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June 4 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Gov. Rauner signs Illinois budget – Craig Wall
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/gov-rauner-signs-illinois-budget/3559392/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rauner signs full state budget for the first time in his term – Kim Geiger
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bruce-rauner-illinois-budget-20180604-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-medical-marijuana-opioids-illinois-lawmakers-20180604-story.html
— McDonald’s officially opens HQ in Chicago, leaving Oak Brook campus behind – Samantha Bomkamp
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-headquarters-201800605-story.html
— Former state lawmaker Sandra Pihos pleads guilty to retail theft but claims charge was ‘misunderstanding’ – Matthew Walberg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-state-lawmaker-retail-theft-guilty-pihos-20180604-story.html
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago has more underwater homes than any other U.S. metro area – Darcel Rockett
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-chicago-underwater-mortgages-20180603-story.html
— The Supreme Court’s unexpected wedding cake verdict – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-wedding-cake-supreme-court-20180604-story.html
— Meet the Illinois budget party pooper – Kristen McQueary
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mcqueary-pension-illinois-budget-rauner-0605-20180604-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rauner signs first budget as governor, thanks Madigan for ‘great team effort’ – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rauner-signs-first-balanced-budget-since-taking-office-thanks-madigan/
— Trump says US farmers will be treated fairly in trade talks – AP (DIERSEN: When GAO started its massive downsizing in 1981, it assured its employees who were a) minority, b) female, c) veteran, and d) those who had made GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40 that they would not be adversely impacted by the massive downsizing. Of course, that meant that only its employees who were White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made the aforesaid promotions would be adversely impacted.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/donald-trump-farmers-agriculture-trade-talks/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Since the Civil War, Democrats have ever-increasingly shouted at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/voter-suppression-law-worse-than-russian-interference-in-our-elections/
— On the verge of big advances in political ethics in scandal-plagued Springfield – Madeleine Doubek
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/michael-madigan-illinois-ethics-in-politics/

DAILY HERALD
— Prominent conservatives fight Indiana GOP platform changes – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20180604/news/306049872/
— Libertarian governor candidate found in contempt of court – Lee Filas
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180604/libertarian-governor-candidate-found-in-contempt-of-court
— Political strategist Jeffrey N. Ward charged with domestic battery – Jake Griffin
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180604/political-strategist-charged-with-domestic-battery
— Pihos banned from Von Maur after pleading guilty to retail theft – Justin Kmitch
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180604/pihos-banned-from-von-maur-after-pleading-guilty-to-retail-theft

CRAIN’S CHICAGO
— Rauner finally learns to make a deal – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180604/BLOGS02/180609961/rauner-finally-learns-to-make-a-deal
— Chicago’s Kemper doubling down on high-risk drivers – Steve Daniels (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, drivers who drink booze or smoke pot are very high-risk and should pay much higher premiums.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180601/ISSUE01/180539953/chicago-upstart-makes-a-big-play-for-the-drivers-allstate-and-state-farm-avoid

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Rep. Peter Roskam: Trump wrong on tariffs
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/06/04/rep-peter-roskam-trump-wrong-on-tariffs/a8o1j2n/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Gov. Rauner signs ‘not perfect’ budget, lauds ‘team effort’ – Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180604/gov-rauner-signs-not-perfect-budget-lauds-team-effort
— Durbin says he’d support move by Trump to commute Blagojevich’s sentence – John Wagner (DIERSEN: Would Durbin support Trump if Trump would commute my sentence? In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors forced to take their early retirement “offer.” Because of that, since 1997, in today’s dollars, my income has fallen $73,461/year or 59%. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $125,325/year, but my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $51,864/year. So far, in today’s dollars, since 1997, my income has fallen $1,524,316.)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180604/durbin-says-hed-support-move-by-trump-to-commute-blagojevichs-sentence

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Area Educators See Possibilities In Teacher Minimum-Wage Bill – CHASE CAVANAUGH (DIERSEN: Are/were you accused of being overpaid? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always accused me of being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
http://northernpublicradio.org/post/area-educators-see-possibilities-teacher-minimum-wage-bill
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He says that, in some areas, a new teacher with a master’s degree might earn only $27,000 per year. “If you look in the private sector or the nonprofit sector, workers with master’s degrees in the state, the average for them is an earning of about $103,000,” Montgomery said. “So that’s a massive gap here.”)

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump cancels Eagles visit due to anthem – JILL COLVIN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/sports/nfl/trump-cancels-eagles-visit-due-to-anthem/1218494961

NPR ILLINOIS
— Rauner Signs Budget, Keeps Criticizing Taxes – BRIAN MACKEY
http://nprillinois.org/post/rauner-signs-budget-keeps-criticizing-taxes#stream/0

CHICAGO NOW
— Will Rauner v. Pritzker election ask, “Do you want higher or lower taxes”? – Jeff Berkowitz
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2018/06/is-rauner-v-pritzker-main-issue-higher-or-lower-taxes-berkowitz-wkolber-cable-web/

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more this year
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511445297-population-falling-but-illinois-government-leaders-agree-to-spend-borrow-more-this-year

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Algonquin Township Board & Clerk – “Budget Busters” – KIRK ALLEN
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2018/06/algonquin-township-board-clerk-budget-busters/

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Rauner signs budget, critics raise concerns about accounting gimmicks – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/rauner-signs-budget-critics-raise-concerns-about-accounting-gimmicks/article_ae910620-681a-11e8-aa31-0f79ed78c5a3.html

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— PRITZKER REACTS TO SUPREME COURT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RULING: “I WILL FIGHT DISCRIMINATION”
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/06/pritzker-reacts-to-supreme-court-religious-freedom-ruling-i-will-fight-discrimination-.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Rauner going up on TV tomorrow
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/04/rauner-going-up-on-tv-tomorrow/
— Durkin overcame numerous obstacles and got things done
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/04/durkin-overcame-numerous-obstacles-and-got-things-done/

NEWSMAX
— GOP’s John Cox Edges Closer to Ballot Spot in Calif. Governor Race – Jason Devaney
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/california-governors-race-john-cox-attracting/2018/06/04/id/864135/

FED SMITH
— Poll: Majority of Americans Think It’s Too Difficult to Fire Poor Performing Federal Employees – Ian Smith (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, my Democrat superiors in the federal government took the following adverse actions against me because I was a “poor performing federal employee” and even worse things, and NOT because of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, or age discrimination: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. Needless-to-say, I should sue my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/06/04/poll-majority-americans-think-difficult-fire-poor-performing-federal-employees/

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— Federal employee volunteer hours can now go toward Combined Federal Campaign – Eric White (DIERSEN: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, I spent many “volunteer hours” earning a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48 and b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://federalnewsradio.com/federal-newscast/2018/06/federal-employee-volunteer-hours-can-now-go-toward-combined-federal-campaign/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Office of Personnel Management has offered new guidance to help employees convert their volunteer hours to credit for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). The CFC will monetize volunteer hours and count them toward campaign results. But it will report them separately from financial contributions. Federal employees should use the CFC online pledging system to track volunteer hours.)

June 3 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Please help me encourage Republican candidates on November 6, 2018 ballots in Wheaton a) to have an entry in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and b) to help sponsor the parade. Those candidates include Peter Roskam, Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti, Erika Harold, Jason Helland, Darlene Senger, Jim Dodge, Mike Connelly, Chris Nybo, Amy Grant, Peter Breen, Darlene Ruscitti, Dan Cronin, James Mendrick, Paul Hinds, Gwen Henry, Grant Eckhoff, Chris Zaruba, Joseph Cantore, Karen Wilson, and Jeff Mackay. The deadline for parade entries is June 11, 2018 and the cost is $180. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-2018-independence-day-celebration-parade-entry-tickets-43661232923?aff=es2 This year again, for the 13th year in a row, DuPage Republicans will help sponsor the parade and the fireworks the evening before. So far, outstandingly, Illinois Republican Party leader and Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar has contributed $500 toward the $2,500 sponsorship pledge. DuPage County Republicans will get credit for sponsoring the Tunes of Glory bagpipers and the Wheaton North and South High School bands. DuPage Republicans will again have a booth at the fireworks the evening before the parade. I will again hand deliver a flyer to all the residences and businesses on the parade route that lists the sponsors and the amount that they contributed. Please urge the candidates to phone me at 630-653-0462 about sponsorship and mail a check made out to the Wheaton Park District for $100 or more to me at 915 Cove Court, Wheaton, Illinois 60189-6326. Thanks. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker pumps $25 million into campaign fund, gives million to Madigan committee
https://capitolfax.com/2018/06/02/pritzker-pumps-25-million-into-campaign-fund-gives-million-to-madigan-committee/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— An ERA memo – Michael Sneed (DIERSEN: To vote for the ERA is to flush Phyllis Schlafly and all her supporters, including me, down the toilet.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chance-the-rapper-joining-st-sabina-peace-rally/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Wow! Sneed was surprised not to see a mention of legendary conservative maven Phyllis Schlafly when Illinois permitted ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment last week. In all due respect, Schlafly must have been turning over in her grave. Who was Schlafly? Dubbed the first lady of the conservative movement, Schlafly was credited by some historians as the reason the ERA failed to pass in Illinois! The ERA Amendment lost steam in the late 1970s because of the work of Schlafly’s “volunteer brigades,” who were known to cajole legislators with apple pies. As the nation’s most famous anti-feminist during the rebirth of the Women’s Liberation Movement decades — she was also the president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women from 1956 to 1964. She wore her hair up, she did not burn her bra, and you just knew she wore a girdle. For a journalist in the late ’60s and ’70s, Schlafly’s name was in your Rolodex. When Schlafly died in 2016, at the age of 92, her New York Times obit described her as being one of the most polarizing figures in American public life, a self-described housewife with “a moral ferocity reminiscent of the ax-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation.” She was a remarkable woman who, thank goodness, did not get the last word in the ongoing fight for a woman’s equal rights.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/trump-lies-disinformation/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps crow about their success in turning young people into Trump haters.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-bc-us–ap-poll-young-americans-empowered-20180530-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who want to destroy America discourage immigrants from speaking, reading, and writing English. My ancestors, who immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s, would have been much more successful if they had dumped the German language sooner than they did. My outstanding parents never attended college. My mother never attended high school. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-bc-us–bilingual-in-america-20180526-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps blame Barr and Bee on Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-persec-page-rosanne-barr-samantha-bee-donald-trump-0603-20180601-story.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-roseanne-tv-show-canceled-st-0601-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: Democrats do everything that they can to blame gun violence on Republicans.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-picnic-for-peace-st-0603-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Town halls a victim of Democrats’ violent fringe – Gregory Moffett, Glen Ellyn
http://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180603/town-halls-a-victim-of-democrats-violent-fringe
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: How college courses for veterans aim to aid transition to civilian life – Madhu Krishnamurthy (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, there should be college courses for government employees to “aid transition to civilian life.” Overwhelmingly, non-government employers, and everyone else for that matter, a) view government work experience as being completely worthless and b) view government employees as being lazy, stupid, overpaid, and even worse things.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180602/how-college-courses-for-veterans-aim-to-aid-transition-to-civilian-life
–FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you think of Republican DINKs (dual income, no kids)? I should write a book about those who despise/hate Republican DINKs. Those who despise/hate Republican DINKs include my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180602/constable-chinese-orphan-brings-love-and-challenges-to-empty-nesters-
— These American workers are still being paid like it’s the 1980s – Bloomberg (DIERSEN: What is the prevailing wage for those who have education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional licenses comparable to what you have? In today’s dollars, in 1997, when I was 49 years old, GAO paid me $125,325/year or $60.25/hour. I had almost 18 years of experience working for GAO and almost 9 years of experience working for IRS. I had earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30 (CPA), 32 (Certified Internal Auditor), 41 (Certified Fraud Examiner), 45 (Certified Government Financial Manager), 47 (Certified Financial Services Auditor), and 48 (Forensic Accountant), and c) a job-related professional license (licensed CPA) when I was 32.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180603/these-american-workers-are-still-being-paid-like-its-the-1980s

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Townships defend their services, tax support – DEREK BEIGH and RYAN VOYLES (DIERSEN: I remain neutral on township government notwithstanding the many adverse actions that township officials and township employees have taken against me. Should I write a book about those adverse actions and about those township officials and employees who took those adverse actions against me? Some of them talk and act like they want me to. They blame me for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I am sure that the Township Officials of Illinois organization (https://www.toi.org/) does not want its members to use their government and political clout a) to destroy those who do not glorify and praise them, b) to destroy those who do not pander to them, and c) to destroy those who do not give them money.)
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/townships-defend-their-services-tax-support/article_7ec6562f-5308-5628-99e8-561bde1e75a8.html
— State budget a relief, but much more to do – Editorial
http://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-state-budget-a-relief-but-much-more-to-do/article_6c745058-e6c3-5ccc-9668-f678ddf0a540.html

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Rauner may have given up on big shake-up – Tom Kacich (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents want you to give up on? My critics/opponents want me to give up on defending/promoting a) Donald Trump, b) the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and other planks in the Republican Party platform and in the Illinois Republican Party platform, and c) the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling. My critics/opponents want me to give up my opposition to promoting booze, gambling, pot, and other vices.)
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-06-03/tom-kacich-rauner-may-have-given-big-shake.html
— Victory lap in Springfield – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-06-03/editorial-victory-lap-springfield.html

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— With agreement, an easier budget vote this time around – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180602/bernard-schoenburg-with-agreement-easier-budget-vote-this-time-around

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Hearing set on Deerfield’s semi-automatic weapons ban – AP
http://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article212440799.html

WAND
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
http://www.wandtv.com/story/38333572/lawmakers-looking-for-opioid-alternatives

QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— State budget first step to rebuilding Illinois – Editorial
http://qconline.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-state-budget-first-step-to-rebuilding-illinois/article_d231a937-5e8d-53e7-ad18-7b0a0129244e.html

ABC NEWS
— Google blames Wikipedia for linking California GOP to Nazism – AP
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-blames-wikipedia-linking-california-gop-nazism-55576162

NEW YORK TIMES
— Never Mind the News Media: Politicians Test Direct-to-Voter Messaging – Sydney Ember (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about politicians who do NOT want you to first learn of anything by reading GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails? They want you to known only want they tell you, no more and no less. They do NOT want me to know about their events or their other activities. They do NOT want me to promote their events or their other activities. They do NOT want me to attend their events. They do not want me to report on their events or their other activities.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/bernie-sanders-town-hall.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: These media methods have obvious appeal: Politicians can appear accessible but remain insulated from the press. They are also not altogether new. President Trump eschewed traditional television advertising during the 2016 campaign and can now overshadow even his own party’s message at the drop of a tweet. And many politicians have long made a practice of ducking reporters. Yet several factors have converged to elevate the practice: Fake news and false information about politics have proliferated; the public’s trust in the mainstream media is low; and social media platforms make unfiltered messaging easier than ever. As a result, there is a new urgency among politicians to deliver talking points directly. Some two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. “Bernie and others are trying to find other ways that they can more directly connect with people,” said Guy Cecil, the chairman of Priorities USA, a Democratic “super PAC.” Many politicians blame the news media for the shift, claiming dishonest coverage has left them no other choice.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Did your mother stay home and raise you. My mother did. According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, a) that gave me a tremendous unfair advantage in life and b) that proved that my parents were undeservedly filthy rich. In my defense, my outstanding parents never attended college. My mother never attended high school. My father fought type 1 diabetes from age 14, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and did not buy a new car until he was 45, and it was a bottom of the line 2-door Chevy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/government-mom.html
— Thinking About Retirement? Consider Working a Little Longer – Jeff Sommer (DIERSEN: What if I had NOT succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats in 1997 when I was 49 years old? What if I had NOT taken their early retirement “offer?” I would NOT have again been eligible to retire for 6 years, that is, until I was 55 years old in 2003. If I had NOT taken their early retirement “offer,” my Democrat GAO superiors had promised to make my next 6 years a living hell. Who would have come to my defense? Based on how they and their staffs have treated me since 1997, no Illinois Republican U.S. Senator and no Illinois U.S. Representative would have come to my defense. Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that if Illinois Republican U.S. Senators and Illinois U.S. Representatives or their staffs had come to my defense, I would still be a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, etc. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that my Illinois Republican U.S. Senators and my Illinois U.S. Representatives and their staffs a) have dumped me, b) have thrown me under the bus, and c) have flushed me down the toilet.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/business/thinking-about-retirement-consider-working-a-little-longer.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time crow about their successes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/sex-gender-christian-campuses.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Members of the following groups crow about their success in destroying California: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/california-progressive-politics.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Mexico crows about its success in destroying America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-mexican-revival-of-small-town-america.html
— Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try Long plagued by poverty and desperation, Stockton, Calif., is testing universal basic income as a means of improving the lives of its residents. – Peter S. Goodman (DIERSEN: How much “free cash” would it take to get you to stop working – $15,000/year, $20,000/year, $25,000/year, $30,000/year, $35,000/year, $40,000/year, $45,000/year, $50,000/year, or more?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/stockton-basic-income.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-men and anti-White demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who are not anti-men and anti-White.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— The Times’ recommendations for Tuesday’s California primary – Editorial (DIERSEN: Outstandingly, John Cox did not succumb to my critics/opponents, their operatives, or their dupes a) who demonize me, who denigrate me, and who condemn me, b) who blame me for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems, and c) who hint/imply/argue/shout that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, bigot, and even worse things.)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-endorsement-recap-20180603-story.html

