DAILY HERALD
— ‘Recovery-friendly’ workplaces welcome those with imperfect records – Lenny Bernstein (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.) https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20181202/recovery-friendly-workplaces-welcome-those-with-imperfect-records (FROM THE ARTICLE: The company is one of 70 employers in the state that are casting themselves as “recovery friendly,” a wide-ranging term that signifies a new approach to the millions of people whose lives have been interrupted by drug and alcohol addiction. These workplaces are willing to overlook employment gaps and some brushes with police that accompany drug use. They encourage open discussion of addiction in the workplace to reduce stigma. Perhaps most significantly, they treat substance abuse and relapse as medical issues like surgery or maternity — a time for the company to support, not abandon, the employee.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Despite Big House Losses, G.O.P. Shows No Signs of Course Correction – Jonathan Martin https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/us/politics/republicans-midterms-house-losses.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: With a brutal finality, the extent of the Republicans’ collapse in the House came into focus last week as more races slipped away from them and their losses neared 40 seats. Yet nearly a month after the election, there has been little self-examination among Republicans about why a midterm that had seemed at least competitive became a rout. President Trump has brushed aside questions about the loss of the chamber entirely, ridiculing losing incumbents by name, while continuing to demand Congress fund a border wall despite his party losing many of their most diverse districts. Unlike their Democratic counterparts, Republicans swiftly elevated their existing slate of leaders with little debate, signaling a continuation of their existing political strategy. And neither Speaker Paul D. Ryan nor Representative Kevin McCarthy, the incoming minority leader, have stepped forward to confront why the party’s once-loyal base of suburban supporters abandoned it — and what can be done to win them back.)
NEW YORKER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they want to use illegals to get rid of Trump supporters, and especially those who are Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/countering-trump-at-the-border
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to publish a report on its December 1, 2018 State Central Committee (SCC) meeting in Bolingbrook. The meeting included reports by IRP Chairman Tim Schneider, IRP National Committeeman Richard Porter, and IRP National Committeewoman Demetra Demonte. IRP SCC members are listed at: https://illinois.gop/who-we-are/officials/. Meeting attendees included Carol Davis, Marianne DeMeritt, Jim Dodge, Diane Evertsen, Jason Helland, Babette Holder, Jeanne Ives, James Marter, Jan Shaw, Ken Shepro, and Allen Skillicorn. – Dave Diersen http://www.gopillinois.com
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The surprisingly high number of Americans getting absolutely no raises – Evan Horowitz (DIERSEN: Have you gotten pay raises? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want cheap labor. They continue to be furious that because of COLAs, step increases, and/or promotions, my pay increased every year that I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, except for 1980 when I took a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.) https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-little-wage-growth-low-unemployment-20181130-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote gender confusion and promote LGBTQ activity. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to destroy traditional marriage and the traditional family. https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-friday-steph-curry-girls-shoes-1130-story.html
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an anti-Trumper who is surprisingly Trump-like – Clarence Page (DIERSEN: Democrats love Trump-like Democrat activists, Trump-like Democrat candidates (like Casten), Trump-like Democrat elected officials, Trump-like Democrat party leaders, Trump-like Democrat major donors, and Trump-like Democrat political consultants a) who promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation and b) who want to use government to get rid of the following once and for all: individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-donald-trump-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-1128-20181127-story.html
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois gears up for 200th birthday party Monday – AP https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181201/illinois-gears-up-for-200th-birthday-party-monday
— Eliminate liberals? Just banter, aldermanic candidate TOM SHAFER says – Bernard Schoenburg (DIERSEN: In Illinois, to vote for Democrats is shout that you want Democrats to drive individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to turn Illinois into a bankrupt poverty-stricken and crime-stricken third-world country.) https://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20181201/bernard-schoenburg-eliminate-liberals-just-banter-aldermanic-candidate-says
KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— When money should not rule – Dennis Marek (DIERSEN: Democrats a) glorify and praise Democrats who have money and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans who have money.) https://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/columnists/dennis-marek-when-money-should-not-rule/article_4e71e0e0-f24c-11e8-ae3e-0fd81611c5d5.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: It seems everything is measured in the amount of wealth one has. In the latest gubernatorial race in Illinois, how many times did we hear Bruce Rauner had $500 million at his command, and J.B. Pritzker was worth three times that? (And it would appear Rauner still couldn’t afford a tie at times.) The ads were without end, costing each candidate millions of dollars. An average person seeking such office could not ever compete. So, wealth is the answer. Sad.)
