against me. It is called religious discrimination.)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-christian-nationalism-behind-the-appeal-to-heaven-flag.html

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Despite mounting opposition, US House leader moves to invite Netanyahu to Congress. Republican Mike Johnson sets deadline for Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer to sign on and make it a joint session or will proceed alone; Democrats divided
https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-mounting-opposition-us-house-leader-moves-to-invite-netanyahu-to-congress/

May 25, 2024

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— 2024 Illinois State Convention – RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaSXeMRHkh4

NEW YORK TIMES

— Biden to Deliver Commencement Address at West Point Military Academy. President Biden’s address comes at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming White House rematch with former President Donald J. Trump. – Michael D. Shear

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Mayor Brandon Johnson rolls out summer safety plan, hoping to prevent Memorial Day weekend violence. – Christian Piekos, Craig Wall, and Eric Horng
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-beaches-open-season-friday-castaways-restaurant-north/14864792/
— Illinois lawmakers working through holiday weekend on budget as spring legislative session ends
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmakers-state-budget-finalized-governor-jb-pritzker/14867028/

WTTW
— State Lawmakers Pass 250 Bills, Including Measure Targeting ‘Legacy’ Admissions at Public Universities (COMMENT: How much did your parents’ education help you? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/state-lawmakers-pass-250-bills-including-measure-targeting-legacy-admissions-public
— Advocates Underscore Need for Statewide Reentry Programs as Several Bills Aimed at Supporting People With Criminal Records Stall – Dilpreet Raju (COMMENT: Democrats advocate for criminals. Republicans advocate for the victims of criminals.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/advocates-underscore-need-statewide-reentry-programs-several-bills-aimed-supporting
— Bill Banning Illinois From Aiding Other States’ Investigations Into Abortion Services Clears General Assembly – Peter Hancock and Cole Longcor (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/bill-banning-illinois-aiding-other-states-investigations-abortion-services-clears-general

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Judicial Watch files lawsuit over Evanston reparations program – ALEX HULVALCHICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/conservative-group-files-lawsuit-over-evanston-reparations-program/?clearUserState=true
— Illinois Senate pitches budget, but talks continue into holiday weekend as Democrats struggle to reach consensus – DAN PETRELLA, OLIVIA OLANDER, EREMY GORNER, and OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/illinois-senate-pitches-budget-but-talks-continue-into-holiday-weekend-as-democrats-struggle-to-reach-consensus/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— As Pritzker, Dems hash out state budget, lawmakers tackle health care, abortion protections and digital IDs. Topping Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s legislative agenda and on track for approval heading into the weekend was a health insurance reform package targeting so-called “junk plans” and step therapy. – Mitchell Armentrout and Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2024/05/24/jb-pritzker-democrats-health-care-abortion-protections-digital-ids-legislative-roundup
— A former DuPage County prosecutor accused of threatening state lawmakers, gun control groups on social media. Samuel Cundari, 30, is charged with making threatening posts on X directed at the children of two state lawmakers, gun control groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office. He’s also accused of posting about a potential bomb at a Springfield LGBTQ festival. – Kade Heather
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/24/dupage-county-threats-state-lawmakers-gun-control-groups-social-media

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s Hispanic community welcomes Biden and the DNC — and demands work permits – Leigh Giangreco (COMMENT: When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicagos-hispanics-want-worker-permits-biden

HERALD
— Republican campaign aide charged in Will County with harassment, obscenity
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2024/05/24/republican-campaign-aide-charged-in-will-county-with-harassment-obscenity/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois’ tiny jobs growth due only to new government hiring – Mark Glennon
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/illinois-tiny-jobs-growth-due-new-government-19462440.php

SOUTHERN
— What Haley donors, voters think about her saying she’ll vote for Trump in November – Soo Rin Kim, Hannah Demissie, and Kelsey Walsh (COMMENT: Who are the leaders of Haley voters in your congressional district, county, township, and municipality? What do they say?)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/24/what-haley-donors-voters-think-about-her-saying-shell-vote-for-trump-in-november/
— VP hopefuls modify their stance on abortion to more closely align with Trump – Hannah Demissie
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/24/vp-hopefuls-modify-their-stance-on-abortion-to-more-closely-align-with-trump/

WGLT
— Campaigns are starting earlier than ever — due, in part, to early voting – Domenico Montanaro, Steve Inskeep
https://www.wglt.org/2024-05-24/campaigns-are-starting-earlier-than-ever-due-in-part-to-early-voting

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-24/abortion-can-be-difficult-to-talk-about-these-14-strangers-took-it-on-anyway