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, if you do not glorify and praise illegals, if you do not pander to illegals, and if you do not give money to illegals, Democrats call you a racist and even worse things. Ever-increasing, Democrats make it clear that they are going to use illegals to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-are-battling-be-most-anti-immigrant-candidate-their-primaries-954548

FED SMITH
— Executive Order on Firing Policies Leaves Federal Employees Contemplating Job Security – Mathew B. Tully, Esq. (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always promoted patronage. Democrats run the federal government. Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/06/03/executive-order-firing-policies-leaves-federal-employees-contemplating-job-security/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Americans Even More Optimistic About Economic Opportunity in U.S. (DIERSEN: When were you born? I was born in 1948. If I was trying to get a job now, I would be extremely pessimistic. Ever-increasing, employers make it clear that they do not want to hire, retain, or promote those who share my demographics. The only thing that is better now is that I would not be “draft bait.” I was “draft bait” until early 1971. Employers do not want hire those who are “draft bait.”)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/jobs_employment/may_2018/americans_even_more_optimistic_about_economic_opportunity_in_u_s

May 26 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will Illinois pony up to save Lincoln’s prized possessions? – Nick Kalm, vice chair, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-hamilton-lincoln-library-museum-loan-20180525-story.html
— TRAGIC: Prime minister, abortion rights groups claim victory in Ireland: ‘The people have spoken’ – AP (DIERSEN: To promote abortion is to promote promiscuity.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-ireland-abortion-election-results-20180526-story.html
— Trump’s executive orders roll back civil-service protections for federal employees – Lisa Rein (DIERSEN: Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-executive-orders-public-unions-20180525-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— At $25.3 million, Ventas’ Debra Cafaro is highest-paid CEO in Illinois – AP (DIERSEN: Are/were you demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being overpaid? In my defense, to qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/hightest-paid-ceo-state-debra-cafaro-ventas-illinois/

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Again, the Daily Herald publishes an anti-Roskam letter. I am a Roskam supporter and I have always been a Roskam supporter. Both Roskam and Hultgren endorsed me in 2000 when I first ran for Republican Precinct Committeeman. Roskam supporters should read anti-Roskam letters that are published. It is called opposition research. Reading the letters help you understand the arguments that Democrats are making, and therefore, help you counter those arguments.
http://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180526/congressman-is-detached-from-district

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Thumbs up to Rock Island County GOP Chairman Drue Mielke, for seeking the end of Glen Evans’ campaign for the Illinois House. – Editorial (DIERSEN: How successful have your critics/opponents been in getting rid of you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress that I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, a GAO employee, etc. They stress that extremely few have come to my defense.)
http://qctimes.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-thumbs-up-thumbs-down/article_72ce75e8-3ca9-59c8-95c1-142ee5157692.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Evans would have Democratic Rep. Mike Halpin in November should he remain on the ballot. But Mielke and several party officials this week sought the suspension of Evans’ campaign after a background check uncovered a raft of charges related to domestic violence stretching back decades. While most were dropped, an Indiana judge issued a warrant for Evans arrest after he failed to appear for a probation hearing. In 2009, Evans’ wife filed an emergency order of protection. Evans’ history is clearly problematic, if not troubling. Mielke was right to try to expunge him.)

SAUK VALLEY
— Voter dilemma haunts Christian conservatives Hold their noses and vote Rauner, or skip it and let Pritzker win easily? – Jim Nowlan (DIERSEN: It certainly seems like Rauner’s political consultants tell him that Republicans will vote for him no matter what, and that therefore, he should pander to voters who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.saukvalley.com/2018/05/19/voter-dilemma-haunts-christian-conservatives/ahcxbbo/

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Low attendance delays major votes in the final days of the spring legislative session – Rachel Droze
http://newschannel20.com/news/local/low-attendance-delays-major-votes-in-the-final-days-of-the-spring-legislative-session

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— A Big and Bold Illinois Tax Reform Plan is Needed – John Biver (DIERSEN: If you are not retired, how much retirement income do you expect to have. If you are retired, how much retirement income do you have? Sooner, or later, I expect representatives of those who expect to have little retirement income and those who have little retirement income to call for taxing retirement income above $50,000, $40,000, $30,000, $20,000, etc.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/a-big-and-bold-illinois-tax-reform-plan-is-needed-3/

GOPUSA
— Depression ‘surges’ among the young — report says social media, video games might be why
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46754
— Supermarket chain caves: Suspends political giving amid anti-NRA protest (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and companies that reject planks in the Republican Party platform use their clout to destroy you? If you have a job, they will get you fired. If you are self-employed, they will drive you out of business. If you hold a leadership position in an organization, they will get you dumped.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46738
— Families of Parkland victims sue maker, seller of gun used in shooting (DIERSEN: What about the blunt instruments, knives, vehicles, jets, etc. that criminals use to kill people?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46647

FOX NEWS
— Trump makes it easier to fire poor-performing federal workers – Alex Pappas (DIERSEN: Assessing job performance is extremely subjective. The Democrats who run the federal government use that subjectivity a) to promote Democrats, and especially those who are minority, female, and/or younger and b) to get rid of Republicans, and especially those who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors always ranked me in the lower half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes.)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/25/trump-makes-it-easier-to-fire-poor-performing-federal-workers.html

DAILY CALLER
— There Have Been Five Successful Or Attempted Mass Shootings In The Past Nine Days – Anders Hagstrom
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/25/united-states-five-mass-shootings-in-nine-days/

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Ireland votes to legalize abortion: ‘a tragedy of historic proportions’ – Claire Chretien (DIERSEN: To promote abortion is to promote promiscuity.)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-ireland-votes-to-legalize-abortion

AMERICAN THINKER
— How Republicans Can Win in November – Thomas O’Malley
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_republicans_can_win_in_november.html
— Bill Kristol barks at the moon – Peter Skurkiss
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/05/bill_kristol_barks_at_the_moon.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bill Fawell, Illinois GOP candidate, revealed as 9/11 truther – Andrew Blake (DIERSEN: Who gets the blame for Fawell winning the Republican primary?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/25/bill-fawell-gop-candidate-revealed-911-truther/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump signs three executive orders taking aim at unions – Steven Nelson (DIERSEN: Are you anti-union? Virtually all my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are anti-union. I was a union member for almost 12 years.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-guts-union-perks-speeds-up-civil-service-firings-to-save-100-million-a-year

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever increasingly, Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope promotes LGBTQ activity.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/world/pope-lgbt/index.html

NBC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats say “A record 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT, Gallup estimates. The increase was driven primarily by millennials, 8.2 percent of whom identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to the findings.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/record-4-5-percent-u-s-adults-identify-lgbt-gallup-n877486
— Trump signs orders targeting federal workers, union activities The new rules make it easier for the government to fire federal employees. – Jonathan Allen (DIERSEN: Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-orders-targeting-federal-workers-union-activities-n877706

NEW YORK TIMES
— Conservatives Fail the N.F.L.’s Free Speech Test – David French (DIERSEN: Democrats oppose the new NFL rules. Democrats love protestors who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. One could say that Democrats have succeeded in getting the aforesaid to act as their operatives and as their dupes.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/conservatives-fail-the-nfls-free-speech-test.html
You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree
— People who thought they were just partying when someone else overdosed can find themselves charged with murder. – Rosa Goldensohn
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/us/overdoses-murder-crime-police.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump nominates anti-immigration activist to head agency for immigrants and refugees – Tracy Wilkinson
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-immigration-nominee-20180525-story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— TRAGIC: Irish Supporters of Legal Abortions Celebrate After Referendum With a decisive result expected in favor of a repeal of Ireland’s abortion ban, supporters of the move took to the streets in celebration (DIERSEN: To promote abortion is to promote promiscuity.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irish-supporters-of-legal-abortions-celebrate-after-referendum-1527343808
— Democrats Cash In on Tax Reform How progressive states are quietly exploiting the new federal tax law. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-cash-in-on-tax-reform-1527287909
— FRONT PAGE: Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? Escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back – Josh Mitchell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-meru-has-1-million-in-student-loans-how-did-that-happen-1527252975

WMUR
— MAY 12, 2018 FLASHBACK: New Hampshire GOP takes no action on proposals to drop platform support for ‘traditional’ marriage Party convention adjourns leaving existing platform in place – John DiStaso (DIERSEN: I have asked my representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee Bob Grogan to appoint me to the 2020 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. I anticipate even greater efforts by Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs a) to destroy the IRP platform and b) to destroy the IRP.)
http://www.wmur.com/article/wmur-first-nhgop-delegates-to-be-asked-to-drop-platform-support-for-traditional-marriage/20668085

NEW BOSTON POST
— MAY 14, 2018 FLASHBACK: New Hampshire GOP Keeps Marriage in Platform (DIERSEN: I have asked my representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee Bob Grogan to appoint me to the 2020 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. I anticipate even greater efforts by Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs a) to destroy the IRP platform and b) to destroy the IRP.)
http://newbostonpost.com/around-new-england/new-hampshire-gop-keeps-marriage-in-platform/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The New Hampshire Republican Party continues to support marriage as only between one man and one woman in its platform, despite the efforts of a former chairman. Jennifer Horn, former state party chairman, was excluded from participating in the state party convention over the weekend on a technicality. She had sought to amend the party’s platform plank on marriage, which states that party members: “Recognize marriage as the legal and sacred union between one man and one woman as ordained by God, encouraged by the state and traditional to humankind, and the core of the family.” Horn also wanted to change the party’ support for “traditional families” to “nurturing families,” according to The Union Leader. Horn has recently moved from one ward in Nashua to another, and on that basis convention delegates meeting in Meredith voted to exclude her from taking part in the meeting, according to The Union Leader.)

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Mega-Donor Tom Steyer Is Forcing Democrats to Talk Impeachment. Is It a Losing Strategy? – Gabriel Debenedetti (DIERSEN: How successful have your critics/opponents been in getting rid of you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress that I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, a GAO employee, etc. They stress that extremely few have come to my defense.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/why-tom-steyer-is-forcing-democrats-to-talk-impeachment.html

PATHEOS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats want to destroy the traditional family.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2018/05/what-does-traditional-family-values-actually-mean.html

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Civil Service Order Makes It Easier to Say ‘You’re Fired’ (DIERSEN: Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.bna.com/trump-order-easier-n57982092951/

STARS AND STRIPES
— Trump issues orders aimed at weakening civil-service protections – NIKKI WENTLING (DIERSEN: Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/trump-issues-orders-aimed-at-weakening-civil-service-protections-1.529301

DAILY MAIL
— Trump signs executives orders making it easier to fire federal workers – Reuters & AP (DIERSEN: Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5773349/Trump-eases-firing-federal-workers-cracks-unions.html

KNIFE MEDIA
— Elon Musk plans a media credibility site. The media’s response may support his argument. (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn a) each and every decision that I make to include links to articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) each and every comment that I make on those articles. They want me to only include links to articles that glorify and praise issues, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. that they are currently promoting. They want me to only include links to articles that demonize, denigrate, and condemn issues, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. that they are currently trying to destroy. They do not want me to make any comments on the articles, but failing that, they want me to only make comments a) that glorify and praise issues, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. that they are currently promoting and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn issues, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. that they are currently trying to destroy.)
https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/elon-musk-plans-media-credibility-site-medias-response-may-support-argument/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Elon Musk tweets about media, creating a site to rate journalists On Wednesday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted, “The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them.” Musk later tweeted, “Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda ….” . . . The media’s response to Elon Musk’s comments may have done more to support his argument than to refute it. In many cases, news outlets distorted their coverage with sensational language, one-sided reporting and faulty reasoning. This is reflected in The Knife’s objectivity ratings, which found The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today scored between 35 and 42 percent out of 100. These low scores may highlight the importance of applying standards that can hold news outlets accountable for distorted reporting. There are four parts to The Knife’s ratings — spin (the amount of subjective and dramatic language in an article), slant (how much an article supports a single viewpoint), logic (the amount of faulty reasoning in an article), and data (inaccuracies and missing information). Below we’ll examine how spin, slant and faulty reasoning contributed to the overall objectivity ratings for these outlets.)

TEEN VOGUE
— Reporters in the Trump Era Are Facing New Challenges When he or his administration face judgment, Trump targets news outlets publicizing criticism. – STEPHANIE CASELLA (DIERSEN: Are you a Trump supporter? Anti-Trumps viciously demonize me, viciously denigrate me, and viciously condemn me as being the biggest Trump supporter in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton. Do you agree with my Trump-supporting critics/opponents a) who want me to stop including links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails that are critical of Trump and b) who want me to stop making comments on articles that I include links to in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?)
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reporters-in-the-trump-era-are-facing-new-challenges

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The only legitimate reason to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails is to get information to help elect and reelect Republicans who can and will defend and advance the Republican Party platform. But what about those who falsely state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican who read the emails to get information to:

– Dump the traditional family plank in the Republican Party platform,
– Dump the right to life plank in the platform,
– Dump the immigration plank in the platform,
– Dump the illegal drugs plank in the platform,
– Dump the Second Amendment plank in the platform,
– Dump the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the platform,
– Dump other planks in the platform,
– Dump those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that support the aforesaid planks,
– Promote dependency on government,
– Promote dependency on charity,
– Promote LGBTQ activity,
– Promote abortion,
– Promote mass/illegal immigration,
– Promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices,
– Promote abolition of the First and Second Amendments,
– Promote patronage,
– Promote political affiliation discrimination,
– Promote reverse discrimination,
– Promote age discrimination,
– Promote legislation that promotes their personal financial and/or other personal interests, and
– Dump those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that fail/refuse to promote the aforesaid? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

May 25 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. What percent of money given to Republican activists, to Republican candidates, to Republican elected officials, and to Republican party leaders is given to get the aforesaid to:

– Dump the traditional family plank in the Republican Party platform,
– Dump the right to life plank in the platform,
– Dump the immigration plank in the platform,
– Dump the illegal drugs plank in the platform,
– Dump the Second Amendment plank in the platform,
– Dump the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the platform,
– Dump other planks in the platform,
– Dump those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that support the aforesaid planks,
– Promote dependency on government,
– Promote dependency on charity,
– Promote LGBTQ activity,
– Promote abortion,
– Promote mass/illegal immigration,
– Promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices,
– Promote abolition of the First and Second Amendments,
– Promote patronage,
– Promote political affiliation discrimination,
– Promote reverse discrimination,
– Promote age discrimination,
– Promote legislation that promotes their personal financial and other interests, and
– Dump those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that fail/refuse to promote the aforesaid?

Needless-to-say, Republican activists, Republican candidates, Republican elected officials, and Republican party leaders should not seek or accept money from individuals, organizations, companies, etc. that want to dump planks in the Republican Party platform or to promote anything that is anti-Republican. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

POLITICO
— VERY SAD: Trump donor to cut off GOP contributions over DACA – NATASHA KORECKI (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, those who support DACA are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/24/trump-donor-daca-gop-david-macneili-607973
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Chicago-area businessman who has donated more than $1 million to President Donald Trump is threatening to deny contributions to Republican candidates unless they act on an immigration bill before Congress. David MacNeil, who employs 1,600 people through his Bolingbrook-based WeatherTech automotive company, told POLITICO in an interview that the issue has grown deeply personal, given that a top employee in his company could face deportation if a deal isn’t reached for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. MacNeil is the second prominent Chicago-area businessman and GOP donor in a week to cut off or threaten to withhold campaign contributions over the immigration debate. On Wednesday, former Exelon CEO John Rowe told POLITICO he would cut off resources to Republicans who refuse to sign onto a discharge petition that would force a vote on legislation related to so-called “Dreamers,” while rewarding those who did with contributions and fundraising events. Both Rowe and MacNeil belong to the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, which is calling on GOP lawmakers to sign the DACA discharge petition. “I’m saying this as a political donor who’s donated seven figures in the last couple of years: I will not donate any more money to anyone who doesn’t support DACA, period,” MacNeil said in a phone call while traveling in Italy. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is.” MacNeil is among the CEOs who backed Trump before the 2016 election, inspired by the campaign’s “Make America Great Again,” mantra. A Canadian emigrant who is now a U.S. citizen, MacNeil has long touted that his own products are made in America. He underwrote a Trump fundraiser in Bolingbrook just before the 2016 election, then gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. MacNeil said that a top-performing employee who has been with him for more than 10 years will represent the WeatherTech at the Governor’s Export Awards reception Thursday night, in which the company is a finalist. The employee was brought to the country as a toddler.)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— VERY SAD: Trump donor to cut off GOP contributions over DACA – Natasha Korecki (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, those who support DACA are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2018/05/25/dorothy-browns-office-not-normal-different-take-on-cassidys-side-gig-272187
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “A Chicago-area businessman who has donated more than $1 million to President Donald Trump is threatening to deny contributions to Republican candidates unless they act on an immigration bill before Congress. David MacNeil, who employs more than 1,600 people through his Bolingbrook-based WeatherTech automotive company, told POLITICO in an interview that the issue has grown deeply personal, given that a top employee in his company could face deportation if a deal isn’t reached for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program … “I’m saying this as a political donor who’s donated seven figures in the last couple of years: I will not donate any more money to anyone who doesn’t support DACA, period,” MacNeil said in a phone call while traveling in Italy. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is.” MacNeil said Dreamers represent both “a national treasure” and “a national asset,” adding: “Think of the value of 800,000 U.S. educated people with all the skills and knowledge they have and then deporting them.”)

