FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrats say “RNC 2024: Day 2 will focus on immigration; Nikki Haley to speak. Chants of ‘we love Trump’ could be heard as he entered the RNC on night 1.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-2024-day-2-donald-trump-makes-appearance-on-night-1-immigration-and-crime-will-be-focus-tuesday/15062421/
— Democrats say “Protesters rally at GOP convention for abortion and immigrant rights, end to war in Gaza.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republican-convention-2024-protestors-begin-gather-outside-fiserv/15060959/
— Democrats say Trump says about Vance “You can help me win” and “How Trump landed on JD Vance as his VP pick.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/why-did-trump-pick-jd-vance/15062411/
— Democrats say “Suspect purchased 50 rounds of ammunition on day of shooting.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-rally-shooting-secret-service-director-says-police-were-inside-building-shooter-was-positioned-on/15057158/
NBC5
— Democrats say “What to watch as the Republican National Convention enters its second day in Milwaukee. On Tuesday, the overview shifts to immigration and crime, according to Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/what-to-watch-as-the-republican-national-convention-enters-its-second-day-in-milwaukee/3491097/
— Democrats ask “What do Illinois Republicans think of Trump running mate JD Vance?” and say “Some expressed surprise at the choice, but delegates agreed they will support the ticket.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/what-do-illinois-republicans-think-of-trump-running-mate-jd-vance/3490973/
— Democrats say “Tuesday at the RNC to feature focus on immigration, crime. The theme of the second day will be “Make America Safe Again,” according to convention officials.” (COMMENT: The younger that you are, the less education that you have, and the fewer job skills that you have, the more that illegal immigration harms you. I had to work my way through college. If there had been as many illegals in America back then as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs I got doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail. And if not that, the wages that I was paid would have been less because illegals drive wages down.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/rnc-tuesday-nikki-haley-speak-trump-platform-immigration/3491040/
— Democrats say Sen. Tim Scott says “America ‘isn’t a racist country” and Scott “blasts Chicago leadership over violence.” (COMMENT: Ever since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have ever-increasingly shouted at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have and that Republicans are racists who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/tim-scott-america-isnt-racist-blasts-chicago-over-gun-violence/3490744/
CBS2
— Democrats say “Love fest for JD Vance among Illinois delegates at Republican National Convention.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_Vgll7bjE
WTTW
— Democrats say “From Immigration to Public Safety, What a Trump Victory Could Mean for Chicago.”
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/16/immigration-public-safety-what-trump-victory-could-mean-chicago
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Suburban native, far-right conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk speaks at RNC. The 30-year-old Wheeling High School grad founded Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting conservative values on high school and college campuses.” (COMMENT: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you far-right.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/15/charlie-kirk-rnc-republican-convention-speech
— Democrats say “Donald Trump’s VP pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, is the reason Chicago has no top federal prosecutor. Former President Trump wasn’t going to repeat his Mike Pence mistake. He needed someone he could count on to follow orders.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/15/donald-trump-running-mate-selection-jd-vance-april-perry-us-attorney-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “Photos: The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/15/photos-the-republican-national-convention-in-milwaukee/
— Brandon Johnson’s desperate loan gambit to keep the Chicago Teachers Union happy. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/editorial-cps-brandon-johnson-ctu-budget/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “What to watch as the Republican National Convention enters its second day in Milwaukee.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/what-to-watch-as-the-republican-national-convention-enters-its-second-day-in-milwaukee/
— Democrats say “JD Vance is a relative political unknown. He’s been asked to help Donald Trump avenge his 2020 loss.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/jd-vance-is-a-relative-political-unknown-hes-been-asked-to-help-donald-trump-avenge-his-2020-loss/
— Democrats say “Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/fact-checking-day-1-of-the-2024-republican-national-convention/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WAND TV
— Democrats say “Protesters rally peacefully at GOP convention for abortion and immigrant rights, end to war in Gaza.”
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/protesters-rally-at-gop-convention-for-abortion-and-immigrant-rights-end-to-war-in-gaza/article_9af8c43c-8ec9-56e7-a667-340701db9788.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/protesters-rally-peacefully-at-gop-convention-for-abortion-and-immigrant-rights-end-to-war-in/article_a613b591-d449-5065-b63a-7b042ff8cde9.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “What to know about Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle.” (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to work for, work with, and/or supervise all the many females they hired. Females were my superiors during my last 8 years at GAO and a female was my immediate supervisor during my last 4 years. Those females led GAO’s successful effort to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, during my last 8 years, they assigned me to supervise all their female employees who they wanted to get rid because they had serious performance problems. All the females who they promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the CPA license that I had. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed to all my many female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I opposed gender based preference giving. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that I caused all their problems.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/15/what-to-know-about-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a 2022 interview with the trade publication Security Magazine, Cheatle reflected on being a woman in the Secret Service. “That achievement in a male-dominated industry was not lost on me,” Cheatle said. “I kept a photo on my desk of the first five women sworn into the service, and I used that to remind me that these women created opportunities for me and I can help others grow and lead as well.” Cheatle graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, according to the News-Gazette, and she first applied for a job as a Secret Service agent before leaving school.)
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats acknowledge that “Signs of trouble at Trump rally were evident in minutes before gunman opened fire.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-signs-of-trouble-at-trump-rally-were-evident-in-minutes-before-gunman-opened-fire/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Signs of trouble were evident in the minutes before shots rang out at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania: Police had a report of a suspicious man pacing near the magnetometers and were apparently exchanging photos of the suspect. Witnesses pointed and shouted at an armed man on a nearby roof. When a police officer climbed up to the roof to investigate, the gunman turned and pointed his rifle at him. But the officer did not — or could not — fire a single shot. A sniper cut down 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks within seconds of him firing an AR-style rifle toward the former president, but it was too late. Now investigators are trying to painstakingly piece together how an armed man with no military background managed to reach high ground and get the jump on teams of Secret Service agents. Stan Kephart, a former police chief who worked event security for two former presidents, said the shooting followed an “an absolute and abysmal failure” on the part of the Secret Service to protect Trump. The agency is ultimately responsible for the candidate’s safety, he added. “You don’t get to blame other people. They are under your control,” said Kephart, now a consulting expert on law enforcement event security.)
— Democrats say “27% in new survey say Vance ‘best’ or ‘good’ pick for Trump.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/27-in-new-survey-say-vance-best-or-good-pick-for-trump/
OUR QUAD CITIES
— LaHood on what Trump VP pick Vance brings to the table. – Eric Olsen (COMMENT: For the last job that you were hired for, what did you bring to the table? GAO audits IRS. When GAO hired me in 1980 when I was 31 years old, a) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, b) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored, dismissed, and belittled the aforesaid. They forced me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They delayed my promotions to GS-11, GS-12, and GS-13 and never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS until 1986.)
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/lahood-on-what-trump-vp-pick-vance-brings-to-the-table/
WGLT
— Democrats and RINOs demonize, denigrate, and condemn the AR-15.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-15/why-the-weapon-of-choice-matters-in-the-trump-assassination-attempt
AXIOS
— Democrats say “Illinois GOP leaders (Mary Miller, Kathy Salvi, Tony McCombie, Aaron Del Mar, The Uihleins) to watch in 2024.’
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2024/07/16/illinois-gop-leaders-to-watch-2024
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance’s Illinois connection.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/16/jd-vances-illinois-connection-00168596
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You can say he has one connection to Illinois. He’s been blamed for holding up the confirmation of April Perry as Chicago’s top federal prosecutor. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth recently accused Vance of wanting to “grind the Department of Justice to a halt” over the confirmation. About his VP slot: Neither senator commented on Vance being named Donald Trump’s running mate. Durbin will join Gov. JB Pritzker at an unrelated event today, so we’ll wait for the Illinois press corps to pounce. . .Former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger headlined “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and called out Vance for criticizing U.S. support of Ukraine in the war against Russia. “They are celebrating that choice in Milwaukee and in Moscow,” he said.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-326/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— March 11, 2016 in Chicago: The Day Violence Against Trump Campaign Was Legitimized. – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/march-11-2016-in-chicago-the-day-violence-against-trump-campaign-was-legitimized-wirepoints/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— At national convention, Illinois’ beleaguered GOP portrays calm amid internal storm.- PETER HANCOCK & HANNAH MEISEL (COMMENT: Illinois Republicans like me who are conservative, that is, who are platform Republicans, want direct election of Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) members. Because I promote direct election of IRP SCC members, IRP SCC members who oppose direct election used pretexts to remove me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. In 2015, they gerrymandered my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct in Wheaton.)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/at-national-convention-illinois-beleaguered-gop-portrays-calm-amid-internal-storm
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump surprises convention with bandaged cameo. – Seth McLaughlin and Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/donald-trump-surprises-republican-national-convent/
— Biden rejects responsibility for overheated rhetoric: ‘I’m not engaged in that’ – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/joe-biden-rejects-responsibility-overheated-rhetor/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) unloads on Secret Service failures: ‘It’s the DEI bulls***’ – Timothy P. Carney (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to work for, work with, and/or supervise all the many females they hired. Females were my superiors during my last 8 years at GAO and a female was my immediate supervisor during my last 4 years. Those females led GAO’s successful effort to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, during my last 8 years, they assigned me to supervise all their female employees who they wanted to get rid because they had serious performance problems. All the females who they promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the CPA license that I had. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed to all my many female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I opposed gender based preference giving. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that I caused all their problems.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3082918/congresswoman-unloads-secret-service-failures-dei/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I think what we’re seeing is what happens when you are more focused on checking boxes, then you are actually getting the most qualified people in the room,” she said. “There is a lot of work and discussions that needs to be had about who are we hiring to protect presidential candidates,” the congresswoman said. “Donald Trump is six-foot-two. I’m five-foot-three. You wouldn’t want me protecting him. I cannot physically take a bullet for him at that height. And so when you have people who are just not physically capable of doing so, we have to have that conversation.” She summarized the DEI approach as “we need so many of X, Y, and Z,” saying this approach “has really put us all collectively in danger and it’s a real shame.”)
NEW YORK POST
— Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle landed job after push by Jill Biden’s office. – Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/secret-service-director-kim-cheatle-landed-job-after-push-by-jill-bidens-office-sources/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal. “Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post. “Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.” “I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option,” another well-placed source told The Post. Bernal, 51, is widely regarded as rivaling even White House chief of staff Jeff Zients in terms of influence over administration decisions. He has faced allegations of bullying and sexual harassment from colleagues who have likened his sway to that of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin over the Romanov court. “Anthony is obsessed with being DEI-compliant,” a third source told The Post, using the acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion — the human resources practice of attempting to ensure diversity in the workforce.)
— Biden admin flying migrants from overwhelmed California to Texas after Gov. Abbott’s crackdown deterred crossings — at $80K per flight. – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/biden-admin-flying-migrants-from-overwhelmed-california-to-texas-after-gov-abbotts-crackdown-deterred-crossings/
— Everything to know about RNC 2024: When it’s on, how to watch, plus speaker schedule – Caitlin Doornbos and Ryan King
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/rnc-guide-2024-when-its-on-how-to-watch-speaker-schedule-2/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Walking Over The Graves of Our Heroes. – Allan J. Feifer
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/walking_over_the_graves_of_our_heroes.html
BREITBART
— Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Welcomes Nearly 1.2 Million Migrants to U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/15/joe-bidens-parole-pipeline-welcomes-nearly-1-2million-migrants-us/
— Trump VP Pick J.D. Vance Hailed as ‘One of the Best’ Senators on Immigration. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/15/trump-vp-pick-j-d-vance-hailed-as-one-of-the-best-senators-on-immigration/
EPOCH TIMES
— 39 Things to Know About JD Vance, Trump’s Running Mate. The freshman senator and best-selling author from Ohio is the first millennial on a major party ticket. Here’s a rundown of his background and stances. – Joseph Lord, Jackson Richman
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/39-things-to-know-about-jd-vance-trumps-running-mate-5687131
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 2. He’s a Catholic. Mr. Vance was raised Protestant, but later converted to Catholicism, officially becoming Catholic in August 2019.
3. He’s Married to Usha Chilukuri Vance. Mr. Vance is married to Usha Chilukuri Vance, who he met at Yale Law School. They married in 2014.
Ms. Vance currently works as a corporate litigator. She has clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John. Roberts and then-appellate Judge Brett Kavanaugh. She would be the first Hindu spouse of a vice president. . .9. He Experienced the Decline of the Rust Belt. In both his memoir and the movie adaptation, Mr. Vance explains his experience of the decline of the Rust Belt, and the impacts it had on those living there. Speaking about his native Middletown, Mr. Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy, “There is a lack of agency here— a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. ”He’s made clear that this experience has continued to shape his political life and decisions. . .11. His Parents Divorced When He was a Toddler. Mr. Vance’s parents, Donald Bowman and Bev Vance, divorced when he was very young, leaving Mr. Vance to be raised by his mother. In “Hillbilly Elegy,” Mr. Bowman is described as having been largely absent from Mr. Vance’s life, though the two reconnected later in life. Mr. Vance says both of his parents struggled to maintain stability in their employment, both largely worked a series of odd jobs over the years. . .15. His Grandparents Were Democrats. Like many in the Rust Belt of the late 20th century, Mr. Vance’s grandparents were pro-union Democrats. Mr. Vance describes their attitude toward politics in “Hillbilly Elegy,” writing, “All politicians might be crooks, but if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition. Mr. Vance said the exception was 1984, when his grandfather voted for President Ronald Reagan. . .16. He’s a Marine Corps. Iraq Combat vet. Mr. Vance served in Iraq as a Marine combat correspondent during the mid-2000s. . .19. He Was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal
While studying law, Mr. Vance served on the editorial staff of the Yale Law Journal. . .22. He’s Sponsored Programs to Combat Drug Addiction. In 2016, Mr. Vance left California and returned to Ohio, where he helped launch an effort to combat opioid abuse in the state. Called “Our Ohio Renewal,” the project was short-lived, and the online domain for the website is no longer accessible. . .36. He’s Critical of the Iraq War. Though he served in the Iraq War, Mr. Vance has since been critical of the conflict, saying he made a “mistake” in initially supporting it. “I served my country honorably, and I saw when I went to Iraq that I had been lied to, that the promises of the foreign policy establishment of this country were a complete joke,” he said on the Senate floor in April. . .37. Critical of Ukraine Aid. Mr. Vance has been critical of continued U.S. support for the war in Ukraine. Since taking office, he’s voted against every Ukraine aid package that’s come to the floor. He’s called for Europe to bear the brunt of financing the war. Mr. Vance wrote in an April op-ed for The New York Times that the current trajectory of the war is unsustainable for either the U.S. or Ukraine. He said that the notion that Ukraine will reclaim all its land lost to Russia is “fantastical.”. . . 39. He Says US Focus Should Be on China. Mr. Vance has also taken a tough stance on China, encouraging the United States to focus its efforts there. Between war in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, Mr. Vance said, America has “to pick and choose” where it invests its resources. “We should be focused on our own problems, and that’s mostly China,” Mr. Vance said in April. “My argument is the Chinese are focused on real power. They’re not focused on how tough people talk on TV or how strong our alleged resolve is. They’re focused on how strong we actually are, and to be strong enough to push back against the Chinese, we’ve got to focus there, and right now, we’re stretched too thin.”)
FOX NEWS
— US Secret Service director plans to ‘stay on’ as calls grow for her resignation. Cheatle called the attempted assassination on Trump ‘unacceptable,’ adding the ‘buck stops with her’ – Greg Wehner
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-secret-service-director-plans-stay-on-calls-grow-her-resignation
TOWNHALL
— The Republican Party Platform is Good. – Mark Lewis
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/07/16/the-republican-party-platform-is-good-n2641988
— DEI Is Transitioning to Die – Alan Joseph Bauer
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2024/07/16/dei-is-transitioning-to-die-n2641940
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats say “Fact-checking night 1 of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/fact-check-night-one-republican-national-convention/index.html
— Democrats say “Rally security failure has Secret Service at odds with its local law enforcement allies.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/16/politics/secret-service-trump-rally-blame/index.html
YAHOO
— Democrats acknowledge that Vance says “He Changed My Mind” and that “Vance Responds To Sean Hannity About Calling Donald Trump “America’s Hitler” And Other Insults.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/changed-mind-j-d-vance-015817265.html
MSN
— Vance opposes Democrat efforts to replace voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/when-democrats-accused-jd-vance-of-endorsing-racist-great-replacement-theory/ar-BB1q2h5z
— Jim Jordan Issues Warning to Parents on ‘Illegal Aliens’ Hiding in Schools. – Kaitlin Lewis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jim-jordan-issues-warning-to-parents-on-illegal-aliens-hiding-in-schools/ar-BB1kYnhP
ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “The rise of JD Vance: From ‘never-Trump guy’ to VP pick. Vance could reach new heights, possibly serving as Trump’s vice president.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rise-jd-vance-trump-guy-potential-vp-pick/story?id=111310334
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Vance’s rise began when he released his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” where he reflects on his upbringing and growing up in a low-income family involved in violence and addiction in Middletown, Ohio — part of America’s Rust Belt.)
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-plays-prominent-role-first-night-rnc-rcna162028
CBS NEWS
— Democrats say “2024 RNC Day 1 fact check of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2024-rnc-day-1-fact-check-republican-national-convention/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Fact-Checking Day 1 of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/15/us/rnc-fact-check
— Democrats say “Trump Rally Gunman ‘Didn’t Want Attention’ in School, Classmates Said. Fellow students described the gunman, Thomas Crooks, as intelligent but solitary, someone who tried to avoid teasing by his classmates.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a plea to the White working class.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/15/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-review/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Vance grew up in what his memoir describes as “an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.” His mother struggled with addiction; he was raised by his grandparents, neither of whom graduated from high school. . .Though he has overcome his demons, Vance is sympathetic to those left behind. As he describes their plight, “From low social mobility to poverty to divorce and drug addiction, my home is a hub of misery.” And in contrast to other groups that also experience widespread poverty, “working class whites are the most pessimistic group in America.”)
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance adds veteran appeal to Trump’s populist campaign. As a former Marine Corps grunt, the VP pick speaks to the military and lower working class.” (COMMENT: Because my parents lacked money, during my freshman and sophomore years in high school, my plan was to enlist and use the G.I. Bill to get a college degree. But early in my junior year in 1964, I realized that I could earn a college degree much sooner a) if I got accepted by UIC, b) if I commuted to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete, and c) if could earn enough money with part-time jobs. The part-time job that I got working for the Park Forest Post Office enabled me to do that, and not only that, but to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, to buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, to transfer to NIU in 1969, and to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning that Charger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/15/vance-trump-veterans-appeal/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I interviewed Vance back in August 2016, when “Hillbilly Elegy” was published. “I think in a lot of ways, and for a lot of kids, frankly, the military is that ticket out,” he told me. “It shows you a different world. It gives you a set of skills that I simply didn’t have when I joined the Marines. … From there, I went to Ohio State, and then I went to Yale Law School,” he continued. “But it really provided a number of opportunities that again, I wouldn’t have had if I hadn’t had the Marine Corps.” The skills he acquired as a Marine took him to Big Law, then Big Tech, and on to Big Politics and the Ohio Senate contest of 2022.
— Democrats say “Thousands of RNC protesters denounce Trump, GOP agenda in Milwaukee. Anti-Trump protesters at the Republican National Convention decried political violence of all kinds while condemning threats to democracy and the GOP agenda.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/republican-national-convention-protests-trump/
— Democrats say “Jan. 6 marchers at Republican convention complicate efforts to avoid subject.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/16/trump-republicans-convention-jan-6/
USA TODAY
— Democrats say : “RNC 2024: Which Republicans have stayed away from Milwaukee.” Which Republican leaders in your county, township, and municipality boycotted the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Collinsville?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/rnc-2024-who-is-staying-away-from-milwaukee/74415168007/
— Democrats say “Tuesday’s RNC theme puts focus on law enforcement.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/tuesday-rnc-theme-what-make-america-safe-again-means/74421209007/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrats say “Trump’s Running Mate: Lawyer and Author-Turned-MAGA Senator J.D. Vance. The former lawyer and author who rose to prominence for a gut-wrenching memoir of addiction in America has quickly become a powerful voice for Trump in Congress.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-07-15/trumps-running-mate-lawyer-and-author-turned-maga-senator-j-d-vance
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Once a corporate lawyer who attended Yale Law School, Vance rose to national prominence as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a poignant and gut-wrenching memoir that showcased poverty, isolation and lack of opportunity that haunted his family and others in rural Kentucky.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats say “Trump Bets on a MAGA Successor in J.D. Vance. His choice of the 39-year-old Senator reinforces his base, rather than appealing to a broader coalition.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jd-vance-donald-trump-vice-president-2024-election-e37cf310
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance Offers Trump a Fresh Face With a MAGA Profile. Ohio senator has appeal in ‘Blue Wall’ states but might not expand support among suburban women and swing voters.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/j-d-vance-offers-trump-a-fresh-face-with-a-maga-profile-034d3083
— Democrats ask “Who Is in Donald Trump’s Inner Circle?” and say “These Are His Closest Advisers.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-advisors-inner-circle-presidential-campaign-0e056dee
— Democrats say “Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he-is-committing-around-45-million-a-month-to-a-new-pro-trump-super-pac-dda53823
— “The Trump Shooting Changed Everything. The nation narrowly averted tragedy Saturday. Is it enough to ease our political polarization?” – James Piereson
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-shooting-changed-everything-80f11bd8?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Democrats acknowledge that “Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, has been at the center of GOP efforts in Congress to “dismantle” diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies, and has suggested that if Trump wins re-election, he should fire “every mid-level bureaucrat” in government.” Soon, if not already, all federal employees will be conservative-hating Republican-hating Democrats who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/07/heres-now-trumps-new-vice-presidential-pick-stacks-federal-workforce-issues/398056/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance on His MAGA Conversion. Trump’s man in Ohio once called him “America’s Hitler,” but there’s an explanation.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/07/j-d-vance-explains-his-conversion-to-trump-and-maga.html
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCTAION
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/07/16/bridging-campus-divide-dangerous-ideas-ai
Tag: CPA
July 13, 2024
Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. How do the following view Salvi: a) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee, b) the leaders of your Republican county party organization, c) the leaders of your Republican township/ward party organization, d) your Republican state senator and representative, e) Republican leaders of your county, township, and municipality, f) Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in my precinct, g) conservative leaders and activists in your area, h) religious leaders and activists in your area, and i) your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain? Because Salvi is conservative, anticipate/expect that the aforesaid who are anti-conservative, that is, who are anti-platform Republican, that is, who are anti-Republican, do not view Salvi favorably, and especially the aforesaid who promote abortion.