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/understanding-inequality-redlining-is-only-part-of-the-story/Event?oid=18458376

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— South Side Chicago GOP delegate makes history – Jim Talamonti
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ad2bbf7a-19ec-11ef-a863-e7a3816125c9.html

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois Public Schools Fail: Kids Can’t Read. Only 35 in every 100 Illinois students can read at grade level. Is your child one of them? (COMMENT: At Crete-Monee High School, only 15% are proficient in reading and only 7% in math. I graduated from Crete-Monee High School in 1966. My ACT score was 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. That got me accepted by UIC.)
https://wirepoints.org/kidscantread/statewide/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— An Opposing View of Direct Election of GOP SCC – Larry D. Smith (COMMENT: I should write a book about those past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who oppose direct election of IRP SCC members and who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000 because I promote direct election of IRP SCC members. I would focus on those who removed me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/an-opposing-view-of-direct-election-of-gop-scc/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden is downsizing, politicizing our military – Want to avoid war? Prepare for one. – Don Feder
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/24/biden-is-downsizing-politicizing-our-military/
— Biden, Democrats and the dangerous religion of race. It’s being used to justify totalitarianism. – Tom Basile
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/24/biden-democrats-and-dangerous-religion-of-race/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Left’s war on merit comes for medical schools – Brad Polumbo (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3016582/the-lefts-war-on-merit-comes-for-medical-schools/
— DEI is going to get people killed: Medical edition – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3016922/dei-is-going-to-get-people-killed-medical-edition/
— Biden’s fiscal vigilantes are robbing people – Rep. Jodey Arrington
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3015339/bidens-fiscal-vigilantes-robbing-people/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UCLA Medical School Denies Whistleblower Allegations, Claims Students Admitted ‘Based on Merit’ Admissions officers say the school lowers standards for minorities in an effort to boost diversity. – Aaron Sibarium (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-medical-school-denies-whistleblower-allegations-claims-students-admitted-based-on-merit/
— ‘A Failed Medical School’: How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA. Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame. – Aaron Sibarium
https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-failed-medical-school-how-racial-preferences-supposedly-outlawed-in-california-have-persisted-at-ucla/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Make America great, and competitive, again – Jack Hellner
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/make_america_great_and_competitive_again.html

AMERICAN THINKER
— At UCLA, the DEI medical students are a disaster – Andrea Widburg (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/at_ucla_the_dei_medical_students_are_a_disaster.html

BREITBART
— Over 40 Mayors Plead with Joe Biden to Create Jobs Program — for Migrants – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: Democrats want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/24/over-40-mayors-plead-with-joe-biden-to-create-jobs-program-for-migrants/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Northwestern journalism school’s chair of ‘social justice in reporting’ has history of pro-Hamas rhetoric – Patrick McDonald
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exposed-northwestern-journalism-schools-chair-social-justice-reporting-history-pro-hamas-rhetoric/25525
— UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard, as school ‘cuts corners’, admits applicants based on race – Adam Sabes (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-med-students-alarmingly-sub-standard-school-cuts-corners-admits-students-based-race/25529

CENTER SQUARE NORTH CAROLINA
— Jews ‘fit neatly’ into universities’ DEI oppression matrix – Alan Wooten |
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_fe852b0a-19d7-11ef-9adc-63d6dbfbd38b.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said the Committee on Education and the Workforce will continue getting to, and ending, the “roots of antisemitic hatred, including anti-Israel DEI bureaucracies, and questionable foreign funding” that enabled a group to be found – the Jews – that “fit neatly” into the oppression matrix of diversity, equity and inclusion. “Over the course of years, decades even,” Foxx said, “universities gradually nurtured a campus culture of radicalism in which antisemitism grew and became tolerated by administrators.”)

DAILY CALLER
— Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Rips Biden For Border Crisis, Details Concerns Over Migrants Crossing – HAILEY GOMEZ
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/24/anna-paulina-luna-rips-biden-border-crisis-illegal-immigrants-crossing/
— How We Built A World Meant To Cave To The Mob – GAGE KLIPPER
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/24/build-world-cave-mob-jussie-smollett-demand-for-hate-crime/

DAILY WIRE
— Up To Half Of UCLA Med Students Are Failing Basic Medical Competency Tests, Affirmative Action To Blame – Ashe Schow (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/up-to-half-of-ucla-med-students-are-failing-basic-medical-competency-tests-affirmative-action-to-blame

FEDERALIST
— Democrats Want Aliens To Vote In U.S. Elections – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/24/yes-democrats-want-aliens-to-vote-in-u-s-elections-take-jamie-raskins-word-for-it/