BOLINGBROOK PATCH
— VERY SAD: WeatherTech’s CEO May Stop Donating To GOP David MacNeil, who employs more than 1,100 people through Bolingbrook-based WeatherTech, spoke with POLITICO this week. – John Ferak (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, those who support DACA are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://patch.com/illinois/bolingbrook/weathertechs-ceo-may-stop-donating-millions-gop-report
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A story published on Thursday in POLITICO is reporting that David MacNeil, CEO of Bolingbrook’s WeatherTech company, may stop donating to GOP candidates. The news article reminds readers that MacNeil was a huge financial backer of President Donald Trump and that MacNeil’s current frustration involves the issue of immigration, mainly the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “I’m saying this as a political donor who’s donated seven figures in the last couple of years: I will not donate any more money to anyone who doesn’t support DACA, period,” MacNeil told POLITICO, according to the article. “I’m putting my money where my mouth is.”)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Ives backer Uihlein tells magazine he’ll vote for Rauner over Pritzker – Rick Pearson (DIERSEN: Obviously, Rauner’s political consultants tell him a) that Republicans will vote for him no matter what because Pritzker rejects more planks in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform than he does, b) that Rauner should focus on getting votes from those who reject planks in the IRP platform, and c) that means dumping voters, dumping organizations, dumping companies, dumping etc. that support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and other planks in IRP platform. Further, obviously, Rauner’s political consultants tell him that more anti-Trumps than pro-Trumps will vote in the November 6, 2018 election, so he should dump voters, dump organizations, dump companies, dump etc. that support Trump. Needless-to-say, no political consultant who is a Republican would give Rauner the aforesaid advice.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-richard-uihlein-bruce-rauner-20180524-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: But Uihlein broke from Rauner after his signature on legislation expanding taxpayer-subsidized abortions and backed Ives, the three-term Wheaton Republican who narrowly lost to Rauner in March. Uihlein gave her $2.5 million. “Jeanne proved that people are hungry for change,” Uihlein says in the article. Author John J. Miller writes that Uihlein is “now skeptical about Rauner’s ability to deliver (change) but says that the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, J.B. Pritzker, would be a disaster for Illinois: ‘I will vote for Rauner over Pritzker.’ ” State Sen. Sam McCann, a Republican from Downstate Plainview, is also mounting a third-party bid. The article also recounts how Uihlein met John Tillman, chairman and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute. Last decade, Tillman was looking for work after selling his used sporting goods store. “I’d been getting the Uline catalog for a while,” Tillman said. “So I wrote a letter to the owner.” The article says Tillman and Uihlein met, but their conversation turned to what was described as “Tillman’s real passion: creating a network of freedom-minded organizations in Illinois.” “Dick became my anchor donor,” Tillman says in the article, adding that Uihlein gave him $50,000 in seed money to start the institute. Millions more from Uihlein have flowed since. In February, Rauner said he wouldn’t give the institute “another nickel.”)
— Other donations – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-richard-uihlein-bruce-rauner-20180524-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Not mentioned in the article is Uihlein’s relationship with conservative talk show host and political operative Dan Proft, who played a leading role in Ives’ campaign for governor. Uihlein gave $95,000 to Proft’s failed bid for the GOP governor nomination in 2010, then gave him an additional $500,000 later to help seed Proft’s political operation. Since then, Uihlein has given Proft’s Liberty Principles political action committee $12.1 million, including $3 million in January. And Uihlein has become a prolific donor to federal candidates, including giving $100,000 to a super PAC backing Republican Roy Moore in a special Senate election in Alabama. Moore was accused of sexually molesting or assaulting teens ages 14 and 16 while he was in his 30s. Moore denied the allegations but lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones.)
— Confronting Madigan’s culture of intimidation – Editorial (DIERSEN: Who are the lead intimidators in your municipality, in your township, in your county, and in Illinois. I should write a book about the lead intimidators in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-madigan-cassidy-harassment-intimidate-20180523-story.html
— EPA deal marks dramatic shift away from dirty coal power in Chicago area – Michael Hawthorne
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-chicago-area-coal-settlement-20180518-story.html
— GOP immigration rebels push ahead to force vote despite Trump veto pledge – Mike DeBonis
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-gop-immigration-trump-veto-pledge-20180524-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Americans use children as cannon fodder.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-children-abused-immigrants-rights-0525-20180523-story.html
— Trump’s spiral into ‘criminal deep state’ madness continues – Rex Huppke (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who did not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40 frustrated their efforts to hire, retain, and promote young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females. I should write a book about Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, and RINO Republican party leaders who hint/imply/argue/shout that Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran frustrate their effort to promote young minorities and young females.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-trump-spy-russia-mueller-huppke-20180523-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: First-time AP students tell D204 school board they relished the challenge – Suzanne Baker (DIERSEN: When you were in high school, were you considered to be “college material?” While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I took college preparatory courses notwithstanding the fact that many, if not most, if not virtually everyone at the time viewed me as NOT being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, I was draft bait, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-204-ap-minorities-achievement-gap-st-0525-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gov. Rauner says Texas is more union job friendly than Illinois – BGA
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/fact-check-gov-bruce-rauner-says-texas-more-union-job-friendly-than-illinois-politifact-better-government-association/
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Emanuel’s private emails filled with complaints about crime – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/emanuels-private-emails-filled-with-complaints-about-crime/

DAILY HERALD
— How new state funding helps pay District 204 teachers – Marie Wilson
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180524/how-new-state-funding-helps-pay-districtr-204-teachers
— 4 years of raises coming for Dist. 204 teachers – Marie Wilson
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180522/4-years-of-raises-coming-for-dist-204-teachers

NORTHWEST HERALD
— McHenry Township trustee Bob Anderson seeking money for consolidation campaign Supporters want to educate voters – ED KOMENDA
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/24/mchenry-township-trustee-seeking-money-for-consolidation-campaign/adec20g/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “We cannot underestimate the desperation of the opposition,” he wrote. “We can no longer trust them to police themselves. They have demonstrated their willingness to treat our tax dollars like they are in their own personal piggy banks.” Anderson pointed to “shameful spending” in Algonquin Township, McHenry County’s most populous township and the center of budget-busting legal fees, corruption allegations and political infighting. He noted that the names of contributors will appear on reports to the state of Illinois if they donate $150 or more. “If you strongly support us but do not want to be identified by the entrenched politicians who want to perpetuate the current system, send us $149.00 and encourage your spouse, kids or a friend to make a contribution,” Anderson wrote. “It has been said that evil thrives when good people do nothing. Please do something.”)

HERALD & REVIEW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois-house-panel-oks-marijuana-to-fight-opioid-abuse/article_eba685b9-52e9-57e9-8385-d81682eae0bd.html

JOURNAL TOPICS
— Public Pensions: People Must Be Voice Of Change – Maureen Pekosh
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/maureen-pekosh-people-must-be-voice-of-change/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Roman Catholics And Evangelicals Move Apart In Their Political Priorities – TOM GJELTEN (DIERSEN: According to this article, “For the Catholic church, the welfare of immigrants has risen as a concern.” Tragically, overwhelmingly, immigrants promote Democrats. Tragically, overwhelmingly, Democrats are vehemently anti-Catholic. The more immigrants that are in America, the more power that Democrats have to get rid of Catholics.)
http://nprillinois.org/post/roman-catholics-and-evangelicals-move-apart-their-political-priorities
— Despite IRS Warning, Illinois Senate Approves Federal Tax Workaround – BRIAN MACKEY (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
http://nprillinois.org/post/despite-irs-warning-illinois-senate-approves-federal-tax-workaround#stream/0

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— New food service provider says it won’t use federal E-Verify program – Alan Perez (DIERSEN: To not use E-Verify is to not only shout that you hire, retain, and promote illegals, it is to shout that you prefer illegals over citizens of America.)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/05/24/lateststories/new-food-service-provider-says-it-wont-use-federal-e-verify-program/

WIREPOINTS
— ‘Just Blow It Up’: Will That $7.2 Billion School Funding Lawsuit Do It To Illinois? The lawsuit appears viable, thanks to the state’s own admissions, but there’s no way to pay it. – Mark Glennon (DIERSEN: What do you admit to being? My critics/opponents stress that I admit to being a Trump supporter, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, old (born in 1948), non-poor, gun owner, 100% German American, draft avoider, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, union member for almost 12 years, federal employee for almost 30 years, forced to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, federal retiree for more than 20 years, childless, pet-less, American nameplate car owner, GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, etc.)
http://www.wirepoints.com/just-blow-it-up-will-that-7-2-billion-school-funding-lawsuit-do-it-to-illinois-wirepoints-original/
— IRS puts states, taxpayers on notice over SALT workaround plans – IL Watchdog (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
http://www.wirepoints.com/irs-puts-states-taxpayers-on-notice-over-salt-workaround-plans-il-watchdog/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Once in Lifetime Opportunity to See Magnificence of the Vietnam Memorial in Johnsburg
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/25/lifetime-opportunity-see-magnificence-vietnam-memorial-johnsburg/.
— Commenter Lays Out What Township Abolition Bill Should Include
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/25/commenter-lays-township-abolition-bill-include/
— Hultgren & Roskam Join Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/25/hultgren-roskam-join-congressional-climate-solutions-caucus/
— A Look at Bob MIller’s Wife’s Pay After Her Husband Lost the GOP Primary
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/25/117108/
— Anna May Miller’s Vacation Pay in the Spotlight
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/24/anna-may-millers-vacation-pay-spotlight/
— Nunda Township Reports No Written Work Product as a Consultant from Bob Miller, Paid Over $11,000 (DIERSEN: What is your written work product? My written work products are printouts of GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Since 2004 those emails have included links to almost 302,600 articles and information on many upcoming events.)
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/24/nunda-township-reports-no-work-product-consultant-bob-miller-paid-10000/

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— Rep. Olsen abstains from voting on anti-Trump legislation, allowing it to pass
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/511427345-rep-olsen-abstains-from-voting-on-anti-trump-legislation-allowing-it-to-pass

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Despite IRS warning, Illinois lawmakers vote for tax deduction workaround – Cole Lauterbach (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.ilnews.org/news/economy/despite-irs-warning-illinois-lawmakers-vote-for-tax-deduction-workaround/article_809d26da-5f8d-11e8-b257-8f53b54c99a3.html

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— NFL’S KNEELING POLICY – ERIC M. WALLACE, PHD
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/video/nfls-kneeling-policy/

CAPITOL FAX
— A couple more weird Republican candidates slip through the screens (DIERSEN: Did the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) encourage anyone to run against Fawell? Did anyone run against Fawell in the primary? If so, did the IRP back that candidate?)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/25/a-couple-more-weird-republican-candidates-slip-through-the-screens/

GOPUSA
— Republicans in Congress face death threats from anti-Trump #Resistance
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46671
— Democrats recruiting Parkland interns to work on gun control legislation (DIERSEN: When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates wanted me to transfer in as a GS-4 (currently $32,978) intern instead of as a GS-9 Step 10 (currently $72,677), that is, to suffer a $58,902 (64%) pay cut instead of a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46650

DAILY CALLER
— Chicago Is Holding American Law Enforcement Hostage – Jeff Landry
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/25/chicago-holds-usa-law-enforcement-hostage/
— Pit Bull Turns On Owner’s Family, Sends 3 To The Hospital – Scott Greer
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/24/pit-bull-attacks-family/

TOWNHALL
— Grassley Reminds FBI Agents Wanting to Blow the Whistle: You Are Legally Protected to Do So – Katie Pavlich Katie Pavlich (DIERSEN: I blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. Officially, whistleblowers like me are protected, but in reality, they are not.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/05/25/grassley-reminds-fbi-agents-wanting-to-blow-the-whistle-you-are-legally-protected-to-do-so-n2484151

CNN
— GOP House candidate Bill Fawell in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati – Nathan McDermott and Andrew Kaczynski (DIERSEN: Did the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) encourage anyone to run against Fawell? Did anyone run against Fawell in the primary? If so, did the IRP back that candidate?)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/politics/kfile-illinois-republican-nominee-illuminati/index.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party did not respond to a request for comment. Another Illinois Republican nominee for a House seat, neo-Nazi Arthur Jones, has been rejected by national Republicans and the state party for denying the Holocaust. In a 2014 post, Fawell speculated that New York City was going to be destroyed in a false flag attack by the deep state in either the year 2016 or 2017. New York City is going to be destroyed in the biggest, baddest false flag attack ever made by any organization upon the American People in a Pearl Harbor redux,” Fawell wrote. (False flag attacks are acts designed by perpetrators to look like they were carried out by other individuals or groups.) He said that the attack would be made in an attempt to drag America into war, and that financial institutions were already withdrawing money from New York in preparation for the supposed attack. In another post in 2014, he wrote that then-President Barack Obama created false flag attacks to shore up support for his foreign policy intervention against ISIS. In addition to alleging conspiracies, Fawell used sexist and racist slurs against politicians.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Concerned by Trump, Some Republicans Quietly Align With Democrats – Kenneth P. Vogel (DIERSEN: Trump has promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/politics/republicans-democrats-coalition-trump.html
— ‘Mustang Means Freedom’: Why Ford Is Saving an American Icon Ford is phasing out its passenger cars, except one: the Mustang. The car
may be only modestly profitable for Ford, but it has deep emotional power. – JAMES B. STEWART (DIERSEN: I own a 2016 Mustang.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/business/ford-mustang-american-icon.html
— The Supreme Court Sticks It to Workers, Again – Editorial (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes side with employers and side against employees. I was a lowly employee 1964-1997. I washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumped gasoline 1971-1972; collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980; and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/supreme-court-workers-payment.html
— Ready and Willing, for $13 an Hour or Whatever – Jim Dwyer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/nyregion/about-nyc-job-fair-minimum-wage.html
— Trump’s Crackdown on Students Who Overstay Visas Rattles Higher Education – Erica L. Green (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, colleges side with foreign countries and with their citizens against America and against its citizens.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/politics/trump-crackdown-student-visas.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Hillary Clinton warns of ‘a full-fledged crisis in our democracy’ at Yale – James Hohmann
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/21/daily-202-hillary-clinton-warns-of-a-full-fledged-crisis-in-our-democracy-at-yale/5b01aaf630fb0425887995e5/
— Democrats’ newest midterm pitch: A crackdown on corruption – Mike DeBonis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/21/democrats-newest-midterm-pitch-a-crackdown-on-corruption/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Border Patrol union calls Trump’s National Guard deployment ‘colossal waste’
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-national-guard-2018-story.html

SACRAMENTO BEE
— Discharged and jobless: Veterans seek change in hiring rules – AP (DIERSEN: Have you been discharged? My Democrat GAO superiors discharged me in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, as documents filed in Diersen v. GAO show, my Democrat GAO superiors want me to be jobless. They want to send a message to current and potential future GAO employees that a) GAO gives preference to its employees who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger and b) gets rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who do not make do not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.sacbee.com/news/article211891489.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Military veterans who were discharged for relatively minor offenses say they often can’t get jobs, and they hope a recent warning to employers by the state of Connecticut will change that. The state’s human rights commission told employers last month they could be breaking the law if they discriminate against veterans with some types of less-than-honorable discharges. Blanket policies against hiring such veterans could be discriminatory, the commission said, because the military has issued them disproportionately to black, Latino, gay and disabled veterans. At least one other state, Illinois, already prohibits hiring discrimination based on a veteran’s discharge status, advocates say, but Connecticut appears to be the first to base its decision on what it deems discrimination by the military. Regardless of the state’s reasons, veterans say, the attention there could at least educate employers.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Best-Paying Industry? It’s Not Banking Biotech and energy firms stand out among more than 100 companies in the S&P 500 that had a median pay of $100,000 or more in 2017 – Kelsey Gee and Theo Francis (DIERSEN: When did you start earning $100,000-a-year in to today’s dollars? I did in 1988 when I was 40 years old. By then, I had worked for GAO for almost 9 years, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, I had become a licensed CPA in 1981, I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/best-paying-industry-its-not-banking-1527240601

BUSINESS INSIDER
— These 10 American colleges have minted more than 500 billionaires, including Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and the founders of Google – Tanza Loudenback
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-billionaires-elon-musk-warren-buffett-google-founders-went-to-college-2018-5

POLITICUS USA
— Sen. Jeff Flake Tells Harvard Grads: Our Presidency Has Been Debased – LEO VIDAL
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/24/sen-jeff-flake-tells-harvard-grads-our-presidency-has-been-debased.html