Those who oppose Salvi promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, they promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— New chairman tries to unite fractured Illinois GOP heading into Milwaukee convention. – RICK PEARSON and JEREMY GORNER (COMMENT: The Democrat Party exists to promote liberal principles. The Republican Party exists to promote conservative principles. Democrats want Republicans to lose. Democrats want Republicans to dump everything that is conservative and to dump everyone that is conservative.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/13/new-chairman-tries-to-unite-fractured-illinois-gop-heading-into-milwaukee-convention/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Salvi won the chairmanship with about 60% of the weighted vote against state Rep. John Cabello of Machesney Park, a Rockford suburb, in an initial round of voting after Aaron Del Mar, the Palatine Republican Township committeeman, withdrew from the contest. In a final tally, 16 of the 17 members voted for Salvi, with one abstention, said GOP sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the committee’s deliberations. Cabello’s candidacy to be “interim” chairman until after the Nov. 5 election was backed by forces aligned with the controversial Shaw, who still sits on the state central committee despite losing his party title and looked to exert some power within the party, the GOP sources said. Cabello said he wanted to serve as a caretaker to “keep the train on the tracks while they do their due diligence to find someone else” to serve as chairman. . .In an interview ahead of the chairman vote, Salvi said she has been “very active with the party, supporting candidates up and down the state of Illinois, attending events where invited and making my case to the people willing to listen how Illinois is really no different than the states that surround us.” Acknowledging Trump’s previous losses in Illinois and concerns by some Republicans that his presence on the ballot has dragged down Republicans in down ballot contests, Salvi said she believes the 2024 election will be different because of voters’ dissatisfaction with Biden and his policies. Biden “basically pulled a bait and switch,” she said. “People are hurting. Families are hurting. And they look at their lives under the four years of President Trump and they look at their lives of the last 3 1/2 years and people are hurting.” “We’re going to have an angry vote out there. Not just Republicans. People who have never voted before. They’re coming out in droves to support something different because they feel as though the promises made were not kept,” Salvi said. “The policies of the Biden administration have hurt families, have hurt Illinois families and voters. And people are recognizing that, which is why I think that the middle, center-left is coming on board.” Tracy will retain the chairmanship through the end of the national convention in Milwaukee, while Salvi, as incoming chair, is expected to join U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, the chair of the Illinois delegation, at convention-related party organizational events. Miller is a member of the far right House Freedom Caucus, an ally of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and actively sought and won Trump’s endorsement for her reelection efforts. . .Republican convention delegates in Milwaukee will be asked to approve a slimmed down national party platform that in some respects is less conservative than the Illinois Republican platform. The national party platform proclaims that it was “because of us” that the U.S. Supreme Court’ overturned Roe v. Wade, returning the issue of legality of abortion to the states, in recognition of the conservative justices appointed by Trump. But it does not call for a national abortion ban, as many abortion opponents had sought. The Illinois GOP’s state platform approved in May continued its long-standing expression of support for “a human life amendment to the federal and Illinois constitutions affirming the right to life of unborn children.” The state GOP also approved a resolution attacking Illinois Democrats for their “extremist pro-abortion agenda.” Democrats successfully used the high court’s decision to overturn Roe as a rallying cry in the 2022 midterm elections and are heavily promoting reproductive rights in the 2024 campaign. The Illinois GOP state platform also continues to oppose same-sex marriage, stating that “the ideal environment for children is within a two-parent family based on the principle of marriage between one man and one woman” and backing a constitutional amendment to that effect. . .Salvi, the new Illinois GOP chair, is an attorney who mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates in the 2022 general election, losing by more than 15 percentage points. Her platform on the campaign trail was typical of many Republicans today: She opposed abortion rights, though when asked about the prospect of a federal abortion ban that would outlaw the procedure in all states, she said she thinks laws regulating abortion are “best made by individual states” — in line with Trump’s latest position. She also expressed support for constructing a wall along the southern border with Mexico to halt illegal immigration, one of Trump’s central goals during his single presidential term. During a Daily Herald candidate forum for the 2022 GOP primary, Salvi also resisted saying whether the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. “Joe Biden is our president,” Salvi said. “I wish we had a different president to meet this moment, but we don’t.” Salvi also ran for the U.S. House in 2006 but lost in the Republican primary. Her husband, Al, was elected as a state representative in 1992 and served two terms before making unsuccessful bids for U.S. Senate in 1996 and for secretary of state in 1998.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Johnson ally blasts city move to shut tent city as plan to ‘hide Chicago’s homeless.’ Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) called out what he sees as a double standard in clearing the site in time for the DNC: “I didn’t think we would go from ‘Bring Chicago Home’ to ‘Hide Chicago’s Homeless,’ but here we are.” – Lauren FitzPatrick and Elvia Malagón (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/12/dnc-homeless-shelter-chicago-democratic-national-convention-tent-city-andre-vasquez-brandie-knazze
— Bill Daley: ‘Open convention’ could be good for Chicago, voters and Democrats — even VP Kamala Harris. “We have some very good potential candidates out there that … would excite, not only the Democratic Party, but independents who make the difference in these elections,” the former U.S. Commerce secretary said. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielman-show/2024/07/12/bill-daley-open-convention-dnc-chicago-joe-biden
DAILY HERALD
— Who’s not going to the RNC reflects Trump dynamics – Marni Pyke (COMMENT: Republicans who reject Trump reject conservatives, that is, they reject platform Republicans, that is, they reject the base of the Republican Party, that is, they reject the Republican Party.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240712/illinois-state-politics/whos-not-going-to-the-rnc-reflects-trump-dynamics/
— Meet the suburban delegates to the Republican National Convention – Russell Lissau and Steve Zalusky (COMMENT: Republicans who support Trump are conservative, that is, they are platform Republicans, that is, they are the base of the Republican Party.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240712/nation-and-world-politics/meet-the-suburban-delegates-to-the-republican-national-convention/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A real strategy to deal with city’s gun violence can’t come soon enough. – Editorial (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. It promotes a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/chicagos-gun-violence-calls-comprehensive-strategy-now-editorial
ABC7
— ‘Take Back the Block’ anti-violence initiative receives skeptical response from West Side community. – Evelyn Holmes
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-mayor-johnson-take-back-the-block/15054747/
NBC5
— RNC 2024: Republican National Convention is in Milwaukee next week. Here’s what to expect. The GOP expects a triumphant moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/rnc-2024-republican-national-convention-milwaukee-what-to-expect/3487542/
— How to watch the 2024 RNC in Milwaukee: Time, streaming, channel and more. With Donald Trump’s vice president pick expected to be introduced, celebrity guest appearances made and a number of major issues on the line, there will be no shortage of headline-making news.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/how-to-watch-the-2024-rnc-in-milwaukee-time-streaming-channel-and-more/3488103/
— Republicans signal abortion won’t be a big talking point during RNC in Milwaukee. The Republican National Committee adopted a party platform that omitted support for a national abortion ban. – Rose Schmidt
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/republicans-signal-abortion-wont-be-a-big-talking-point-during-rnc-in-milwaukee/3488161/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters blast Project 2025. Virtually every federal employee is a Democrat who is anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. As one of the few Republican federal employees, I worked for, worked with, and supervised the aforesaid for almost 30 years.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/project-2025-what-is-it-and-whos-behind-it-heres-an-explainer/3487808/
CBS2
— Demonstrators battle with Chicago over Democratic National Convention protest route. – Charlie De Mar
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/demonstrators-battle-with-chicago-over-democratic-national-convention-protest-route/
WGN9
— West Chicago Mexican Independence Day celebration canceled. – Gabriel Castillo
https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-222012410.html
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrats ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/state-marks-milestone-at-ribbon-cutting-for-the-dispensary/article_53a43bde-4058-11ef-b153-af7d81a3a839.html
WGLT
— Biden punches at Trump and the press as he tries to revive his campaign. – Lexie Schapitl (COMMENT: What do you say to the following who have taken punches at me: 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, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists? I should write a book about the aforesaid. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they used to justify their actions.)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-12/biden-punches-at-trump-and-the-press-as-he-tries-to-revive-his-campaign
SOUTH COUNTY MAIL
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://southcountymail.com/illinois-reparations-plan/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s ‘Think Big America’ ads on abortion and IVF: More dishonesty.
https://wirepoints.org/pritzkers-think-big-america-ads-on-abortion-and-ivf-more-dishonesty-wirepoints-quickpoint/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 3-IN-10 SEATS ARE EMPTY AT CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Hannah Schmid
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/3-in-10-seats-are-empty-at-chicago-public-schools/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Republican platform makes education bigger issue than in previous years. – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3078511/republican-platform-education-bigger-issue-previous-years/
— Biden border ‘bloodbath’ prompts Republicans to change immigration platform. – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3076393/biden-border-changes-rnc-platform-immigration/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 102)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-102/
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— DoD schools using taxpayer funds to teach DEI while working to avoid detection. – Parrish Alford, Chad Groening, Chris Woodward
https://afn.net/education/2024/07/12/report-dod-schools-using-taxpayer-funds-to-teach-dei-while-working-to-avoid-detection/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Biden Falsely Claims Border Encounters are Lower Than Beginning of Term. – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/12/biden-falsely-claims-border-encounters-are-lower-than-beginning-of-term/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Lawsuit claims Northwestern Law has discriminated against qualified white men in hiring for years. A recent lawsuit alleges that Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law has discriminated against white men in faculty hiring by giving preference to non-white individuals with lower qualifications. – Patrick McDonald
https://www.campusreform.org/article/lawsuit-claims-northwestern-law-discriminated-qualified-white-men-hiring-years/25833
— House Republican announces caucus to combat DEI in education: ‘Stop the Left’s war on meritocracy’ A House Republican launched the “Merit Caucus” to combat Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from overtaking education. –
https://www.campusreform.org/article/house-republican-announces-caucus-combat-dei-education-stop-lefts-war-meritocracy/25885
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pentagon Funding DEI Content in Classrooms. – S.A. McCarthy
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/12/report-shows-pentagon-funding-dei-content-in-classrooms/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden’s Meeting With Congressional Hispanic Caucus Turns Into Debacle. – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-meeting-with-congressional-hispanic-caucus-turns-into-debacle-reports
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
— Virginia School District Ignore Parents Opposition, Implements ‘Gender Identity’ Lessons (COMMENT: How much success have Democrat teachers in your school district had turning their students into sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/virginia-school-district-ignore-parents-opposition-implements-gender-identity-lessons/
FOX NEWS
— Johnson touts GOP unity over record-breaking fundraising numbers ahead of RNC. House Speaker Mike Johnson tells Fox News Digital GOP is ‘united, energized and equipped’ for November election. – Elizabeth Elkind
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/johnson-touts-gop-unity-over-record-breaking-fundraising-numbers-ahead-rnc
NEWSMAX
— Biden Admin App Lets Migrants Forgo In-Person ICE Check-Ins. – James Morley III
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-illegal-ice/2024/07/12/id/1172347/
— Coddling, Perks for Illegal Immigrants Signals Lawbreaking OK. – Rob Astorino
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hochul-westchester/2024/07/12/id/1172224/
POST MILLENNIAL
— John Deere promotes DEI, CRT, radical trans agenda including ‘Pride’ events for toddlers. – Katie Daviscourt
https://thepostmillennial.com/john-deere-promotes-dei-crt-radical-trans-agenda-including-pride-events-for-toddlers#google_vignette
REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Border Crisis is a National Security Issue. – Francis P. Sempa
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/07/13/border_crisis_is_a_national_security_issue_1044281.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Chicago removing homeless encampment ahead of Democratic National Convention. – SCOTT BAUER
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-national-convention-homeless-chicago-fcd971c7c575cc7171ae6accf90c85a6
— Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorses Biden, whose campaign wants to flip anti-Trump Republicans – STEVE PEOPLES (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest anti-Trump leaders of Republican organizations in Illinois. I would focus on those who boycotted the Illinois Republican Party State Convention this year.)
https://apnews.com/article/kinzinger-biden-endorsement-president-republican-30fd37b730fc435c308dcf801586f664
MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-gop-s-new-national-platform-is-extremely-transphobic/ar-BB1pDi49
NEW YORK TIMES
–FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats Fear States Once Safe Are Now in Play – Nicholas Nehamas and Kellen Browning
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/us/politics/democrats-biden-battleground-states.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Biden’s Future Relies on Polls Being ‘Wrong’ – Nate Cohn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/upshot/biden-polls-trump.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/business/economy/lgbtq-moving-cost.html
— FRONT PAGE: Martyr Inc.: How Trump Monetized a Persecution Narrative. – Russ Buettner (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I bring on all my own problems, that is, I cause all my own problems. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, the adverse actions that they have taken against me, and the pretexts that they used to justify those actions.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/us/politics/trump-politics-business-martyrdom.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use same-sex marriage to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-12/proposed-gop-platform-silent-on-lgbtq-marriage
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump and Biden, Two Old Men Facing Armageddon. They are locked in a death struggle for leadership of a country of which each of them is a symptom of decline. – Lance Morrow (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-old-men-face-armageddon-2024-presidential-election-16868fdd?page=1
— It Used to Be Progressive to Hide an Applicant’s Name and Photo – Nicholas Bednarski, Camarillo, Calif. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the faster that you will be gotten rid of: Trump supporter, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dei-diversity-science-health-university-7627c71f
— America’s HR Lobby Scraps the ‘E’ From DEI. Move toward inclusion over equity draws a backlash; ‘Everyone has a right to feel like they belong.’ – Ray A. Smith and Lynn Cook (COMMENT: According to Democrats and to RINOs, equity means equal outcome. For example, if 20% of White men pass the CPA examination on their first attempt, then 20% of minority women should pass the examination on their first attempt. My Democrat IRS superiors were furious when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. My Democrat coworkers who minority and/or female who they had promoted over me or were going to promote over me either had not taken the examination or had failed to pass it.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/the-nations-largest-human-resources-group-takes-the-e-out-of-dei-c84c62b6
— My father made enough money that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother. My critics/opponents have always used that to demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as having filthy rich parents. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/more-women-are-working-than-ever-but-theyre-doing-two-jobs-bf93b9bf
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
— Do Politicians Represent Voters (COMMENT: In my role an elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, I represent the registered Republican voters in my precinct. I represented the registered Republican voters in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton at the Illinois Republican Party State Convention this year. I represent those who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters who read them to get information to help elect Republican candidates who can and will defend and advance the Republican Party platform.)
https://web.mit.edu/14.773/www/politicians.pdf
July 12, 2024
Do you agree with retiring Republican State Senator Dan Caulkins that the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) a) should urge Don Tracy to delay his resignation as IRP chairman and b) delay its election of a new IRP chairman? If so, you should contact Tracy and your IRP SCC member immediately.
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Urge the IL GOP SCC Committee to Pick Kathy Salvi – David E. Smith and David E. Curtin (COMMENT: How much do you know about John Cabello, Aaron Del Mar, and Kathy Salvi who want to be the next Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman? In 2005, as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, I organized a candidate forum in Springfield the evening before the day that the IRP State Central Committee elected Andy McKenna as the IRP chairman. Participants in that forum were John Cox, Stephen McGlynn, McKenna, and Jim Nalepa. Jim Oberweis wanted to participate, but could not. Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I know that because I served as chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Chairmen of Republican organizations are blamed for all the losses that Republican candidates suffer.)
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/the-next-ilgop-chair-will-be/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican State Central Committee (SCC) will be meeting (AT NOON TODAY) to consider how to fill the vacancy left by Chairman Don Tracy, who resigned in June. We are only aware of a couple of candidates who are up for consideration. Of course, we want to see someone who is fully committed to uphold the planks on the sanctity of human life, marriage, family, immigration security and religious liberty. Therefore, we wholeheartedly endorse Kathy Salvi for the next Illinois GOP chair. In fact, we don’t think we could ask for a better person to serve in that role. The 64-year-old mother of six adult children is the wife of former State Representative Al Salvi (1993-1996), who was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 1996 and Illinois Secretary of State in 1998. We have complete confidence that Kathy is not only a true conservative, but one who will fight to keep the aforementioned planks in the Illinois GOP Platform. Take ACTION: Click HERE ( https://www.votervoice.net/ILFI/Campaigns/116846/Respond ) to send a message to the members of the Illinois Republican SCC to urge them to select Kathy Salvi. We cannot afford to have a chairman who is unwilling or dispassionate about certain critical GOP Platform planks or who has an agenda that isn’t aligned with them. Background. Both Salvis have been outspoken pro-life pro-family conservatives. Both attended the private Catholic school, Carmel High School in Mundelein, as did former U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA). The Salvis and Santorums are close friends. Kathy, and her husband Al, have a long history in conservative Illinois politics, especially in pro-life advocacy, including championing abstinence education. Kathy worked closely with Al over the years as they have been involved in GOP and family and pro-life conservative efforts helping candidates. In 2022, she ran and won the U.S. Senate primary nomination with 30% of the vote against 6 other great candidates. Unfortunately, Kathy was unable to defeat incumbent Tammy Duckworth in the General Election. As we know, the red wave did not materialize that year and it was tough election cycle for Republicans in Illinois.)
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Angry, Bitter Don Tracy Meddling in IL GOP Chairman’s Race as SCC Rushes Selection to Appoint New State Party Chair.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/07/angry-bitter-don-tracy-meddling-in-il-gop-chairmans-race-as-ssc-rushes-selection-to-appoint-new-state-party-chair.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the Republican National Convention just days away, the Illinois Republican State Central Committee is moving at warp speed to appoint a new state party chairman as Republicans across the state raise concerns about the vetting process and the need for transparency as candidates jockey to be the next leader of the Illinois Republican Party. On Wednesday evening, three candidates submitted their applications for party chairman: Aaron Del Mar, John Cabello and Kathy Salvi – but it’s Salvi – the former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate that’s creating the most buzz amongst grassroots circles. For the last two years, Salvi has defended outgoing chairman Don Tracy, co-hosted state party fundraisers with Tracy, and was endorsed by gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin during the 2022 election cycle. Irvin was the state party’s favorite candidate – and Tracy’s too, although he won’t admit it – during the 2022 primary, but lost in a landslide to the conservative grassroots-backed candidate by 43 points. And during the primary campaign, it was reported by WTTW’s Paris Schutz that in 2018, Irvin sent text messages calling Trump an “idiot” and a “bigoted racist.” Irvin also texted the friend, “I hate Trump too!” Prior to running for governor, Irvin spent years praising Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker, referring to him as a, “great friend and a great leader.” And in 2020, Irvin spoke at a Black Lives Matter rally yelling, “I can’t breathe!” In exclusive audio obtained by Illinois Review, Tracy admitted during a July 2022 meeting with conservative leaders that the Irvin campaign for governor was allowed to use the IL GOP postage discount for mailers – a perk not afforded to other candidates for governor during the primary. Tracy acknowledged use of the postage discount in the recording, but said the IL GOP was taking its “direction from the House Caucus and the Senate Caucus.” In conservative circles across the state, many believe that Tracy is propping up Salvi to be his heir apparent, and multiple party insiders have shared with this publication that a backroom deal has been struck that gives Salvi the chairmanship and Jason Plummer – a downstate Republican state senator, the vice chair position. Plummer works closely with Tracy’s sister-in-law, State Sen. Jill Tracy, who serves alongside Plummer in the state senate and is the Senate Republican Whip. On Wednesday, retiring State. Sen. Dan Caulkins, a conservative from Decatur and member of the Illinois Freedom Caucus, released a statement urging the delay of Tracy’s resignation as state party chair, arguing that, “My concern is that the selection process is rushed and ill timed.” Applications were due on Wednesday, June 10, and the SSC meets two days later on June 12 to elect a new leader.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP set to select one of three finalists for state chair – JEREMY GORNER and RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/11/illinois-gop-set-to-select-one-of-three-finalists-for-state-chair/
WTTW
— Illinois Republicans Announce 3 Finalists for State Chair Post as Private Meeting Set for Friday. – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/11/illinois-republicans-announce-3-finalists-state-chair-post-private-meeting-set-friday
(FROM THE ARTICLE: My concern is that the selection process is rushed and ill timed. We are setting up whoever takes over the chairmanship for failure. Caulkins publicly asked Tracy to delay his resignation through the Nov. 19 election and the rest of the calendar year. “The reality is the truncated timetable prohibits them from making a strong case for their candidacy,” Caulkins wrote. “We gain nothing by rushing this important decision and we risk losing traction in a state that we can ill afford to cede anymore ground to the Democrats.”)
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— Palatine’s Aaron Del Mar 1 Of 3 Running For Illinois State GOP Chair. – Tom Robb
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/palatines-aaron-del-mar-1-of-3-running-for-illinois-state-gop-chair/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will County committee seeks to end ‘divisive’ proclamations, then proposes ‘non-sanctuary’ designation. – MICHELLE MULLINS (COMMENT: How likely is it that Republican elected officials in your county, your township, and your municipality will propose ‘non-sanctuary’ designation? To what extent do Republican elected officials in the aforesaid support the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/11/will-county-committee-seeks-to-end-divisive-proclamations-then-proposes-non-sanctuary-designation/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/11/chicago-queer-community-rallies-for-safe-return-of-taylor-casey-black-trans-woman-and-local-activist-still-missing-in-the-bahamas/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, Democrats, use a twice-convicted drug felon against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/editorial-convicted-felon-donald-trump-could-not-run-for-the-sauk-village-board-say-what/
— Biden says during press conference he’s going to ‘complete the job’ despite calls to bow out. – SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER, LISA MASCARO, and COLLEEN LONG
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/11/biden-news-conference/
— US Reps. Brad Schneider, Eric Sorensen call on President Biden to drop reelection bid. (COMMENT: DAN PETRELLA and RICK PEARSON.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/11/us-rep-brad-schneider-calls-on-president-biden-to-drop-reelection-bid/
— How a 1994 highway tragedy led to debilitation of the Illinois Republican Party – Andy Shaw (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for George Ryan’s and for Jim Ryan’s problems. I would focus on 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, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/opinion-illinois-republican-party-george-ryan-operation-safe-road-don-tracy/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The charred remains of Scott and Janet Willis’ minivan sits on the side of Interstate 94, Nov. 8, 1994, near Milwaukee after a part fell off a truck causing a fire that killed six of their children. The accident led to an investigation that eventually doomed former Illinois Gov. George Ryan’s political career. . .Power wondered if ABC affiliate WLS-Ch. 7, where I was covering politics, might be interested in what whistleblowers in then-Secretary of State George Ryan’s office were telling him about alleged corruption that may have contributed to a fiery 1994 explosion on a Milwaukee expressway that injured his clients — Duane “Scott” Willis and his wife, Janet — and killed their young children, who were riding in the back seat. So we interviewed the same whistleblowers, who were supervisors in Ryan’s suburban McCook office, and they identified a handful of employees, under the direction of Ryan’s chief of staff, who were issuing commercial driver’s licenses to minimally qualified truckers in exchange for cash bribes that went into their pockets and Ryan’s campaign coffers. . .Our story about the crash, and the alleged corruption that contributed to it, led a 10 p.m. newscast in early 1998, and we aired multiple follow-ups, but the affable and avuncular Ryan, a popular political veteran who was then running for governor, denied any knowledge of the alleged corruption in his office. That helped him survive a GOP primary challenge and defeat a weak Democratic challenger in the November election, even as storm clouds of a sweeping federal investigation that began after our stories aired were swirling around him. That investigation, dubbed “Operation Safe Road” by the feds, eventually led to the conviction of Ryan and others, many of them powerful Republican Party funders, operatives and insiders, leaving the Illinois GOP in shambles and paving the way for the gubernatorial election of Democrat Rod Blagojevich in 2002, ending 26 years of GOP control of the governor’s office in Springfield. The decimation of the Republican Party’s infrastructure also enabled then-Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan to engineer the election of Democrats to all but one statewide office, super-majorities in both legislative chambers and control of the Illinois Supreme Court.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Johnson offers fiery defense of Joe Biden as convention planners say Chicago is ready for DNC. “Do y’all know that the former president has been on trial for an attempted coup to overturn an election? What are we debatin’ over? You can go with the person who has shown up for the people of this country, investing in cities across America, or you can go with the person who does not to believe in democracy.” – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/07/11/johnson-defends-biden-convention-dnc-trump-debate
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DNC party planners ignore questions about Biden nomination. – Justin Laurence
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dnc-party-planners-ignore-questions-about-joe-biden-nomination
— A 2nd Illinois congressman (Schneider) calls for Biden to step down. – Justin Laurence
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/rep-brad-schneider-calls-joe-biden-step-out
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— RNC Host Committee raises $85 million for Milwaukee convention, exceeding goal. – Lawrence Andrea
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/11/rnc-host-committee-raises-85-million-for-milwaukee-convention/74364551007/
ABC7
— RNC 2024 speakers include Donald Trump Jr., Kristi Noem; Melania Trump expected to attend
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rnc-2024-speakers-donald-trump-jr-melania-trump-to-attend-sources-say/15052786/
— Democrats say “Republicans are gathering in Milwaukee to nominate Donald Trump again. What to expect.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rnc-2024-republicans-meet-milwaukee-nominate-donald-trump/15053451/
— Illinois Reps. Schneider, Sorensen call on President Biden to step aside. – Craig Wall and Liz Nagy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-rep-brad-schneider-calls-joe-biden-pass/15051843/
— Biden mixes up Trump and Harris when asked about his VP’s viability.