FOX NEWS
— California bill would ban schools from telling parents if student identifies as LGBTQ. Opponents say the bill will ‘keep parents in the dark.’ – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-bill-would-ban-schools-telling-parents-student-identifies-lgbtq-gut-and-amend
— Top House Republican launches probe into failed breach of military base by illegal immigrants. Lawmakers in both congressional chambers have demanded answers. – Adam Shaw, Griff Jenkins
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-house-republican-launches-probe-failed-breach-military-base-illegal-immigrants

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Evanston faces federal class action over reparations program
https://www.judicialwatch.org/chicago-suburb-faces-federal-class-action-over-reparations-program/

MRC TV
— Half of UCLA Med Students Are Failing Family Medicine Amid Racial Admissions Reports – SCOTT GIEBEL (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/scott-giebel/data-shows-half-ucla-med-students-are-failing-family-medicine-amid-racial

NEWSMAX
— Chicago Officials Concerned About Violence at DNC Convention – Solange Reyner
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dnc-chicago-officials/2024/05/24/id/1166141/

PATRIOT POST
— Illegals in Chicago Fake Armed Robberies for Immigration Benefit. Illegal immigrants in the Windy City are paying to be “victimized” in fake armed robberies, attempting to obtain a visa and protection from deportation.
https://patriotpost.us/videos/107127-illegals-in-chicago-fake-armed-robberies-for-immigration-benefit-2024-05-24

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— How UCLA Became ‘a Failed Medical School’ – Aaron Sibarium (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.realcleareducation.com/2024/05/24/how_ucla_became_a_failed_medical_school_1033829.html

TOWNHALL
— The High Art of Virtue Signaling – Jeff Davidson (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest virtue signalers in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2024/05/25/the-high-art-of-virtue-signaling-n2638867
— Tired of Waiting for Border Agents, Illegal Aliens Call a Lyft and Become ‘Gotaways’ – Spencer Brown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/05/24/tired-of-waiting-for-border-agents-illegal-aliens-call-a-lyft-and-become-gotaways-n2639498

WESTERN STANDARD
— Half of UCLA med students fail basic tests since lowering standards for minorities – Jen Hodgson (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/half-of-ucla-med-students-fail-basic-tests-since-lowering-standards-for-minorities/54812

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Anti-Trump Republicans Worried About the Biden Campaign (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest anti-Trump leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2015.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-biden-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— How the Libertarian Party that turned from Trump came to embrace him. The decision to invite the former president to speak at Saturday’s convention is the latest battle in a raging, contentious war over the party’s direction. – Meryl Kornfield (COMMENT: Because I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ, abortion, and pot, Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have always worked very hard against me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/libertarian-party-trump/

USA TODAY
— Democrats continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/25/george-floyd-racism-backlash/73548393007/

MSN
— Migrant stuns reporter saying ‘killers’ and ‘psychopaths’ entering US – Jon Michael Raasch
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/migrant-stuns-reporter-saying-killers-and-psychopaths-entering-us/ar-BB1mZK4z
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/welcome-desperate-migrants-without-excuses-or-delays-pope/ar-AA1cMSDI

YAHOO
— Legacy Students Four Times More Likely to Be Accepted to Top Schools – Daniel Kreps (COMMENT: How much did your parents’ education help you? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/legacy-students-four-times-more-130428192.html
— Wall Street is paring its bets on ESG and DEI as political pressure rises – BEN WERSCHKUL (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.aol.com/wall-street-paring-bets-esg-150045085.html

FORBES
— Who have your superiors made role models? My superiors have always made those who are following role models: team players, moderate/liberal, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/04/26/recruiting-gen-z-how-to-engage-young-talent-in-the-workplace/

NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Ready to Certify Your Affirmative Action Plans Before July 1, 2024? – Lsa B. Marsh, Marolhin D. Mendez (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://natlawreview.com/article/ready-certify-your-affirmative-action-plans-july-1-2024-podcast