May 24 Morning Edition

CAPITOL FAX
— Rauner’s ‘GOP Unity Week’ Fail – Rich Miller
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/24/live-session-coverage-350/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ives Calls for Party Leadership to Resign, Party Leaders Fight About Unity in First 2 Days This week was supposed to be a celebration of unity for Governor Bruce Rauner after he surrendered full control of the Illinois Republican Party, but it quickly fell apart for the nation’s most vulnerable incumbent. On Monday, state Representative Jeanne Ives called on the entire Republican Party leadership to resign. Then, local Republican leaders Pat Brady and Dan Proft fought in a panel titled “The Future of the Republican Party in Illinois” yesterday, even though Rauner is a sitting governor up for re-election. At one point, Proft sarcastically stated: “Right, but we can expect to unify the party and present an attractive offer when Pat is running around saying John Tillman, Dan Proft, everyone that disagrees with me is a hater, and just dismissing all the policy concerns of the conservative base of the party and telling everyone to get out. I mean, if we’re all unified, Pat, I’m sorry I guess this lunch is dismissed because we have nothing to talk about…We are on our way to super majorities and Republican Governors as far as the eye can see, and anyone who believes that please feel free to leave and get on with your day.” It did not appear that anyone left. “Bruce Rauner’s party cannot even last a day pretending like they’re unified without falling into chaos,” said DGA Illinois Communications Director Sam Salustro. “After 48% of Republicans voted to kick Rauner out, it’s not surprising that the nation’s most vulnerable incumbent is finding it impossible to put his party back together.”)
— Affordable housing, Dan Proft and the Illinois Policy Institute on the city’s Northwest Side
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/23/affordable-housing-dan-proft-and-the-illinois-policy-institute-on-the-citys-northwest-side/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois House approves plan allowing six-month suspension of gun rights for people showing ‘red flags’ – Bill Lukitsch
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-legislature-gun-bills-20180523-story.html
— Chicago’s population down third year in a row – Elvia Malagon (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run Chicago want you to leave Chicago if you are a Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-chicago-population-census-figures-20180523-story.html
— Cook County suburbs file opioid lawsuit claiming pharma companies, local doctors contributed to epidemic – John Keilman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-opioid-pharma-lawsuits-cook-county-suburbs-20180522-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pez vows to cut aid from nations whose citizens enter U.S. illegally – AP (DIERSEN: Of course, nations that want destroy the U.S. a) send their citizens into the U.S. illegally and b) keep their citizens in the U.S. illegally. Mexico a) sends many millions of its citizens into the U.S. illegally and b) keeps many millions of its citizens in the U.S. illegally.)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20180524/281771334856865

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTOS OF HULTGREN AND UNDERWOOD: Democratic pep rally draws not 50 but 300 in St. Charles – James Fuller (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and shout that everyone should punish Trump by voting for Democrats.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180523/democratic-pep-rally-draws-not-50-but-300-in-st-charles
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pritzker began his speech by calling President Donald Trump a “misogynistic, xenophobic racist.” He then labeled Gov. Bruce Rauner as Trump’s “silent partner in Springfield.”)
— Did ICE raid St. Charles restaurants?
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180523/did-ice-raid-st-charles-restaurants

— WLS cuts ties with Dick Biondi – Robert Feder – Lauren Rohr
http://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20180524/feder-wls-cuts-ties-with-dick-biondi

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago population drops for third year in a row – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run Chicago want you to leave Chicago if you are a Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180524/BLOGS02/180529940
— Odds rising for Springfield budget deal – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180523/BLOGS02/180529950/odds-rising-for-springfield-budget-deal

WBEZ
— Inspector General: End Public School Perk For Chicago’s Wealthiest – Sarah Karp (DIERSEN: For your precinct, a) what is the “average median family income” and b) how much money in real estate taxes do homeowners pay on average and in total?)
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/inspector-general-end-public-school-perk-for-chicagos-wealthiest/fefe7006-39a4-4962-a639-1cacf31826c0
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Chicago Public Schools’ inspector general is calling on the school district to stop offering a free full-day Montessori preschool to students from the richest neighborhood in the school district. Preschool in Chicago is typically only free for low-income students. But the tuition-free preschool at Oscar Mayer Elementary School in Lincoln Park almost exclusively serves students who live in a neighborhood of mostly upper-income homes. CPS spends about $700,000 a year on the preschool, according to a report released Wednesday. A comparable private preschool could charge parents as much as $15,000 a year. CPS Inspector General Nicholas Schuler said he was “incredulous” that there would be “this perk, for one neighborhood school, as opposed to all other schools.” The average median family income in Mayer’s attendance area — nearly $178,000 a year — is the highest of any attendance area in CPS, an analysis by the IG’s office determined.)

HERALD & REVIEW
— Illinois House approves plan allowing six-month suspension of gun rights for people showing ‘red flags’ – Bill Lukitsch
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-house-approves-plan-allowing-six-month-suspension-of-gun/article_195ea651-c5fe-53bc-9c2d-b7cd904acefb.html
— Ethics board says it lacks jurisdiction to take up sexual harassment inquiry into Madigan ally – RAY LONG
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ethics-board-says-it-lacks-jurisdiction-to-take-up-sexual/article_2c9b4354-1fe6-51e2-b34b-eab086b6485a.html
— 22 Illinois school districts sue state, governor over funding shortfall – VALERIE WELLS and CLAIRE HETTINGER
https://herald-review.com/news/local/education/illinois-school-districts-sue-state-governor-over-funding-shortfall/article_de0c4cfc-2cc7-506f-b49e-2d0ee850e559.html

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Butler seeks to help caucus with $$, joins gun group – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180523/bernard-schoenburg-butler-seeks-to-help-caucus-with–joins-gun-group

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Wheaton continues to study flood-prone areas – ERIC SCHELKOPF (DIERSEN: By this article today, I first learned that Webster, McGrath & Ahlberg is working on a “Prairie Path Park Flood Prone Area Study” that is set for completion in July. The Prairie Path Park is in my precinct. I knew the woman and her husband who donated the park to the Wheaton Park District. Since 1984, I have urged Wheaton and the Wheaton Park District to do more to address the park’s flooding and other problems. In 2001, I followed the Wheaton Park District’s Adopt-A-Park procedures and adopted the park. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) continue to stress that I sued Wheaton in 1986 for approving a woefully inadequate storm water drainage plan for its Cove Court subdivision and for letting the subdivision’s developer violate the Illinois Drainage Code, b) continue to call for everyone to continue to punish me for filing that lawsuit, and c) continue to oppose my suggestions to improve the park including my suggestions to improve storm water drainage in the park.)
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2018/05/23/wheaton-continues-to-study-flood-prone-areas/acu9u6u/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “We have around 113 properties that are located in the floodplain,” Dzugan said. “When that study is completed, it will provide us with what they call elevation certificates for each of those structures, which will eventually allow us to apply for federal or state grant monies to assist in any type of mitigation effort.” Both projects are budgeted in the city’s 2018 storm sewer fund. Webster, McGrath & Ahlberg currently is working on the Jefferson Avenue, Madison Avenue and Prairie Path Park Flood Prone Area Study, set for completion in July.)

NORTHBROOK PATCH
— Northbrook Bans Bump Stocks, Could Enforce Assault Weapons Ban The village could become the first municipality to enforce Cook County’s 24-year-old ban on assault-style weapons. – Jonah Meadows
https://patch.com/illinois/northbrook/northbrook-bans-bumps-stocks-moves-toward-assault-weapons-ban

PROPUBLICA ILLINOIS
— Amid Affordable Housing Dispute, Conservatives Seek a Home in Chicago Groups tied to Illinois Policy Institute and talk show host Dan Proft back GOP candidates on city’s Northwest Side. – Mick Dumke (DIERSEN: Who backs you? Individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that support the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform, including its traditional family, right to life, immigration, and Second Amendment planks, back me and back my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that reject planks in the IRP platform work against me and work against my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Further, individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things work against me and work against my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Should I write a book about individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that work against me and work against my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?)
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-policy-institute-northwest-chicago-affordable-housing

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois State’s Attorneys Association troubled by Rauner’s proposed burden of proof in death penalty cases – W.J. Kennedy
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511426183-illinois-state-s-attorneys-association-troubled-by-rauner-s-proposed-burden-of-proof-in-death-penalty-cases

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO WAS THE ONLY MAJOR U.S. CITY TO LOSE POPULATION FROM 2016 TO 2017 – Austin Berg
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-was-the-only-major-us-city-to-lose-population-from-2016-to-2017/

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Attorney General candidate Erika Harold says state failing #MeToo test – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/justice/attorney-general-candidate-says-state-failing-metoo-test/article_36247bb0-5ed6-11e8-99ca-ff29b627ab5a.html
— Illinois cities could lose broad home-rule taxing powers as state population declines – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/illinois-cities-could-lose-broad-home-rule-taxing-powers-as/article_e98d7f3c-5ecf-11e8-a0d2-bb416d33173b.html
— Madigan takes care of his problems, if not the state’s – Dan McCaleb (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. Ever since I helped lead the “Stop The Stoplight” campaign at Harrison and President in Wheaton in 1982, they have used their religious, government, political, and/or financial clout to harm/destroy me and to harm/destroy any individual, any organization, any company, and any government that might come to my defense. I should write a book about critics/opponents.)
https://www.ilnews.org/opinion/op-ed-madigan-takes-care-of-his-problems-if-not/article_6a5dc288-5e7c-11e8-830c-db3178894d5f.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The message is very clear. Speak out against the Speaker and people loyal to him will come after you.” Those words, spoken Tuesday by Democratic state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, sadly sum up Michael Madigan’s despot-like reign over Illinois politics for more than three decades. Madigan, of course, is the “Speaker” in Cassidy’s comment. He has been Illinois’ House speaker for all but two years since 1983. He’s also been the chairman of the state Democratic Party since 1998, a position Democrats re-elected him to just last month despite a #MeToo harassment scandal swirling within his political organization. As the longest-serving legislative leader in American history and the longest-serving head of a major political party in Illinois history, Madigan wields more power than any other elected state official in the country and more than any single individual should be allowed to have. He controls the party’s campaign war chest, so he decides which Democratic candidates to fund in primary elections. He controls the rules for moving legislation through his chamber, so he decides which bills get to be voted on and which do not. He controls the legislative redistricting process, so he manipulates general elections. And because of all that, he controls the members of his Democratic caucus. Cross him, and you probably should start looking for something else to do.)

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Compasses, Canteens, Campfires and Condoms – John Biver
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/compasses-canteens-campfires-condoms/

DAILY CALLER
— Conservative Principles Don’t Justify Silencing Conservatives – Scott Greer
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/24/conservative-principles-social-media-censorship/

NEW AMERICAN
— More Taxpayers Fleeing Illinois Than Any Other State – Bob Adelmann (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run Illinois want you to leave Illinois if you are a Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/29115-more-taxpayers-fleeing-illinois-than-any-other-state

ABC NEWS
— Nurse who sued hospital for retaliation awarded $28 million – AP (DIERSEN: Have you filed lawsuits? I have. I should write a book about each of the lawsuits that I have filed. Information that I could provide for each lawsuit includes: defendants, attorneys who represented me, attorneys who represented the defendants, courts that I filed the lawsuits in, the judges who were assigned the lawsuits, charges that I made, remedies that I sought, defenses that the defendants raised, progress of the lawsuits, outcome of the lawsuits, retaliation that the defendants took against me and continue to take against me, etc.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nurse-sued-hospital-retaliation-awarded-28-million-55399009
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A jury has ruled that a Boston hospital retaliated against a Haitian-American nurse who stood up for a black colleague and has awarded her $28 million. Gessy Toussaint’s attorney described Wednesday’s verdict against Brigham and Women’s Hospital as “monumental.” The Boston Globe reports that Toussaint also had accused the hospital of racial discrimination, but the jury didn’t find proof of that claim. Toussaint says the retaliation started after she defended another Haitian-American nurse, Nirva Berthold, who also is suing the hospital. Berthold says she was denied a promotion because she’s black. That claim is still pending. The hospital says it plans to appeal the retaliation ruling but is pleased with the decision on Toussaint’s discrimination claim.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump, Visiting Epicenter of MS-13 Killings, Demands Tougher Immigration Laws – Liz Robbins and Michael D. Shear
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/trump-immigration-gangs.html
— We Are the Original Southerners American Indians lived through slavery, the Civil War and white supremacy, just like black and white Americans. – Malinda Maynor Lowery (DIERSEN: In my ancestors’ defense, they did not immigrate to America until the 1840s and 1850s and they always lived in northeast Illinois.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps promote anti-Trumps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/house-republicans-rebellion-immigration.html
— Oxford Lifts the Veil on Race, Wealth and Privilege – Alan Cowell (DIERSEN: What if Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion were only for those whose parents did not have college degrees? Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/world/europe/oxford-university-admissions.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Grim Prognosis for Trump Derangement Democrats imagine that contempt and rage will carry them to midterm victory. – Karl Rove (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about those who have Diersen Derangement?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-grim-prognosis-for-trump-derangement-1527114278?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
— Starbucks’ Homeless Problem No matter what you do to try to appease unhappy progressives, you will be wrong. – Daniel Henninger
https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-homeless-problem-1527114340
— The IRS Bursts Cuomo’s Tax Illusion About that California and New York charity work-around: Sorry. – Editorial (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-irs-bursts-cuomos-tax-illusion-1527114078
— IRS Warns States on Their Workarounds to Tax Overhaul A $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions has prompted some states to try to make those payments charitable contributions – Joseph De Avila (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-warns-states-on-their-workarounds-to-tax-overhaul-1527107912

TIMES OF SAN DIEGO
— John Cox Allies Call on GOP Rival Travis Allen to Quit Governor’s Race (DIERSEN: Often, in Illinois Republican primaries, a) only one RINO candidate runs, but many Republican candidates run, and therefore b) RINOs win because Republican candidates split the vote.)
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2018/05/23/john-cox-allies-call-on-gop-rival-travis-allen-to-quit-governors-race/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/24/koch_group_pushing_lawmakers_for_daca_fix_137111.html

May 22 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The charges made in Winchester v. Illinois Republican Party (IRP) are extremely serious. Constructively, Winchester has charged the IRP with voter fraud. What does the IRP, that is, Bruce Rauner, want Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains to know about Winchester v. IRP? From what I see, the answer is absolutely nothing. Needless-to-say, the less informed that Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains are, the less creditable that they are. By its failure/refusal to communicate, the IRP motivates me to fill the communication void with GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MADISON RECORD
— State central committeeman Winchester sues state GOP; case removed to federal court
https://madisonrecord.com/stories/511424774-state-central-committeeman-winchester-sues-state-gop-case-removed-to-federal-court
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Bob Winchester, central committeeman of the Illinois Republican Party since 1992, claims in U.S. district court that the party rigged an election against him. His lawyer, Stephen Boulton of Chicago, alleges that the party improperly favored State Sen. Chapin Rose of Champaign for committeeman in an election on April 18. According to Boulton’s complaint, irregularities occurred at county conventions across the 15th Congressional district. He wrote that irregularities changed the vote “from the true result, a majority in favor of Winchester, to a false result, an alleged majority in favor of Rose.” In an interview on May 21, Boulton said that he had “a number” of affidavits from Madison County which demonstrate that Bob Winchester won the election. Last month, the Record reported that precinct committee men and women in Madison County chose Winchester over Rose by a margin of approximately 60 to 40 percent, and then as a sign of unity voted by acclamation to place 100 percent of the county’s vote in favor of Winchester. Winchester filed the suit in Hardin County, against state central committee members and State Board of Elections members who certified Rose’s election. The party removed the action to federal court on May 18. Boulton’s complaint described a county convention where, “only Rose was presented as a candidate for whom votes could be cast.” “Rose alone was nominated, and by the chairman of the convention,” the complaint states. He wrote that the chairman reported a unanimous vote for Rose to party staff. Boulton said it happened in Fayette County, where Randy Pollard serves as county GOP chairman. “It was over in 45 seconds,” Boulton said. “No understood what happened.” In the complaint, he wrote that several county chairmen reported incorrect results to staff, favoring Rose and that county chairmen and staff acted as agents of the state party. He wrote that the party, through staff, participated in the election by recruiting candidates and directing candidates to withdraw. He wrote that staff opposed Winchester due to “a strong likelihood of losing their positions if the present chairman is not re-elected.” The central committee re-elected its chairman, Tim Schneider, on May 19. Boulton said the committee seated Rose over an objection. “We expected that,” he said. “If Winchester was sitting there rather than Rose, the outcome might have been different.” The court clerk assigned the action to District Judge Staci Yandle.)