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/joe-biden-press-conference-live-president-calls-harris-trump-when-asked-about-his-vps-viability-amid-to-drop-out/15050926/entry/15052474/
NBC5
— The Republican party’s 2024 platform reflects a Trump-centric shift in policies. The 16-page document mirrors former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts in its slogans and capitalized letters. – Nicole Tan
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/the-republican-partys-2024-platform-reflects-a-trump-centric-shift-in-policies/3486524/
— Biden insists he will stay in race in post-NATO news conference amid growing concerns within Democratic Party. Biden fielded questions over his fitness to run for office and policy addressing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, among other issues. – Rose Schmidt and Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/biden-insists-he-will-stay-in-race-in-post-nato-news-conference-amid-growing-concerns-within-democratic-party/3487243/
— Biden loses his train of thought, calls Harris ‘Vice President Trump’ in solo press conference. – Rebecca Picciotto
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/biden-loses-his-train-of-thought-calls-harris-vice-president-trump-in-solo-press-conference/3487108/
— 2 more Illinois House Democrats call on President Biden to withdraw from race. Brad Schneider and Eric Sorenson join Mike Quigley as Illinois House Democrats who have called for Joe Biden to end his reelection efforts.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2nd-illinois-house-democrat-calls-president-biden-withdraw-race/3486794/
CBS2
— Chicago tent city to be cleared out, residents to be relocated ahead of Democratic National Convention. – Megan Hickey
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tent-city-to-be-cleared-out-democratic-national-convention/
— Rep. Brad Schneider joins growing list of Democrats urging President Biden to drop out of race. – Todd Feurer, Charlie De Mar
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/congressman-brad-schneider-president-joe-biden-race-white-house/
— 5 people injured in mass shooting on Chicago’s West Side. – Jackie Kostek, Elyssa Kaufman
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mass-shooting-chicago-north-lawndale/
WGN9
— Biden mistakenly refers to Harris as ‘Vice President Trump’ – Brett Samuels
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/biden-mistakenly-refers-to-harris-as-vice-president-trump/
— GOP bill to fund legislative branch fails on House floor. – Aris Folley (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. During the 1980s and 1990s, Republicans cut GAO’s budget dramatically. The Democrats who ran GAO used that to get rid of the agency’s employees who were Republican, and especially those like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.)
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/gop-bill-to-fund-legislative-branch-fails-on-house-floor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE; Republicans say their bill would allocate about $7 billion in total discretionary funding, up 5.6 percent from current levels, with increases for chamber operations, U.S. Capitol Police, the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress.)
FOX32
— Chicago mayor: Trump ‘trying to bring back the Confederacy’ – Paris Schutz (COMMENT: In the Civil War, Democrats (the Confederacy) fought for slavery and Republicans (the Union) fought against slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats paint themselves as having been the Union and Republicans as hiving been the Confederacy.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-confederacy
— Illinois Democrat (Schneider) calls for Biden to step down: ‘Time to pass the torch’ – Bradford Betz
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-democrat-calls-biden-step-down-time-pass-torch
— Biden insists he’s staying in the race but makes noticeable gaffes in press conference. – Daniel Miller
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/biden-nato-press-conference-calls-exit-race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUErd4Iiqc
— Chicago mayor rips into Trump amid more calls for Biden to step aside. Another Illinois congressman is joining the call for President Joe Biden to step aside. It comes on the same day Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blasted Donald Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1483957
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly use IVF against Republicans.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/more-than-6-in-10-u-s-adults-support-protecting-access-to-ivf-ap-norc/article_39da6391-9491-588b-8af6-8127989b4159.html
WBEZ
— Fewer Americans feel their vote matters. Changing our primaries may help. According to legal experts, partisan primaries may be keeping Americans away from the voting booth. They say change is needed. – David Schaper (COMMENT: In your precinct, in your township, and in your county, how many cast Republican ballots in primary elections but then vote for Democrat candidates in general elections?)
https://www.wbez.org/2024/07/11/fewer-americans-feel-their-vote-matters-changing-our-primaries-may-help
WIFR
— Cabello heads to Milwaukee for RNC.
https://www.wifr.com/2024/07/12/cabello-heads-milwaukee-rnc/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Biden confuses Harris for Trump after similar Zelenskyy-Putin gaffe in day of mixups. – JAMEL VALENCIA
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/biden-confuses-kamala-harris-for-trump-after-similar-volodymyr-zelenskyy-putin-gaffe-in-day-of-mixups-high-stakes-speech-nato-solo-news-conference-republican-donald-trump-june-27-debate-slip-ups-flubs
— IRS touts enforcement funding, announces $1B in past-due collections from the rich. – CORY SMITH (COMMENT: Who do you know who has worked for IRS? I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. Who do you know who had audited IRS? I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $115,439-$123,136/year. I should write about those who have wasted my knowledge of IRS the most.)
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/irs-touts-enforcement-funding-announces-1b-in-past-due-collections-from-the-rich-inflation-reduction-act-politics-congress-white-house-tax-system-federal-spending-revenue-tax-foundation
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The GOP platform calls for ‘universal school choice.’ What would that mean for students? – AP (COMMENT: If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, I doubt that I would have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class, and get accepted by UIC in 1966.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-the-gop-platform-calls-for-universal-school-choice-what-would-that-mean-for-students/
— Republicans are gathering in Milwaukee to nominate Donald Trump again. Here’s what to expect. – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-are-gathering-in-milwaukee-to-nominate-donald-trump-again-heres-what-to-expect/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Sorensen, Schneider want Biden to quit. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/12/sorensen-schneider-want-biden-to-quit-00167777?nname=illinois-playbook&nid=00000150-1596-d4ac-a1d4-179e288b0000
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-324/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-117/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MARTER FOR CONGRESS
— Marter Calls Out Underwood for Failing to Protect U.S. Citizens’ Votes from Foreign Interference
https://www.wane.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/726958422/marter-for-congress-calls-out-underwood-for-failing-to-protect-u-s-citizens-votes-from-foreign-interference/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Democrats blaming Republicans for Chicago crime is ‘crazy,’ legislator says. – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0953956a-3fbe-11ef-9b83-b78cc39e98ae.html
SANGAMON SUN
— U.S. Rep. Budzinski votes to make it easier for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections.
https://sangamonsun.com/stories/661795705-u-s-rep-budzinski-votes-to-make-it-easier-for-illegal-aliens-to-vote-in-federal-elections
— Illinois ranks second-highest nationwide for property taxes; lawmaker calls for urgent reforms
https://sangamonsun.com/stories/661796504-illinois-ranks-second-highest-nationwide-for-property-taxes-lawmaker-calls-for-urgent-reforms
EAST CENTRAL REPORTER
— Illinois GOP criticizes Democrats over new state budget and tax hikes.
https://eastcentralreporter.com/stories/661795862-illinois-gop-criticizes-democrats-over-new-state-budget-and-tax-hikes
KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— Ugaste on arrest of foreign nationals for drug smuggling: ‘Providing free healthcare to undocumented immigrants only exacerbates these issues’
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/661778168-ugaste-on-arrest-of-foreign-nationals-for-drug-smuggling-providing-free-healthcare-to-undocumented-immigrants-only-exacerbates-these-issues
WIREPOINTS
— Texas has created 1.4 million jobs in 5 years while Illinois has lost 80,000, it’s a clear contrast.
https://wirepoints.org/texas-has-created-1-4-million-jobs-in-5-years-while-illinois-has-lost-80000-its-a-clear-contrast-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
— Illinoisans struggle with inflation while lawmakers raise their own salaries 33%
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-struggle-with-inflations-while-lawmakers-raise-their-own-salaries-33-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
JOHN KASS
— The Two Deep State Coups of Barack Obama
https://johnkassnews.com/the-silky-knife-two-deep-state-coups-of-barack-obama/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden confuses Vice President Harris with Trump at high-stakes presser to prove he’s mentally fit. – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/11/joe-biden-confuses-kamala-harris-with-donald-trump/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A commonsense platform for peace and prosperity. – Editorial
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3078738/a-commonsense-platform-for-peace-and-prosperity/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump-driven Republican platform is recipe for success. – Stephen Moore and Casey B. Mulligan
https://nypost.com/2024/07/11/opinion/trump-driven-republican-platform-is-recipe-for-success/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Duke report tying ‘individualism’ to ‘white supremacy’ uncovered amidst increasing scrutiny of DEI. – Patrick McDonald (COMMENT: According to Democrats, a) Whites succeed only because they benefit from discrimination against minorities and b) minorities fail only because they are discriminated against by Whites. If I had been a minority, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $191,900/year, long before I was 40 years old. I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. All of the aforesaid were minorities, females, younger than me, veterans, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/duke-report-tying-individualism-white-supremacy-uncovered-amidst-increasing-scrutiny-dei/25865
CENTER FOR FAMILY
— Biden Imposes Homosexual/Transgender Mandate on Entire World – Stefano Gennarini, J.D. (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasing get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.)
https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/analysis-biden-imposes-homosexual-transgender-mandate-on-entire-world/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden Avoids Total Collapse In Gaffe-Heavy Presser – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/11/joe-biden-nato-press-conference-gaffe-vice-president-donald-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— We Asked Senate Dems About the Bill Banning Noncitizen Voting. – Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (COMMENT: How many noncitizens will vote for Biden America, Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality? To get votes from noncitizens, Democrats ever-increasingly give noncitizens more and more and more preference.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/11/commonsense-save-act-gains-momentum-senate/
FEDERALIST
— U.S. Military Hides Push For Trans Surgeries, Queer Exploration Among Soldiers’ Kids. – JOY PULLMANN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/11/report-military-hides-push-for-trans-surgery-queer-exploration-among-soldiers-kids/
FOX NEWS
— Blue city hires equity trainer who calls US military ‘home of White supremacy’ as part of ‘culture change.’ The military is ‘the home of white supremacy and patriarchy,’ according to Albuquerque’s equity consultant. – Hannah Grossman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/blue-city-hires-equity-trainer-who-calls-us-military-home-white-supremacy-part-culture-change
GOPUSA
— Can RINOs Finally Expunge Conservatism From The Party? (COMMENT: How soon will RINO Illinois Republican Party (IRP) leaders, RINO county party leaders, and RINO township/ward party leaders succeed in expunging all the members of the aforesaid organizations who are conservative, that is, who are platform Republicans, that is, who are Republicans? I should write a book about the success that RINO IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders have had expunging me.)
https://www.gopusa.com/can-rinos-finally-expunge-conservatism-from-the-party/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the insidious tenacity of termites, the RINOs are at it again in 2024, seeking to convince the Republican National Convention to abandon fundamental issues of morality and societal integrity, by removing the Party’s pro-life and pro-marriage platform planks. With this they hope to steer the party towards the platitude of fiscal only “conservatism.” They feel emboldened to make such a move in the wake of pro-abort ballot measures which passed in off-year elections in Kansas and Ohio. So they plot to derail party unity that should be focused singularly on victory for President Trump in November.)
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Summer Reading List Recommends Book on How to Indoctrinate Students With CRT. “powerful appeal to build transformative educational homeplaces rooted in abolitionist pedagogies for liberation” – Mike LaChance
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/harvard-summer-reading-list-recommends-book-on-how-to-indoctrinate-students-with-crt/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Democrats Support Measures Allowing Illegal Aliens To Vote. – Pearson Sharp
https://www.oann.com/video/pearsonsharpreports/democrats-support-measures-allowing-illegal-aliens-to-vote/
PJ MEDIA
— Border Crisis: WI Sen. Highlights Thousands of ‘Inadmissible Travelers’ at U.S. Airports. – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/11/border-crisis-wi-sen-highlights-1000s-of-inadmissable-travelers-at-us-airports-n4930603
TOWNHALL
— Here’s How Many Dems Voted Against Bill That Would Prevent Non-Citizens From Voting. – Leah Barkoukis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/07/11/heres-how-many-dems-voted-against-the-save-act-n2641709
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Here’s What the GOP’s 2024 Platform Says About Immigration. – Dan Gooding (COMMENT: Those who reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform reject E-Verify. I should write a book about the following who reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform. 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, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-party-immigration-platform-2024-1923944
NEW YORK TIMES
— Once a G.O.P. Rallying Cry, Debt and Deficits Fall From the Party’s Platform. Fiscal hawks are lamenting the transformation of the party that claimed to prize fiscal restraint and are warning of dire economic consequences. – Alan Rappeport
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/republicans-debt-deficit-platform.html
NEW YORK SUN
— Illinois Commission To Hold Series of Hearings for Public To Weigh In on Reparations Plan. The commission is kicking off a series of meetings aimed at allowing ‘the public to shape recommendations’ as it pushes ahead with reparations for Black Illinois residents who are descendants of slaves. – MAGGIE HRONCICH
https://www.nysun.com/article/illinois-commission-to-hold-series-of-hearings-for-public-to-weigh-in-on-reparations-plan
USA TODAY
— Democrats cancel Biden Chicago fundraiser amid slipping support – Rebecca Morin
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/11/biden-fundraiser-canceled-pritzker-dnc/74371540007/
— Illegals vote for Democrats because illegals want/need/demand massive government assistance and Democrat elected officials give them that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/12/border-immigration-politics-arrive-american-south/74121724007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Coming ‘Summer of Resistance’ Anti-Israel protesters seek to ‘Make 2024 as Great as 1968!’ – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-national-convention-protests-chicago-behind-enemy-lines-palestine-5aaecdea
JD SUPRA
— Is Illinois Trying to Bar the Use of E-Verify (Again)? – Kimberly Ross (COMMENT: Those who reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform reject E-Verify. I should write a book about the following who reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform. 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, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/is-illinois-trying-to-bar-the-use-of-e-8129654/
POLITICO
— Senate meeting with Biden aides fails to convince skeptical Dems. Those Senate Democrats with concerns said their feelings hadn’t changed following the Thursday afternoon meeting with top advisers to Joe Biden.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/11/congress/senate-dems-huddle-on-biden-00167632
GALLUP
— Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. 55% want immigration levels reduced. – JEFFREY M. JONES
https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Who’s in Charge at the White House? Most Don’t Think It’s Biden (COMMENT: Those who are manipulating/dominating Biden are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/who_s_in_charge_at_the_white_house_most_don_t_think_it_s_biden
July 11, 2024
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Applicants for Illinois Republican Chair Finalized
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Yesterday, the window to apply to be the next chair of the Illinois Republican Party closed. The applicants for the position are as follows in alphabetical order by last name: Rep. John Cabello, Aaron Del Mar, Kathy Salvi A meeting will be held on Friday for applicants to make their case. This meeting is not open to press. When voting occurs, the State Central Committee will decide based on a weighted vote system by congressional district. The district with the most Republican ballots cast carries the most weight, and so on down.)
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Campaign Not Getting Involved in IL GOP Chairman’s Race, Proving Rumors False, Sources Confirm
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/07/trump-campaign-not-getting-involved-in-il-gop-chairmans-race-proving-rumors-false-sources-confirm.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The race to replace Don Tracy as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party is heating up just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, as several potential candidates are making their case to Illinois Republicans on who’s the best fit to lead the embattled state party through the November election and beyond. And multiple sources confirm with this publication that senior officials within the Trump campaign and the RNC have made it clear Wednesday morning that they will not be weighing in on the state party chairman’s race as rumors began circulating across the state the last few days that “campaign officials” were backing a candidate to replace Tracy. The chatter also included rumors that even President Donald Trump would be weighing in and endorsing a candidate – but those rumors have proven to be false. The Trump campaign and the RNC have been busy preparing for the convention in Milwaukee next week and finalizing the vice presidential candidate selection process as the world awaits President Trump’s pick to complete his ticket. Illinois is also not a state in play for Trump as he focuses his time and energy on key battleground states in the final months of the campaign. Last month, Don Tracy submitted his resignation as party chairman effective July 19th – blaming the rise of the “grassroots,” party infighting and the removal of state central committee member Mark Shaw as vice chairman of the party without “due process” as the embattled leader of the IL GOP presided over widespread and massive losses during his brief tenure as chairman. Tracy also blamed the rise of the “grassroots,” writing, “Like Vince Kolber, my friend and former Finance Committee Chair, I am also concerned about the current infatuation of some members of the SCC, few as they are, with certain individuals they call ‘Grass roots’ leaders.” The outgoing state party chairman has yet to endorse President Trump and has spent the last year attending Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis events, and hosting the governor at an IL GOP fundraiser in Naples. Days before Tracy’s unexpected resignation, Kolber, who served as chairman of the IL GOP Finance Committee, abruptly resigned in an angry letter to Tracy, just weeks after the influential conservative grassroots base of the Illinois Republican Party scored major victories during the GOP State Convention in Collinsville – and after two years of unflattering stories by this publication. Kolber, who is registered to vote in Illinois and Wisconsin, was still angry about losing his election at the state convention for national committeeman after being eliminated in the first round to Mark Shaw, who faked a delegate badge and threatened to beat up a fellow state central committee member. During the first day of the convention, the Republican National Committeeman nominating committee voted 14-3 to keep Kolber on the ballot despite failing to meet the candidacy requirements as outlined by the IL GOP’s own bylaws. Applicants for state party chairman must submit their completed application to the state party headquarters by email no later than July 10th at 5:00 pm CDT.
CAPITOL FAX
— Speaking of the Illinois Republican Party, a member of the Freedom Caucus is calling on Don Tracy to delay his resignation as state party chair…State Representative Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) says the future of the Republican Party in Illinois requires thoughtful consideration and should not be done on the fly which is why he is calling on current Illinois GOP Chairman Don Tracy to delay his resignation. “There is no question we have some issues to resolve in our party. Some require immediate attention and others can be addressed after November. My concern is that the selection process is rushed and ill timed. We are setting up whoever takes over the chairmanship for failure. The duties of the Republican Party are to support our county organizations, provide legal assistance for ballot challenges as well as support other legal matters and to promote Republican ideas and candidates. Don Tracy has performed these duties well, and he can continue to provide the stability we need to get through the next several months. The announced candidates to replace Tracy have not been properly vetted and have not provided a vision for the party for the future. The reality is the truncated timetable prohibits them from making a strong case for their candidacy. We gain nothing by rushing this important decision and we risk losing traction in a state that we can ill afford to cede anymore ground to the Democrats. The solution is for Don Tracy to remain as State Party Chairman. For the good of the Party, I call on Don Tracy to delay his resignation and continue to serve at least through the end of the year.” Kinda surprising, considering the source. I’ve asked a party spokesperson for comment. Meanwhile, Rep. John Cabello (R-Machesney Park) told me today he is interested in serving as interim party chair through the November election. Sen. Jason Plummer and Aaron Del Mar also have their hats in the ring. – Rich Miller (COMMENT: Who do you want to serve as the next Illinois Republican Party chairman? Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents do not blame the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, or Milton Township Republican Organization for Republican losses. They blame conservatives and they blame the Republican Party platform.)
https://capitolfax.com/2024/l07/10/ilgop-releases-national-convention-delegate-list/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-323/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-116/
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Republican National Convention 2024 Illinois Delegates Announced
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Today, the Illinois Republican Party is releasing the final list of delegates for the Republican National Convention taking place next week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Each Congressional District in Illinois will be represented by 3 elected delegates in addition to 13 statewide delegates for a total of 64 delegates.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DELEGATES
District 1: Stephen Balich, Dale Charletta, Christina Clausen
District 2: Tammy Burnham, Suzanne Rickman, Laurie Schaefer
District 3: Victoria Beis, Andrea Fletcher, Gordon “Jay” Kinzler
District 4: Robert “Bob” Kelsey Jr., William McCloy, Sherrie Saratore
District 5: Eloise Gerson, Kenneth Jochum, Alan Spitz
District 6: Kathleen “Kathy” Abbate, Joyce Hebein, Scott Kaspar
District 7: John Bergholz, Thomas Mannix, Adrian Wright
District 8: Brett Corrigan, Joseph Folisi, Peter Kopsaftis
District 9: Joseph Cerni, Susan Sweeney, Julie Cho
District 10: Jennifer Neubauer, Mark Shaw, Margaret Siebert
District 11: Antonio Cundari, Richard Lawrence, Karen Tirio
District 12: Travis Akin, Darren Bailey, Congressman Mike Bost
District 13: Elizabeth Bron, Kent Gray, Myles Nelson
District 14: Jaye DeBates, James Marter, Larry Smith
District 15: Joe Alexander, William Graff, Congresswoman Mary Miller
District 16: John Cabello, Diane Jordan, Jan Klass
District 17: Errol Baptist, Donald Johnson, Lana Soldat
AT LARGE DELEGATES:
Jay Bergman, Terri Bryant, Andrew Chesney, Aaron Del Mar, Demetra Demonte, Mark Hosty, Shaun Murphy, Laura Pollastrini, Richard Porter, Dave Severin, Beth Findley Smith, Don Tracy, Jan Weber
ALTERNATE DELEGATES:
CD 1: Lynn Franco, Karen Roti, John Walters
CD 2: Dean Burnham, Judy Diekelman, Kenneth Woodard, JR.