May 24, 2024

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— GOP UNITY: The Illinois Republican Party is holding its state convention today and Saturday in the Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville. After eight years of divisiveness among the rank and file, party leaders hope to emerge united as they head into election season. No matter where they stand on Donald Trump, they agree on wanting to make Joe Biden a one-term president. “We’re at a pivotal point where you’re seeing Republicans starting to get back together,” Illinois GOP Executive Director Matthew Janes told Playbook. “You’re seeing a lot more unity recently.” The Illinois GOP has evolved much the way the national Republican party has, with right-leaning Republicans veering more right and centrists somehow being seen as being left on party issues. In Illinois, the shift has been geographic. In 2014, the Republican base was strong in Chicago’s suburbs and exurbs, while southern Illinois still saw Democrats have an influence in party politics. That’s all shifted: When Trump came on the scene, rural voters were drawn to his blue collar message and there was a shift in the state party’s cultural and economic bases. Chicago-area Republicans weren’t always in line with Trump. And many still aren’t. Embracing Trump: Illinois GOP National Committeeman Richard Porter was among those hoping to see a new Republican generation in the White House. He backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president. Now, he says he’s most concerned about taking back the White House from Democrats. “I am for winning. Trump is our nominee and the Democrats have behaved appallingly in regard to Trump so it’s not hard to support him,” Porter told Playbook, referring to the former president’s recent court fight in New York. That attitude is expected to prevail in Collinsville this weekend, where the biggest task is to line up behind a party platform and elect a new Republican committee man and committee woman to represent the state within the national Republican Convention (The party elects one man and one woman to those seats.). Why the change: Term limits are keeping Porter and Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte from running again. They have each served two terms. In the running for their seats: GOP state central committee members Mark Shaw and Dean White and Illinois Republican Finance Committee Chair Vince Kolber. Shaw is also an Illinois adviser to Trump’s campaign. Women candidates are State Central Committee members Joan Lasonde and Rhonda Belford, and former Republican legislative candidate Julie Cho. All of the candidates are right-leaning, Trump-supporting Republicans. If you are Demetra DeMonte, Playbook would like to hear from you. Email skapos@politico.com )
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump putting his finger on the scale to revamp GOP platform four years after it froze in time – Elaine Mallon (COMMENT: Those who oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) members have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a far-right conservative. Since 2015, they have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a Trump-promoter. I should write a book about those who oppose direct elect election of IRP SCC members and who oppose Trump and who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3015947/trump-revamp-gop-platform-after-it-froze-in-time/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump campaign is pushing to elect those closely aligned with the presumptive presidential nominee’s agenda to positions on the Republican National Committee‘s Platform Committee. Much of this effort by former President Donald Trump’s campaign relates to concerns that far-right conservatives will push stances on abortion and same-sex marriage that may alienate the general population just ahead of the general election. The RNC’s Platform Committee consists of a male and a female representative from each U.S. state and territory, and it will play an instrumental role in shaping the party’s stances on dozens of policy issues. The party’s current platform is a 66-page document that hasn’t been reviewed since the 2016 election. In 2020, the RNC passed a resolution stating it would not adopt a new platform, pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic interfering with the party’s ability to hold meetings. That year marked the first time in more than 150 years that the RNC decided not to make adjustments to its official platform, per NBC News. Shiree Verdone served as co-chairwoman of Trump’s campaign in Arizona in both 2016 and 2020 but is no longer involved with the Republican Party of Arizona. She told the outlet that Trump’s team is concerned about who is getting on the party’s platform committee. “Trying to get normal folks on the Platform and Rules [committees], but God knows if there’s any normal people in that delegation,” Verdone said. The committee’s leadership consists of strong Trump supporters, including Trump’s former ambassador to Luxembourg, Randy Evans, who will serve as executive director. Russ Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, will serve as policy director, and Ed Martin, the head of several conservative groups, will serve as deputy policy director. “The campaign is really getting into it and involved this year in [Platform Committee] races in states,” a veteran Republican operative told the outlet. “There is a sense among them that the platform should not be pushed too far to the right on a few issues, but I keep hearing abortion and marriage specifically.” While far-right conservatives have called for a national ban on abortion, Trump has been steadfast in his stance that the matter will be left up to the states. “I DO NOT SUPPORT A BAN ON BIRTH CONTROL, AND NEITHER WILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!” Trump declared on Truth Social.)
— ‘Haley Voters for Biden’ says Trump endorsement makes their efforts ‘difficult’ – Peter Cordi (COMMENT: Who are the Haley voters for Biden in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3015309/haley-voters-biden-trump-endorsement-efforts-difficult/
— Trump and DeSantis appear to push aside feud in appeal to donors: ‘I love that you’re back’ – Ross O’Keefe
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3015526/trump-desantis-push-aside-feud-appeal-donors/
— Speaker Mike Johnson accuses Biden, Democrats of wanting illegal immigrants to vote – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/22/mike-johnson-accuses-joe-biden-democrats-of-wantin/
— Mike Johnson warns that ‘enemies of freedom’ can vote in local DC elections – Asher Notheis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3014853/mike-johnson-warns-enemies-of-freedom-can-vote-local-dc-elections/
— Democrats attack Republicans on DC noncitizen voting law as a setup for election fraud claims – Jack Birle
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3014472/democrats-attack-republicans-dc-noncitizen-voting-law-setup-big-lie-2-0/
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: One year in, a failing grade – William J. Kelly
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3001566/brandon-johnson-one-year-in-failing-grade/
— Trump insists Biden, 81, must debate him standing up. – Ashley Oliver (COMMENT: I drove non-stop from Wheaton to Collinsville yesterday.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3016177/trump-insists-biden-81-must-debate-standing-up/
— Illegal immigrant says illegal immigration is too easy – Conn Carroll
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3015282/illegal-immigrant-says-illegal-immigration-too-easy/

