FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— DuPage County group aims to help first-time voters as election nears. The LWV DuPage County created a step-by-step video to show what to expect at the ballot box while voting. (COMMENT: What if there is/was a “League of Male Voters?”)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/dupage-county-group-aims-to-help-first-time-voters-as-election-nears/3556332/
— Trump mixes up the name of Charlottesville, Virginia, during his speech in Georgia. Trump was trying to refer to the deadly 2017 violence in Charlottesville between white supremacists and anti-racist protesters. (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being White supremacist and racists.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/decision-2024/trump-mixes-up-name-charlottesville-virginia/3556347/
— What is a Blue Ribbon School? How 18 Illinois schools were chosen for the award. The annual honor for 2024 recognized 18 schools in Illinois, including a number of schools in the Chicago suburbs. (COMMENT: How high are the schools in your school district ranked? Are the rankings moving up or down and why? I graduated from Crete-Monee High School (CMHS) in 1966. As more and more and more Democrats moved into the school district, CMHS’s ranking has moved down and down and down.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-is-an-blue-ribbon-school-how-18-illinois-schools-were-chosen-for-the-award/3556106/
FOX32
— My direct competitors want you to get your news from them and from them only.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/tiktok-news-ban-gen-z-pew-research
— Illinois in top 5 states with fastest increasing car insurance rates (COMMENT: More pot, more car accidents.)
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-cracks-top-5-states-in-fastest-increasing-car-insurance-rates-here-are-the-factors-and-how-to-combat-the-trend/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Madison, Wisconsin sends up to 2,000 duplicate absentee ballots, leading to GOP concerns
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/24/madison-wisconsin-sends-up-to-2000-duplicate-absentee-ballots-leading-to-gop-concerns/
— Democrats push pot in Elgin and in Park Ridge.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/24/elgins-first-recreational-pot-store-high-havens-the-record-store-opens-its-doors/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/24/weed-shops-can-set-up-in-bustling-uptown-area-of-park-ridge-after-mayor-misses-chance-to-veto/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pedro Martinez refuses to resign as Chicago Public Schools CEO (COMMENT: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. Assuming that their efforts to downgrade me, if not fire me, had failed, I would have worked at least until 2003 when I would have been eligible for regular retirement. My Civil Service Retirement System pension and retirement savings would be much greater. I would not have had to suffer the tremendous sigma of being forced to retire early; that stigma is dramatically greater because I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I would not gotten involved in Republican politics, and therefore, my critics/opponents a) could not have blamed me for Jim Ryan’s defeat and for all the other defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000, b) could not have rudely ended my service as an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, c) could not have rudely ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster not only once, but twice, d) could not have rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer, e) could not have rudely tried to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, f) could not have rudely ended my service as an ICRC Steering Committee member, g) could not have rudely ended my service on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee, h) could not have rudely ended my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, i) etc.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/24/opinion-cps-pedro-martinez-leadership/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/09/24/cps-proposes-self-imposed-ban-on-school-closings
DAILY HERALD
— Early voting kicks off Thursday for most suburban counties, but not Cook (COMMENT: Have the leaders of your Republican township/county Republican party organization provided your Republican Precinct Committeeman with campaign literature to distribute in their precinct? So far, the leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization have not provided me with any campaign literature from the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct: Trump/Vance, John Booras, Amy Grant, Bob Berlin, Jaye Wang, Bob Grogan, Richard Jorgensen, Nicole Prater, Annette Corrigan, Jeff Castle, Kenton Skarin, Jason Helland, and John Costello.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240924/news/early-voting-kicks-off-thursday-for-most-suburban-counties-but-not-cook/
— DuPage Forest preserve candidates to square off in Glen Ellyn forum
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240924/local-politics/forest-preserve-candidates-to-square-off-in-glen-ellyn-forum/
— A divisive moment averted: Plans to bring inflammatory speaker to suburbs would only have hurt Illinois GOP (COMMENT: Political parties need to vet candidates. At least since 2000, everything would have been different politically if the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and/or Milton Township Republican Organization had vetted candidates, and especially if they had put me on their candidate vetting committees. I would have called for full background investigations of candidates. I would have used the investigative skills that I acquired a) working for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year, b) working for IRS for as a Revenue Officer almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, and c) becoming a Certified Fraud Examiner, Forensic Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and Licensed CPA. I should write a book about candidates a) who never should have run because of the big skeletons that they had in their closets and b) candidates who lost general elections because the big skeletons that they had in their closets came out after they won primary elections. In 2004, in Illinois, Jack Ryan ran in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois ) His primary campaign team, which did not include me, knew that he had an extremely big scandal that would come out if he won the primary and would force him to withdraw. Nevertheless, they went forward anyway and defeated his primary opponents including Jim Oberweis, Steve Rauschenberger, and Andrew McKenna. Ryan withdrew after that extremely big scandal came out and the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced Ryan with Alan Keyes. If Ryan’s extremely big scandal had come out before the primary election, Oberweis, Rauschenberger, or McKenna would have won and everything would have been different. Oberweis, Rauschenberger, or McKenna might have defeated Obama in the general election. By way of contrast, Blair Hull might very well have won the Democrat primary if Obama’s campaign had not disclosed a far less serious marital issue that Hull had. I was involved in the aforesaid because of my roles as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Vice Chairman, the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster and a fundraising committee member, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member. In 2003, Ryan, Oberweis, McKenna, and other candidates a) attended a picnic that I organized in my precinct and b) Ryan Oberweis, Rauschenberger, McKenna, and other candidates participated in a major MTRO straw poll fundraiser that helped organize. Ryan won that straw poll. Most of my critics/opponents wanted McKenna to win that straw poll and the primary.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240925/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-divisive-moment-averted-plans-to-bring-inflammatory-speaker-to-suburbs-woul/
OUR QUAD CITIES
— The Supreme Court of Illinois ruled people can be stripped of their FOID card if they’re charged with a felony and haven’t been convicted. (COMMENT: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.)