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Sen. Rose ‘railroaded’ over incumbent by GOP in State Central Committeeman race, affidavit says – Karen Kidd
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511425048-sen-rose-railroaded-over-incumbent-by-gop-in-state-central-committeeman-race-affidavit-says
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Fayette County Precinct committeeman said he was “confused” by a “nomination process” in April that somehow led to a win for state Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) over Robert Winchester, the longtime incumbent in the race for Republican State Central Committeeman in the 15th Congressional District, according to an affidavit obtained by Prairie State Wire. “After this sequence of rapid nomination and voice vote on closing nominations, which in my best estimate took much less than a minute, I turned to a colleague and asked, ‘What just happened?’,” Fayette County Precinct Committeeman Glen Mills said in the affidavit filed with the Illinois Board of Elections. Mills, a Brownstown resident, said in his affidavit that he “later learned” Randy Pollard, Rauner’s downstate director who acted as chair during the convention when the election took place, “reported the vote for Fayette County as unanimous in favor of Chapin Rose.” Mills claims in his affidavit that draft minutes from the convention back up his own memories about how Rose came to win the seat on the Republican State Central Committee that had been held by Winchester since 1992. “The only word I can use to describe the election proceeding on a subjective level is that the election of Mr. Rose was intentionally ‘railroaded’ through the convention at high speed while this precinct committeeman (Mills) was confused by the process,” Mills said in his affidavit. “I do not believe I was given a fair chance to vote for Mr. Winchester in the election for State Central Committeeman for the 15th District conducted on April 18, 2018, or even the opportunity to vote ‘present’ or otherwise not have my precinct’s weighted vote be counted for Mr. Rose.” In April, sources informed Prairie State Wire that Winchester had retained counsel to launch a challenge to voting procedures in his Republican State Central Committee re-election bid. Rose, an assistant Republican caucus leader, has represented the 51st district since 2013, having previously been a member of the state House for about a decade. The Illinois state Senate’s 51st District encompasses all of Dewitt, Piatt, Moultrie, Douglas and Shelby counties and parts of McLean, Champaign, Vermilion, Edgar and Macon counties. Sources told Prairie State Wire in April that the state GOP had run Rose against the incumbent Winchester to punish Winchester for backing Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) in her strong but unsuccessful March primary bid against Gov. Bruce Rauner. Earlier this month, Winchester’s attorney, Steve Boulton of Peraica & Associates in Chicago, said in a letter to state GOP General Counsel John Fogarty that the race results had been determined by a “group of unelected and merely appointed staff members” with “personal and financial interests” in the re-election of current state GOP Chairman Tim Schneider. “The procedure may have well have been employed before, but it is not properly authorized and stands in contravention of the plain language of the Election Code,” Boulton wrote in his letter. “Repetition of an unlawful practice does not make it legal. If such were true bank robbery would be legal today.” In his complaint filed in federal court, Winchester alleged the Illinois Republican party rigged the April 18 election against him. In an interview published this week in the Madison-St. Clair Record, Boulton claimed to have “a number” of affidavits that prove Winchester actually won the election. A source told the Prairie State Wire that Winchester was not even mentioned as an option by Pollard and that he’d called for a voice vote during the April 18 election. “Pollard asked for a voice vote by acclamation for Chapin (Rose) and just moved on,” a source said. “He didn’t even mention Winchester was a candidate, much less the incumbent.” Mills, in his affidavit, described what happened as slightly different from what the source described. Pollard, “very politically powerful in Fayette County,” supported Rose before the convention, “which was confirmed when Mr. Pollard had papers distributed to the Convention supporting Mr. Chapin (Rose), including to me, an action which I considered improper,” Mills said in his affidavit. “At the commencement of the election Mr. Pollard announced that there were two candidates for State Central Committeeman, Chapin Rose and Robert Winchester,” the affidavit said. “After announcing the candidates, Mr. Pollard immediately called for ‘nominations’ which caused me great confusion since he had just announced the two candidates. I did not know what the nominations were for, or what purpose they served, given that the candidates had just been announced.” Pollard then nominated Rose, who “received an immediate second,” the affidavit said. “I remained confused by this procedure, since the candidates were already announced by Mr. Pollard and I was trying to grasp why a nomination process was being conducted at all. In very short order, a voice vote to close nominations occurred, and Mr. Pollard declared the election over. I do not recall any actual vote for Mr. Chapin (Rose) at all.” Mills said in his affidavit that he reviewed draft minutes from the convention, a copy of which was attached to his affidavit, and found they “comport with my recollection that no election vote was actually taken.” “Further, the minutes reflect that Mr. Pollard nominated Mr. Rose only after asking for nominations three times,” the affidavit said. “This comports with my recollection that the actual sequence of from [sic] nomination of Mr. Rose to closing of nominations was very quick.” Pollard, Mills and Rose did not immediately respond to Prairie State Wire requests for comment.)
— Demmer questions immigration legislation – Angela Underwood
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511423662-demmer-questions-immigration-legislation

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Drama continues in state GOP ranks – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-fop-protest-20180521-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party held its organizational meeting Saturday and re-elected Gov. Rauner’s handpicked chairman as part of a compromise with insurgent conservatives. But despite that attempt to show unity, the battle is continuing and may end up in a federal courtroom. Bob Winchester, a former state representative from Rosiclare, had been the longest-serving member of the Republican State Central Committee, serving since 1992. Winchester is an opponent of Rauner and party Chairman Tim Schneider, and he was challenged for re-election by state Sen. Chapin Rose of Mahomet. The State Board of Elections certified Rose as the winner at a special May 10 meeting and said it didn’t have the authority to investigate what Winchester alleges were misdeeds that made Rose the victor to represent the 15th Congressional District GOP. Winchester’s attorney, Stephen Boulton, said he filed suit a week ago in Downstate Hardin County to try to stop Rose from being seated, but his office said the case was not electronically recorded as being filed until late last week, too late to prevent Rose from being seated. The lawsuit contends both the state GOP and the State Board of Elections violated Winchester’s federally constitutionally protected due process rights and that county vote totals were changed to a “false result” in favor of Rose. The Illinois GOP has filed notice to move the case to the U.S. District Court in Benton. “The Illinois Republican Party is confident that the State Central Committee elections were conducted in accordance with state law, our party bylaws, and in an open and transparent manner,” Illinois Republican Party Executive Director Andrew Collins said in a statement. “We are also confident that the results reported to the party by the county Republican central committees were accurate, that the State Board (of Elections) certification of those results was proper and that the results are now final,” Collins said.)
— Watchdog report: Rauner administration mismanaged patronage positions – Kim Geiger
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bruce-rauner-inspector-general-20180521-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘Retaliation’? — state rep says questioning Madigan on harassment cost her job – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/retaliation-state-rep-says-questioning-madigan-on-harassment-cost-her-job/
— CPD Supt. Johnson on minority hiring push: happy with effort, not results – Mitch Dudek (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a minority in 1966, b) that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a minority could have my job, c) that instead of me, IRS should have hired a minority in 1971, d) that instead of me, IRS should have promoted minorities in 1972, 1973, and 1974, e) that instead of me, GAO should have hired a minority in 1980, f) that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a minority in 1986, and g) that GAO should have gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a minority could have my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cpd-supt-johnson-on-minority-hiring-push-happy-with-effort-not-with-outcome/
— It’s ‘gut-check time’ for lawmakers on legislation to curb sexual harassment – Madeleine Doubek
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/its-gut-check-time-for-lawmakers-on-legislation-to-curb-sexual-harassment/
— Housing aid shouldn’t buy pricey digs in trendy neighborhoods – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/rahm-emanuel-infrastructure-trust-wrigleyville-housing-grants-misused/
— A president ordering up political investigations attacks rule of law – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/president-donald-trump-ordering-political-investigations-erodes-rule-law/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Whites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/facts-may-not-change-minds-of-anti-immigrant-bigots-but-here-they-are/

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who want to stop immigrants from being successful discourage them from speaking English. Those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time discourage immigrants from speaking English.
http://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180521/editorial-village-takes-step-forward-with-repeal-of-official-language-ordinance

ABC7
— Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger writes letter to Illinois lawmakers in support of Equal Rights Amendment – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/mick-jagger-asks-illinois-lawmakers-to-pass-equal-rights-amendment/3502300/
— Homeless man accused of sexual assault in Wheaton
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180521/homeless-man-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-wheaton

NBC5
— State Rep. Kelly Cassidy Says She’s Facing Retaliation for Speaking Out Against Madigan – Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/kelly-cassidy-mike-madigan-483237651.html
— Rauner Gets Hearing on Reinstating Death Penalty in Illinois – AP
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/rauner-gets-hearing-on-reinstating-death-penalty-in-illinois-483208991.html–
— Illinois Democrats Grill Rauner Aide on Death Penalty Plan — The prospect of returning capital punishment is a long shot in Illinois, where executions were halted in 2000 when then-Gov. George Ryan warned of “the demon of error.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/illinois-rauner-aide-death-penalty-483269241.html

CBS2
— Southern Illinois University President Says He Won’t Resign – AP
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/05/21/southern-illinois-university-president-wont-resign/

WGN TV
— Illinois residents fleeing state for financial reasons – BEN BRADLEY (DIERSEN: Democrats want you to flee Illinois if you do not promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things.)
http://wgntv.com/2018/05/21/illinois-residents-fleeing-state-for-financial-reasons/

WTTW
— Roundtable: Spring Legislative Session and Chicago Politics – Alexandra Silets
https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/05/21/roundtable-spring-legislative-session-and-chicago-politics

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Want to stop carjacking? Invest in poor neighborhoods – BRANDON JOHNSON (DIERSEN: How many cars have you had stolen from you in Chicago? In 1971, I had my 1969 Dodge Charger SE stolen from me while I worked for IRS in its Chicago Loop office. In 1973, I had my 1962 Chevy BelAir stolen from me while I worked for IRS in its Chicago office at 63rd and Halsted.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180522/OPINION/180529987

NORTHWEST HERALD
— No painless fix for Illinois pension crisis – ERIC OLSON
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/18/olson-no-painless-fix-for-illinois-pension-crisis/ayu3a69/

SHELBYVILLE DAILY UNION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you promote gambling, you promote destruction.
http://www.shelbyvilledailyunion.com/opinion/our-view-in-illinois-bet-on-expanded-gambling/article_46860b4a-4707-507c-92ea-9b5d19de188f.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— School Supts Sue State For $7.2 Billion – DUSTY RHODES
http://nprillinois.org/post/school-supts-sue-state-72-billion#stream/0

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Student activists unite to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/05/22/lateststories/student-activists-unite-during-community-teach-in-stress-importance-of-coalitions/

CHICAGO NOW
— Berkowitz w Vince Kolber on whether Chicago & IL are at a tax and bankruptcy crisis
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2018/05/watch-berkowitz-w-vince-kolber-on-whether-chicago-il-are-at-a-tax-and-bankruptcy-crisis-cable-web/

CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO
— TODAY: 11:30 a.m. reception/12:00 p.m. luncheon The Future of the Republican Party in Illinois moderated by Tom Cross A Conversation with Pat Brady and Dan Proft (FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT: All City Club of Chicago events are livestreamed at www.cityclub-chicago.org/live.
https://www.cityclub-chicago.org/event/2/1298/the-future-of-the-republican-party-in-illinois

WIRE POINTS
— Who does Illinois’ Civic Federation really champion? – Ted Dabrowski
http://www.wirepoints.com/who-does-illinois-civic-federation-really-champion-wirepoints-original/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives: Ratifying Equal Rights Amendment a bad idea – Angela Underwood
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511424295-ives-ratifying-equal-rights-amendment-a-bad-idea

METRO EAST SUN
— Republican senators (McCarter, Righter, & Rose) discuss budget cuts – Angela Underwood
https://metroeastsun.com/stories/511424337-republican-senators-discuss-budget-cuts

CAPITOL FAX
— ILGOP lambastes Madigan over Cassidy allegations
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/22/ilgop-lambastes-madigan-over-cassidy-allegations/

COLLEGE FIX
— Affirmative action policies punish minorities, too. I’m one of them. – NEETU CHANDAK (DIERSEN: What if Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion was only for those who neither of their parents had college degrees?)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45131/

MERCURY NEWS
— Republican congressman introduces ‘Libby Schaaf Act’ to criminalize immigration raid warnings – CASEY TOLAN
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/21/republican-congress-immigration-libby-schaaf/

WASHINGTON POST
— Rauner aide says death penalty plan fixes errors – AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-rauner-aide-says-death-penalty-plan-fixes-errors/2018/05/21/dd56ddfe-5d43-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_story.html
— Inside the numbers on firing – Eric Yoder (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents a) stress that being forced to take retirement is the same as being fired and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that because few federal employees are fired, I must have been one of the worse of the worse federal employees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/22/qa-for-federal-workers-inside-the-numbers-on-firing/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Campus Censorship Hits Pro-Lifers Hard When antifa issued threats to my student group, Cal State Fullerton did nothing. – Kristan Hawkins
https://www.wsj.com/articles/campus-censorship-hits-pro-lifers-hard-1526942093
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What bad jobs did you have that immigrants would have gotten if more immigrants had been in America back then? I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964; washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumped gasoline 1971-1972; collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980; and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-immigration-debate-distinct-from-economic-realities-1526908154

FORBES
— Closing The Gap For The Retirement Haves And Have-Nots – Peter Fisher
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/05/22/closing-the-gap-for-the-retirement-haves-and-have-nots/#42cf1bd01872

KSDK
— Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says daily briefing is ‘not worth it’ – William Cummings (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes say that GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are “not worth it.” They want you to know only what they tell you, no more and no less.)
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-now/former-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer-says-daily-briefing-is-not-worth-it/465-921624be-6607-462e-838c-ac062109a6ea

May 21 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— On Monday, May 14, 2018, in Hardin County, Robert Winchester filed a lawsuit (18-CH-4) against the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), IRP State Central Committee members, and the Illinois State Board of Election. I first learned of the filing late Saturday evening, March 19, 2018, and I was only able to get a copy of the 18-page complaint this morning. A copy of the complaint is at https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/18-CH-4.pdf or https://gopillinois.com/documents/ – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Schneider says that while the GOP has its differences “there is much more that brings us together than separates us.” Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Trump has promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. QUESTION: In Illinois, what separates Republicans? ANSWER: It is the traditional family, right to life, and immigration planks in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform. Those who reject the aforesaid planks dominate the IRP. They focus on driving out of the IRP those who support the aforesaid planks, that is, they focus on destroying the IRP. QUESTION: In Illinois, what further separates Republicans? ANSWER: It is support for Trump. Those who reject Trump dominate the IRP. They focus on driving out of the IRP those who support Trump, that is, they focus on destroying the IRP.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-death-penalty-opponents-20180520-story.html
— On Tuesday, the City Club will host the “Future of the Republican Party in Illinois” panel, including former state party Chairman Pat Brady, former House Republican leader Tom Cross and conservative radio host Dan Proft. (DIERSEN: Who speaks for you at this event? What do Cross, Proft, and Brady think of you?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-morning-spin-lightfoot-chicago-violence-20180520-story.html
— Lightfoot says mass shootings shouldn’t take focus off Chicago violence – Rick Pearson (DIERSEN: Democrats always blame Republicans for violence.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-morning-spin-lightfoot-chicago-violence-20180520-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who oppose the death penalty promote those who oppose the death penalty.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-death-penalty-opponents-20180520-story.html
— Graduate students are carrying a picket sign for the middle class – Ron Grossman (DIERSEN: While you took graduate courses, what jobs did you have? While I took a graduate business course at UIC in 1971 and graduate business courses at Loyola 1972-1976, I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances and pumped gasoline for Firestone Stores and collected delinquent taxes for IRS. While I took graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, I collected delinquent taxes for IRS and audited federal agencies for GAO. While I took graduate finance courses at IIT 1992-1997, I audited federal agencies for GAO.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-met-grossman-picketing-grad-students-20180513-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Theoretically, graduate assistants are apprentices — graduate students in training to become the next generation of professors. In reality, they’re a pool of cheap labor. They teach the undergraduates and staff the laboratories for a fraction of the salaries professors command. Once, they were content to do so, knowing that when they’d earned a Ph.D., they’d make a respectable living. But those days are gone, as one of the strike’s organizers explained while handing me a union button, a strike poster and a plastic poncho donated by the United Automobile Workers, the graduate assistants’ union affiliate. “For many of us, an assistantship is as far as we’re going to get,” she said. “We want a decent paycheck for our limited time in the academic world.” There simply are no longer enough faculty openings for graduate assistants to move up to. Some will survive as the Ivory Tower’s equivalent of office temps — “non-tenure track” lecturers who never know how long their low-paying gig will last. Together the temps and graduate assistants comprise 80 percent of college instructors. Fifty years ago, they comprised 20 percent — and therein lies the difference between what it meant to be a graduate student in my day and the experience of those I stood beside on Columbia’s campus.)
— Chicagoland renters and buyers are itching for walkable suburbs. Enter ‘surban.’ – Danielle Braff (DIERSEN: In 1984, my wife and I paid lots more for 915 Cove Court in Wheaton because we could walk to many things, including a grade school, middle school, high school, commuter train station, downtown Wheaton, the Illinois Prairie Path, etc.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-0520-walkable-suburbs-20180515-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— One way to crack down on shops that sell guns used in crimes – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/crack-down-shops-sell-guns-crimes-every-day-and-a-half-31-bullets/

DAILY HERALD
— Yingling wants voters to elect Lake County assessment chief – Jake Griffin
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180521/yingling-wants-voters-to-elect-lake-county-assessment-chief
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR GRAPHIC: Who’s on contractor selection committee? Tollway won’t say – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors always wanted credit a) for hiring, retaining, and promoting young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) for getting rid of employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who did not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180521/whos-on-contractor-selection-committee-tollway-wont-say