ALTON TELEGRAPH & JOURNAL COURIER
— Collinsville hosts Illinois GOP state convention this weekend. – Scott Cousins
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/illinois-republican-convention-gop-collinsville-19474408.php
http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/republicans-state-convention-collinsville-weekend-19474445.php
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Approximately 500 to 600 people will attend, according to Convention Coordinator Deb Detmers.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Nikki Haley dropped out of the GOP race, but she’s still getting sizable votes. – Hannah Demissie
https://abc7chicago.com/post/nikki-haley-voting-trump-former-republican-presidential-candidate/14858562/
— Trump campaign calls out ‘critical flaw’ in Milwaukee RNC convention’s safety from protesters. Trump campaign wants more space between convention and protest areas. – Kelsey Walsh
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-campaign-accuses-secret-service-of-critical-flaw-rnc/14863699/
— Anti-abortion Chicago City Council members stall quiet zone approval around West Loop clinic. Ald. Bill Conway was trying to establish “quiet zone” around abortion clinic where entering women report bullying and intimidation. – Fran Spielman
https://abc7chicago.com/post/anti-abortion-chicago-city-council-members-stall-approval-west-loop-clinic-quiet-zone/14863192/

WGN9
— House Republicans rail against Northwestern, Rutgers for cutting deals with protesters. – Lexi Lonas
https://wgnradio.com/news/house-republicans-ream-northwestern-rutgers-for-cutting-deals-with-protesters/
— Retiring early may not be as great as it sounds – Collin McCarthy (COMMENT: I should write a book about being forced by Democrats to retire early.)
https://wgnradio.com/your-money-matters/retiring-early-may-not-be-as-great-as-it-sounds/

WTTW
— New Illinois Law That Prevents Political Parties From Slating Candidates in Open General Election Races Put on Hold by Judge – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/23/new-illinois-law-prevents-political-parties-slating-candidates-open-general-election
— Northwestern President Defends Deal With Student Protesters to US House Committee: ‘We Had to Get the Encampment Down’ – AP
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/23/northwestern-president-defends-deal-student-protesters-us-house-committee-we-had-get

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois fails to protect immigrant victims of crime – NELL SALZMAN (COMMENT: Those who promote illegal immigration are responsible for the illegals who come in.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/illinois-fails-to-protect-immigrant-victims-of-crime-report-finds/
— Alderman accuses colleague of antisemitism over social media post. – JAKE SHERIDAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/23/alderman-accuses-colleague-of-antisemitism-over-social-media-post/
— Illinois Democrats still at odds over tax hike proposals as budget talks again head into overtime – JEREMY GORNER, OLIVIA OLANDER, OLIVIA STEVENS, DAN PETRELLA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/23/illinois-democrats-still-at-odds-over-tax-hike-proposals-as-budget-talks-again-head-into-overtime/
— Northwestern President Schill grilled by lawmakers at campus antisemitism hearing. ‘Hate is hate.’ – ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/23/northwestern-president-at-congressional-antisemitism-hearing-existing-rules-policies-falling-short-we-must-improve/
— Senate holds a test vote on border bill as Democrats seek to underscore Republican resistance – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/23/senate-border-bill-test-vote/
— ‘Justice-impacted individual’ is a ‘doublethink’ phrase that could come back to haunt Gov. J.B. Pritzker – Editorial
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-justice-impacted-individual-doublethink-100000509.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Judge halts election law that blocked Republican candidates from appearing on November ballot. Under the new law, state House and Senate candidates must run in the primary to appear on the November general election ballot — a move leaving prospective candidates in the lurch, viewed as a power grab by the Democrat-led legislature. – Tina Stondeles and Jon Seidel
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/23/judge-halts-election-law-that-blocked-republican-candidates-from-appearing-on-november-ballot
— Mayoral allies in hot water over social media posts. Johnson’s Communications Director Ronnie Reese is under fire for a 2010 tweet that said, “I brake for gay pride, reluctantly.” Meanwhile, Ald. Debra Silverstein called a recent Facebook post by Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez “an antisemitic dog whistle.” – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/05/23/social-media-mayoral-allies-facebook-tweet-antisemitism-homophobia
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2024/05/23/cook-county-loans-minority-pot-license-marijuana-social-equity
— Advocates worry 120 schools could lose after-school programs this summer. – Nader Issa and Sarah Karp (COMMENT: What did you do after-school? I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/05/23/advocates-worry-120-schools-could-lose-after-school-programs-this-summer
— Student protests are a rite of passage. I went through it, back in the ’60s. Watching the wave of student protests on college campuses nationwide, a retired journalist recalls his own activism and writes: When these students reflect on this moment, I trust they will appreciate, like I have, our country’s commitment to reasonable free speech, peaceable assembly and democracy. – Andy Shaw (COMMENT: While I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU 1969-1970, many of my classmates protested the Vietnam War.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/05/23/student-protests-colleges-israel-hamas-vietnam-war-activists-1960s-andy-shaw