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Nothing like an outgoing governor offering ‘Be afraid’ as parting words – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: In Illinois, to vote for Democrats is shout that you want Democrats to drive individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to turn Illinois into a bankrupt poverty-stricken and crime-stricken third-world country.) https://www.pjstar.com/news/20181201/statehouse-insider-nothing-like-outgoing-governor-offering-be-afraid-as-parting-words
LIFE SITE NEWS
— Wheaton College students claim black pro-lifer’s talk made people of color feel ‘unsafe’ – Dorothy Cummings McLean https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christian-college-students-claim-black-pro-lifers-talk-made-people-of-color (FROM THE ARTICLE: Three student officials at a Christian college have alleged that an African-American speaker made other people of color feel “unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe” with his pro-life talk. Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation gave a presentation entitled “Black Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb” at the evangelical Wheaton College on November 14. He was the guest of the Wheaton College Republicans. Bomberger’s talk touched on the “hypocrisy” of the BLM leadership in announcing its solidarity with Planned Parenthood, the “leading killer of black lives.” In response to Bomberger’s interactive talk, Lauren Rowley, Wheaton’s student body president, Tyler Waaler, the student body vice-president, and Sammy Shields, the “EVP” of the college’s Community Diversity, signed an email directed to the entire college claiming that Bomberger’s talk distressed “many” people of color. “As many of you know, a special interest club hosted an event on Wednesday night titled, ‘Black Lives Matter: In and Outside the Womb.’ The speaker of this event, Ryan Bomberger, made several comments at the event that deeply troubled members of our community. His comments, surrounding the topic of race, made many students, staff, and faculty of color feel unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe on our campus,” they wrote. Without supplying any examples, Rowley, Waaler, and Shields called Bomberger’s opinions “offensive rhetoric” and suggested that they “compromised” the college’s mission. “As Student Government, we are committed to the College’s mission to promoting student programming that ‘pursues unity, embraces ethnic diversity, and practices racial reconciliation so that it will contribute to the education of whole persons,’ and therefore, felt it necessary to respond to the offensive rhetoric from the speaker at this event that compromised this mission,” they stated. Bomberger, who is a biracial African American conceived in rape and then raised in a mixed-race family, responded indignantly to the allegations, saying that Rowley, Waaler, and Shields had demonized him. He said also that many students had told him that out of the three, only Shields had attended his talk. “I would think it would be against the college’s mission to intentionally mislead students,” Bomberger wrote in response to the student leaders’ backlash against him. He noted that the student leaders had not provided any evidence for what they allege. “As typical with ‘progressivism’ one only needs to make the claim of offense without allowing people to examine the alleged ‘offense.’ The Dean of Student Engagement, Steve Ivester…praised me for the way in which I approached such heavy issues. But it seems that only some people’s opinions matter,” Bomberger wrote.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— NOVEMBER 22, 1991 FLASHBACK: Reaffirming Commitment, Bush Signs Rights Bill – ANDREW ROSENTHAL (DIERSEN: Of course, my Democrat GAO superiors took this as a directive to get rid of once and for all their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.) https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/us/reaffirming-commitment-bush-signs-rights-bill.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: President Bush today signed the 1991 Civil Rights Act, hoping to end a bruising two-year fight over job discrimination, but instead found himself embroiled in a political furor over an effort within the Administration to put a conservative interpretation on the new law. Facing protests from civil rights leaders, lawmakers from both parties and members of his Cabinet, Mr. Bush this morning moved to end the uproar caused when the White House Counsel, C. Boyden Gray, circulated a draft of a directive Wednesday night that would have ended the use of racial preferences and quotas in Federal Government hiring. That draft gave rise to reports that the President would order all Federal agencies today to phase out the use of racial preferences and quotas in hiring to underscore his opposition to affirmative action. Some political opponents and those who have voiced doubt about his commitment to civil rights suggested that Mr. Bush was trying to undo by executive action what he could not achieve in his fight with Congress over the wording in the Civil Rights Act. Disputes Flare Anew Moving quickly to try to dispel that impression, Mr. Bush this morning had his press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, say that Mr. Gray had acted without his knowledge, and the White House called civil rights leaders who had been invited to the signing ceremony to assure them that the affirmative action regulations dating from 1965 were not being wiped out. Still, some of his critics raised doubts about whether Mr. Bush really intended to abandon Mr. Gray’s effort. And late in the day, controversy erupted again over another aspect of the formal signing statement that was made public after Mr. Bush signed the bill at a ceremony in the Rose Garden. Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike criticized a passage in the statement in which Mr. Bush endorsed a hotly debated interpretation of certain provisions of the new anti-discrimination law that gives employers the broadest discretion in citing “business necessity” to defend policies that exclude blacks, women and other minority groups from hiring. In his speech, which amounted to a highly unusual repudiation of a close aide and followed a chaotic overnight review of the proposed changes in Federal hiring practices, the President cast aside Mr. Gray’s language on affirmative action.) — DIERSEN HEADLINE: Constructively, an anti-Trump argues that America surrender to Mexico and to surrender the rest of the foreign countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/border-detention-tear-gas-migrants.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats want to fill America with illegals and use illegals to get rid of Republicans once and for all.