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s HQ2 bid and the Trump effect – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: Which of those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Illinois have worked the hardest to paint themselves as being a Trump-hater?)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180518/BLOGS02/180519850/president-trump-effect-on-amazon-hq2-process
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot. If you promote pot, you promote destruction.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180518/ISSUE01/180519885

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Battling campus oppression of the freedom of expression – George Will (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, but failing that, they want to a) stop me from including links in the emails to articles that PROMOTE the traditional family, right to life, and immigration planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform, b) stop me from including links in the emails to articles that OPPOSE the promotion of dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180520/george-will-battling-campus-oppression-of-freedom-of-expression
— Illinois can’t afford Rauner’s budget ‘savings’ rhetoric – Ralph Martire
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180519/ralph-martire-illinois-cant-afford-rauners-budget-savings-rhetoric

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Gov. Bruce Rauner nominates Chemung Township for federal investment program
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/17/gov-bruce-rauner-nominates-chemung-township-for-federal-investment-program/ayjurjd/

NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN
— Big money is ruling Illinois politics – Shreyas Iyer
http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/analysis-big-money-is-ruling-illinois-politics/

TIMES
— Bill aims to modernize Illinois election rules Barickman sponsors legislation
http://www.mywebtimes.com/2018/05/20/bill-aims-to-modernize-illinois-election-rules/a3wvk4l/

MADISON
— State DNR data shows Illinois brings bulk of Wisconsin air pollution
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/roundup/morning-briefing-state-dnr-data-shows-illinois-brings-bulk-of/article_11f02f30-5cee-11e8-9e42-57d569f41431.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Roskam’s Koch Money under fire – Natasha Korecki
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2018/05/21/roskams-koch-money-under-fire-gidwitzs-trump-gambit-pays-off-era-politics-271249

REPUBLICAN NEWS WATCH
— Illinois GOP Chair Must Step Up for President Trump or Step Down – DOUG IBENDAHL
http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=14488
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party held its reorganizational meeting on Saturday in downstate Springfield. Every four years after the 18 members of the state central committee are picked around the state, that committee convenes to choose the state party chairman. Apart from some minor deckchair rearranging on Saturday, the status-quo prevailed. Governor Bruce Rauner’s hand-picked state party chairman Tim Schneider was unanimously rewarded with another 4-year term as chair by the state central committee. Schneider must have looked around the room and saw no Chicago press amongst the small choir of Republicans, because near the end of the meeting he actually had a few kind words for President Trump. The local Springfield paper was the only outlet I saw which reported his short remarks on that score. This is noteworthy because I live in Cook County, same as Schneider, and not once have I ever heard Schneider stand-up for our President in Chicago media. Schneider has a unique platform as party chairman. If he had the desire, he could easily get in Chicago radio, television, and newspaper coverage pretty much any time he chose, just by virtue of the big title he holds. And you won’t be surprised to hear that our President gets hammered constantly on Chicago radio and television, and in the two daily newspapers which are both viciously anti-Trump. But safely ensconced in a room with only Republicans, 200 miles away from Chicago, Chairman Schneider managed to voice exactly one sentence in support of our President. We’re all supposed to rejoice. Preaching to the choir at a small GOP meeting is easy. Taking the message to the unconverted is not so easy, but that’s the duty you sign-on for if you say you want a party title.)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Rauner Announces Treasury Department Approval of Opportunity Zones – One in NW McHenry County – Cal Skinner
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/05/20/rauner-announces-treasurer-department-approval-opportunity-zones-one-nw-mchenry-county/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— GOP-sponsored disability-related bill passes House, but dies in Senate – Angela Underwood
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511423034-gop-sponsored-disability-related-bill-passes-house-but-dies-in-senate

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— PLANNED PARENTHOOD ORGANIZES MOB TO PROTEST REP. BREEN FUNDRAISER
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/planned-parenthood-organizes-mob-to-protest-rep-breen-fundraiser.html
— WASSERMAN SCHULTZ CALLS FIVE MILLION AMERICANS ‘TERRORISTS’
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/wasserman-schultz-calls-five-million-americans-terrorists.html
— THORNER: ANDRZEJEWSKI BRINGS OPEN GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT TO CITY CLUB EVENT
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/thorner-andrzejewski-brings-open-government-movement-to-city-club-event.html

GOPUSA
— Public schools find no easy way to educate immigrant teens
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=46136

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps blame Trump for opioid abuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/21/trumps-opioid-strategy-missing-in-action-as-115-people-die-every-day/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Women Can Build Their Professional Networks Networking is tougher for women for several reasons, but there are ways to make it work – Herminia Ibarra (DIERSEN: From I can tell, proportionally, of those who are interested in Illinois Republican politics, more women than men read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-women-can-build-their-professional-networks-1526868480

CONCORD MONITOR
— Jennifer Horn reaffirms push to drop ‘traditional’ marriage from New Hampshire GOP platform – PAUL STEINHAUSER (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats do everything that they can a) to destroy the traditional family plank in the Republican Party platform and b) destroy the Republican Party. What do you say to Democrat plants like Pat Brady who do everything that they can to a) to destroy the traditional family plank in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform and b) destroy the IRP? In Illinois, if are not going to defend and advance the IRP platform, you should not seek of hold any kind of government or political office as a Republican.)
http://www.concordmonitor.com/Jennifer-Horn-will-continue-to-fight-to-drop-traditional-marriage-definition-from-NHGOP-platform-17533406

FED SMITH
— Will Proposed Compensation Changes Help or Hurt Federal Hiring? – Jeff Neal (DIERSEN: Many millions have not and will not seek a job with the federal government a) because the pay and benefits are terrible, b) because the advancement opportunities are terrible, c) because they lack required education, work experience, professional certifications, and/or professional licenses, d) because they cannot pass an employment examination, e) because they cannot pass a background investigation, f) because they cannot pass a physical examination, g) because they cannot take the demonization, denigration, and condemnation that comes with being a federal employee or federal retiree, and/or h) because they are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran and they know that the federal government discriminates against the aforesaid.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/05/20/will-proposed-compensation-changes-help-hurt-federal-hiring/

May 19 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain? What information do you hope to get about today’s Illinois Republican County Chairman’s Association (IRCCA) meeting and today’s Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) meeting, from who do you hope to get that information, and when do you hope to get that information? I hope to get a report on who spoke at the meetings, major announcements that were made, votes that were taken, the outcomes of those votes, and when and where the next meeting will be held. Most importantly, what did Mark Shaw specifically promise to do concerning conservatives? I hope to get email reports from my IRP county chairman and from my IRP SCC member. I hope to get those reports before I send out this evening’s GOPUSA ILLINOIS email. Historically, beyond outrageously, beyond unacceptably, Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains have only gotten reports of what happened at IRCCA and IRP SCC meetings from the Democrat news media. According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains should only know what the chairman of their Republican township/ward/county organizations tell them, no more and no less. – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com

REAL GOP ILLINOIS
— Was there a deal? Ives-endorsed Shaw says we need to re-elect Bruce Rauner
https://realgopillinois.com/2018/05/18/was-there-a-deal-ives-endorsed-shaw-says-we-need-to-re-elect-bruce-rauner/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Conservatives, burned by Rauner twice, are asking: Was there a deal? Did Shaw sell us out?)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— School shooters are a symptom of a culture that is ill – John Kass
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-school-shootings-kass-0520-story.html
— Outcomes in school shootings can differ wildly despite presence of resource officers – Ted Gregory
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-school-shootings-resource-officers-20180518-story.html
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: Tell us again why we pay Illinois lawmakers? – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-springfield-budget-rauner-pensions-20180518-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As lawmakers in Springfield careen toward a May 31 adjournment deadline, let’s get a few things straight. They haven’t agreed yet on a balanced budget for the fiscal year that starts in six weeks. They haven’t passed legislation to deal with the state’s alarming pension debt. They haven’t negotiated changes to programs that would make Illinois more business and tax friendly. The willful negligence of floating past the most serious challenges facing Illinois is repeating itself. No one should be surprised. The Illinois legislature is an avoidance expert. Fed-up residents respond by fleeing the state in alarming droves. State universities struggle to attract and keep students. Property taxes remain among the highest in the country.)
— Pope Francis’ mistrust of free markets: A Chicago retort – Editorial (DIERSEN: GAO audits federal financial industry regulators. In 1997, when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer,” I knew as much about derivatives as anyone at GAO. I had worked on audits involving derivatives for almost 9 years, I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, and I had become a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-pope-capitalism-vatican-chicago-20180518-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A lengthy document released Thursday by the Roman Catholic Church goes into surprising detail in its takedown of business, competition, deregulation and the shareholder system. Concepts named and vilified in the paper include derivatives (a class of financial instrument that includes futures), credit default swaps and offshore banking. Debt securitization, a complex pool of assets that can be risky for investors, is a “ticking time bomb ready sooner or later to explode,” the paper says.)
— ‘DO SOMETHING’: Parkland school shooting survivors outraged after Texas shooting – AP (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame Republicans for everything that is bad.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-parkland-survivors-texas-school-shooting-20180518-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Whites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-bill-gates-trump-huppke-20180518-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump supporters and hints/implies/argues/shouts that sooner or later, anti-Trumps will get rid of Trump supporters once and for all. For their self-defense, Trump supporters are buying more and more and more firearms and ammunition.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-austin-channing-brown-im-still-here-20180514-story.html
— When Harry marries Meghan, a most uncommon commoner – Clarence Page (DIERSEN: When you got married, how did your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes react? My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when I got married in 1978. They were beyond furious that my wife had a good job and savings. They had always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never get married because I was such a “bad” person. They stressed that I avoided the draft, that I am Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), that I am conservative, that I am patriotic, that I am Republican, that I am White, that I am a male, that I am old (born in 1948), that I owned a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building and a town home in University Park that I rented out, that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and that I was taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul, that I am a gun owner, that I am 100% German American, that my ancestors have been in America since 1844, that I am pet-less, that I owned a Corvette, etc. They strongly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that a) IRS should NOT have hired me in 1971, b) IRS should NOT have promoted me in 1972, c) IRS should NOT have promoted me in 1973, and d) IRS should NOT have promoted me in 1974.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-family-0520-20180518-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Mick Jagger wants to get satisfaction from Illinois reps on Equal Rights Amendment – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/mick-jagger-wants-get-some-satisfaction-from-illinois-lawmakers-on-equal-rights-amendment/
— Trump nominates Chicago businessman Ron Gidwitz as ambassador to Belgium – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-nominates-chicago-businessman-ron-gidwitz-as-ambassador-to-belgium/

DAILY HERALD
— Gay-friendly Apple weighs North Carolina despite LGBT laws – AP (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ activity, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries get rid of you.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20180518/news/305189885/

ABC7
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow about their success in getting students to act as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://abc7chicago.com/chicago-teens-determined-to-change-gun-laws-schools-evaluate-security-after-texas-shooting/3493078/

NBC5
— Illinois Senate Votes to Raise Minimum Teacher Salary to $40,000 Some lawmakers worry about the increased cost of pensions (DIERSEN: If the minimum salary should be $40,000 for jobs that require a job-related bachelor’s degree, what should the minimum be for jobs that require a job-related master’s degree, job-related professional certification, job-related professional license, etc.?)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/illinois-legislature-votes-to-raise-minimum-teacher-salary-483067491.html

CBS2
— Giuliani Defends ‘Stormtroopers’ Comments About FBI – CNN (DIERSEN: Who hints/implies/argues/shouts that you are a “bad” person? I should write a book about those who since 1966 have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am a “bad” person. They stress that I avoided the draft, that I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1980-1997, that I have been a federal retiree since 1997, that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980, that the federal government forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, that I am a Trump supporter, that I am Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), that I am conservative, that I am patriotic, that I am Republican, that I am White, that I am a male, that I am old (born in 1948), that I am not poor, that I am a gun owner, that I am 100% German American, that my ancestors have been in America since 1844, that I am childless, that I am pet-less, that I own American nameplate cars, etc.)
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/05/18/rudy-giuliani-fbi-stormtroopers-donald-trump-michael-cohen/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Giuliani went on to say that he believes there are some “bad people” in federal law enforcement. “Yes, we get bad people, and it’s my job to flush them out,” Giuliani said.)

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Good politics isn’t good government – Rich Miller
http://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/miller-good-politics-isn-t-good-government/article_c9c54194-7203-5b3c-a62b-4bb0e3e5dbe1.html

FRANKLIN COUNTY NEWS
— Gov. Rauner moves to increase African-American business participation in state procurement – Jim Muir (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors always moved to increase Democrat, minority, female, and younger people participation in the federal workforce. They wasted the careers of and got rid of their Republican, White, male, and non-veteran employees who had not made GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.franklincounty-news.com/2018/05/19/gov-rauner-moves-to-increase-african-american-business-participation-in-state-procurement/

BUREAU COUNTY NEWS
— Online sports betting will create more problem gamblers – Anita Bedell, Chatham
http://www.bcrnews.com/2018/05/17/online-sports-betting-will-create-more-problem-gamblers/a91xalz/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, those who promote LGBTQ activity demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who do not promote LGBTQ activity.
http://northernpublicradio.org/post/real-reason-shame

MCHENRY TIMES
— Skillicorn proposing resolution in response to suggested state property tax – Karen Kidd
https://mchenrytimes.com/stories/511416787-skillicorn-proposing-resolution-in-response-to-suggested-state-property-tax

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Clarendon Hills pays $5.71 for every $1 pensioners contribute to Clarendon Hills Firefighters Pension Fund (DIERSEN: I contributed 7% of all my federal salary to the Civil Service Retirement System.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511391162-analysis-clarendon-hills-pays-5-71-for-every-1-pensioners-contribute-to-clarendon-hills-firefighters-pension-fund
— Wood Dale Police Pension Fund would go broke in 14 years without taxpayer subsidy
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511406309-analysis-wood-dale-police-pension-fund-would-go-broke-in-14-years-without-taxpayer-subsidy

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Mormon Exodus from Scouting Is Good for Boys
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/mormon-exodus-from-scouting-is-good-for-boy/

GOPUSA
— Gov. Cuomo demands Trump, Congress ‘DO SOMETHING’ in aftermath of Texas HS shooting (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame Republicans for everything that is bad.)
http://www.gopusa.com/gov-cuomo-demands-trump-congress-do-something-in-aftermath-of-texas-hs-shooting/
— Jerry Brown signs bill preventing disclosure of immigration status in court (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats treasonously encourage people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and to bring others to America illegally.)
http://www.gopusa.com/jerry-brown-signs-bill-preventing-disclosure-of-immigration-status-in-court/

BREITBART
— OUTSTANDING: Donald Trump Endorses California Candidate John Cox in Battle for Governor’s Seat – Michelle Moons (DIERSEN: We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/05/18/donald-trump-endorses-california-candidate-john-cox-in-battle-for-governors-seat/

TOWNHALL
— OUTSTANDING: President Trump Endorses John Cox For California Governor – Timothy Meads (DIERSEN: We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/05/18/president-trump-endorses-john-cox-for-california-governor-n2482261
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Cox demonizes, denigrates, and condemns John Cox. Cox and I served together on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee. On July 5, 2003, Cox came with the other four announced candidates for U.S. Senate candidates (Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andy McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and Jack Ryan) to a picnic that I arranged in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. The 200 attendees included Randy Hultgren. We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2018/05/19/another-strange-endorsement-n2482288

FOX NEWS
— OUTSTANDING: Trump endorses John Cox for California governor – Bradford Betz (DIERSEN: We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/18/trump-endorses-john-cox-for-california-governor.html
— GOP pours cash into bid to repeal California gas tax hike – and save House majority – Joseph Weber
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/19/gop-pours-cash-into-bid-to-repeal-california-gas-tax-hike-and-save-house-majority.html

ASSOCIATION OF MATURE AMERICAN CITIZENS
— ‘Speech Police’ Roam America’s College Campuses – John Grimaldi (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the only speech that is allowed is speech that promotes dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, giving more preference to minorities, giving more preference to females, giving more preference to those who are younger, and even worse things.)
https://amac.us/speech-police-roam-americas-college-campuses-says-amac/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Which Poor People Shouldn’t Have to Work for Aid? The lines set by policymakers risk embedding regional and racial biases about who counts as “left behind.” – Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz (DIERSEN: Who do you paint yourself as being an advocate for? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always painted themselves as being advocates for the poor. Since 1966, they have hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a poor person in 1966, b) that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a poor person could have my job, c) that instead of me, IRS should have hired a poor person in 1971, d) that instead of me, IRS should have promoted poor people in 1972, 1973, and 1974, e) that instead of me, GAO should have hired a poor person in 1980, f) that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a poor person in 1986, and g) that GAO should have gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a poor person could have my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/upshot/medicaid-poor-michigan-work-requirements.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Republican chaos on immigration shows issue’s risks for GOP – AP (DIERSEN: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs want to destroy the Republican Party. Ever-increasingly, they want the Republican Party to dump its immigration plank and all those individuals, organizations, and companies that support it.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/republican-chaos-on-immigration-shows-issues-risks-for-gop/2018/05/19/66082e56-5b72-11e8-9889-07bcc1327f4b_story.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Trump endorses Republican John Cox for California governor – SEEMA MEHTA and PHIL WILLON (DIERSEN: We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-john-cox-trump-endorsement-20180518-story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Identity Politics Threatens the American Experiment Increasingly we sort each other into groups, making sweeping assumptions based on binary labels. – Orrin Hatch (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, if you reject one plank in the Republican Party platform, a) soon or later, you will reject more planks and b) sooner or later, you will focus on destroying those who do not reject the planks that you reject.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/identity-politics-threatens-the-american-experiment-1526680162?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
— News Organizations Flag Concerns on Facebook’s Political-Ad Rules Saying rules are too broad, media outlets fear ads promoting news stories will be lumped in with political messaging – Benjamin Mullin
https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-organizations-flag-concerns-on-facebooks-political-ad-rules-1526674206?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
— Sports Gamblers Get the Freedom to Lose Their Shirts Help for an industry that thrives on the public’s inability to get things right – Joe Queenan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sports-gamblers-get-the-freedom-to-lose-their-shirts-1526569930

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
— Basic journalism wasn’t done, and it led to big mistake – Adrian Vore (DIERSEN: Since 2000, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have hinted/implied/argued/shouted not only that my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are full of “big mistakes,” but that I purposely make them. Should I sue my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes?)
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/readers-rep/sd-me-readersrepnb-0520-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: he correction ran on the upper left corner of B1 May 12. Experienced news readers know that if a correction runs on a front page, the error has to be big. Indeed, it was. The entire premise of the Michael Smolens column that ran the day before was erroneous. Smolens, a highly experienced former political reporter and government editor, wrongly reported that John Cox, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, discusses issues with disgraced ex-San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. The factual error was bad enough, but it also has led to suspicions of biased coverage and “gotcha journalism” over fairness. What appeared to be a tantalizing news lead came out of a meeting Cox had with the U-T editorial board April 23. Smolens was sitting in on the meeting to gather possible subject matter for his column. Cox was talking about getting a statistic on pensions and developing a relationship with Bob Fellner — NOT Filner.)