CD 3: Farah Bari, Balwinder Chhokar-Sahota,
CD 4: Angela Maino, Kristina McCloy
CD 5: Michael Danforth, Winston Skoien, Patricia Sutarik
CD 6: Larisa Calvanese, Beth Damas, Andrew Krok
CD 7: Patricia Easley, Hector Garcia, Kristine F. Farra
CB 8: Edward Lapinski, Nick Peric
CD 9: Bernadine Hossfeld, Jaime Milton
CD 10: Robin Hans, Michelle Parnell, Petrina Burman
CD 11: Danielle Gehrt, Joseph Sell, John Shaw
CD 12: Rhonda Belford, Margaret Diederich, Charlie Meier
CD 13: Mike Babcock, Taunya Madden, Tom McRae
CD 14: Gennie Siwicki, Brian Siwicki, Krishna K. Bansal
CD 15: Steve Drake, Mechtild “Mecki” Kosin, Chris Miller
CD 16: Corey Allen, Margee Cullinan, Joshua Harris
CD 17: David Paul Blumenshine, Brian Stewart, John Zajicek
At Large: Charles “Chuck” Cerniglia, Kirk Donald, Mark Hurley, Daniel Kelley, Luther Landon, Ted Livengood, Suzi Schmidt, Michelle Schurman, Cornelius Shanahan, Wayne Smith)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois’ Trump delegates head to Milwaukee at a time of upheaval in the state Republican Party. Illinois Republicans prepare to celebrate former President Donald Trump’s nomination as recent infighting has mired the state party. – Alex Degman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/07/10/illinois-trump-delegates-milwaukee-republican-national-convention-state-gop
— Canceling Chicago police officers’ days off before DNC is ‘a recipe for disaster,’ union boss says. Canceling time off kills police morale at a critical time before the Democratic National Convention, John Catanzara said. But the police department said the cancellations are only made to ensure sufficient staffing, and officers are given advance notice. – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/10/canceling-chicago-police-officers-days-off-before-dnc-is-a-recipe-for-disaster-union-boss-says
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/10/after-violent-holiday-weekend-chicago-civic-leaders-announce-100-million-for-crime-fighting-efforts/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Ahead of DNC, city officials to close, cordon off one of Chicago’s largest, most visible homeless camps. Federal officials haven’t asked the city to clear the “tent city” next to the Dan Ryan Expressway, but a top mayoral aide says she doesn’t want to wait and then have to scramble. Camp residents have guaranteed shelter through the week after the Democratic National Convention. – Elvia Malagón and Lauren FitzPatrick
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/11/dnc-homeless-shelter-chicago-democratic-national-convention-tent-city-brandie-knazze
ABC7
— Top Chicago donors halting DNC fundraising lunch after Biden debate performance. – CNN
https://abc7chicago.com/post/top-chicago-donors-halting-2024-dnc-fundraising-lunch/15049720/
— When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/community-leaders-renew-commitment-chicago-violence-prevention-programs/15049168/
— Chicago police issue alert after more than 20 crash-and-grab burglaries
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-police-issue-alert-after-more-20/15050803/
NBC5
— Pritzker recorded on hot mic discussing Biden’s status in presidential race. Pritzker has been outspoken in his support of Biden for recent days, but acknowledged that he didn’t ‘like where we are’ in the discussion over the president’s age. – Mary Ann Ahern (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/gov-pritzker-recorded-on-hot-mic-discussing-bidens-status-in-presidential-race/3486079/
— Rep. Mike Bost, Darren Bailey among Illinois delegates to 2024 RNC in Milwaukee. The convention will get underway on July 15 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mike-bost-darren-bailey-illinois-delegates-republican-national-convention/3485639/
CBS2
— “I don’t like where we are,” Illinois Gov. Pritzker says in remark believed to be about presidential race. (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/i-dont-like-where-we-are-illinois-gov-pritzker-presidential-race/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/illinois-hits-1-billion-in-cannabis-sales-for-year-to-date/
WGN9
— DeSantis expected to speak at GOP convention. – Brett Samuels
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/desantis-expected-to-speak-at-gop-convention/
— When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBsI3DTzQI
WTTW
— Illinois Reparations Commission to Host Public Hearings, Starting in Chicago. (COMMENT: What do your critics/opponents stress about your ancestors? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. What do you stress in defense of your ancestors? I stress that all my ancestors were always Republicans, that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/10/illinois-reparations-commission-host-public-hearings-starting-chicago
WBEZ
— Illinois GOP delegates prepare to nominate Trump and discuss the party’s direction at the RNC in Milwaukee next week.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-news/2024/07/10/illinois-gop-delegates-prepare-to-nominate-trump-and-discuss-the-partys-direction-at-the-rnc-in-milwaukee-next-week
STATELINE
— IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers. – AP
https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/ap-irs-collects-milestone-1-billion-in-back-taxes-from-high-wealth-taxpayers/
NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— Biden awards $1.7 billion to boost electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly in eight states.
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-and-regional/indiana/biden-awards-1-7-billion-to-boost-electric-vehicle-manufacturing-and-assembly-in-eight-states/article_a7d75e52-5748-59ed-a0d6-0a1cf5cdce60.html
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— My ‘Black Job’ Is to Protect Democracy. – Keith Boykin (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I took jobs that should have been given to Blacks. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire early and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. My critics/opponents who have never held jobs like the ones I took make it very clear that they would never stoop to take the jobs that I took.)
https://chicagodefender.com/my-black-job-is-to-protect-democracy-2/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker 2024? Not so fast. Governor holds steady with support for Biden. – Patrick M. Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/07/10/pritzker-2024-not-so-fast-governor-ices-talk-of-replacing-biden/74343884007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats crow about the success that they have had turning minorities against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-wants-black-and-latino-support-but-hes-not-popular-with-either-group-poll-analysis-shows/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Congressional Democrats remain uneasy about Biden’s chances in November – AUSTIN DENEAN
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/democrats-wanting-biden-to-step-down-reach-an-impasse-as-he-vows-to-stay-in-race
HINSDALE PATCH
— Anti-conservatives blast an upcoming event and its organizers. While I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012, anti-conservatives blasted me and blasted the speakers who I recruited.
https://patch.com/illinois/hinsdale/conservative-gala-eyes-hinsdale-schools-flyer
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Shadow campaign for president – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/11/shadow-campaign-for-president-00167526
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Former Illinois state Sen. Darren Bailey, who is also a delegate for former President Donald Trump, said he is excited for next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4159cb74-3eeb-11ef-a2ca-bb01b0c62f8c.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/how-much-does-your-town-make-from-marijuana-tax/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats have scheme to register illegal immigrants to vote. Close the motor voter loophole. – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/10/editorial-democrats-have-scheme-to-register-illega/
— Biden doles out billions of taxpayer dollars to help unionized auto plants make EVs. Trump says EV push is government overreach squeezing workers, consumers. – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/11/joe-biden-doles-out-17-billion-to-help-unionized-a/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump-backed election integrity bill barring noncitizens from voting passes House – Rachel Schilke
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3076713/trump-backed-election-integrity-bill-barring-noncitizens-voting-house/
— House Republican launches caucus to combat DEI in education. – Breccan F. Thies (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, parents, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3075423/house-republican-launches-caucus-combat-dei-education/
— Democrats admit Biden is unfit while falling back in line behind him. – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3077019/democrats-admit-biden-unfit-falling-in-line-behind-him/
— Biden’s backwards immigration policies are undermining economic growth. – Sam Peak
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3075355/how-bidenomics-is-breaking-border-security-and-budgets/
— Saving democracy from the Biden border crisis. – Editorial
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3076020/saving-democracy-from-biden-border-crisis/
NEW YORK POST
— House passes bill to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote – Josh Christenson
https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/us-news/house-passes-bill-to-require-proof-of-citizenship-when-registering-to-vote/
— Pritzker reinforces support for Biden as growing number of Democrats tell prez to drop out. – Greg Bishop
https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/us-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-reinforces-support-for-biden-as-other-democrats-tell-prez-to-drop-out/
— Karine Jean-Pierre admits giving false information about Biden neurology visit after outcry over health misdirection. Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/us-news/karine-jean-pierre-admits-giving-false-information-about-biden-neurology-visit-after-outcry-over-health-misdirection/
BREITBART
— Pritzker said in a hot mic this week, “I don’t like where we are” in relation to the current election season. – PAUL BOIS
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/10/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-caught-on-hot-mic-i-dont-like-where-we-are/
DAILY CALLER
— Eric Adams Declares Support For Rollback Of NYC’s Sanctuary City Laws – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/10/eric-adams-declares-support-for-rollback-of-nycs-sanctuary-city-laws/
FEDERALIST
— 198 Democrats Vote Against Bill To Keep Foreign Nationals Out Of American Elections. – BRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/10/198-democrats-vote-against-bill-to-keep-foreign-nationals-out-of-american-elections/
— The Left Misrepresents Stats To Deceptively Claim Illegals Are ‘Less Likely To Commit Crimes’ – MONROE HARLESS (COMMENT: To illegally come into a country illegally and/or to illegally stay in a country illegally is demonstrate tremendous disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/10/the-left-misrepresents-stats-to-deceptively-claim-illegals-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes/
FOX NEWS
— The Democratic Party declared it supports illegal aliens voting. – Stephen Miller:
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6357511421112
— Parents need charter schools that offer non-woke options. Reforms can ensure that charters reflect the full range of values parents prefer. – Jay P. Greene , Ian Kingsbury, Jason Bedrick (COMMENT: To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, parents, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/parents-need-charter-schools-that-offer-non-woke-options
— Democrats take aim at Project 2025: A ‘dystopian nightmare based in White supremacy.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6357508644112
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Illegal Aliens Are Still Voting in Our Elections – Matthew Tragesser
https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/illegal-aliens-are-still-voting-our-elections
JUDICIAL WATCH
— DC Board of Elections Records Reveal 583 Foreign Nationals are Registered Vote in Washington, DC
https://www.judicialwatch.org/foreign-nationals-registered-vote/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— House Passes Legislation Requiring Proof of U.S. Citizenship for Voter Registration – JAMES LYNCH
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-passes-legislation-requiring-proof-of-u-s-citizenship-for-voter-registration/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration, that is, more illegal voting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/10/congress-voting-migrants-citizenship-elections-republicans/4130d77c-3edd-11ef-83bf-e35a32077d3e_story.html
CNN
— ‘Everything is frozen’: Donors hold back dollars amid fallout over Biden’s candidacy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/10/politics/chicago-donors-fundraiser-convention/index.html
MSN
— Supervisors approve resolution to make township a non-sanctuary area (COMMENT: What have the Republican leaders of your township done to defend/advance the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, what have they done to fight illegal immigration?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supervisors-approve-resolution-to-make-township-a-non-sanctuary-area/ar-BB1lPgpL
BLOOMBERG
— Chinese Lose Confidence in Meritocracy as Path to Greater Wealth. – Rebecca Choong Wilkins (COMMENT: In America, ever-increasingly, because Democrats and RINOs run America, to advance in America, you have to be a Democrat or a RINO.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/chinese-people-seen-blaming-unfair-system-for-making-them-poorer?embedded-checkout=true
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get rid of Republicans. To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, parents, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/colleges-risk-talent-loss-with-pushback-on-diversity-initiatives
BUSINESS WIRE
— Press Release Distribution (COMMENT: What do you say to leaders in Illinois who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who fail/refuse to include diersen@aol.com on their press release lists and/or who delay sending their press releases to my email address? They do not want anyone to first learn of anything from my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about the aforesaid leaders. I would focus on those leaders who pander to the Democrat news media. They give the Democrat news media their scoops. I would focus on those leaders who send their press releases to my direct competitors on the left including Capitol Fax and Politico Illinois, but not me. I would focus on those leaders who since 2000 have failed/refused to treat me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters as being legitimate. I would focus on those leaders who have done everything that they could a) to discourage me from putting my newsletters together and sending them out and b) to discourage everyone from reading my newsletters. I would focus on those leaders who blame me and blame my newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on those leaders who 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 would focus on those leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://services.businesswire.com/public-relations-services/press-release-distribution
PBS
— New polls show Biden slipping further behind Trump in critical swing states – Geoff Bennett and Saher Khan
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-polls-show-biden-slipping-further-behind-trump-in-critical-swing-states
— Illegals vote for Democrat candidates. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally so that they can illegally vote for Democrat candidates illegally.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-passes-bill-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote-fanning-a-gop-election-year-talking-point
POLITICO
— Rep. Pat Ryan on Wednesday became the eighth House Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to step aside. – NICHOLAS WU
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/10/congress/battleground-dem-calls-on-biden-to-step-aside-00167312
ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST/IPSOS
— Nearly 3 in 5 Americans view both Biden, Trump as too old. However, significantly more call for Biden to step aside, rather than Trump, according to ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll (COMMENT: Health should be the issue, not age. Who first deemed you to be too old, for what, when, and what pretext did they use to justify it? My Democrat IRS superiors deemed me to be too old to be a GS-1`3 in 1974 when I was 25 years old. They used their “up-or-out” policy to justify that. But they used that policy only against their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran. Their doing that rendered worthless my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, my earning job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.)
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/ABC-News-Washington-Post-Ipsos-July-2024-Survey
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— News Media More Biased Than Ever (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats. Unlike my liberal/moderate Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, and RINO media competitors, I state my political affiliation (Republican) and I state my political position (conservative).)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/are_the_news_media_more_biased_than_ever
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Hatred of the news media may be at an all-time high, and a majority of voters say media bias is still getting worse. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. voters believe the problem of bias in the news media is getting worse – slightly higher than our December survey. Just nine percent (9%) think the problem is getting better, while 27% say the problem of media bias is about the same as usual.)
July 4, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— At least 8 groups applied for permits to protest at DNC. Chicago’s Department of Transportation released records days after NBC 5 Investigates reported how city agencies had rejected initial requests for information. – Bennett Haeberle
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/records-show-at-least-8-groups-applied-for-permits-to-protest-at-dnc/3480828/
CBS2
— Biden vows to stay in presidential race as he seeks to reassure allies after debate – Kaia Hubbard
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/biden-democratic-leaders-congress-debate-fallout/
— Democratic governors meet with Biden to discuss debate fallout
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/democratic-governors-meet-with-biden-to-discuss-debate-fallout/
— Recent violence at Chicago’s 31st Street Beach prompts early closure for holiday weekend – Jermont Terry
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/31-street-beach-closing-early/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHQzFTROKXc
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/drag-sonoma-celebrate-pride-month-style-brunch-localish/15021059/
FOX32
— Chicago beach curfew to deter violence negatively impacting nearby businesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Ffj5fMAE
WGN9
— Biden meets with Pritzker, other governors as he tells staff he’s ‘in this race to the end’ – Tahman Bradley, BJ Lutz
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/biden-meeting-pritzker-other-governors/
— Chicago’s 31st Street Beach gets early curfew, extra security for at least 10 days – Dana Rebik, Anna Roberts, BJ Lutz
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicagos-31st-street-beach-to-close-early-extra-security-in-place-for-10-days/
CHICAGO TRIUBUNE
— Biden vows to keep running as signs point to rapidly eroding support for him on Capitol Hill – SEUNG MIN KIM and WILL WEISSERT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/03/top-white-house-aide-urges-staff-to-tune-out-noise/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Chicago pension debt climbs to $37.2 billion – A.D. QUIG and JAKE SHERIDAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/03/chicago-pension-debt-climbs-to-37-2-billion/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gov tough love? Biden finds Pritzker, other Democratic governors complimentary and critical in White House meeting. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the governors in an hour-long White House discussion described by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as ‘honest and open’ and by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as “candid.” But the president also heard comments and questions that ranged from complimentary to ‘a little targeted.’ – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/03/president-biden-trump-debate-pritzker-harris-democratic-governors-meeting-walz-newsom-moore-whitmer
— When did your ancestors immigrate? Ever-increasingly, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that Democrats and RINOs demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/07/04/we-the-people-voting-rights-democracy-black-native-american-women-joseph-jones-the-conversation
— Ever-increasingly Democrats run America and use the mainstream news media to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/07/04/misinformation-disinformation-lies-democracy-news-literacy-americans-july-4th-editorial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker urges Biden to address Americans after poor debate – Isis Almeida
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-pritzker-urges-joe-biden-address-americans-after-poor-debate
SOUTHERN
— Democrats promote Kamala Harris should Biden withdraw.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/03/buzz-builds-around-kamala-harris-should-biden-withdraw/
— If Biden drops out, who could replace him? Harris does better against Trump in polls. – ABC News
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/04/if-biden-drops-out-who-could-replace-him-harris-does-better-against-trump-in-polls/
NPR ILLINOIS
— ‘I’m not leaving,’ Biden says in a fundraising email. – Tamara Keith, Claudia Grisales, Deepa Shivaram, Deirdre Walsh
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-03/im-not-leaving-biden-says-in-a-fundraising-email
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker stands behind Biden for nomination, ‘unless he decides otherwise’ – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c5719e78-3950-11ef-9c44-a3f724ba2f99.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— The Threat of Non-Citizens Voting is Here – Nancy Hayes
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/the-threat-of-non-citizens-voting-is-real/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO HAS TOO FEW POLICE, PAYS TOO MUCH IN POLICE OVERTIME – Paul Vallas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-chicago-has-too-few-police-pays-too-much-in-police-overtime/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WAHINGTON TIMES
— Biden privately weighs ending reelection bid as campaign freefall accelerates – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/3/joe-biden-privately-weighs-ending-reelection-bid-c/
— Second Democrat backs call from Biden replacement – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/3/raul-grijalva-backs-call-biden-replacement/
— Rep. Chip Roy calls for House to impeach VP Kamala Harris for ‘lying’ about Biden’s mental capacity. – Lindsey McPherson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/3/rep-chip-roy-calls-house-impeach-vp-kamala-harris-/
— Democratic governors offer support to embattled Biden, vow to ‘have his back’ – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/3/democratic-governors-offer-support-embattled-joe-b/
NEW YORK POST
— More police officers relocating to Florida from other states all over the US: ‘We back our blue’ – Bethany Blankley
https://nypost.com/2024/07/03/us-news/more-police-officers-relocating-to-florida-from-other-states-all-over-the-us-we-back-our-blue/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden has admitted more than 5 million illegal immigrants – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3069027/biden-admitted-more-than-5-million-illegal-immigrants-congressional-report/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Joe Biden dispatches immigration officials to foreign nations to assist migrants claiming ‘asylum’ – Olivia Murray
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/cbs_news_joe_biden_dispatches_immigration_officials_to_foreign_nations_to_assist_migrants_claiming_asylum.html
— Joe Biden hates separation of powers. – Howard J. Warner
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/joe_biden_hates_separation_of_powers.html
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Why Independence Day Celebrations Don’t Work On Democrats – George Rasley (COMMENT: Since 2000, and especially since 2005, I have promoted Republican participation in and sponsorship of Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. Opposition to my doing that from Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois as ever-increasingly increased. In 2021, they succeeded in ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/why-independence-day-celebrations-don-t-work-on-democrats
DAILY CALLER
— Biden ‘Ally’ Told The NYT Joe Has Doubts About Saving His Candidacy. – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/03/joe-biden-ally-new-york-times-drop-out-presidential-race/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Bogus Study at the Heart of Corporate DEI – Jarrett Stepman
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/03/bogus-study-heart-corporate-dei/
DAILY WIRE
— Reports Back Up Trump Contention That Illegal Immigrants Are ‘Taking Black Jobs.’ Unemployment statistics hide the fact that 10 million Americans have given up on even looking for work in recent years, an amount similar to the number of illegals believed to be working in the U.S. – Luke Rosiak (COMMENT: In 1997, when I was 49 years old, I gave up looking for work appropriate for someone with my work experience (almost 18 years working for GAO as an Analyst and almost 9 years working for IRS as a Revenue Officer), education (master’s degrees in finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), professional certifications in forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979), and CPA license-1981. The many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors had taken against were too big for me to overcome. My Democrat GAO superiors had a) forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and denied my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/reports-back-up-trump-contention-that-illegal-immigrants-are-taking-black-jobs-government-report-says
FEDERALIST
— After Sexual Assault And Murder Of 12-Year-Old Girl, NYT Reporter Blames Republicans For Noticing The Alleged Killers Are Illegals. – MONROE HARLESS
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/03/after-sexual-assault-and-murder-of-12-year-old-girl-nyt-reporter-blames-republicans-for-noticing-the-alleged-killers-are-illegals/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Illegal Crossings Explode at Northern Border Since Biden Didn’t Include it in His ‘Crackdown.’ “Without the same restrictions as the southern border, a record 3,600 migrants entered illegally in June — more than recorded crossings for all of 2022.” – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/illegal-crossing-explode-at-northern-border-since-biden-didnt-include-it-in-his-crackdown/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Democratic Lawmakers Resign Themselves to Biden’s Loss – NOAH ROTHMAN
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-lawmakers-resign-themselves-to-bidens-loss/
TOWNHALL
— Missouri Formed a Committee to Investigate Illegal Alien Crimes – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/print/2641342
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Biden has privately acknowledged next stretch of days are critical for whether he can save his reelection bid. – MJ Lee
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/politics/joe-biden-2024-campaign-troubles
— Over 65 and still working or looking for work? – John Towfighi (COMMENT: In 1997, when I was 49 years old, I gave up looking for work appropriate for someone with my work experience (almost 18 years working for GAO as an Analyst and almost 9 years working for IRS as a Revenue Officer), education (master’s degrees in finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), professional certifications in forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979), and CPA license-1981. The many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors had taken against were too big for me to overcome. My Democrat GAO superiors had a) forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and denied my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/economy/over-65-and-still-working-or-looking-for-work/index.html
MSN
— Here are the 14 Democrats who voted with the GOP to condemn Biden’s ‘open-borders policies’ – Kelsey Vlamis, Bryan Metzger
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-are-the-14-democrats-who-voted-with-the-gop-to-condemn-biden-s-open-borders-policies/ar-AA1n9Cnz
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Biden Tells Allies He Knows He Has Only Days to Salvage Candidacy. The president’s conversations are the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating debate performance. The White House said he had not spoken about leaving the race. – Katie Rogers
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/biden-withdraw-election-debate.html
— Should Biden Quit? Democrats Weigh Potential Rewards and Steep Risks. Picking a new nominee could give Democrats a jolt of energy. But it could bring division and a crash-course campaign with no room for error. – Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/president-biden-donald-trump-campaign-2024-democrats.html
— Should Biden Step Aside or Stay In? What Prominent Democrats Are Saying. – June Kim, Blacki Migliozzi, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Neil Vigdor and Lily Boyce
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/03/us/elections/biden-withdrawal-democrats.html
— Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In. Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden — who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/biden-alternative-democratic-ticket.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Protestants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/christian-nationalist-religion-america.html
— Forcing Biden Out Would Have Only One Beneficiary: Trump – Charles Blow
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/opinion/biden-harris-trump-democrats.html
— Biden’s Slipping Support – Shane Goldmacher
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/podcasts/the-daily/bidens-trump-poll.html
— Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/biden-donors-debate.html
— When did your ancestors immigrate? Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly demonize those whose ancestors immigrated to America before the Civil War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/patriotism-july-fourth.html
— The Debate Hurt Biden, but the Real Shift Has Been Happening for Years. A 3-point move toward Trump in a new Times/Siena poll is not a fundamental change in the race, but it adds to longstanding concerns. – Nate Cohn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/upshot/poll-biden-trump-debate.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats are ever-increasingly succeeding in getting rid of citizens of American who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/
USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly put down Independence Day.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/07/03/fourth-of-july-biden-trump/74277333007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Expands Lead Over Biden as Age Worries Grow, WSJ Poll Finds. The former president is now ahead by 6 points, with 80% saying the incumbent is too old to run. – Aaron Zitner (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-expands-lead-over-biden-after-debate-as-voters-age-worries-grow-wsj-poll-finds-c3a793ab
DISPATCH
— Age Is Destiny – Jonah Goldberg (COMMENT: I should write a book about age discrimination. When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to write me off as being too old to be promoted to GS-13. That rendered worthless my earning job-related a) master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1994, b) professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a professional license in 1981.)