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/state-news/illinois-news/illinois-supreme-court-addresses-foid-seizures/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— ‘Trump Train’ rally and caravan of vehicles planned for Peoria area (COMMENT: Who heads the Trump campaign in Illinois, in your congressional district, in your county, in your township, and in your municipality?)
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/24/trump-train-rally-and-caravan-of-vehicles-planned-for-peoria-il/75352007007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-a-tale-of-crushing-security-lapses-and-missed-chances-to-stop-the-man-who-shot-trump/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Haitians to promote more hatred against Trump/Vance.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-09-25/haitian-group-seeks-charges-against-trump-and-vance-over-false-springfield-claims
WGLT
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in getting young people to hate Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-09-24/a-new-poll-of-young-voters-shows-harris-with-a-commanding-31-point-lead-over-trump
WSIL TV
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Americans ever-increasingly take on more debt.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/americans-are-drowning-in-credit-card-debt-trump-s-proposed-cap-on-interest-rates-probably/article_22ea6cb7-0097-56df-96c5-28239b29f7da.html
WCIA
— State Board of Elections warns of sample ballots through mail
https://www.wcia.com/news/your-local-election-hq/state-board-of-elections-warns-of-sample-ballots-through-mail/amp/
WGEM
— Illinois lawmakers discuss potential changes to how higher education is funded (COMMENT: The more demographics that a college’s students have that vote for Democrats, the more funding that Democrats want for that college. Demographics that vote for Democrats include minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.wgem.com/2024/09/24/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-potential-changes-how-higher-education-is-funded/
WSIL TV
— SIU ever-increasingly pushes more pot.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/southern-illinois-university-kicks-off-its-5th-annual-hemp-cannabis-symposium/article_dd64e8ce-7ad1-11ef-aebf-13c9687002b8.html
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Anti-Islamic Survey Alleged In Burr Ridge Area Race. The survey is said to suggest a state representative candidate belongs to Islamic terrorist groups.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/amp/31890129/anti-islamic-survey-alleged-in-burr-ridge-area-race
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/09/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-376/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/09/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-169/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to my critics/opponents, I cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to lose elections because I paint them in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters as being more conservative than they are. Ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents discourage Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct from asking me to help elect them. I should write a book about that. I would focus on those candidates who want/wanted to be painted as being Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents do not want anyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I am a nonprofit conservative political and government news and commentary aggregator. I promote the Republican Party platform. I am no one’s operative or dupe. No one tells me what to do. Newspaper (print & digital) subscriptions are expensive. To put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together, I pay the following yearly: Chicago Tribune – $363.48, Chicago Sun-Times – $286.00, Daily Herald – $481.00, Naperville Sun – $103.48, Crain’s Chicago Business – $225.00, New York Times – $1,040.00, Wall Street Journal – $845.00, and USA Today – $119.88 for a total of $3,463.84/year plus more for many more print and/or digital subscriptions. Many websites benefit from the traffic that I drive to them. I pay Constant Contact $680.40/year to send the newsletters out. My critics/opponents are beyond furious that I have the money, time, experience, ability, health, and motivation needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They continue to do everything that they can to stop me from sending out the newsletters and to stop everyone from reading them. They do not take or return my phone calls. They read my newsletters or have their operatives and dupes read them for “opposition research.” They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work and destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JOHN KASS
— Kamala, Caligula’s Horse and the Deep State
https://johnkassnews.com/kamala-harris-caligulas-horse-and-the-deep-state/
WIREPOINTS
— Ending ShotSpotter is such a bad idea considering black and brown Chicagoans make up the vast majority of shooting victims (COMMENT: What are the demographics of the shooters in Chicago?)