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Trump Leaps Into California Governor’s Race, Endorsing John Cox – Ed Kilgore (DIERSEN: We can forever ask ourselves, what if Trump had endorsed Ives?)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/trump-endorses-john-cox-in-california-governors-race.html

ATLANTIC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps a) glorify and praise illegals and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump supporters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-real-risk-of-trumps-dehumanization-of-immigrants/560762/

May 18 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain in Illinois? Tomorrow, all 102 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) county party chairman and all 18 IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members are scheduled to meet in Springfield. Have you received notification of the time and location of the Illinois Republican County Chairman’s Association (IRCCA) meeting and/or IRP SCC meeting? Have you been invited to attend the meetings? Have you been asked to provide input for the agendas for the meetings, and if so, what input did you provide? Have you received a copy of the agendas for the meetings? Are you going to attend the meetings? Have you been provided with all the details of the deal struck between Bruce Rauner and Mark Shaw to placate the “conservative insurgents” in the IRP, that is, the 342,906 who voted for Ives? Do you approve or disapprove of that deal? Why? Have you asked your IRP county chairman and your IRP SCC member to vote for or against the deal? Will your IRP county party chairman email you a report of what happened at the May 19 IRCCA meeting? Will your IRP SCC member email you a report of what happened at the May 19 IRP SCC meeting?

What do you want Mark Shaw to do in his roles as the Co-Chairman of the IRP and the President of the IRCCA to organize Illinois conservatives and to “lead conservative and grassroots outreach for the” IRP? Should he:

Encourage Rauner to sign a pledge to defend and advance all the planks in the IRP platform, including its traditional family, right to life, immigration, and Second Amendment planks?
Identify who the conservative leaders are in each county in Illinois, meet with them on a one on one basis, meet with them at regional meetings, and/or meet with them at statewide meetings?
Identify who the conservative leaders are in Illinois on a platform plank basis, including those who have taken the lead on the traditional family, right to life, immigration, and Second Amendment planks and meet with them on a one on one basis, meet with them at regional meetings, and/or meet with them at statewide meetings?
Encourage Dave Diersen to form the “Republican Assembly of DuPage County” to reach out to and organize the conservatives in DuPage County?
Encourage all Illinois conservatives and Republicans to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?
Encourage all Illinois conservative and Republican leaders to keep diersen@aol.com on their press advisory and press release lists? – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— RAUNER – YAY!
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/rauner-yay.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Yay! Yay, teachers! Yay, [Democrat Illinois Supreme Court Justice] Ann Burke! Yay, Israel! Yay, Eunice Shriver! Yay, Kennedys! Yay, [Loyola] Ramblers! CapitolFax’s Rich Miller pulled together Governor Rauner uncomfortably “yaying” for an array of interesting folks, groups and other miscellaneous cheering reasons. Missing from the collection, though, is Governor Rauner’s “Yay, Planned Parenthood! Yay, Sanctuary state! Yay, Rauner Party leadership that stopped the IL GOP Platform-hugging conservative wing’s insurgent takeover!”)
— THORNER/O’NEIL: TIME TO HOLD CHURCH LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR PARISHIONERS’ POLITICS (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who are a member of a church, attend church services, and/or give money to a church who claim to be Republican, but a) who promote dependency on government and on charity, b) who promote booze, gambling, pot, and/or other vices, c) who promote LGBTQ activity, d) who promote abortion, e) who promote illegal immigration, and/or f) who promote other planks in the Democrat, Libertarian, and/or Green platforms.)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/thorneroneil-time-to-hold-church-leaders-responsible-for-parishioners-politics.html

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who voted for Ives as being “conservative insurgents;” b) say that “Rauner is happy GOP is ‘working together’ after leadership squabble;” c) say that Rauner said “Well, I love seeing everybody coming together and working together and forming partnerships and alliances. That’s all good;” d) say that Rauner sees the recent Illinois Republican Party (IRP) leadership deal as giving Ives voters a “larger voice” in the IRP; and d) say that Rauner sees the deal as “a sign of unity for his re-election efforts.” Are you a “conservative insurgent,” that is, were you one of the 342,906 who voted for Ives? I did. Do you believe the deal will give you a greater voice in the IRP? How did you learn of the deal? If you are a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, did you first learn of the deal a) from the IRP, b) from your representative on the IRP State Central Committee, c) from the officers of your IRP county party organization, d) from the officers of your IRP township/ward party organization, e) from the Democrat news media, or f) from Dave Diersen and his GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-rauner-republican-leadership-20180517-story.html

ABC7
— Emanuel allies raise integrity concerns about Lightfoot – Craig Wall (DIERSEN: How many hats do you wear? Since 2000, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have raised “integrity concerns” about me. To discredit/harm/slander me, they hint/imply/argue/shout that I can claim to be only one of the following: political reporter/journalist, political consultant, or Republican Precinct Committeeman. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/emanuel-allies-raise-integrity-concerns-about-lightfoot/3488251/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS senior joins ranks of students with over $1 million in college scholarships – Maudlyne Ihejirika (DIERSEN: When you were in high school, did you apply for scholarships? I did not. When you were in high school, were you considered to be “college material?” While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I took college preparatory courses notwithstanding the fact that many, if not most, if not virtually everyone at the time viewed me as NOT being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, I was draft bait, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/cps-senior-joins-ranks-of-students-with-over-1-million-in-college-scholarships/

DAILY HERALD
— Business Ledger honors 75 companies as “Best Places to Work in Illinois’ – Richard Klicki (DIERSEN: One could hint/imply/argue/shout that the federal government is a “best place to work” for those who are Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran because the federal government gets rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who do not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180518/business-ledger-honors-75-companies-as-x201cbest-places-to-work-in-illinois

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Don’t keep voters in the dark – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-05-18/editorial-dont-keep-voters-the-dark.html

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Do voters have a threshold regarding politicians’ lies? Editorial Star
http://www.pjstar.com/opinion/20180517/editorial-do-voters-have-threshold-regarding-politicians-lies

SOUTHERN
— The Southern Illinoisan newsroom votes to form union (DIERSEN: I was a union member for almost 12 years. Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes despise if not hate past, present, and future union members. Further, overwhelmingly, they despise if not hate wage earners. I was a wage earner 1964-1997. Further, overwhelmingly, they despise if not hate past, present, and future federal employees and retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 20 years.)
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/communities/carbondale/the-southern-illinoisan-newsroom-votes-to-form-union/article_0d5d7c7d-8f6a-5afb-8b0d-0e4fef5d1a27.html

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Evanston residents advocate for ratification of ERA in Illinois – Syd Stone (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will Evanston officially banish all individuals, all organizations, and all companies that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/05/17/lateststories/evanston-residents-advocate-for-ratification-of-era-in-illinois/

CHICAGO ARGUS
— Political strategist Madigan vs. amateur-hour gov Rauner – Gregory Tejeda (DIERSEN: There are extremely few Republican political consultants in Illinois, and I am one of them. While Rauner does not seek or take my advice, he ever-increasingly seems to take advice from his wife and from political consultants who are Democrat or Democrat plant, Libertarian or Libertarian plant, Green or Green plant, or RINO. Ever-increasingly, he seems to be taking their advice to not only dump, but to destroy voters who support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and other planks in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform. Ever-increasingly, he seems to be taking their advice to destroy the IRP. One could fault Trump and the IRP leaders for letting this happen.)
http://chicagoargus.blogspot.com/2018/05/extra-political-strategist-madigan-vs.html

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illegal immigrant lawyers, teachers couldn’t be denied state licenses if bill becomes Illinois law (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs make it clear that they want drive members of the following groups out of Illinois: Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511421002-illegal-immigrant-lawyers-teachers-couldn-t-be-denied-state-licenses-if-bill-becomes-illinois-law

MCHENRY TIMES
— Skillicorn backing resolution opposed to state property tax – Marian Johns
https://mchenrytimes.com/stories/511420214-skillicorn-backing-resolution-opposed-to-state-property-tax

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives says a state property tax ‘would be thievery’ – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511417225-ives-says-a-state-property-tax-would-be-thievery
— Khouri calls economists’ proposed hike in property taxes ‘dumbest idea’ ever – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511420971-khouri-calls-economists-proposed-hike-in-property-taxes-dumbest-idea-ever

ILLINOIS HOMEPAGE
— Black Caucus blames Rauner for shrinking black state contracts – Raquel Martin (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for problems that Blacks have. Democrats run the federal government and they blame their employees who are Republican for the problems that their employees who are Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran have.)
http://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/local-news/black-caucus-blames-rauner-for-shrinking-black-state-contracts/1186323523

CAPITOL FAX
— NRA and Rauner in close step on two bills
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/18/nra-and-rauner-in-close-step-on-two-bills/
— Peoria paper compares Rauner to Trump – and not in a good way
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/18/peoria-paper-compares-rauner-to-trump-and-not-in-a-good-way/
— Harmon essentially claims Madigan is living in Rauner’s head rent-free
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/18/harmon-essentially-claims-madigan-is-living-in-rauners-head-rent-free/

GOPUSA
— Apple, Google, Facebook should ‘hire more women than men’ (DIERSEN: Why did I accept IRS’s job offer in 1971 when I was 22 years old? ANSWER: I was unemployed and seeking a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother. I was unemployed because Firestone Stores had fired me for accepting a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
http://www.gopusa.com/apple-google-facebook-should-hire-more-women-than-men/
— Gun Control: Bruce Rauner, pro-confiscations governor of Illinois
http://www.gopusa.com/gun-control-bruce-rauner-pro-confiscations-governor-of-illinois/

NUMBERS USA
— OUTSTANDING: SSA Director Calls on Congress to Mandate E-Verify
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/ssa-director-calls-congress-mandate-e-verify

LIFEZETTE NEWS
— GOP Helps Dems Kill Conservative Amendments to Farm Bill Bipartisan votes in the House kill reform proposals to expand work requirements, cut subsidies, and mandate E-Verify – Brendan Kirby
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/gop-helps-dems-kill-conservative-amendments-to-farm-bill/

BREITBART
— Steve King: ‘Rotten’ GOP Amnesty Petition Gives Paul Ryan Final ‘Authority’ on Immigration Bill – Ian Mason
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/05/17/steve-king-rotten-gop-amnesty-petition-gives-paul-ryan-final-authority-on-immigration-bill/

— BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Ryan’s Super PAC Gives Millions to GOP’s Amnesty Discharge Signers – Neil Munro
http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/05/17/ryan-ally-spending-millions-to-aid-gop-amnesty-discharge-reps/

CNN
— Trump quiet on probe on camera, not on Twitter President Trump went on a tweetstorm to call special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation a “disgusting, illegal and unwarranted witch hunt” as the investigation officially enters its second year. (DIERSEN: Starting in 1974, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors not only disallowed my partial day per diem claims, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my claims were fraudulent. I won in 1977 (SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/463866),but by then, they had succeeded in ending my IRS career.)
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/05/17/mueller-probe-one-year-trump-witch-hunt-collins-dnt-lead.cnn

NEW YORK TIMES
— An Aggrieved Trump Wants Better Press, and He Blames Leaks for Not Getting It – Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who blame their problems on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/white-house-leaks.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Pay freeze, retirement cuts trump discussion of president’s management agenda – Joe Davidson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/05/18/pay-freeze-retirement-cuts-trump-discussion-of-presidents-management-agenda/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— New policy aimed to address criticism that minority students were disproportionately punished – Michelle Hackman (DIERSEN: If male students are punished more than female students, if conservative students are punished more than liberal students, if heterosexual students are punished more than LGBTQ students, if dumb students are punished more than smart students, if poor students are punished more than rich students, if German American students are punished more than non-German American students, if etc. students are punished more than etc. students, what about that?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fewer-suspensions-more-hugs-and-bubbles-oklahoma-citys-experiment-in-school-discipline-1526549401
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/exporting-jobs-instead-of-food-1526600254
— Not Everyone Should Go to College Vocational education won’t succeed so long as society consigns it to second-class status. Oren Cass (DIERSEN: When you were in high school, were you considered to be “college material?” While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I took college preparatory courses notwithstanding the fact that many, if not most, if not virtually everyone at the time viewed me as NOT being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, I was draft bait, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-everyone-should-go-to-college-1526598817

USA TODAY
— Republican candidates embracing Trump in campaign ads (DIERSEN: Is the Republican congressional candidate for your district embracing Trump, if not, why not?)
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2018/05/17/republican-candidates-embracing-trump-campagin-ads/618154002/
— CEOs aren’t disclosing their real compensation. The pay gap is much worse than you think. The pay gap between workers and CEOs is already high. Add in gains on stock options, and it’s infuriating. We need to keep CEOs accountable. – Ralph Nader and Steven Clifford (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have no problem with the pay gap. They either have lots of money or they pander to those who have lots of money.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/17/ceos-real-wages-pay-gap-column/612615002/
— How difficult will it be for Meghan Markle to get British citizenship? – Jane Onyanga-Omara, Kim Hjelmgaard and Maria Puente
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/16/royal-wedding-how-hard-meghan-markle-become-british/606986002/

PROPUBLICA
— Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM After a ProPublica story spotlighting IBM’s practices in shedding older workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission consolidated age discrimination complaints against the company from around the country. – Peter Gosselin
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-watchdog-launches-investigation-of-age-bias-at-ibm

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— After Years of State Budget Woes, the U. of Illinois Will Hire Hundreds of Faculty Members – Emma Kerr (DIERSEN: Of course, all those hired will be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/After-Years-of-State-Budget/243442

FORBES
— Google’s Parent Company Pledges Protection For All Political Groups As Midterms Loom – Thomas Fox-Brewster (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/05/16/google-anti-ddos-offered-to-all-political-groups/#5eebe95dd862

BLOOMBERG
— Pope Calls Financial Derivatives Market a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ – Sridhar Natarajan (DIERSEN: GAO audits federal financial industry regulators. In 1997, when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer,” I knew as much about financial derivatives as anyone at GAO. I had worked on audits involving financial derivatives for almost 9 years, I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, and I had become a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/pope-goes-off-on-cds-market-calls-derivatives-ticking-time-bomb

CLASSIC CARS
— Forecast isn’t all gloom for car museums Corvette museum looks toward expansion – Larry Edsall (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have been anti-union, anti-car, anti-American nameplate car, and especially anti-Corvette.)
https://journal.classiccars.com/2018/05/17/forecast-isnt-all-gloom-for-car-museums/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Illinois RINOs focus on driving conservatives out of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) and destroying the IRP. Since 2000, my RINO critics/opponents, their RINO operatives, and their RINO dupes a) have viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned me as being a leaker and b) have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for all of their problems, for all of your problems, for all of my problems, and for all of everyone’s problems and for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000. Needless-to-say, I should sue them. They want the confidentiality notice and disclaimer below to be included in all emails that Republicans send me. – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com
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May 14 Morning Edition