https://thedispatch.com/article/age-is-destiny/
— Shuffling for President. Politicians who risk damaging their party are supposed to get out of the way. – Jonah Goldberg (COMMENT: Since 2000, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I not only damage the aforesaid organization, but that I cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to lose elections. I should write a book about that.)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/shuffling-for-president/
— The Tide Begins to Turn Against Biden. – Mary Trimble, Grayson Logue, Peter Gattuso, and Aayush Goodapaty
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-tide-begins-to-turn-against-biden/
— Democrats Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself. The party propped up an ailing FDR in 1944, but the world has changed. – Chris Stirewalt
https://thedispatch.com/article/democrats-have-more-to-fear-than-fear-itself/
— Trump Poised to Rip 40-Year-Old Pro-Life Plank Out of GOP Platform (COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Trump would not have won the primary in 2016 if he had not promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc. are anti-conservative if not anti-Republican and they have always a) rejected many planks in the Republican Party platform and/or b) rejected direct election of IRP State Central Committee members. Recently, they had me thrown off the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-politics/no-labels-chief-strategist-says-its-too-late-for-an-independent-presidential-alternative/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In every presidential election since 1984, the pro-life plank in the Republican party’s platform has declared: “We endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.” But all signs are pointing toward Donald Trump ripping that Reagan-era plank out of the platform and replacing it with something to his own liking that removes any reference to the 14th Amendment and federal legislation. During his successful 2016 campaign, Trump campaigned on signing a federal limit on abortion at 20 weeks after conception with exceptions. But since the 2022 Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, he has changed course. Trump blamed the abortion issue for the GOP’s underwhelming 2022 midterm performance. During the GOP primary against Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Trump attacked Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act, which generally bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, as “terrible.” He formally announced in April of this year that he opposes any new federal limits on abortion. While the precise text of Trump’s 2024 pro-life plank is not clear, pro-life leaders now expect it to be released this Sunday and approved by the Republican National Convention’s platform committee in closed-door meetings on Monday or Tuesday—before the convention officially begins. On Tuesday, Politico reported that two anti-abortion activists had been blocked by the Trump campaign from serving on the platform committee. One pro-life leader told Dispatch Politics that the committee has been “overwhelmingly stacked” with people who will ensure the pro-life plank is changed to “reflect Donald Trump and his thinking.” Pro-life leaders are sounding the alarm. In a July 1 letter to RNC chairman Michael Whatley obtained by Dispatch Politics, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, made his concerns clear. “Based on the limited communications delegates have received, it appears that neither guests nor the press will be allowed to observe the platform committee or subcommittee discussions of the Party’s principles and policy priorities,” Perkins wrote. “The Party’s platforms have provided guidance not just to presidents and Congresses but also to state legislatures, school boards, county commissioners, and, just as importantly – voters.” Perkins, who was elected by the Louisiana GOP to serve as a delegate on the RNC Platform Committee, described the closed-off nature of the meeting as an “RNC Gag Rule” that “heightens speculation that the GOP platform will be watered down to a few pages of meaningless, poll-tested talking points.” For weeks, pro-life activists have sought—and not received—private reassurances from the Trump campaign that core elements of the pro-life plank would not be changed. A memo signed by Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, reported by the New York Times on June 29, called for a condensed 2024 GOP platform “to ensure our policy commitments to the American people are clear, concise and easily digestible.” The memo defended closing off the platform committee process for the first time in decades to protect the process from “any special interest influence that seeks to make public policy stray from our clear and straightforward objectives.” The private fight between the Trump campaign and pro-life leaders burst into public view in the past week. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life president Marjorie Dannenfesler said in a statement on Tuesday: “If the Trump campaign decides to remove national protections for the unborn in the GOP platform, it would be a miscalculation that would hurt party unity and destroy pro-life enthusiasm between now and the election.”)
July 1, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Mass arrest ordered in Lakeview near Chicago Pride Parade location. – Jessica D’Onofrio
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-mass-arrest-conducted-lakeview-chicago-pride/15015187/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-parade-2024-abc7-chicago-broadcasts-parade/14970212/
— Chicago police issue warning for recent car thefts in the Loop.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-issue-warning-recent-car-thefts-loop/15013986/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuqKga6Zs_8
— Chicago shootings: At least 35 shot, 4 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-35-shot-4-fatally/15015645/
NBC5
— Police conduct ‘mass arrest’ near Chicago’s North Side Lakeview neighborhood. According to police, an “active” scene was reported just before 1:30 a.m. in the 3000 block of North Clark Street.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/police-conduct-mass-arrest-near-chicagos-north-side-lakeview-neighborhood/3477889/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/culmination-of-lgbtq-pride-month-parties-protests/3477532/?amp=1
https://www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-pride-lgbtq/how-to-watch-the-2024-chicago-pride-parade/3477473/
— Chicago city agencies delay, deny, withhold records related to protest permits at DNC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4My0Uyxft7M
CBS2
— Police report “mass arrest” on Chicago’s North Side – Elyssa Kaufman
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/police-report-mass-arrest-on-chicagos-north-side/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/53rd-annual-chicago-pride-parade-in-lakeview/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf117lcJgT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFqaGCOSPg
— Thieves steal multiple cars from streets, garages in Chicago’s South Loop. – Jeramie Bizzle
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/car-thefts-south-loop-chicago/
WGN9
— Chicago police conduct ‘mass arrest’ in Lakeview following Pride parade – Anna Roberts
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-police-conduct-mass-arrest-in-lakeview-following-pride-parade/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-pride-parade-expected-to-bring-about-a-million-people-to-lake-view-for-53rd-annual-event-sunday/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrghHY-svY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiAwKXH9HU
FOX32
— Mass arrest reported in Lake View after Pride celebrations – Joanie Lum
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pride-celebration-arrests-lake-view
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1478295
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1478473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oix4HyWZLHg
— John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico. – Michael Dorgan
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/john-deere-announces-mass-layoffs-midwest-amid-production-shift-mexico
— South Loop surge of car thefts: Chicago police urge drivers to be vigilant. – Cody King
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/south-loop-surge-car-thefts-police-urge-drivers-be-vigilant
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OG FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/30/chicago-pride-parade/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/30/early-20th-century-anti-immigrant-laws-fueled-by-fears-migrants-were-turning-cities-into-foreign-colonies/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/01/in-chicagos-tent-cities-a-multitude-of-challenges-to-address-the-citys-rising-homelessnes/
— President Joe Biden’s student debt relief is another blow to meritocracy and personal responsibility. – Jennifer Schwab
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/01/opinion-joe-biden-student-debt-relief-program-accountability/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at Black women that Republicans cause all their problems, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male. older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/01/column-kim-foxx-lori-lightfoot-race-gender-political-target-washington/
— The Republicans who want to be Donald Trump’s VP were once harsh critics with key policy differences. – MICHELLE L. PRICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/01/trump-vice-president-candidates-policies/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/pride/2024/06/30/53rd-annual-chicago-pride-parade-lgbtq-lake-view-celebration-summer-diversity
— Biden’s debate debacle adds wild card uncertainty to Chicago’s Democratic National Convention. If President Joe Biden stays in the race, as it seems he will, the question at the convention will be which Biden will show up in Chicago to accept his nomination — the faltering debater or a president fit to serve? – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/30/president-biden-debate-debacle-democratic-national-convention-chicago-polls
— Democrats promote those who promote the Democrat Party platform. RINOs do not promote those who promote the Republican Party platform.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/30/president-biden-debate-performance-age-steinberg
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois Dems standing by Biden — for now – Greg Hinz
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-democrats-support-biden-now
— Scott Fawell reflects on his prison time after Outcome Health execs are sentenced for their crimes.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/scott-fawell-describes-prison-life-awaiting-outcome-health-execs
CENRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats say that “Tim Scott has benefited from mentors along the way. He’s hoping for another helping hand.” (COMMENT: What happened to your mentors? My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of my mentor who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of my mentor who arranged for my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, who was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986, and who promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-tim-scott-has-benefited-from-mentors-along-the-way-hes-hoping-for-another-helping-hand/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say that “Republicans are turning Biden’s voter registration order into a partisan flash point.” – Hansi Lo Wang
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-06-30/republicans-are-turning-bidens-voter-registration-order-into-a-partisan-flash-point
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-01/republican-candidates-are-downplaying-abortion-but-it-keeps-coming-up
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-06-30/as-lgbtq-visibility-increases-so-does-the-backlash
WSIL TV
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes a ) more LGBTQ and b) more discrimination against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/pritzker-signs-two-diversity-and-inclusion-based-bills/article_022b89fa-3721-11ef-b2b8-fbaccb05aaa2.html
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.choosechicago.com/event/chicago-tap-theatre-presents-can-you-hear-us-now-the-queer-tap-dance-revolution/2024-06-30/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/30/pride-parade-2024-kicks-off-in-lakeview-first-year-of-shortened-route/
COLUMBIA CHRONICLE
— Columbia College ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://columbiachronicle.com/pride-is-power-thousands-gather-at-chicagos-53rd-annual-pride-parade
CHICAGO BEARS
— Chicago Bears ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagobears.com/photos/bears-celebrate-pride-month-at-chicago-pride-parade-pride-bowl
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Tip-toeing around the debate – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/01/tip-toeing-around-the-debate-00166008
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— As Illinois subsidizes EV industry, auto analyst says gas-powered engines here to stay. – Kevin Bessler
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7a17ea82-358f-11ef-b764-7356d559a1e5.html
JEANNE IVES
— The Mis-Education and Radicalization of America’s Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nQtzTh_K8
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New study finds Chicago ranks among worst run cities in country. – Glenn Minnis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3064822/new-study-finds-chicago-ranks-among-worst-run-cities-in-country/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Biden Admin Flying Migrants Deported by Trump Back Into the US. – Joseph Simonson
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-flying-migrants-trump-deported-back-into-the-us/
NEW YORK POST
— Billionaire governor JB Pritzker considered as potential Biden replacement failed to deliver promised jobs to black residents – Carl Campanile (COMMENT: To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to illegals is to discriminate against Blacks. But wait, Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and Blacks and illegals are solders in the Democrat Army.)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/30/us-news/billionaire-governor-jb-pritzker-considered-as-potential-biden-replacement-failed-to-deliver-promised-jobs-to-black-residents/
— Joe Biden now doing what he does best — weaseling out of the blame for US border crisis. – Miranda Devine
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/joe-biden-now-doing-what-he-does-best-weaseling-out-of-the-blame-for-us-border-crisis/ar-BB1hpbHT
AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden’s cognitive abilities are as good as ever. – Jack Hellner
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/biden_s_cognitive_abilities_are_as_good_as_ever.html
BREITBART
— Pro-Palestinian Protesters Descend on Chicago Suburban Home of Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider at 3am. – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/30/pro-palestinian-protesters-descend-chicago-suburban-home-democrat-rep-brad-schneider-3am/
FOX NEWS
— DNC host city’s major newspaper calls second Biden term ‘a ridiculous idea’; urges him to drop out of race. ‘To pretend he is the party’s best choice for four more years? For a party that loves to accuse Republicans of mendacity, it’s pretty rich.’ – Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-host-citys-major-newspaper-calls-second-biden-term-ridiculous-idea-urges-him-drop-out-race
— ‘Woke’ universities put on notice for allowing ‘disgraceful mob riots’ in new GOP bill. ‘My legislation holds these woke universities accountable,’ Rep. Jim Banks says. – Elizabeth Elkind
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/woke-universities-put-notice-allowing-disgraceful-mob-riots-new-gop-bill
GOPUSA
— U.S. Rep. Roy Seeks To Oust Biden Via 25th Amendment
https://www.gopusa.com/u-s-rep-roy-seeks-to-oust-biden-via-25th-amendment/
NEWSMAX
— Mexican Cartels Armed With US Weaponry. – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mexico-cartels-weapons/2024/06/30/id/1170727/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-30/parties-and-protests-mark-the-culmination-of-lgbtq-pride-month-in-nyc-san-francisco-and-beyond
CNN
— Democrats fear replacement scenarios as much as keeping Biden – Edward-Isaac Dovere,
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/30/politics/democratic-party-replacement-worries-joe-biden/index.html
— My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I took jobs that should have been given to Blacks. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire early and they gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. My critics/opponents who have never held jobs like the ones I did make it very clear that they would never stoop to take the jobs that I did.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/30/opinions/2024-debate-trump-biden-palestinians-racism-obeidallah/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-pride-nyc-san-francisco-parade-protest-0c8dd29c5f0d09c9e52b8b47a39efcd2
REUTERS
— Democrats blame Biden’s disastrous debate on bad preparation, exhaustion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/joe-bidens-disastrous-debate-blamed-bad-preparation-exhaustion-2024-06-30/
ABC NEWS
— Steve Bannon predicts Trump will win by a ‘landslide.’
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steve-bannon-predicts-trump-landslide/story?id=111546136
— 4th of July mass shootings increased over the past 3 years. There have been 80 total mass shootings during the holiday since 2021. – Luke Barr
https://abcnews.go.com/US/4th-july-mass-shootings-increased-past-3-years/story?id=111543843
NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/parties-protests-mark-culmination-lgbtq-pride-month-nyc-san-francisco-rcna159656
CBS NEWS
— Increasing numbers of voters don’t think Biden should be running after debate with Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-debate-should-biden-be-running-mental-abilities/
NEWSWEEK
— Chicago School Spending Has Nearly Doubled, Scores Have Dropped. – Khaleda Rahman (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat teachers will ever-increasingly make tests easier to pass. Back when tests were much harder to pass, I passed all the tests needed to a) graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class and get an ACT score of 24, b) earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, c) become a CPA, and d) become a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, something that only 20% do.)
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-school-spending-scores-have-dropped-1917053
MSN
— Democrats say “Allies support Biden, tell him to stay in the race.” Countries that want to invade other countries want Biden to run America, that is, they want to continue weakening America.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/bad-debates-happen-allies-support-biden-tell-him-to-stay-in-the-race/ar-BB1paYwL
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURES: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/nyregion/nyc-pride-parade.html
— To Woo Trump, VP Contenders Show Off Their Rich Friends. Vice-presidential hopefuls are posturing as part of a bid to highlight their ties to wealthy donors.
– Michael C. Bender and Theodore Schleifer (COMMENT: I should write a book those major donors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/politics/trump-vice-president-donors.html
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2024/06/30/sixty-years-since-civil-rights-act-signing-things-to-know/74019336007/
— Biden ever-increasingly forgives more student loans to get more votes from those deadbeats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/01/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-debt-courts/74221722007/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/27/988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-lgbtq-youth/74090651007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats want illegals because illegals vote foe Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/immigration-is-behind-the-strong-u-s-economy-growth-election-2024-debate-042a8bd8
POLITICO
— Biden’s family privately criticizes top advisers and pushes for their ouster at Camp David meeting. – JONATHAN LEMIRE and LAUREN EGAN
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/30/biden-camp-david-family-debate-00165970
INQUISITR
— Aging Joe Biden is “Dependably Engaged” for These Many Hours Each Day: Reveal His Aides – Juwairiya Shariq (COMMENT: How many hours a day are you dependably engaged? I have to be dependably engaged and I am dependably engaged for at least 10 hours each and every day to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out.)
https://www.inquisitr.com/aging-joe-biden-is-dependably-engaged-for-these-many-hours-each-day-reveal-his-aides
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The aides weren’t surprised by POTUS’ disoriented mind and ramblings during the debate and revealed two versions of Biden- one is alert and confident, and the other is confused and dependable on people for a few hours each day. And it is common knowledge within his inner circle that he needs occasional assistance, which is, of course, a result of issues that stem from aging. To be more specific, the aides revealed Biden is only “dependably engaged” between the hours of 10 am to 4 pm each working day in the White House, and outside these hours, he’s seemingly lost, confused, and is more likely to misspeak on different occasions and struggle to string through thoughts together. In fact, the aides “meticulously” work to ensure his public exposure is between these hours. The report read, “Between the lines: Biden’s miscues and limitations are more familiar inside the White House. The time of day is important as to which of the two Bidens will appear. Many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours. Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued.”)
INDEPENDENT
— Biden’s family discusses firing campaign advisers over horrific debate performance against Trump – Oliver O’Connell, Joe Sommerlad, Ariana Baio
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-news-presidential-election-trump-b2571872.html
June 28, 2024
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— PRESS RELEASE: IL Republican Party Responds to President Trump’s Debate Win. CHICAGO — Following President Trump’s resounding debate win tonight in Atlanta, newly elected RNC Committeeman for Illinois Dean White responded on behalf of the Illinois Republican Party with the following statement. “The difference between President Biden’s performance and the strong, definitive performance of President Trump could not be more clear. President Trump displayed why we need his leadership in the White House: to bring down the cost of living for American families, to close Joe Biden’s open border, and to give Americans confidence that we are leading from the front instead of covering for an out-of-touch career politician. There is a reason President Trump is leading in the polls across the country – the voters know he is the leader this country needs and it’s why he’ll win in November.”
https://illinois.gop/il-republican-party-responds-to-president-trumps-debate-win/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Trump won the Republican Party primary. If elected, he can and he will defend and advance the Republican Party platform. It is time for Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and precinct committeemen/captains who fail/refuse to help elect Trump to step down and to be replaced by those who can and will help elect Trump. Trump may not win Illinois, but the more votes that Trump gets, the less of a mandate that Democrats get. I have always helped elect in general elections those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who won primary elections, including those who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QESTION: What are the real reasons why people who say that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject Trump? ANSWER: They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that Trump defends and advances including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They despise/hate his demographics including his being heterosexual, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, draft avoider, gun-owner, Protestant, German American, and/or his ancestors having been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is going to be the next Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
Based on what the IRP did in 2005 and 2013, the IRP should have by now posted on its website:
a) the names of the two other members of the IRP chairman search committee,
b) the selection process that the committee will use,
c) the qualifications that applicants must have,
d) the requirements that applicants must meet, and
e) the application filing deadline.
Based on what the IRP did in 2005 and 2013, the IRP should then post on its website:
a) the names of all the applicants who met the filing deadline,
b) the names of all those applicants the committee deemed qualified,
c) lots of information on those applicants,
d) how Illinois Republicans can provide input on those applicants to IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members,
e) the date, time, and location of the meeting in which the applicants will give their presentations to the IRP SCC,
f) how Illinois Republicans can attend that meeting,
g) the Zoom link that Illinois Republicans can use to watch the applicant’s presentations at that meeting,
h) the weighted vote that each IRP SCC member has,
i) the weighted vote that each applicant got and from each of the IRP SCC members, and
j) the name of the winning applicant.
I am very interested in learning what each the applicants has done and has promised to do to defend and advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I am very interested in learning what position each of the applicants has on direct election of IRP SCC members. It seems to me that the committee will reject applicants who want direct election.