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago newsrooms get $1.6 million in grants to strengthen local journalism – Corli Jay (COMMENT: All the many thousands of dollars needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out every morning comes out of my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/chicago-newsrooms-get-grants-bolster-local-journalism
— Durbin renews call for Alito to recuse himself in 2020 election cases. (COMMENT: I have flown an American flag off my front porch in Wheaton constantly since September 11, 2001 and a 18X12 foot American flag in my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville since January of 2021.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/durbin-calls-alito-recuse-himself-2020-election-cases

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois House moves to protect emergency abortions ahead of US Supreme Court ruling – Patrick M. Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/23/illinois-house-passes-bill-protecting-emergency-abortion-services/73793013007/

SOUTHERN
— Democrats go on offense as the GOP opens the door to birth control restrictions – Isabella Murray
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/23/democrats-go-on-offense-as-the-gop-opens-the-door-to-birth-control-restrictions

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Descendants of Evanston residents file federal class action suit against reparations program – William Tong
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/24/city/descendants-of-evanston-residents-file-federal-class-action-suit-against-reparations-program/

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Class action lawsuit attacks Evanston reparations program as unconstitutional. Plaintiffs allege they are ‘irreparably harmed’ by program’s limitation to Black ancestors and descendants, seek their own $25,000 payments. – Alex Harrison
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/05/24/class-action-lawsuit-attacks-local-reparations-program-as-unconstitutional/

EVANSTON NOW
— Suit challenges Evanston reparations plan – Bill Smith
https://evanstonnow.com/suit-challenges-evanston-reparations-plan/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump isn’t known for letting slights against him pass – AP (COMMENT: I not only let sights against me pass, I let big adverse actions against me pass. Should I continue doing that? Should I start issuing cease and desist letters against my attackers? Should I sue them?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-swaps-bluster-for-silence-and-possibly-sleep-in-his-hush-money-trial//

CITIES 92.9
— Measure impacting auto voter registration raises non-citizen registration concerns – Catrina Petersen
https://www.cities929.com/2024/05/22/measure-impacting-auto-voter-registration-raises-non-citizen-registration-concerns/

WGEM
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wgem.com/video/2024/05/24/bill-expanding-illinois-abortion-shield-law-heads-gov-pritzkers-desk/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-94/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: Why do Republican, conservative, and religious leaders in Illinois not encourage reading GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, if not discourage reading those newsletters? ANSWER: They reject planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly its individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks and/or they reject election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois bill allows out-of-state minors to apply for taxpayer funded abortions – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_5b88a150-192f-11ef-9334-cb5ac7080596.html

COURTHOUSE NEWS
— Evanston faces federal class action over reparations program. The first-of-its-kind reparations initiative is meant to address the historic housing injustice that Black Evanston residents once faced. – DAVE BYRNES
https://www.courthousenews.com/chicago-suburb-faces-federal-class-action-over-reparations-program/

WEST COOK NEWS
— Cook County launches $3.6 million grant program for cannabis businesses
https://westcooknews.com/stories/659508595-cook-county-launches-3-6-million-grant-program-for-cannabis-businesses

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois legislators ‘increasingly see criminals as victims & police as criminals’ – Paul Vallas:
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/659439059-paul-vallas-illinois-legislators-increasingly-see-criminals-as-victims-police-as-criminals

SANGAMON SUN
— Republicans express concerns over exclusion from Illinois budget talks
https://sangamonsun.com/stories/659508774-republicans-express-concerns-over-exclusion-from-illinois-budget-talks