CAPITOL FAX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Illinois Democrats say that Illinois Republicans who support the traditional family, right to life, and/or immigration planks are “insurgents.” Democrats side with Greg Baise.)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/14/baise-tells-party-insurgents-to-choose-between-rauner-and-madigan/
— Rauner talks Trump, Turnaround Agenda, Madigan and media “bias” at forum
https://capitolfax.com/2018/05/14/rauner-talks-trump-turnaround-agenda-and-madigan-at-forum/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: Rauner’s top priorities sidelined in final budget talks of his first term – Kim Geiger
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bruce-rauner-illinois-budget-20180510-story.html
— Frerichs warns of “junk” credit downgrade without budget
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-paul-vallas-rahm-emanuel-police-20180514-story.html
— Lincoln foundation puts Marilyn Monroe dress on the block to save presidential memorabilia from same fate – Ray Long
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-lincoln-foundation-marilyn-monroe-auction-20180511-story.html
— A local government (Calumet Park) facing pension pressure. Rinse and repeat. – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-calumet-bankruptcy-pension-debt-20180508-story.html
— Retirement stresses us out, especially those who have saved – Jill Schlesinger (DIERSEN: One could argue that if you are not on track to have a) at least $1 million saved for your retirement or b) at least $50,000/year in pension, Social Security, and other income, you are planning to “go on the dole.” According to this article, “a whopping 62 percent of workers have not actually calculated how much money they will need to have saved so that they can live comfortably in retirement.”)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/tca-retirement-stresses-us-out-especially-those-who-have-saved-20180510-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey (“RCS,” a joint venture between the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute and research firm Greenwald & Associates) is out, and about two-thirds of Americans feel confident or at least somewhat confident in their ability to retire comfortably. Yet nearly the same share say that preparing for retirement makes them feel stressed. You may think that these feelings arise because so many have saved very little. Among respondents who are still working, 45 percent report that the total value of their household’s savings and investments, excluding the value of their primary home and any defined benefit pension plans, is less than $25,000. Nine percent report totals of $25,000 to $49,999, 11 percent have $50,000 to $99,999, 15 percent are at $100,000 to $249,999 and 21 percent have $250,000 or more. But when many of those who have saved very little call my radio show or podcast, they don’t actually seem stressed. They are clear-eyed about their priorities and seem to know what they need to do. But for those who have managed to accumulate some money, usually $100,000 or more, that’s when the worries seem to start. Perhaps the stress comes from not knowing or fearing what lies ahead. According to RCS, although so many are anxious about the future, a whopping 62 percent of workers have not actually calculated how much money they will need to have saved so that they can live comfortably in retirement.)
— The importance of true checks and balances in government – Jonah Goldberg. (DIERSEN: I worked for the legislative branch of the federal government (GAO) for almost 18 years. I worked for the executive branch of the federal government (IRS for almost 9 years and the Post Office for almost 3 years) for almost 12 years.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-goldberg-supreme-court-power-politics-0514-20180510-story.html
— Tough times for the resistance? – Heather Wilhelm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-wilhelm-tough-times-for-the-resistance-california-solar-panels-0514-story.html
— Mexico’s presidential front-runner is at war with business elites who warn he’ll wreck the economy – Kate Linthicum (DIERSEN: Who are the business elites in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois at war with? Business elites have declared war on me since 1966 a) because I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, b) because I have been a federal retiree since 1997, c) because I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980, d) because I sued businesses during the 1980s and 1990s, e) because I do not glorify and praise them, f) because I do not pander to them, g) because I refuse to serve as their operative or dupe, and h) because I refuse to give them money.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-mexico-lopez-obrador-2018-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Members of Group A crow about how strongly they are allied with each other against members of Group B. Members of Group A are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and Members of Group B are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-met-dahleen-glanton-gay-marriage-20180511-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO: Father’s rights fuel Antioch Libertarian Kash Jackson’s bid for governor – Marni Pyke
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180514/fathers-rights-fuel-antioch-libertarians-bid-for-governor
— Six Libertarians seek statewide positions in Illinois – Marni Pyke
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180514/six-libertarians-seek-statewide-positions-in-illinois
— Trump’s improved standing, energized GOP voters worry Democrats – Sean Sullivan and Seung Min Kim
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180514/trumps-improved-standing-energized-gop-voters-worry-democrats

NBC5
— Southern Illinois Mayor’s Trailer Catches Fire, Chief Suspects Arson
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/southern-illinois-mayors-trailer-catches-fire-chief-suspects-arson-482500952.html

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Madigan and Cullerton: You can’t block redistricting reform forever – DAVID GREISING
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180511/ISSUE07/180519977/redistricting-reform-is-gaining-ground-even-in-illinois
— Money talks, and Illinois students walk – LYNNE MAREK (DIERSEN: One reason why I accepted Firestone Stores’ job offer in 1970 was that I could/did work in its Chicago Heights Store, just 5 miles north of Crete, where I lived with my mother and brother. I had applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support them because my father had died suddenly in 1969.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180511/ISSUE01/180509840/can-fixing-financial-aid-keep-more-college-bound-kids-from-leaving
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: A big Chicago marijuana company is going public – JOHN PLETZ (DIERSEN: If you promote pot, you promote destruction.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180514/NEWS07/180519960/a-big-chicago-marijuana-company-is-going-public

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Gun Waiting Period Bill on Governor’s Desk – Greg Bishop
http://altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=265139#.WvmOElpy-M8

QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— Henry County weighs gun owner ordinances – LISA HAMMER
http://qconline.com/news/local/henry-county-weighs-gun-owner-ordinances/article_afcc98cf-6ef4-546a-a02c-f534a17fddf6.html
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: Who ruined Illinois? Many share blame – Jim Nolan
http://qconline.com/opinion/columnists/nowlan-column-who-ruined-illinois-many-share-blame/article_9a6385c4-e31a-5deb-bb9b-173d7550b851.amp.html

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Romeoville-based summit addresses opioid epidemic progress in Illinois
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/12/romeoville-based-summit-addresses-opioid-epidemic-progress-in-illinois/apkfv2/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— ‘E pluribus unum’? Not so sure, anymore – Editorial (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are members of Group A try to get rid of members of Group B. Members of Group A are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and members of Group B are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Members of Group A will fail.)
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180513/their-view-e-pluribus-unum-not-so-sure-anymore

WSIU
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: Police Data Show Gun Violence A Chronic, Growing Problem Across Illinois
http://news.wsiu.org/post/police-data-show-gun-violence-chronic-growing-problem-across-illinois#stream/0

NPR ILLINOIS
— How To Spot The Signs Of A Coming Blue Wave – DOMENICO MONTANARO
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/14/610544969/how-to-spot-the-signs-of-a-coming-blue-wave

CHICAGO READER
— All hail Maria Pappas – Maya Dukmasova (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always promoted patronage. Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/05/09/all-hail-maria-pappas
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “All you have to do is go to the County Building on election day. You couldn’t find a county employee anywhere—they’re all working a precinct. You have patronage, and then you’ve got pinstripe patronage, which is all these bond counselors and contractors and construction persons who contribute heavily to campaigns. Regular patronage is: work as precinct captain equals a job in the forest preserve. Pinstripe patronage is: contribute to me, and I’ll throw you a no-bid contract. Pinstripe patronage is all the change orders in contracts, all the bond counseling—and $13 million of consultants this year. Come on. How much can a consultant tell you that you don’t already know? “We are looking at a situation where being elected means having the money to buy television time. George Dunne used to raise maybe $80,000. Now we have people raising $3 million, $4 million to win a county-wide office because they’re buying television time. Who ends up paying for that television time? The taxpayer. Because the construction projects continue, the consulting contracts continue, the building continues, the change orders continue, the patronage continues—and it just gets bigger and bigger. And the same people make the donations that pay for the candidate to be on TV.”)

ILLINOIS HOMEPAGE
— Video gambling machines heading to veteran establishments? – Ty Batemon (DIERSEN: If you want to destroy veterans, you push booze, gambling, pot, and other vices on them.)
http://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/local-news/video-gambling-machines-heading-to-veteran-establishments-/1177339043

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Socially Constructing Polymorphous Perversity – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/socially-constructing-polymorphous-perversity/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— LEFT-WING NONPROFIT PUSHING ILLINOIS TO LOWER VOTING AGE TO 16 FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/left-wing-nonprofit-pushing-illinois-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-for-local-elections.html

ZERO HEDGE
— An “Audible Gasp” Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its “Solution” To The Pension Problem – Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-12/audible-gasp-was-heard-when-chicago-fed-unveiled-its-solution-pension-problem
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last month’s pension event cosponsored by The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. That was when a speaker from the Chicago Fed proposed levying, across the state and in addition to current property taxes, a special property assessment they estimate would be about 1% of actual property value each year for 30 years. Evidently, that wasn’t reality-shock enough. This week the Chicago Fed published that proposal formally. It’s linked here. It surely ranks among the most blatantly inhumane and foolish ideas we’ve seen yet. Homeowners with houses worth $250,000 would pay an additional $2,500 per year in property taxes, those with homes worth $500,000 would pay an additional $5,000, and those with homes worth $1 million would pay an additional $10,000. Is the Chicago Fed blind to human consequences? Confiscatory property tax rates have already robbed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of Illinois families of their home equity — probably the lion’s share of whatever wealth they had. Property taxes in many Illinois communities already exceed 3%, 4% and even 5% of home values. Across Illinois, the average is a sky-high 2.67 percent, the highest in the nation.)

GOPUSA
— California Demands That Christians ‘Evolve’ (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs who dominate the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Central Committee, etc. demand a) that Republicans dump the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Republican Party platform and in the IRP platform and b) that Republicans dump those like me who support the aforesaid planks.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=45781

DAILY TORCH
— Job Security: Federal civil service employees have a 99.5 percent chance of never being fired – Natalia Castro (DIERSEN: Of course, since 1997, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used this to hint/imply/argue/shout that I must be a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and far worse things or a) my Democrat GAO superiors would NOT have forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, would NOT have given me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, would NOT have always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, would have promoted me beyond GS-13, would NOT have gotten rid of my mentor in 1987, would NOT have kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and would NOT have forced me to take a $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors would have promoted me beyond GS-12, would NOT have disallowed my education deductions in 1978, would NOT have gotten rid of my mentor in 1975, and would NOT have disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors would NOT have forced me resign in 1969 and would NOT have disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
http://dailytorch.com/2018/05/job-security-federal-civil-service-employees-have-a-99-5-percent-chance-of-never-being-fired/

TOWNHALL
— Brutalized by Trump’s Winning, Liberals Nip at Conservatives’ Ankles – Kurt Schlichter
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/05/14/brutalized-by-trumps-winning-liberals-nip-at-conservatives-ankles-n2480389

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Food Stamp Reform Bill Requires Work for Only 20 Percent of Work-Capable Adults – Robert Rector and Jamie Hall (DIERSEN: Should “work-capable adults” be required to only take jobs that are appropriate for someone who has their education, work experience, professional certifications, professional license, etc.?)
https://www.heritage.org/hunger-and-food-programs/report/food-stamp-reform-bill-requires-work-only-20-percent-work-capable

DAILY BEAST
— White House Aide’s Plan to Stop Leaks: Spy on His Co-Workers Ezra Cohen-Watnick ran intelligence for the National Security Council. There, he decided collecting his colleagues’ phone and email data was a good idea. – Spencer Ackerman (DIERSEN: Of course, ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a leaker by Democrats and Democrat plants, by Libertarians and Libertarian plants, by Greens and Green plants, and by RINOs. Should I sue the aforesaid? I have never been a leaker.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-aides-plan-to-stop-leaks-spy-on-his-co-workers?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
— Trump Staffers Impersonate Each Other When They Leak (DIERSEN: Of course, ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a leaker by Democrats and Democrat plants, by Libertarians and Libertarian plants, by Greens and Green plants, and by RINOs. Should I sue the aforesaid? I have never been a leaker.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-trump-staffers-impersonate-each-other-when-they-leak

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer convinced Trump to swear off MSNBC, CNN: Report – Daniel Chaitin (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes work very hard to get everyone to swear off GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/reince-priebus-sean-spicer-convinced-trump-to-swear-off-msnbc-cnn-report

REASON
— ‘Assault Weapons,’ Explained How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate – Jacob Sullum
https://reason.com/archives/2018/05/14/assault-weapons-explained

OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY
White House Leakers Leak Why They’re Leaking
— The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them. – DOUG MATACONIS (DIERSEN: Of course, ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a leaker by Democrats and Democrat plants, by Libertarians and Libertarian plants, by Greens and Green plants, and by RINOs. Should I sue the aforesaid? I have never been a leaker.)
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/white-house-leakers-leak-why-theyre-leaking/

THE HILL
— TRAGIC: Supreme Court strikes down law banning sports betting – LYDIA WHEELER
http://thehill.com/regulation/387560-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-banning-sports-betting

CNN
— The Trump administration is trying to turn the McCain death joke into a ‘leak’ scandal – Chris Cillizza (DIERSEN: Of course, ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a leaker by Democrats and Democrat plants, by Libertarians and Libertarian plants, by Greens and Green plants, and by RINOs. Should I sue the aforesaid? I have never been a leaker.)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/kelly-sadler-mccain-white-house/

WASHINGTON POST
— Alarming new revelations about Trump’s addiction to Fox News – Greg Sargent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/14/alarming-new-revelations-about-trumps-addiction-to-fox-news/?utm_term=.225a4acb65ca
— At Iraq’s polls, many voters seek patronage and jobs – AP (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always promoted patronage. Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/at-iraqs-polls-many-voters-seek-patronage-and-jobs/2018/05/13/64293ff2-5704-11e8-9889-07bcc1327f4b_story.html

USA TODAY
— BEYOND TRAGIC: Carrying debt into retirement and past age 75 has become the new normal – Russ Wiles
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/columnist/2018/05/10/debt-retirement-past-age-75-become-new-normal/570321002/

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— California lurches left, as Jerry Brown heads into the sunset – STEVEN GREENHUT
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/13/california-lurches-left-as-jerry-brown-heads-into-the-sunset/

NEW REPUBLIC
— The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support – PETER-CHRISTIAN AIGNER and MICHAEL BRENES (DIERSEN: Since 1966, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who were not federal employees have always shouted that the federal government is the “employer of last resort” and that federal employees are lazy, stupid, and even worse things. They, and many millions of others, have not and will not seek a job with the federal government a) because the pay and benefits are terrible, b) because the advancement opportunities are terrible, c) because they lack required education, work experience, professional certifications, and/or professional licenses, d) because they cannot pass an employment examination, e) because they cannot pass a background investigation, f) because they cannot pass a physical examination, g) because they cannot take the demonization, denigration, and condemnation that comes with being a federal employee or federal retiree, and/or h) because they are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran and they know that the federal government discriminates against the aforesaid.)
https://newrepublic.com/article/148388/long-tortured-history-job-guarantee
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Very soon after LBJ’s War on Poverty began, various government departments began pushing for direct job-creation and calling for the government to become “employer of last resort,” ideas JFK and LBJ had many times rejected. But domestic welfare was subsumed by the war. Hubert Humphrey carried the banner in 1968, promoting federal planning for jobs, housing, and community development. But when he lost to Nixon, reformers in the party rejected this approach. “New Politics” Democrats turned to George McGovern, who implied that postwar Keynesianism had failed, and instead offered a far less popular solution with voters (and the poor): a “demogrant,” or universal basic income (UBI). Every American would receive an annual income of $1,000, instead of a job. The debate between “guaranteed” jobs or income played out in the 1972 primary between Humphrey and McGovern. Each candidate battled for the soul of the Democratic Party, with two competing versions for resolving unemployment and poverty. In Humphrey’s corner were the NAACP and AFL-CIO. Remnants of the anti-war movement and wealthy suburban liberals backed McGovern.)

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— White House Leaker Covers Tracks by Impersonating Co-workers – Margaret Hartmann (DIERSEN: Of course, ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a leaker by Democrats and Democrat plants, by Libertarians and Libertarian plants, by Greens and Green plants, and by RINOs. Should I sue the aforesaid? I have never been a leaker.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/white-house-leaker-covers-tracks-by-impersonating-coworkers.html

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— A Tweak to Rules for Resigning From Your Job and More – Erich Wagner (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always treated me like I was “under investigation,” like they had found me guilty, and like they were punishing me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/pay-benefits-watch/2018/05/tweak-resignation-rules-retirement-claims-wane-and-more/148080/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Office of Personnel Management on Monday issued a memo tweaking the rules governing how agencies handle employees who resign while under investigation. In a memo to chief human capital officers, OPM Director Jeff Pon implemented a new provision of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act requiring agencies to make a “permanent notation” on the personnel file of someone who leaves his or her job while an investigation into the employee is ongoing. Such investigations include those done by an inspector general and adverse personnel actions for performance or misconduct. Pon wrote that the notation should be applied to one’s record only after the person has been given an opportunity to respond to the findings of an investigation. The new procedure does not impact an employee’s ability to appeal the findings of an investigation or adverse action to the Merit Systems Protection Board, and if the employee wins, the agency would remove the notation from his or her record.)

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— 3 Ways to Deal With a Work Setback It happens to everyone and can be a learning experience. – Daniel B. Kline, Jason Hall, And Selena Maranjian (DIERSEN: What did you do to deal with work setbacks? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. I took a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in 1980 to transfer from IRS to GAO.)
https://www.fool.com/careers/2018/04/17/3-ways-to-deal-with-a-work-setback.aspx