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Frail, Weak-Voiced Biden Struggles During Primetime Debate with Trump as Deteriorating Mental Fitness was on Full Display
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/06/frail-weak-voiced-biden-struggles-during-primetime-debate-with-trump-as-deteriorating-mental-fitness-was-on-full-display.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Tough debate night for Biden, who showed his age. Biden lost ground not so much by what he said as the two exchanged verbal punches during Thursday’s historic presidential debate, but by showing his age. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/27/biden-trump-presidential-debate-cnn-sweet
SOUTHERN
— Potential Trump VP contenders at Atlanta debate to spin his performance, make their case – ABC News
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/27/potential-trump-vp-contenders-at-atlanta-debate-to-spin-his-performance-make-their-case/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats in disarray after Biden’s debate performance – Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/27/democrats-disarray-after-joe-bidens-debate-perform/
— Biden stumbles, Trump pounces in first presidential debate – Susan Ferrechio and Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/27/joe-biden-stumbles-donald-trump-pounces-in-first-p/
FOX NEWS
— Biden’s ‘disaster’ debate performance sparks media meltdown, calls for him to withdraw from 2024 race. Biden’s rough showing has even close allies calling for him to step aside in 2024. – Joseph A. Wulfsohn
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bidens-disaster-debate-performance-sparks-media-meltdown-calls-withdraw-2024-race
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— ‘Biden is Toast’: Democrats in Panic, Party Leaders Want New Candidate. – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/post-debate-fallout-dems-in-panic-party-leaders-want-new-candidate/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Biden failed to ease worries about his age. Trump forcefully made his case. – Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan SwanSh
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/27/us/biden-trump-debate#presidential-debate-takeaways-biden-trump
— Trump’s V.P. Parade Nears Its End, With Vance, Burgum and Rubio in Front. Even as Donald Trump has narrowed his list of top choices, he and his advisers are stoking speculation about others and suggesting that an announcement is imminent — or maybe not. – Michael C. Bender
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/trump-vp-pick.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Biden stumbles in fiery debate – Toluse Olorunnipa, Michael Scherer and Isaac Arnsdorf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/biden-trump-debate-atlanta/
POLITICO
— Democrats really have no way to spin this. We break down Biden’s disastrous debate. It was rough.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/trump-biden-debate-result-takeaways-00165701
— Panicked Dems start looking for alternatives to Biden
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/biden-democrats-replacement-00165672
— Here’s how Democrats could replace Biden
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/can-democrats-replace-biden-00165684
REUTERS
— Biden, Trump’s age and fitness in focus in early debate faceoff (COMMENT: What are Biden’s and Trump’s positions on “up-or-out?” My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used “up-or-out” to waste my career and to get rid of me. They wrote me off as being “too old” because they had not promoted me to GS-13 (currently $115,439/year) by the time I was 25 years old. That rendered worthless a) my MBA that I earned when I was 27, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) my master’s degree in accounting that I earned when I was 31, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, e) my job-related professional certifications that I earned when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and f) my master’s degree in financial markets and trading that I earned when I was 48. They would not have wasted my career and gotten rid of me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-trump-face-off-first-debate-with-age-fitness-focus-2024-06-27/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden’s Debate Performance Against Trump Rekindles Questions About Fitness for Office. The Atlanta debate put a spotlight on the advanced ages of President Biden and former President Donald Trump. – Ken Thomas, Alex Leary, Annie Linskey
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-trump-first-presidential-debate-election-2024-64edbbfa
FORBES
— These Are The Likely Democratic Presidential Candidates If Biden Drops Out—As Rough Debate Prompts Calls To Stand Down – Sara Dorn (FROM THE ARTICLE: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, J B Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Jared Polis, Josh Shapiro, Dean Phillips)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/27/these-are-the-likely-democratic-presidential-candidates-if-biden-drops-out-as-rough-debate-prompts-calls-to-stand-down/
GUARDIAN
— Calls for Biden to stand aside grow after shaky debate performance against Trump. Biden’s raspy voice, tendency to meander and difficulty finishing his answers have his allies deeply worried about his ability to beat Trump. – Chris Stein
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/27/presidential-debate-trump-biden-updates
— Who could replace Joe Biden? Here are six possibilities. With Biden not yet officially endorsed as Democratic presidential nominee, it is in theory open to the party to choose another candidate. – Martin Belam (FROM THE ARTICLE: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, J B Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Sherrod Brown, Dean Phillips)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/who-could-replace-joe-biden-here-are-six-possibilities
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago Pride Parade, other large events forced to downscale, make major changes because of DNC – Ann Pistone and Jason Knowles
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-parade-other-major-events-scaled-back/15005545/
— Chicago Public Schools board approves student code of conduct change for youngest students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-public-schools-board-approves-student-code-conduct-change/15006846/
— Chicago hate crimes spike, especially anti-Jewish incidents, report says; ordinance targets fliers – Sarah Schulte (COMMENT: Democrats always blame Republicans for hate crimes.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-hate-crimes-spike-according-chicago-commission-human/15006697/
NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-pride-lgbtq/how-to-watch-the-2024-chicago-pride-parade-live/3475303/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/metra-expand-service-2-lines-chicago-pride-parade/3475378/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/how-some-venture-capitalists-are-trying-to-lift-the-profile-of-lgbtq-founders/3475501/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AYeuzNLpik
WGN9
— Thieves used stolen vehicles to ram into 18 businesses across city – BJ Lutz
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/thieves-stolen-vehicle-18-smash-grab-business-chicago/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pride-takes-center-stage-at-white-house/ar-BB1p0ktJ
WTTW
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for homelessness.
https://interactive.wttw.com/events/2024-06-29-130000/firsthand-homeless-community-conversation-homelessness-in-the-black-community
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Most new gas, diesel vehicle sales would be banned in Illinois by 2035 under proposal. Modeled after a California policy, advocates want Illinois to set a schedule that puts more electric vehicles on the state’s roads over the next decade. – Brett Chase
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2024/06/27/gas-diesel-vehicle-sales-banned-in-illinois-by-2035-under-proposal-pritzker-sierra-club
— ‘Serious concerns’ remain after CPD revises mass arrest policy ahead of Democratic Convention. A coalition of community organizations says the policy still fails to draw a line between crowds protected under the First Amendment and those engaged in illegal activity such as looting. – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/06/27/serious-concerns-chicago-police-mass-arrest-democratic-convention
— Democrats ever-increasingly run America and hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are haters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/06/27/hate-crime-incidents-new-law-reporting-category-silverstein-antisemitism-johnson-gaza-hamas-israel
— Chicago Public Schools lays off nearly 600 support staff members. About half of the layoffs affected teacher aides. CPS Officials said only about 5% of all teacher aides lost their positions and that most will find jobs in other schools. – Sarah Karp
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/06/27/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-nearly-600-support-staff-members
— Ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke used Catholic card in bid to soften sentence in corruption case – Robert Herguth (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always stressed that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/06/27/alderman-edward-burke-chicago-judge-virginia-kendall-corruption-catholic-church-campaign-donations-cardinal-cupich
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/06/27/american-academy-pediatrics-conference-florida-lgbtq-violence-river-billboards-disinfectants-letters
— What do people who say that they are religious use against you? They stress that I am not a member of a church, that I do not attend church services, and that I do not give money to a church.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/28/donald-trump-ten-commandments-louisiana-republicans-law-schools-mona-charen
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago hate crimes remain high after recent spike – JAKE SHERIDAN (COMMENT: Democrats always blame Republicans for hate crimes.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/27/chicago-hate-crimes-remain-high-after-recent-spike-city-report-shows/
— Waukegan board assures dual-language program is safe at raucous meeting; ‘We spend so much time infighting … we rarely see progress’ – STEVE SADIN (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push Americans to speak, read, and write Spanish. I was able to get an ACT score of 24 and graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class. But if I had been forced to learn Spanish, I would not have been able to do that.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/27/waukegan-board-assures-dual-language-program-is-safe-at-raucous-meeting-we-spend-so-much-time-infighting-we-rarely-see-progress/
DAILY HERALD
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240627/letters-to-the-editor/steer-gop-back-to-conservative-values/
WAND TV
— Racial justice, free speech groups join fight against potential TikTok ban – AP (COMMENT: Since 2000, my critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have done everything that they could to get the aforesaid to officially ban my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/free-speech-and-digital-rights-groups-argue-tiktok-law-would-infringe-on-the-first-amendment/article_9271b674-8cb4-58bc-b9a6-e67d4c21cc14.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Chicago’s Christopher Columbus Elementary School Renamed To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The pioneering Supreme Court justice died in 2020. Melville Fuller Elementary in Bronzeville and James Monroe Elementary in Logan Square will also be renamed. – Quinn Myers (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always stressed that I attended Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962. They also stress that my father, my grandfather, my great grandfather, and my great great grandfather also attended Trinity.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/27/chicagos-christopher-columbus-elementary-school-renamed-to-honor-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/27/youth-horizons-queer-mentorship-programs-foster-community-for-chicagos-lgbtq-youth-i-wasnt-alone/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-briefing-5/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Johnson’s Call for Reparations Are Merely a Diversion to His Policies That Hurt the Black Community – Paul Vallas
https://johnkassnews.com/reparations-its-time-to-realize-the-damage-that-the-mayor-is-doing-not-only-to-the-city-but-the-black-community-he-claims-to-be-serving/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Whoever wins Wisconsin, wins the presidency. Trump is in good position with his policies. – Scott Walker
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/27/whoever-wins-wisconsin-wins-presidency/
— Illegal immigrants linked to vicious sex crimes expose poor vetting at U.S. border – Matt Delaney
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/27/illegal-immigrants-linked-vicious-sex-crimes-expos/
— ‘Elderly man with a poor memory’: GOP demands Hur tapes after Biden’s debate performance – Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/28/gop-demands-hur-tapes-after-bidens-debate-performa/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom helps California go broke over reparations – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3062090/newsom-helps-california-go-broke-over-reparations/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— Over 450,000 Illegal Aliens Have Been Paroled into the U.S. Under the Biden Administration’s Unlawful CHNV SCHEME
https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/over-450000-illegal-aliens-have-been-paroled-into-the-u.s-under-the-biden-administrations-unlawful-chnv-scheme
AMERICAN THINKER
— Mayorkas insists blame for migrant crime is on the ‘individual’ committing the criminal act, not any open border policies – Olivia Murray (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law, for that country, and for its citizens.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/mayorkas_insists_blame_for_migrant_crime_is_on_the_individual_committing_the_criminal_act_not_any_open_border_policies.html
— Despite high-profile rapes by illegals, Democrats are no longer talking about ‘rape culture.’ – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/despite_high_profile_rapes_democrats_are_no_longer_talking_about_rape_culture.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I’m old enough to remember when rape culture was a big leftist talking point. We never stopped hearing about what white men were doing to women on college campuses. However, now that we’re witnessing actual rape cultures pour across our Southern border and do their thing, the concept of “rape culture” is suddenly dead to the progressive Democrats.)
BREITBART
— Biden Downplays Illegal Migrant Crime by Saying Women Are Also Raped by In-Laws, Sisters – HANNAH KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/27/biden-downplays-illegal-immigrant-crime-saying-women-raped-inlaws-sisters/
DAILY CALLER
— Diversity is discrimination against those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White male, older, married, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/27/discriminatory-diversity-programs-are-taking-a-beating-amid-legal-onslaught/
DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Aim to Strip Government of All DEI Programs – Virginia Allen (COMMENT: All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes have benefitted personally from DEI or want to benefit personally from DEI. Those who benefit from DEI are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/28/gop-lawmakers-aim-strip-government-of-dei-programs/
— Fact-Checking 16 Claims in First Biden-Trump Debate – Virginia Allen, Fred Lucas, Tyler O’Neil
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/27/fact-check-claims-made-during-biden-trump-debate/
— Trump vs. Biden: 4 Highlights From the First Presidential Debate – Mary Margaret Olohan and Tony Kinnett
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/27/trump-vs-biden-highlights-first-presidential-debate/
EPOCH TIMES
— 6 Takeaways From Biden and Trump’s First 2024 Debate. Immigration, abortion, and economics were among the top policies that the candidates highlighted in the high-stakes debate. – Nathan Worcester and Jacob Burg
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/6-takeaways-from-biden-and-trumps-first-2024-debate-5676850
FEDERALIST
— America’s Institutional Racism Is Anti-White
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/27/americas-institutional-racism-is-anti-white/
— Pentagon-Funded Hunt For ‘White Supremacists’ In U.S. Military Led Nowhere – KAMDEN MULDER
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/27/report-says-pentagon-funded-hunt-for-white-supremacists-in-u-s-military-led-nowhere/
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— So much for “sanctuary”? Liberal state, overrun by illegal immigrants, send officials to border to tell illegals to go elsewhere. – Noah Webster
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/sanctuary-no-more-massachusetts-overrun-by-illegal-aliens-send-officials-to-border-to-tell-illegals-to-go-elsewhere
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Using “pregnant patients” or “pregnant people” is a slap in the face to females. – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/dei-invades-scotus-pregnant-people-are-in-the-house-via-kbj/
MRC TV
— Biden Implies ‘Illegal Aliens’ Are Growing Economy – ERIC SCHEINER (COMMENT: Illegals are “wards of the state.”)
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/eric-scheiner/biden-implies-illegal-aliens-are-growing-economy
NEWSMAX
— Trump Must Bring Back Zero Tolerance on Border – Judd Dunning
https://www.newsmax.com/judddunning/border-trump-biden/2024/06/27/id/1170399/
— Trump Campaign Releases Five ‘Biden Lies’ on Border – James Morley III
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-joe-biden-lies/2024/06/27/id/1170428/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to the Trump campaign, the first Biden border lie is that the border is “secure.” Using data from both the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as well as the Drug Enforcement Agency, the campaign dismantles each of Biden’s immigration talking points. “The fact is the border was never secure under Biden. In fact, the floodgates opened almost immediately after Biden took office. Now, suspected terrorists are flooding across in record numbers as at least ten million illegals, tons and tons of fentanyl, and criminals from all over the world cross into the country — and American citizens are raped and murdered by illegals with no right to be here,” the campaign states. The next “lie” is the oft-repeated phrase from Biden that the “only reason the border is not secure” is because of Trump and Republicans. The campaign notes how Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to dismantle Trump’s previous border policy. “Lie” number three from the Biden campaign is that a border crisis “happens every single year.” The Trump team notes that since President Biden took office almost 7 million illegals have entered the U.S. The fourth of Biden’s “lies” according to the Trump campaign is that the Administration is “working to make sure the border is safe, orderly and humane.” Trump’s team notes that the open border facilitated by Biden has “has emboldened drug cartels and human traffickers to take advantage of the lax enforcement — at the expense of desperate migrants. The situation is particularly devastating for unaccompanied migrant children, tens of thousands of whom have been LOST by the incompetent Biden administration.” The final Biden border “lie” noted by the Trump campaign is that Biden likes to say “I’ve done all I can do” when it comes to securing the border. Trump’s team responds by noting that “Biden has repeated this lie again and again, even after he blocked comprehensive border security legislation passed by House Republicans.”)
TOWNHALL
— Biden Purposely Flooded the Border – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/06/27/on-debate-day-a-reminder-biden-purposely-flooded-the-border-n2641034
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. How soon, if not already, will RINO leaders officially announce that all Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and precinct committeemen/captains must be RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for the long time?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/27/dei-right-wing-politics/
— California budget includes $12 million for reparations for Black residents – Emmanuel Felton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/28/reparations-california-budget/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/28/queer-youth-of-faith-day/73969439007/
MSN
— Chicago Cubs promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/wrigley-field-got-gay-on-pride-night-with-chicago-cubs-jersey/ar-BB1oW355
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/a-new-anti-dei-catchphrase-shows-how-confused-people-are-about-hiring/ar-BB1oRi1d
— Military Has Turned Into ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ Under Biden
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/military-has-turned-into-vast-dei-bureaucracy-under-biden-study-finds/ar-BB1oTgqQ?ocid=oa-WLW
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly viciously demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being haters and even worse things. Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly get rid of Republicans once and for all.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/angry-republicans-are-going-to-protest-against-a-hate-has-no-home-here-flag-in-a-classroom/ar-BB1hmd10
— To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White male, older, married, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-americans-favor-dei-programs-survey/ar-BB1ot0gt
— Apparently I’m related to Pocahontas – and that makes me a victim of white tyranny. – Petronella Wyatt (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors gave my Native American coworker big time preference over me. Most significantly, they let him work until he was eligible for regular retirement.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/apparently-i-m-related-to-pocahontas-and-that-makes-me-a-victim-of-white-tyranny/ar-AA1nGNm1
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-support-for-marriage-equality-drops-as-conservatives-ramp-up-anti-trans-panic/ar-BB1oSH1D
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Expanding Hispanic Community Propels U.S. Population Growth. Latest census figures show uptick in Hispanic people, while the nation overall is becoming older. – Paul Overberg (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America is ever-increasingly becoming a Hispanic nation. Soon, if not already, if you do not speak, read, and write Spanish, you will not be able to get an education, get a job, etc.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-u-s-hispanic-population-is-still-expanding-partly-driven-by-migration-bbb6d417
POLITICO
— Supreme Court knocks down Wall Street regulator’s in-house courts. The justices backed a challenge to the constitutionality of the SEC’s internal tribunals — a resounding win for conservatives. – DECLAN HARTY and JOSH GERSTEIN (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs glorify and praise defendants and demonize, denigrate, and condemn plaintiffs. They do not want Republicans or anyone else to have access to the courts. I should write a book about the lawsuits that I filed.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/supreme-court-sec-ruling-00165303
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 68% of Democrats Believe Biden Is a ‘Great’ President (COMMENT: Because Biden gives big time preference to voters who are the following, far too many voters believe Biden is great: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, those who have less education and/or job skills than others, those who have less money than others, those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, those who are in America illegally, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/68_of_democrats_believe_biden_is_a_great_president
June 27, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago reaches deal with protest organizers ahead of DNC – SAM CHARLES
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/26/city-officials-reach-deal-with-protest-organizers-ahead-of-dnc/
— Democratic National Convention protesters to get permit for smaller march. Reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ groups win permit for one-mile march Aug. 18 past The Bean, Millennium Park and hotels where DNC delegates will be staying. The convention will be held Aug. 19 to Aug. 22. – Andy Grimm (COMMENT: To vote for Democrats is to ever-increasingly push abortion and LGBTQ down everyone’s throats.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/06/26/dnc-march-protest-lgbtq-chicago-politics-israel-hamas-war-cpd-city-hall-nation-world-aclu
— Democrats and Republicans have both failed to address wealth inequality. – Willie Wilson (COMMENT: What are your demographics? What do you owe your accomplishments in life to? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, I owe all my accomplishments in life to my benefitting tremendously from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, have less money than I do, non-Protestant, non-German America, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, etc. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/27/opinion-democrats-republicans-wealth-inequality/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The mission for both Biden and Trump at their upcoming debate? Win over “double hater” voters. The term “double haters” burst into the political lexicon this year to describe voters who dislike both Biden and Trump. But that’s the choice before the nation. – Lynn Sweet (COMMENT: Vote for Biden if you want more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Vote for Trump if you want personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, conservative values, continuation of Second Amendment rights, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/26/biden-trump-first-presidential-debate-whats-at-stake-cnn
ABC7
— Illinois Secretary of State issues $11 million to prevent carjackings, car thefts – Karen Jordan (COMMENT: Under the Democrats, crime will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-secretary-state-alexi-giannoulias-11-million-prevent-carjackings/15003179/
— Chicago radio personality Kendra G helping singles find love this summer with dating app (COMMENT: How did you meet your spouse? I met my wife in late 1976 at a Fourth Presbyterian singles event. She is Catholic and I am Missouri Synod Lutheran. We both worked in the Loop. I worked for IRS and she worked for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She had previously worked for the FBI.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kendra-singles-dating-app-former-chicago-wgci-radio-host/15003841/
ABC7 & ABC LOS ANGELES & NBC5 & WGN9 & BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-biden-pardon-lgbtq-veterans-convicted-regulation-used/15001983/
https://abc7.com/post/watch-abc-news-live-pride-across-america-lgbtq-parades-marches/14914691/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/lgbtq-elders-struggle-with-health-care-housing-and-isolation/3474231/
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-biden-pardons-potentially-thousands-of-ex-service-members-convicted-under-now-repealed-gay-sex-ban/
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/26/liminal-a-humboldt-park-art-exhibit-showcases-lgbtq-puerto-rican-artists/
ABC7 & CBS2 & WGN9 & FOX32 & WTTW & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & DAILY HERALD & WQAD & NBC NEWS & CBS NEWS & USA TODAY
— Democrats promote Kinzinger big time. No conservative, no Republican would ever endorse Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJ7sK_id5o
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/former-republican-rep-adam-kinzinger-endorses-president-biden/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-CG2VyQiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIq5rcsIaHY
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/former-illinois-republican-congressman-endorses-biden
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1476762
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/26/gop-former-illinois-rep-adam-kinzinger-endorses-biden-whose-campaign-wants-flip-anti
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/26/adam-kinzinger-joe-biden-endorsement-presidential-election-donald-trump
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240626/nation-and-world-politics/gop-former-rep-adam-kinzinger-endorses-biden-whose-campaign-wants-to-flip-anti-trump-republicans/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLGHLsAtPY
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ex-rep-adam-kinzinger-vocal-gop-critic-trumps-endorses-biden-ahead-deb-rcna159035
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-kinzinger-endorses-joe-biden-campaign-2024/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/26/adam-kinzinger-republican-biden/74215680007/
WGN9
— Sox legend on Venezuelan migrants in Chicago: ‘A few ruined it for the good ones’ – Alonzo Small (COMMENT: How has your national origin impacted you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always stressed that I am 100% German national origin and that I lived in Crete 1948-1972. In my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/sox-legend-on-venezuelan-migrants-in-chicago-a-few-ruined-it-for-the-good-ones/
— DNC 2024 security zones and protest plans: What we know. – BJ Lutz
https://wgntv.com/news/democratic-national-convention-chicago-2024/dnc-2024-security-protest-zones/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/gov-jb-pritzker-speaks-about-praises-statewide-initiative-to-end-hiv-epidemic-in-illinois/
FOX32
— Chicago anti-violence group may shut down due to worsening crime. – Nate Rodgers (COMMENT: Under the Democrats, crime will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-anti-violence-group-may-shut-down-due-worsening-crime
WAND TV
— Democrats say “Health care needs to diversify its workforce to get rid of racial inequalities.” (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare in America will be minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/health-care-needs-to-diversify-its-workforce-to-get-rid-of-racial-inequalities-a-new/article_c3b08d82-05ea-5353-8c06-828f6ed51e2f.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-06-26/northern-illinois-rallies-mark-the-2nd-anniversary-of-the-supreme-courts-dobbs-decision-on-abortion-rights
DUPAGE COUNTY
— DuPage County Allocates $626,000 to Support Local Food Pantries (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.)
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/news_detail_T2_R1210.php
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.choosechicago.com/blog/nightlife/house-music-and-the-lgbtq-community-a-qa-with-the-founder-of-queer-dance-party-series-slo-mo/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats always want to raise taxes.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/26/how-can-chicago-make-more-money-first-revenue-committee-hearing-offers-few-specifics/
HINSALE PATCH
— Hinsdale Promoted Politician In 4th Of July Parade – David Giuliani (COMMENT: Since 2021, to stop Republicans from helping sponsor its Independence Day parades and fireworks, Wheaton has stopped allowing all sponsorships. Wheaton had allowed such sponsorships since 2005.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hinsdale-promoted-politician-in-4th-of-july-parade/ar-AA1dtxVE
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-318/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-112/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. When is the last time that the following said or did anything to defend/advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform: a) the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and/or your Republican county/township/ward party organizations, b) Republican elected officials in Illinois and/or your county/township/municipality, c) the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct, d) conservative leaders and/or activists, and/or e) religious leaders and/or activists? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more victimology. Ever-increasingly, they hint/imply/argue/shout at those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc. that they are victims of those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-parents, have more money than others, Protestant, Italian American, German American, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, citizens of America, etc. Those who promote victimology hate Trump. I should write a book about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago announces double standard for arresting Democratic Convention protesters. Will even that work? – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-announces-double-standard-for-arresting-democratic-convention-protesters-will-even-that-work-wirepoints/
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Democrats raise business taxes, then send millions to private business groups. – Jeanne Ives
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/661317748-opinion-democrats-raise-business-taxes-then-send-millions-to-private-business-groups
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS TIED FOR THIRD-WORST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE U.S. – Ravi Mishra and Jon Josko
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-third-worst-unemployment-rate-in-the-nation/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court ducks red states’ challenge to social media censorship – Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/26/supreme-court-ducks-red-states-challenge-to-social/
— Becoming Venezuela – Michael McKenna (COMMENT: Everyone wants to live where they are the majority in terms of race, religion, national origin, values, culture, political philosophy, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/26/becoming-venezuela/
WASHINGTON EXAMINAR
— Fight escalates over calling illegal migrants ‘illegal’ – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3060222/fight-escalates-over-calling-illegal-migrants-illegal/
— The Left’s hypocrisy on illegal immigration – Hailey King
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3060496/the-lefts-hypocrisy-on-illegal-immigration/
— Disney’s ‘woke’ racism gets exposed – Brad Polumbo
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3059483/disneys-woke-racism-gets-exposed/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Cultural Marxism: A Century Old and Thriving. The Marxist notion that traditional culture is the source of oppression in the modern world is still very much with us. – Larry Sand
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/27/cultural-marxism-a-century-old-and-thriving/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Government agencies in 49 states giving voter registration forms to illegal aliens – Eric Utter (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/government_agencies_in_49_states_giving_vote_registration_forms_to_illegal_aliens.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Grooming machine’ Nickelodeon ripped for trotting out drag queen to target kiddies. – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/06/26/grooming-machine-nickelodeon-ripped-for-trotting-out-drag-queen-to-target-kiddies-1468331/
BREITBART
— Over a Dozen House Republicans Help Democrats Fund Joe Biden’s Executive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/26/over-a-dozen-house-republicans-help-democrats-fund-joe-bidens-executive-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Debate Questions for the Candidates
https://cis.org/Immigration-Studies/Debate-Questions-Candidates
— From Employer Sanctions to E-Verify. The long and winding road toward protecting American workers. – George Fishman
https://cis.org/Report/Employer-Sanctions-EVerify
DAILY CITIZEN
— Youth who show confusion about their “gender identity” are highly likely to cease or desist in such confusion as they mature into adulthood.