WIREPOINTS
— More woke buffoonery with your money: The latest with Illinois’ ESG investments and Treasurer Frerichs – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/more-woke-buffoonery-with-your-money-the-latest-with-illinois-esg-investments-and-treasurer-frerichs-wirepoints/
— Eleven Illinois U.S. Representatives vote against bill to ban noncitizens from voting in Washington, D.C. elections
https://wirepoints.org/eleven-illinois-u-s-representatives-vote-against-bill-to-ban-noncitizens-from-voting-in-washington-d-c-elections-wirepoints-quickpoint/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Protecting Child Sacrifice and Mandating Indoctrination – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/protecting-child-sacrifice-and-mandating-indoctrination/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP convention plans to be a good guest in Milwaukee – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/23/inside-beltway-gop-convention-plans-be-good-guest-/
— Biden stumbles through press conference with Kenyan president: ‘What was my question?’ – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/23/joe-biden-stumbles-through-press-conference-with-k/
— 52 Democrats join GOP as House votes to overturn D.C.’s noncitizen voting law – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/23/52-democrats-join-gop-as-house-votes-to-overturn-d/
— Biden proves he’s a demagogue on race, yet his own record is terrible. President told Black college grads that America hates them. – Tim Murtaugh
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/23/biden-proves-hes-demagogue-on-race-yet-his-own-rec/
— Safe spaces, ‘trigger warnings’ crush free speech and destroy universities’ academic rigor – Allan C. Stam
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/23/safe-spaces-trigger-warnings-crush-free-speech-and/

NEW YOR POST
— Trump vows to ‘make NYC great again’ at boisterous Crotona Park rally. – Victor Nava and Diana Glebova
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/us-news/trump-vows-to-make-nyc-great-again-at-boisterous-crotona-park-rally/
— Thousands of Trump fanatics swarm Bronx park for his first NY rally since 2016: ‘He’s a real Nelson Mandela’ – Steven Vago, Marie Pohl and Katherine Donlevy
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/us-news/thousands-of-trump-fanatics-swarm-nyc-park-for-rally/
— Advice to Donald Trump for the debate: Just let bumbling Biden talk! – Douglas Murray
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/opinion/advice-to-donald-trump-for-the-debate-just-let-bumbling-biden-talk/
— Advice to Donald Trump for the debate: Just let bumbling Biden talk! – Douglas Murray
https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/opinion/advice-to-donald-trump-for-the-debate-just-let-bumbling-biden-talk/

AMERICAN THINKER
— A border so wide open even the illegals are warning us – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/a_border_so_wide_open_even_the_illegals_are_warning_us.html

BREITBART
— Kinzinger Dismisses Haley’s Support for Trump as ‘Pathetic’ – SIMON KENT (COMMENT: I have always been a Republican. Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will announce that they have always been Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, or RINOs.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/23/kinzinger-dismisses-haleys-support-for-trump-as-pathetic/
— Illinois Democrats Dumping the Term ‘Offender’ for ‘Justice-Impacted Individual’ in State Law – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/05/23/illinois-democrats-dumping-offender-justice-impacted-individual-state-law/
— Illegal Migrants Hurry to Cross Southern Border: ‘We Don’t Want Trump’ – ELIZABETH WEIBEL
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/22/illegal-migrants-hurry-cross-southern-border-we-dont-want-trump/
— Most House Democrats Vote to Allow Illegal Aliens to Vote in D.C. Elections – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/23/most-house-democrats-vote-to-allow-illegal-aliens-to-vote-in-d-c-elections/
— Joe Biden Blames Record-Setting Illegal Immigration on Republicans – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have blamed me the most for the most. I would focus on those who have blamed me the most for the most losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/23/joe-biden-blames-record-setting-illegal-immigration-republicans/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Northwestern journalism school’s chair of ‘social justice in reporting’ has history of pro-Hamas rhetoric – Patrick McDonald
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exposed-northwestern-journalism-schools-chair-social-justice-reporting-history-pro-hamas-rhetoric/25525

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— States Seeking to Curb Illegal Immigration Can Start by Curbing Access to Professional Licenses – Jessica M. Vaughan (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that on my first attempt, a) I passed the CPA examination in 1979, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://cis.org/Vaughan/States-Seeking-Curb-Illegal-Immigration-Can-Start-Curbing-Access-Professional-Licenses
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20 percent of U.S. workers require a license in their occupation.)