https://wirepoints.org/ending-shotspotter-is-such-a-bad-idea-considering-black-and-brown-chicagoans-make-up-the-vast-majority-of-shooting-victims-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
WILLIAM J KELLY
— Pelosi-Pat Brady love fest, Devore trolls new RNC Committeewoman
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Reporter-s-Playbook—-Pelosi-Pat-Brady-love-fest–Devore-trolls-new-RNC-Committeewoman.html?soid=1104658966806&aid=2mjbuwmbwTc
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— House Republicans push for property tax relief in Illinois
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/664545755-house-republicans-push-for-property-tax-relief-in-illinois
WEST COOK NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers.
https://westcooknews.com/stories/664513979-cook-county-awards-3-6m-grants-to-social-equity-cannabis-entrepreneurs
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘There’s IDs everywhere’: How illegal immigrants erase their identities at the border (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Harris/Walz and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/24/theres-ids-everywhere-how-illegal-immigrants-erase/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— So many don’t want to know so much about Kamala Harris (COMMENT: My critics/opponents do not want anyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3162990/many-do-not-want-to-know-kamala-harris-positions/
— Matt Walsh is fighting the hypocrisy of DEI in Am I Racist?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3165618/matt-walsh-fighting-hypocrisy-dei-am-i-racist/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden-Harris irresponsible legacy: Debt is 100% of GDP, highest since WWII
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/biden-harris-irresponsible-legacy-debt-is-100-of-gdp-highest-since-wwii/
— Sanctuary city disaster could end under Trump — but will worsen if Harris wins
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/sanctuary-city-disaster-could-end-under-trump-but-will-worsen-if-harris-wins/
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— No grade, no problem — Illegal immigrant children get free pass in Chicago
https://afn.net/education/2024/09/24/no-grade-no-problem-illegal-immigrant-children-get-free-pass-in-chicago/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 10 Million Illegal Aliens: What Is to Be Done?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/10_million_illegal_aliens_what_is_to_be_done.html
— Educating about Jihadists
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/educating_about_jihadists.html
BREITBART
— Trump Campaign: Kamala Harris Has ‘Blood on Her Hands’ from Migrant Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/24/trump-campaign-kamala-harris-blood-hands-migrant-crime/
DAILY CALLER
— Zelenskyy Hits Campaign Trail For Kamala. Zelenskyy Flown Into Key Swing State At Taxpayer Expense After Attacking Trump, Vance (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/23/zelenskyy-pennsylvani-swing-state-taxpayer-expense-trump-vance/
FOX BUSINESS
— Democrat rule is to blame for New York City’s problems
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/stuart-varney-democrat-rule-is-to-blame-for-new-york-city-s-problems/vi-AA1r84pn
LIBERTY NATION
— White Males Need Not Apply, USAF Ditched Merit for Diversity. The Air Force DEI bureaucracy not focused on ability.
https://www.libertynation.com/white-males-need-not-apply-usaf-ditched-merit-for-diversity/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Walz Education Appointee Calls for the Overthrow of the U.S.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/walz-education-appointee-calls-for-the-overthrow-of-the-u-s/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats frustrated with poll showing voters see Trump as more moderate (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to lose elections because I paint them in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters as being more conservative than they are. Ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents discourage Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct from asking me to help elect them. I should write a book about that. I would focus on those candidates who want/wanted to be painted as being Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4872379-democrats-frustrated-polling-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Another Trump Acolyte Finds Himself in Big Trouble (COMMENT: What do you say to my critics/opponents who paint me as being a Trump acolyte?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/opinion/donald-trump-mark-robinson-maga.html
— How Biden Uses His ‘Car Guy’ Persona to Burnish His Everyman Image (COMMENT. One could compare and contrast Biden and his father with me and my father. Biden got his 1967 Corvette as a wedding present from his father. I got my 1972 Corvette in 1971 with money that I earned collecting delinquent taxes for IRS and pumping gasoline for Firestone Stores and previously selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances for Firestone Stores, working on an automotive assembly line, delivering mail, pumping gasoline for John’s Sinclair, chipping slag, cleaning golf shoes, washing dishes, delivering newspapers, and doing yard work. My father fought brittle type 1 diabetes from childhood, he was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never attended college, he worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant, he almost always worked second jobs to help pay the family’s bills, and he died suddenly of heart failure in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/us/politics/biden-cars.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Harris/Walz and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/24/illegal-immigrants-voting/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/24/trump-hitler-rhetoric-comparison/
USA TODAY
— All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/09/17/dei-backlash-hits-women-