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/new-research-confirms-previous-findings-most-gender-confused-kids-desist/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Administration Is Shifting Health Care Resources From Veterans to Illegal Aliens – Derick Carver
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/26/administration-shifting-health-care-resources-veterans-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Republicans Hammer Biden After ISIS-Affiliated Smuggling Network Brings Hundreds Of Illegals Into U.S. – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-hammer-biden-after-isis-affiliated-smuggling-network-brings-hundreds-of-illegals-into-u-s
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Congress Needs to Crack Down on the Government’s Social-Media Censorship – CHARLES C. W. COOKE (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs run America. They certainly do not want newsletters like GOPUSA ILLINOIS or websites like www.gopillinois.com to promote the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/congress-needs-to-crack-down-on-the-governments-social-media-censorship/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At issue in Murthy was whether the executive branch of the federal government is permitted to pressure private social-media companies “to censor their speech in violation of the First Amendment.” Last year, the Fifth Circuit found that “Government entities and officials, by ‘coerc[ing]’ or ‘significantly encourag[ing]’ the platforms’ moderation decisions, transformed those decisions into state action.” Today, the Supreme Court reversed and remanded …)
— Young Americans Are Increasingly Ungrateful. – ALBERTO R. COLL (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being ungrateful. According to them, I owe all my accomplishments in life to my benefitting tremendously from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, have less money than I do, non-Protestant, non-German America, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/young-americans-are-increasingly-ungrateful-heres-what-to-do-about-it/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: How do we educate our students for freedom? After all, many of them arrive in college today believing that the United States is systematically oppressive, hopelessly unjust, and that there is not much worth celebrating or defending about our country (or so they have been taught).)
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Welfare Offices Giving Voter Registration Forms To Illegals – Dan Lyman (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden.)
https://www.oann.com/video/in-focus-video/rpt-welfare-offices-giving-voter-registration-forms-to-illegals/
PJ MEDIA
— Off all the Left’s revolutionary movements seeking to transform traditional American liberties and culture, none is as senseless and barbaric as that of transgenderism. It’s the “T” in the “LGBTQ++++Etc…” formulation. – MARK TAPSCOTT
https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2024/06/26/phrma-is-funding-the-radical-transgender-movement-n4930158
TOWNHALL
— Biden Campaign Says Trump Is ‘Exploiting’ Immigrant Crimes for His Own Good – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/06/26/biden-campaign-says-trump-is-exploiting-immigrant-crimes-for-his-own-good-n2641008
— The Immigration Issue Just Got More Intense for Joe Biden…and It Involves ISIS – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/06/26/the-immigration-issue-just-got-more-intense-for-joe-bidenand-it-involves-isis-n2640961
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow that “Number of LGBTQ elected officials up 200 percent since 2017.” Overwhelmingly, RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, RINO party leaders, RINO major donors, RINO etc. promote LGBTQ. I should write a book about the aforesaid.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4741786-lgbtq-elected-officials-up-200-percent-since-2017/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Republicans Rally Behind Trump After Conviction – Shane Goldmacher and Ruth Igielnik (COMMENT: Far too many Republican leaders in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton have yet to rally behind Trump. Will they ever? Republican Precinct Committeemen like me are required to support in general elections those candidates who won Republican primary elections. I have always done that. I should write a book about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who blame me and who blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their defeats. I would focus on those candidates who I done the most to help elect and to reelect, but who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/trump-poll-hush-money-conviction.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/biden-pardon-veterans-gay-sex.html
— House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcement – Catie Edmondson (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the Justice Department would use any Republican-led budget cuts to first get rid of their few remaining Republican employees and then to get rid of their employees who are heterosexual, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is what the Democrats who ran GAO did during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/gop-spending-cuts-law-enforcement.html
— Fraud Cases Are Taxing Resources At the I.R.S. – Alan Rappeport (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years before that. My Democrat IRS superiors and my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives wasted what I learned doing that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/irs-tax-refund-identity-theft.html
WASNINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/26/biden-pardon-gay-military-sodomy/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Social content can be restricted. High court gives Biden administration a win. – Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen (COMMENT: What do you do? Who wants to restrict you? I am an independent non-for-profit conservative Republican aggregator of political and government news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. My critics/opponents who are leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization want to a) restrict what I put in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters if not stop me from sending those newsletters out and/or b) stop everyone from reading those newsletters. They blame me and blame my newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write a book about them and the adverse actions that they continue to take against me and the adverse actions that they have taken against me.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/26/supreme-court-decision-biden-social-media-posts/73626351007/
MSN
— Wrigley Field got gay on Pride Night with Chicago Cubs jersey. – Ken Schultz (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Soon, if not already, if you do not promote LGBTQ, you will be officially stopped from getting an education, from getting a job, etc.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/wrigley-field-got-gay-on-pride-night-with-chicago-cubs-jersey/ar-BB1oW355
— American Citizens Being Turned Away So NYC Hospital Can Give Health Care to Illegals – Warner Todd Huston
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/american-citizens-being-turned-away-so-nyc-hospital-can-give-health-care-to-illegals/ar-AA1i3OeO
— Cotton vows to ban birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. – Emily Hallas
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cotton-vows-to-ban-birthright-citizenship-for-children-born-to-illegal-immigrants/ar-BB1nLrqm
— Michigan Tries to Convince Residents to Pick Immigrants Up at Airport, House Them, Help Them Find Jobs – Allison Anton (COMMENT: Michigan today, Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/michigan-tries-to-convince-residents-to-pick-immigrants-up-at-airport-house-them-help-them-find-jobs/ar-BB1iATso
— The SEC has become another tool in Biden’s arsenal as it becomes more and more woke. – Charles Gasparino
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-sec-has-become-another-tool-in-biden-s-arsenal-as-it-becomes-more-and-more-woke/ar-BB1oI85Y
ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly falsely claim that they are slowing down illegal immigration.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bidens-asylum-halt-falling-hardest-mexicans-nationalities-mexico-111466409
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don’t Reach Anyone. The agency hired nearly 7,000 new customer-service representatives, but its internal watchdog group says it still falls short. – Ashlea Ebeling (COMMENT: Have you ever phoned IRS with a tax question? If you did during the 1974 filing season, the IRS employee who answered your call was one of my subordinates. During 1974 IRS filing season, as a 25-year-old GS-11 (currently $80,994/year) IRS Revenue Officer, I supervised all of the IRS employees, which included a rotating staff of about 90 IRS Revenue Agent trainees, in IRS’s new downtown Chicago office who answered taxpayer questions using IRS’s new CentiPhone system. Because of my job performance, the IRS manager who had given me the job and who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973 promoted me to GS-12 (currently $97,079/year). But my Democrat IRS superiors soon got rid of him because they were beyond furious that he given me the CentiPhone job and that he had promoted me instead of an IRS employee who was Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat superior who led the successful effort to get rid of him was a veteran who was furious that I had avoided the draft.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/irs-customer-service-phone-call-data-fe7c0e65
— The IRS Apologizes to Ken Griffin – Editorial (COMMENT: The Democrat Party runs IRS. Because of that, do not anticipate/expect that my Democrat IRS superiors will ever apologize to me for the big adverse actions that they took against me including a) disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, b) never promoting me beyond GS-12, c) disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and d) encouraging GAO to force me to suffer a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. They were beyond furious when GAO assigned me to audits of IRS 1986-1988.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/opinion-the-irs-apologizes-to-ken-griffin/ar-BB1oXoAa
— Another Biden Loan Forgiveness Gift. The Administration expands write-offs for more of his favored voters without Congressional approval. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-education-department-public-service-loan-forgiveness-0633df74
— A Political Base Is Only a Base. Neither party can win without expanding its appeal to swing voters and even defectors. – Karl Rove (COMMENT: RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders appeal to swing voters by destroying conservatives, that is, by destroying the base of the Republican Party. I should write a book about that. In Illinois, they destroyed TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-political-base-is-only-a-base-2024-presidential-election-voters-d5351c06
June 26, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage County auditor’s office requests help after nearly four years of dysfunction – GEORGE WIEBE (COMMENT: I have watched the DuPage County Auditor’s office for 38 years, since 1986 when I was a GAO Analyst and the membership director of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Chicago Chapter. I had served its Treasurer 1983-1986. I had worked for GAO for 6 years. I had become a Certified Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980. I worked hard as AGA Chicago Chapter’s membership director 1986-1996 to recruit DuPage County auditor office professional employees to join AGA. I worked hard to elect Jim Rasins County Auditor in 2000 and 2004. I worked hard to elect Bob Grogan County Auditor in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Of course, I am working hard to elect Grogan this year. Grogan’s deputy was Peter Balgemann who is one of my relatives.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/25/dupage-county-auditors-office-requests-help-after-nearly-four-years-of-dysfunction/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For nearly four years, the DuPage County Auditor’s office has not provided a quarterly financial report, a detailed accounting of the county government’s revenues, appropriations, expenditures, and encumbrances. The reports, which are mandated by the State of Illinois, came to a halt shortly after a razor thin election in 2020, in which the current auditor Bill White won by a 75-vote margin, later reduced to 58 votes following a recount against Bob Grogan. Not long after the election, several key staff members from the auditor’s office resigned. “We had a king-sized bed of obligations and a queen-sized sheet of resources,” White said during Tuesday’s county board meeting. “Our target is to complete the quarterly reports by the end of July, we’ll do it the old-fashioned way, the manual way.” The auditor’s office was offered additional staff, according to DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy, but the real hindrance was technology. Going forward the auditor’s office is requesting additional software to help automate the reporting process, White said. But some county board members were left questioning why it has taken so long to get up to speed. “If you needed help why didn’t you come to the board … four years without quarterly reports, it is unacceptable,” District 5 Commissioner Dawn DeSart said during the meeting. Every year the county receives an external audit report from the Chicago-based accounting firm Baker Tilly, however, these reports lack the detailed examination expected from the auditor’s office. “The internal audit looks way more into the minuscule, detailed items, plus the external auditor does not detect fraud … this is where our internal auditor comes in,” District 1 Commissioner Cindy Cahill said during Tuesday’s meeting. Also delayed is the auditor’s report on the county clerk’s office, which came under the scrutiny of the board and DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, after $224,000 in invoices submitted for purchases were not properly approved or made without going through a bidding process. The report cannot be publicly released until the clerk’s office receives and has a chance to reply to its contents, according to White. The clerk’s office will have a week to respond, White said. “We need it done, the people of DuPage need it done, this is what you’re elected to do and frankly there’s no excuse,” Cahill said.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/06/25/pride-parade-lgbtq-chicago-celebration-city-hall-diversity-uptown-lake-view-lincoln-park
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DuPage County Board wants report on what went wrong with cannabis tax – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240625/news/dupage-county-board-wants-report-on-what-went-wrong-with-cannabis-tax/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/abortion-access-illinois-more-crucial-iowas-ban-opinion
— Teachers need to be in school, too. Their attendance matters. – Tim Daly (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates a) took many more sick days than I did and b) made it very clear that they did not want me to take any sick days.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-school-pandemic-recovery-and-funding/teacher-absenteeism-costs-districts-and-students
ABC7
— Democrats ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/meredith-carter-lc-carpenter-durham-firefighters-challenging-lgbtq-stereotypes-inclusion-/14999174/
NBC5
— Thousands of DNC protesters expected, raising questions about security, neighborhood impact. Pro-Palestinian protesters want to know what the security footprint will be around the United Center during the Democratic National Convention later this summer. – Rose Schmidt and Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/thousands-of-dnc-protesters-expected-raising-questions-about-security-neighborhood-impact/3472629/
— Chicago-area severe weather prompts warnings from climate experts, calls to reduce water use
https://www.nbcchicago.com/weather/chicago-area-severe-weather-warnings-climate-experts-overflow-action-alerts/3472523/
— Democrats ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-pride-lgbtq/2024-chicago-pride-parade-timing-route-closures-and-more/3472636/
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame guns for gun violence instead of blaming those who use guns illegally.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-reaction-us-surgeon-general-gun-violence-public-health-crisis/3472689/
— Charges filed after large fight near Mount Greenwood restaurant.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/felony-charges-large-fight-mount-greenwood-four-injured/3473490/
CBS2
— State to open 2 new migrant shelters in Chicago to house nearly 2,000 people. Two new state-supported shelters will open to house hundreds of migrants in Chicago. One shelter is near Midway International Airport, and the other will be in Hyde Park. (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-new-migrant-shelters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7yaX9h72M
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame guns for gun violence instead of blaming those who use guns illegally.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-survivors-advocates-gun-violence-public-health-crisis/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trauma-unit-doctors-chicago-hospital-gun-violence-public-health-crisis/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTUrQI2WDP0
— Soon, if not already, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be handing out welfare and/or receiving welfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2m64uLldLU
WGN9
— Democrats ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/pride-stories-of-chicagos-very-own/at-monthly-storytelling-event-chicagos-lgbtq-plus-community-is-outspoken/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmbShf6RZw
WTTW
— Democrats ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/25/rise-chicagos-queer-country-music-scene-country-music-people-s-music
SOUTHERN
— As Trump weighs vice presidential pick, abortion becomes issue of focus – ABC News (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want the Republican Party to dump not only its right to life plank in its platform, but also its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/25/as-trump-weighs-vice-presidential-pick-abortion-becomes-issue-of-focus/
WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wcia.com/news/washington-dc/abortion-rights-activists-rally-at-supreme-court/
ADVOCATE
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/democratic-convention-lgbtq-staff
CHICAGO LAW BULLETIN
— Advocates say SCOTUS ruling paves way for new Illinois gun law – Hannah Meisel
https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/advocates-say-scotus-ruling-paves-way-for-new-illinois-gun-law-20240625
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.choosechicago.com/event/chicago-tap-theatre-presents-can-you-hear-us-now-the-queer-tap-dance-revolution/2024-06-25/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Former Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger says he’s endorsing Joe Biden for president. “The question before us is clear — which of the two candidates will stand unyielding in their commitment to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution and strengthen our Democracy? For me, the answer is simple: And that is why, today, I am officially endorsing Joe Biden’s re-election for the presidency of the United States of America,” Kinzinger wrote this morning to followers of his Country First organization. – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will endorse Biden.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/06/26/pritzkers-other-big-issue-00165032
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-317/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-111/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How many Republican elected officials, party leaders, and precinct committeemen/captains in your county and township/ward boycotted the Illinois Republican State Convention because they knew that it would promote Trump? How many of the aforesaid boycotters are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-those who have more money than they have, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? How many of the aforesaid boycotters are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, Independent plants, or RINOs? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— If you’re shot, robbed or assaulted in Chicago, there’s a 50/50 chance there’ll be no police to respond to your 911 call. – Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/if-youre-shot-robbed-or-assaulted-in-chicago-theres-a-50-50-chance-therell-be-no-police-to-respond-to-your-911-call-wirepoints/
— Ald. Ed Burke’s light sentence shows that nobody cares…you can be corrupt and basically get away with it.
https://wirepoints.org/ald-ed-burkes-light-sentence-shows-that-nobody-cares-you-can-be-corrupt-and-basically-get-away-with-it-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Cook Co ‘assault weapons’ ban not constitutional, even under prior appeals court ruling upholding IL gun ban
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/661301690-cook-co-assault-weapons-ban-not-constitutional-even-under-prior-appeals-court-ruling-upholding-il-gun-ban-filing
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINTON TIMES
— GOP defense bill draft targets ‘woke’ Pentagon policies, spurs Biden veto threat. Curbs sought on transgender surgery, diversity programs, climate initiatives. – Bill Gertz (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are woke, that is, they are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and/or anti-American.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/25/gop-defense-bill-draft-targets-woke-pentagon-polic/
— Migrants paying record-high $50,000 to $100,000 to be smuggled into U.S. – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/25/migrants-paying-record-high-50000-to-100000-to-be-/
— Biden to pardon service members convicted under military law banning gay sex – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/26/joe-biden-to-pardon-service-members-convicted-unde/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Migrant crime grows as campaign issue – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3056948/migrant-crime-grows-as-campaign-issue-but-is-there-an-actual-spike/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY
— Conservative Governors Take Action on the Border – Bobby Jindal, Rachel Wallen Oglesby
https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/conservative-governors-take-action-on-the-border
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Biden Aides Training Him To ‘Trigger’ Trump on Debate Night – Liz Sheld
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/26/morning-greatness-biden-aides-reportedly-training-him-to-trigger-trump-on-debate-night/
— Illegal Crossings Over Northern Border Have Surged by Over 1,000% Under Biden – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/25/illegal-crossings-over-northern-border-have-surged-by-over-1000-under-biden/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Legal group demands election workers verify voters’ citizenship nationwide, because they CAN. – Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/06/25/legal-group-demands-election-workers-verify-voters-citizenship-nationwide-because-they-can-heres-how-1468133/
BREITBART
— Non-citizens, migrants, and illegal aliens will be permitted to apply for a driver’s license in Illinois starting on July 1. – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/25/undocumented-migrants-illinois-drivers-licenses-july-1/
— Elon Musk: Disney’s ‘Woke Propaganda’ Killing ‘Star Wars – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/06/25/elon-musk-disneys-woke-propaganda-killing-star-wars/
— They Want Your Kids: Google Extends Access to Ultra-Woke Gemini AI to Teens via School Accounts
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/06/25/they-want-your-kids-google-extends-access-to-ultra-woke-gemini-ai-to-teens-via-school-acccounts/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— A bill that had bipartisan support and is on the governor’s desk would remove eligibility requirements for individuals seeking to take a nursing assistant certification exam in Spanish. – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1b11ea6e-3266-11ef-a963-5f4312898034.html
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Justice Clarence Thomas Towering Defense Of The Second Amendment – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/justice-clarence-thomas-towering-defense-of-the-second-amendment
DAILY CALLER
— Military Has Turned Into ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ Under Biden – JAKE SMITH
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/25/military-vast-dei-bureaucracy-biden-study-finds/
— Supreme Court Sides With Biden Admin In Landmark Censorship Case – KATELYNN RICHARDSON
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/26/supreme-court-sides-with-biden-admin-in-landmark-censorship-case/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Some School Choice Doesn’t Help Parents Find Options That Align With Their Values – Olivia Pero (COMMENT: What if all the schools around you are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-those who have more money than they have, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/25/cracks-system-some-school-choice-doesnt-help-parents-find-options-align-values-experts-warn/
DAILY WIRE
— 400+ Illegal Aliens Have Been Brought Into U.S. By ISIS-Affiliated Human Smuggling Network – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/400-illegal-aliens-have-been-brought-into-u-s-by-isis-affiliated-human-smuggling-network-report
FEDERALIST
— Californians With No Driver’s License Or SSN Can Use A Credit Card Or Gym Membership To Vote – BRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/25/californians-with-no-drivers-license-or-ssn-can-use-a-credit-card-or-gym-membership-to-vote/
— 1,500 Illegal Immigrants From ISIS ‘Recruiting Ground’ Country Have Crossed The Border Since 2020. – ARIANNA VILLARREAL
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/25/1500-illegal-immigrants-from-isis-recruiting-ground-country-have-crossed-the-border-since-2020/
— How States Can Use Existing Laws To Find Foreign Nationals On Their Voter Rolls – BRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/25/how-states-can-use-existing-laws-to-find-foreign-nationals-on-their-voter-rolls/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— The Great Paradox: How Unchecked Mass Migration Hurts Migrants – Pawel Styrna
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/06/25/great-paradox-how-unchecked-mass-migration-hurts-migrants
FOX NEWS
— Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: ‘This is criminal. Social media proving to be essential tool for human smugglers illegally moving migrants across southern border. – Michael Dorgan
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-smugglers-use-social-media-brag-about-trafficking-migrants-us-criminal-expert-says
— Trump-backed GOP congresswoman survives challenge from right in deep-red New York House district – Brandon Gillespie (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the loudest that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-gop-congresswoman-survives-challenge-right-deep-red-new-york-house-district
FOX NEWS RADIO
— California Democrats Want To Spend Millions On Reparations.