DAILY SIGNAL
— Up to 2.7 Million Noncitizens Could Vote Illegally in November – Dan Hart
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/23/up-2-7-million-noncitizens-could-vote-illegally-november-study-shows/
— Biden Border Crisis Is Extortion Tactic to Push Massive Amnesty – Simon Hankinson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/23/biden-border-crisis-is-extortion-tactic-push-massive-amnesty-borderline/

DAILY WIRE
— Activism Over Education? Law School Embraced Drag Shows And Social Justice Amid Rankings Free Fall. As law school plummeted down the rankings, its professors were performing in drag. – Leif Le Mahieu
https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-dei-fueled-implosion-of-a-major-u-s-law-school

FOX NEWS
— Donald Trump at Bronx rally: Biden puts illegal aliens first, I put America first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtEYViyEd0
— Sen. Graham sounds alarm on terror threat after Marine base incident: ‘Wake-up call’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-graham-sounds-alarm-terror-threat-after-marine-base-incident-wake-up-call?ref=upstract.com
— Top Dem’s past push for noncitizen voting rights revealed ahead of House vote. The House will consider a bill Thursday to repeal a DC law allowing noncitizens to vote. – Elizabeth Elkind
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-dems-past-push-non-citizen-voting-rights-revealed-ahead-house-vote
— Meritocracy works much better in terms of producing excellent results – Dr. Ben Carson
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6353550280112

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Judicial Watch Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Evanston Over Reparations
https://www.judicialwatch.org/reparations/

MRC TV
— Illegal Alien Worried About ‘Who Comes into This Country’: ‘Killers, Psychopaths’ – CRAIG BANNISTER
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/illegal-alien-worried-about-who-comes-country-killers-psychopaths

NEWSMAX
— Trump on Mass Migration: ‘They’re Building an Army!’ – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-immigration-illegals/2024/05/23/id/1165961/
— Biden’s Open Border Doing Irreparable Harm – Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/bob-good-newsmax-joe-biden/2024/05/23/id/1165931/
— DEI Will Destroy Our Trust in Doctors – JEFFREY BLEHAR
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dei-will-destroy-our-trust-in-doctors/

PJ MEDIA
— Illinois Renames ‘Offenders’ to ‘Justice-Impacted Individuals’ – GRAYSON BAKICH
https://pjmedia.com/graysonbakich/2024/05/22/illinois-renames-offenders-to-justice-impacted-individuals-n4929264

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— When Donald Trump Wins In 2024 Will Democrats Accept The Legitimacy Of His Victory? – Ian Schwartz
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/23/ned_ryun_when_donald_trump_wins_in_2024_will_democrats_accept_the_legitimacy_of_his_victory.html
— Speaker Johnson: Democrats Want Illegal Aliens Deciding Elections, They Don’t Want Americans Deciding American Elections – Tyler Stone
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/23/speaker_johnson_democrats_want_illegal_aliens_deciding_elections_they_dont_want_americans_deciding_american_elections.html

TOWNHALL
— The Polls Don’t Lie: Thousands of People Show Up to Trump Rally In Deep-Blue State – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/23/trump-deep-blue-state-rally-n2639468
— Only Trump Can Launch and Win a War Against the DEI Army – Douglas MacKinnon
https://townhall.com/columnists/douglasmackinnon/2024/05/24/only-trump-can-launch-and-win-a-war-against-the-dei-army-n2639467

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ROLL CALL
— Noncitizen voting bill advances as Republicans continue messaging push – Jim Saksa
https://rollcall.com/2024/05/23/noncitizen-voting-bill-advances-as-republicans-continue-messaging-push/

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/closer-donald-trumps-2024-vow-deport-millions-migrants/story?id=110469177

WASHINGON POST
— Fentanyl is fueling a record number of youth drug deaths. The new trend has shocked many pediatricians, who say they feel unprepared to provide counseling on opioid addiction. – Jenna Portnoy and Dan Keating
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/22/fentanyl-youth-overdoses-increase/

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly shout at Black and at everyone else that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbowermaster/2024/05/24/4-years-after-george-floyd-racial-equity-giving-faces-challenges/

DAILY MAIL
— Half of trainee doctors at UCLA’s prestigious medical school ‘are failing basic tests after dean who’s anti-white ignored affirmative action ban and terrorized staff with DEI rules’ Standards plunge at UCLA medical school amid claims of reverse discrimination. Dean Jennifer Lucero has presided over exodus of Asian students since 2020. UCLA Med students forced to sit through pro-Hamas lecture. – DOMINIC YEATMAN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13454451/UCLA-medical-school-dean-Jennifer-Lucero-DEI-affirmative.html