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/06/25/evening-edition-california-democrats-want-to-spend-millions-on-reparations/
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— America’s Alarmingly High Terror Threat Just Keeps Climbing the More We Fling Open Our Doors – Simon Hankinson
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/americas-alarmingly-high-terror-threat-just-keeps-climbing-the-more-we
LIFE NEWS
— Planned Parenthood Will Use Your Tax Dollars to Lie to You About Abortion. – Joshua Mercer
https://www.lifenews.com/2024/06/25/planned-parenthood-will-use-your-tax-dollars-to-lie-to-you-about-abortion/
NEW AMERICAN
— Woke LEGO: Toy Company Offers Drag Queens and Furries for “Pride” Month – Selwyn Duke
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/woke-lego-toy-company-offers-drag-queens-and-furries-for-pride-month-2/
PJ MEDIA
— Two Statutes Can Help States Purge Illegal Voters – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/06/25/two-statutes-can-help-states-purge-illegal-voters-n4930141
(FROM THE ARTICLE: America First Legal has highlighted two federal statutes that require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify upon request if an individual is a citizen and that prevent any restriction on sharing this information with state governments. States can help keep their voter rolls free from illegal alien voters and ensure that only citizens can vote under the law.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— GOP former Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorses Biden, whose campaign wants to flip anti-Trump Republicans. President Joe Biden says he’s grateful for Republican former congressman Adam Kinzinger’s endorsement. – AP (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will endorse Biden.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gop-former-rep-adam-kinzinger-endorses-biden-campaign-111432963
CBS NEWS
— Lauren Boebert, winner of Republican primary in Colorado, says “children being attacked by wokeism” Rep. Lauren Boebert celebrated her victory on Tuesday night in Northern Colorado and spoke about some of her campaign points.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/video/lauren-boebert-winner-of-republican-primary-in-colorado-says-children-being-attacked-by-wokeism/
CNN
— Supreme Court allows White House to press social media companies to remove disinformation. – John Fritze and Brian Fung
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/politics/social-media-disinformation-supreme-court-ruling
POLITICO
— Biden admin can’t be sued for pressuring social media companies to remove misinformation, Supreme Court rules. Two red states and five social media users do not have legal standing to sue. – REBECCA KERN and JOSH GERSTEIN
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/biden-admin-cant-be-sued-for-pressuring-social-medias-to-remove-misinfo-00165051
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Republicans Must Stop Being Democrat-Lite – Judson Phillips (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and precinct committeemen/captains to be Democrat-Lite, that is, they do not the aforesaid to promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-the-gops-problem-in-its-strategies-or-its-policies/republicans-must-stop-being-democrat-lite
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/opinion/gay-marriage-america-pride.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Garland decries House GOP proposal to cut Justice Dept. funding by $1 billion. – David Nakamura (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the Justice Department would use any Republican-led budget cuts to first get rid of their Republican employees and then to get rid of their employees who are heterosexual, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is what the Democrats who ran GAO did during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/25/justice-house-republicans-garland-funding/
— D.C. Council approves money to study reparations for Black residents. The District is likely to join localities nationwide in searching for concrete ways to reckon with slavery’s generational harm. – Meagan Flynn (COMMENT: Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrats and RINOs have already used AA and DEI to make Republicans pay many trillions of dollars in reparations. My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old and to give my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/25/dc-council-reparations-funding/
— My critics/opponents who are Republican candidates, elected officials, and/or party leaders are in league with the mainstream news media and pander to the mainstream news media. The mainstream news media is anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-i-started-saying-reality-based-press-in-2017-instead-of-mainstream-media/2017/12/21/33b7f9e0-e66a-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html
MSN
— Senate Democrats to force a vote on enshrining IVF and other fertility treatments into law. (COMMENT: Government is nasty/vicious. Politics is nasty/vicious. Democrats are nasty/vicious. My Democrat GAO superiors used against me big time my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents. They stressed that my wife’s health insurance covered IVF. They knew full-well that our doctor had advised against IVF because there were major problems with my sperm and my wife’s eggs. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I lied about my wanting to have children and our efforts to have children. In 1989, they used the aforesaid to throw me off audits of IRS which were in-town, to give me a very bad 6-month out-of-town job assignment, to give me very unfair performance expectations, to give me a very unfair performance appraisal, and to rank me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/senate-democrats-to-force-a-vote-on-enshrining-ivf-and-other-fertility-treatments-into-law-after-alabama-ruling-sparked-outrage-for-effectively-labeling-women-seeking-pregnancies-as-criminals/ar-BB1iZJCb
97X
— Dangerous Venezuelan Gang Tren de Aragua Infiltrating Illinois
https://97x.com/ixp/783/p/dangerous-venezuelan-gang-infiltrating-illinois-chicago/
FORBES
— Expert Advice For Job Seekers In 2024 – Caroline Castrillon (COMMENT: What frustrated your job searches? For me, it was my high school GPA and ACT score not being that great, my not getting any scholarships, my avoiding the draft, my being a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, my not having an Ivy League degree, my UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT GPAs not being that great, my not earning an MBA until I was 27, my not passing CPA examination until I was 30, my bad demographics, the many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me, my complaining about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, my becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988, and my suing my GAO superiors for political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation in 1998. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2024/06/25/expert-advice-for-job-seekers-in-2024/
— Because my critics/opponents have always known that political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination are illegal, they have always used pretexts to discriminate.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericbachman/2019/07/02/when-is-an-employers-reason-for-firing-you-actually-a-pretext-for-age-discrimination/
INQUISITER
— Here’s When and How Trump’s ‘Heritage Project 2025’ Will Release the Blacklist of Federal Employees – Mary Anthony (COMMENT: My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors blacklisted me big time. My anti-conservative Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party superiors continue to blacklist me big time. My anti-conservative Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois leaders continue to blacklist me big time. My anti-conservative TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter leaders blacklisted me big time.)
https://www.inquisitr.com/heres-when-and-how-trumps-heritage-project-2025-will-release-the-blacklist-of-federal-employees
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Meet the new National Treasury Employees Union president. She spent 20 years as a revenue officer at the IRS. Then she went into union work, serving for 14 years as president of a local in Wisconsin. – Tom Temin (COMMENT: NTEU came to my defense big time when my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. But NTEU did not come to my defense at all when my Democrat IRS superiors failed/refused to promote me after 1974 even though I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. Further, NTEU did not come to my defense at all when my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education expenses in 1978. While I worked for IRS 1971-1980, I ever-increasingly did what rank and file NTEU members did not do. I earned a job-related master’s degrees and professional certification.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2023/10/meet-the-new-president-of-a-large-federal-employee-union/
EVENTIBLE
— The Ultimate Guide to Successful Event Promotion (COMMENT: I am increasingly reluctant to promote political events in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters unless the event organizer specifically asks me to. Too often, since 2000, event organizers have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that those who read my newsletters are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. Too often, they have blamed me and have blamed my newsletters for their event failures.)
https://www.eventible.com/learning/event-promotion/
June 25, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— Donald Trump has picked his running mate and they will be at Thursday’s debate – Paul Steinhauser
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/donald-trump-vice-president-first-debate-atlanta
WGN9
— GOP tries to spoil Democrats’ party in Chicago. Democrats plan to showcase Chicago as the key stronghold in the so-called blue wall of Midwestern states, critical to President Joe Biden’s re-election. Republicans, meanwhile, want to make Chicago’s woes the focus of the convention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usyYH4jZqCk
NBC5
— After Buckingham Fountain incident, CPD warns vandalism ‘will not be tolerated’ during DNC
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/after-buckingham-fountain-incident-cpd-warns-vandalism-will-not-be-tolerated-during-dnc/3471309/
— Chicago-area residents are being asked to use less water in an effort to prevent overflowing of storm water management systems in the region.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/weather/chicago-area-residents-asked-less-water-delay-showers-severe-weather-threat/3471606/
ABC7 & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & DAILY HERALD & CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS & WTTW & WBEZ & SOUTHERN & WSIL TV & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR & POLITICO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-abortion-roe-v-wade-overturned-chicago-abortion-fund/14996470/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6G63KOFCG4
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/06/24/abortion-roe-wade-reproductive-rights-supreme-court-illinois-jackson-dobbs-editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/planned-parenthood/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/today-in-history-supreme-court-ends-constitutional-protections-for-abortion/ (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240624/nation-and-world-politics/we-will-not-go-back-two-years-after-roes-fall-abortion-rights-advocates-vow-to-keep-fighting/ (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-abortion-policy-providers-reflect-dobbs-anniversary
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/24/clinics-offering-abortion-care-illinois-see-increase-out-state-patients-2-years-dobbs
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/06/24/where-illinois-the-midwest-stand-two-years-after-overturning-of-roe-v-wade
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/24/two-years-after-roe-v-wade-physicians-still-struggle-to-provide-essential-care/
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/24/infant-mortality-increases-over-12-in-texas-after-near-total-abortion-ban-enacted-in-2021-study/
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/24/what-are-the-potential-risks-to-fertility-and-reproductive-care-post-roe-v-wade/
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/kentucky/planned-parenthood-announces-that-it-will-spend-40-million-ahead-of-novembers-election/article_8f482a2d-9ee2-5719-8610-af34e95d05b5.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-infant-mortality-rate-rose-8-in-wake-of-texas-abortion-ban-study-shows/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-planned-parenthood-announces-that-it-will-spend-40-million-ahead-of-novembers-election/
https://www.rrstar.com/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/24/republicans-dobbs-trump-abortion-00164752
WTTW & WBEZ
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote illegal immigration.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/24/new-wttw-documentary-series-explores-asylum-seekers-working-making-new-lives-chicago
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/06/24/the-immigrant-experience-in-canada
https://www.wbez.org/the-rundown-chicago-news-podcast/2024/06/24/venezuelan-migrants-face-xenophobia-in-colombia-and-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE & ABC7 & NBC5 & WGN9 & WTTW & CHOOSE CHICAGO & SOUTHERN & INSTAGRAM
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/texas-rangers-no-pride-night/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/waukegan-church-to-paint-over-anti-gay-graffiti-with-some-symbol-that-says-we-are-an-affirming-inclusive-and-safe-place/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/25/danny-sotomayor-documentary/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lgbtq-veterans-dishonorably-discharged-us-military-sexuality-push/14996378/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/health-wellness-science-news/mental-health-experts-share-advice-to-support-lgbtq-relatives-during-pride-month-and-beyond/3471292/
https://wgntv.com/morning-news/chicago-gay-mens-chorus-performs-2/
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/supreme-court-sets-stage-for-blockbuster-showdown-over-transgender-rights/
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/24/community-conversation-role-art-chicago-s-lgbtq-activism-movement
https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2024/06/24/conversation-with-director-of-art-and-pep
https://www.choosechicago.com/event/chicago-tap-theatre-presents-can-you-hear-us-now-the-queer-tap-dance-revolution/2024-06-23/2/
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/25/corporations-face-challenge-aligning-policies-with-pride-marketing-some-experts-say/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8nBcTtPWI1/?igsh=MXBuOHFxOHF4djNtcg%3D%3D
CHICAGO TRIBUNE & FOX32
— Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/chicago-public-schools-launches-free-summer-lunch-program-at-schools-across-the-city/
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-public-schools-free-summer-lunch-program
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago traffic has gotten worse – SARAH FREISHTAT (COMMENT: What did you do to avoid traffic? While I worked in the Loop in 1971, 1973, and 1974 and then 1978-1997, I took public transportation. I walked to/from work in the Loop 1974-1978.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/25/its-not-your-imagination-chicago-traffic-has-gotten-worse-since-the-pandemic-report-finds/
— Early adopters, mainstream success, buyer’s remorse — where is the EV market headed? – RUSS MITCHELL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/24/early-adopters-mainstream-success-ev/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 47 candidates file for Chicago school board elections. The window for hopefuls to submit their minimum 1,000 signatures to get on the ballot closed Monday afternoon with more than two dozen final-day submissions wrapping up the week-long process that kicked off the elections. – Nader Issa
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/chicago-school-board/2024/06/24/47-candidates-file-for-chicago-school-board-elections
DAILY HERALD
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness ever-increasingly increases.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240624/submitted-content/bridge-communities-sleep-out-saturday-to-raise-support-for-family-homelessness/
WBEZ
— Small children can’t tell the difference between regular candy and cannabis edibles – and the result can be an ER visit. At least 250 children accidentally consumed cannabis products in Illinois in 2023. Plus, delta-8 remains unrestricted by age. – Jules Yaeger Nadia Hernandez
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/06/24/small-children-cant-tell-the-difference-between-regular-candy-and-cannabis-edibles-and-the-result-can-be-an-er-visit
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Republicans for mass shootings.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-mass-shootings-across-the-us-mar-the-first-weekend-of-summer/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Age discriminators a) shout at younger people that older people cause all their problems and b) use Biden and Trump to kill two birds with one stone.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/young-voters-dont-think-trump-biden-understand-them-poll-cbs-yougov-poll-2024-election-gen-z-israel-hamas-war-economy-inflation-policy
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-316/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-110/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-315/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media exists to elect Democrats by promoting the Democrat Party platform, that is, by promoting dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— When is the last time that the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct spoken out against Democrat promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Demographics are ever-increasingly everything. Ever-increasingly, your demographics determine how everyone treats you, that is, ever-increasingly, your demographics determine your future. Ever-increasingly, everyone dumps those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I was born in 1948 and even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and my IRS superiors wrote me off as being too old to be promoted again in 1974 when I was 25 years old, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. If I was born today, because of my demographics, I would not be able to do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly dominate Chicagoland. Based on your career, what career advice do you give? Based on my career 1964-1997 working for Chicagoland Democrats, my advice is to leave Chicagoland if you are a Republican, and especially if you are a Republican who is heterosexual, conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Because I have the aforesaid demographics, my Democrat GAO superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Previously, my Democrat IRS, Firestone Store, and Post Office superiors wasted my career. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969. They wasted what I learned a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) earning job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, and c) earning job related professional certifications in 1979 and 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s commercial property tax rates dwarf those of other major cities – Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/new-property-tax-study-chicagos-commercial-property-tax-rates-dwarf-those-of-other-major-cities-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Critics Slam “Racist” Illinois Plan to Fund Colleges Based on Skin Color – Alex Newman
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/critics-slam-racist-illinois-plan-to-fund-colleges-based-on-skin-color/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS THIRD IN U.S. FOR AVERAGE IN-STATE TUITION, PRICING PEOPLE OUT OF COLLEGE – Kurtis Karg and Dylan Sharkey (COMMENT: Because tuition at UIC and NIU was relatively low, I was able to work my way through college delivering mail part-time for the Park Forest Post Office and graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management and owing a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-third-in-u-s-for-average-in-state-tuition-pricing-people-out-of-college/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Safe Suburbs USA PAC’s Kevin Coyne Calls Trump “Poison,” “Disaster,” Says Most GOP Voters Don’t Identify as Pro-2nd Amendment
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/06/safe-suburbs-pacs-kevin-coyne-calls-trump-poison-disaster-says-most-gop-voters-dont-identify-as-pro-2nd-amendment.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Coyne’s comments in the press and social media posts critical of Trump and the grassroots will not be well received by the influential base of the Illinois Republican Party. And Trump leads Biden in virtually every national poll and in key swing state races.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Adding ‘Dreamers’ to Obamacare will cost at least $7 billion – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/24/adding-dreamers-to-obamacare-will-cost-at-least-7-/
— Liberals’ statistics on falling violent crime rates don’t match reality. 31% of nation’s police departments don’t report numbers to the FBI. – John Lott
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/24/liberals-statistics-on-falling-violent-crime-rates/
— Right-to-work group slams Trump’s invite for Teamsters president to speak at RNC – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/24/right-to-work-group-slams-trumps-invite-for-teamst/
— The government’s legal immigration agency plans to launch a loan forgiveness program for employees with up to $60,000 in repayments if they hold tough jobs to fill. – Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/24/dhs-agency-plans-to-forgive-up-to-60000-for-employ/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Three things Chicago is struggling to address before Democrats descend en masse for DNC – Jack Birle
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3056260/three-things-chicago-is-struggling-to-address-before-democrats-descend-en-masse-for-dnc/
— CNN proves anti-Trump bias days before debate – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3056920/liberal-media-scream-cnn-proves-anti-trump-bias-days-before-debate/
— Biden’s demographic wins beat Trump’s as president gets glimmer of good news – Jack Birle (COMMENT: Demographics are ever-increasingly everything. Ever-increasingly, your demographics determine how everyone treats you, that is, ever-increasingly, your demographics determine your future. Ever-increasingly, everyone dumps those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I was born in 1948 and even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and my IRS superiors wrote me off as being too old to be promoted again in 1974 when I was 25 years old, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. If I was born today, because of my demographics, I would not be able to do the aforesaid.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-demographic-wins-beat-trump-s-as-president-gets-glimmer-of-good-news-poll/ar-BB1oABTS
— Children can be brainwashed into being pro-transgender. – Jeremiah Poff (COMMENT: How much success have Democrat teachers in your school district had making their students sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3056893/children-brainwashed-pro-transgender-study/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— California Democrats Propose $12 Million for Reparations Plan in Latest Budget Proposal – Susannah Luthi
https://freebeacon.com/california/california-democrats-propose-12-million-for-reparations-plan-in-latest-budget-proposal/
NEW YORK POST
— US Supreme Court to weigh Tennessee ban on transgender puberty blockers for minors – Ryan King
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/us-supreme-court-to-weigh-tennessee-ban-on-transgender-puberty-blockers-for-minors/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Illegal Aliens Receiving Voter Registration Forms Ahead of November Election – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/24/illegal-aliens-receiving-voter-registration-forms-ahead-of-november-election/
AMERICAN THINKER
— It’s not just Disney that’s refusing to hire white people; they all are – Andrea Widburg (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/it_s_not_just_disney_that_s_refusing_to_hire_white_people_they_all_are.html
BLAZE
— NYC residents protest tent city shelter: ‘Illegals are being prioritized over New Yorkers’ – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-residents-protest-tent-city-shelter-illegals-are-being-prioritized-over-new-yorkers
— Biden’s illegal immigration crisis pushes nation’s only right-to-shelter state to its breaking point
https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigates-biden-s-illegal-immigration-crisis-pushes-nation-s-only-right-to-shelter-state-to-its-breaking-point
BREITBART
— Florida Reform Slashes Free Healthcare Spending on Migrants – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/24/florida-reform-slashes-free-healthcare-spending-migrants/
CITY JOURNAL:
— Minority Success Is Possible – Paul G. Vallas (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly shout at minorities that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities have and that because of that, minorities need Affirmative Action and DEI to succeed, that is, minorities need massive government assistance to succeed.)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/minority-success-is-possible
CENTER SQUARE
— ‘What constitutes a border crisis?’ Sanctuary cities have found out. – Tom Gantert
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_6675a66e-2daf-11ef-9e95-bff22a12a14f.html
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Democrats Embrace Nazi Eugenics – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/democrats-embrace-nazi-eugenics
DAILY SIGNAL
— Battle Over DEI Is Far From Over – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/24/battle-over-dei-is-far-from-over/
DAILY WIRE
— Republican Senators Blast Biden’s Immigration Policies, Says He ‘Invited The Chaos’ On The Border – Spencer Lindquist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-bidens-immigration-policies-says-he-invited-the-chaos-on-the-border
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Biden Announces Plan to Give DACA Beneficiaries a Pathway to Legal Status
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/biden-announces-plan-give-daca-beneficiaries-pathway-legal-status
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Republican Senators Demand Biden Rescind Mass-Amnesty Program for Spouses of U.S. Citizens – JAMES LYNCH
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/republican-senators-demand-biden-rescind-mass-amnesty-program-for-spouses-of-u-s-citizens/
NEWSMAX
— What Democrats Fear Most About a Second Trump Term – Michael Dorstewitz
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/kavanaugh-alito-dobbs/2024/06/24/id/1169952/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Chicago Teachers Union Boss Fails at ABCs: Accountability. Believability. Competence. – Brad Weisenstein
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2024/06/24/chicago_teachers_union_boss_fails_at_abcs_accountability_believability_competence_1040006.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Pritzker-backed abortion-focused group launches first paid ad campaign on 2024 cycle. The organization, Think Big America, is spending six figures in AZ, FL and NV. – Isabella Murray
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jb-pritzker-backed-abortion-focused-group-launches-paid/story?id=111354487
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Republicans for mass shootings.
https://apnews.com/article/violence-mass-shootings-summer-b004331ee7d3da95bce6646547f8d43f
MSN
— American Flag Deemed As A Symbol of ‘Hate’ and ‘Extremism’ by School DEI Trainer. – Sam Watanuki
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/american-flag-deemed-as-a-symbol-of-hate-and-extremism-by-school-dei-trainer/ss-BB1oMr5P
— Elon Musk and other DEI critics are latching onto ‘MEI’ (merit, excellence, and intelligence), a new hiring catchphrase that experts say misses the point. – Paige McGlauflin (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I earned a high school diploma and passed the postal employment examination in 1966. I earned a bachelor’s degree and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970. I earned an MBA in 1976. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. According to my critics/opponents, I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who are Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America foe a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/elon-musk-and-other-dei-critics-are-latching-onto-mei-a-new-hiring-catchphrase-that-experts-say-misses-the-point/ar-BB1oNMVL
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats decry that the Texas Rangers is the only MLB team without a Pride Night. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect ever-increasing pressure to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/2024/06/24/rangers-pride-mlb-lgbtq/14fc3952-323b-11ef-872a-1d22f44a0d95_story.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGHTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/24/scotus-trans-minors-gender-care/
USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/23/democrats-anti-trans-rhetoric-in-2024-lgbtq/74118688007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2024/06/11/lgbtq-books-for-pride-month/74019135007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/24/supreme-court-state-bans-gender-affirming-care-minors/73276507007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/06/18/whistleblower-surgeon-trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-texas/74075234007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/06/24/trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-parents-rights/74090131007/
— For the first time ever, Gen X workers saw their 401(k) balances top those of baby boomers, Fidelity data showed. Balances for Gen X workers who have been saving for 15 years averaged $543,400, or $200 more than boomers’, according to the financial service firm’s analysis of its more than 22 million accounts in the first three months of the year. Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, is the next generation to retire behind the boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1964 and are retiring now. – Medora Lee (COMMENT: My Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings are all dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, forced me to resign in 1969, and forced me to retire early in 1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/06/23/gen-x-retirement-savings-lag-optimism/74169470007/
NEWS GAZETTE
— Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans. An outside group is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the conservative policies promised by Republican Donald Trump. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/conservative-backed-group-is-creating-a-list-of-federal-workers-it-suspects-could-resist-trump/article_6ad86120-b938-575c-b63d-82bead1775cf.html
WXPR
— Inside the Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the U.S. – Emily Feng
https://www.wxpr.org/2024-06-24/inside-the-chinese-funded-and-staffed-marijuana-farms-springing-up-across-the-u-s
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Chicago’s Slavery Reparations. Johnson follows the latest fad rather than fix the public schools. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/brandon-johnson-chicago-slavery-reparations-fad1e6fa
— Schools Will Have to Start Closing Again. For good this time, thanks to declining enrollment. Unlike during the pandemic, now the left is desperate to keep them open. – Michael J. Petrilli (COMMENT: Democrat leaders a) discourage women who have demographics that vote for Republicans from having children and b) encourage women who have demographics that vote for Democrats to have children.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-will-have-to-start-closing-again-declining-birthrate-students-0af9f76b
— Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington. Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fighting over alcohol guidelines due to be updated next year. – Kristina Peterson and Julie Wernau (COMMENT: Many of my Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors who were White, male, older, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American were very big drinkers.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/alcohol-health-risks-lobbying-3bc78fed
— Those who reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform say “The Vindication of Dobbs After Two Years. Letting voters decide on abortion has energized the democratic process.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dobbs-two-year-anniversary-abortion-policy-states-supreme-court-democracy-922e8884
FORBES & BLOOMBERG
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNisPLSvKXw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/corporate-women-s-gains-fall-victim-to-anti-woke-dei-backlash
NPR
— As Democrats ever-increasingly flood America with people who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrats will ever-increasingly seek/advocate/demand/impose proportional demographic representation in all levels of government. For example, if a municipality, township, county, state, or America have a majority of residents who are Hispanic, Black, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, etc., then the majority of those who lead that political jurisdiction must be the aforesaid.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1194448925/congress-proportional-representation-explainer
AXIOS
— Biden Uses Second Anniversary Of Dobbs Ruling To Warn Trump, GOP “Coming For IVF And Birth Control Next” – Rebecca Falconer and Ivana Saric (COMMENT: What is the Trump, Republican response to this?)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/biden-trump-roe-second-anniversary-abortion-rights-video