— It’s Now Donald Trump’s America. But George Bush’s Stamp Endures. – Peter Baker https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/us/politics/trump-bush-praise-history.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Peter Finch argues that your total expenses in retirement will decline as you get older because you will spend less on immediate pleasures and other discretionary items. That will not be true for me. Since 1997, when I was 49 years old, when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer,” I have spent far less on immediate pleasures and on other discretional items. My retirement income is only 43% of what my salary was in 1997 in today’s dollars. While you can cut/eliminate spending on immediate pleasures and on other discretionary items like I have done big time, you will still face ever-increasing non-discretionary expenses including taxes, medical, food, and housing.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/business/retirement/retirement-spending-calculators.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Protests in Heart of Paris Over ‘Two Frances’ Descends Into Violence – Alissa J. Rubin (DIERSEN: France today, America tomorrow. Paris today, Chicago tomorrow.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/world/europe/france-yellow-vests-protests-macron.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: ‘The List’ Controls Migrants’ Fates in Tijuana – Kirk Semple (DIERSEN: What lists were you on? While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997), I was always on my Democrat superiors’ and my Democrat supervisors’ lists of employees to get rid of. While I served as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, Milton Township Republican Central Committee(MTRCC) webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004, I was always on the lists of the following to get rid of me: those who a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the MTRCC resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid. Since my becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999 and the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have always been on the lists of the aforesaid to get rid of me.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/world/americas/caravan-migrants-tijuana-mexico.html
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Is this any way to run the Illinois Tollway? When it comes to good old-fashioned political patronage, few places compete with Democratic Chicago City Hall better than the usually Republican-run Illinois Tollway. – GREG HINZ https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/any-way-run-illinois-tollway
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, if you encourage people seek asylum in America, you are glorified and praised by individuals, by organizations, by companies, by governments, and by countries that are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181201/local-dominican-sisters-help-asylum-seekers-in-texas
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Limousine Liberalism Goes Mainstream – Scott Yenor and Jackson Yenor (DIERSEN: What percent of the voters in your neighborhood, in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, in Illinois, and in America are limousine liberals?) https://www.amgreatness.com/2018/11/30/limousine-liberalism-goes-mainstream/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: The new suburban problem defies the old logic of American politics, where we learned to expect the upwardly mobile to favor the lower taxes, limited government, and local control offered by the Republicans. Instead, the “suburban problem” appears to be limousine liberalism gone mainstream. In the 1970s, limousine liberals forced busing while sending their own kids to tony private schools. They willingly paid high taxes that crippled small business, among other things. Today’s limousine liberals have different policies, but signal their membership with similar hypocrisies. They define themselves by “values” more than by wealth, though they are mostly well off or, at least, better off than most. They bemoan the racism and other phobias in America while pricing the middle class and minorities out of their school districts; they drive SUVs; heat and air condition large mansions while worrying about global warming; they favor amnesty and open borders, benefit from its cheap labor, yet defer the costs elsewhere; they live family life in a pretty traditional way, but they are happy to embrace policies and mores that unwind the family for the less fortunate. Despite high levels of church attendance for themselves and their neighborhood friends, they worry that faithful Christians are sources of misogyny, homophobia, and patriarchal power, and they vote to undermine the role of faith in politics accordingly.)
AMERICAN THINKER
— 10 Ways to Be a Good Citizen…and Fight Bad Ones – Lynne Lechter https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/10_ways_to_be_a_good_citizenand_fight_bad_ones.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: 8. Highlight the chasm between legal and illegal alien entry into the United States. The Democrats conflate the categories in their lawless attempt to flood America with an unskilled, aggressive, and fairly anti-American underclass. Don’t let them get away with it. 9. Support President Trump. Don’t be swayed by snarky comments regarding his tone and style. He is fighting for you, a citizen. If he loses, you probably will, too. 10. Be proud. We live in the greatest country in the world. Fight for it.)
DAILY SIGNAL
— There Is No ‘Surge’ in Right-Wing Violence – David Harsanyi (DIERSEN: Trump-haters do everything that they can to promote “right-wing violence.” Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters promote hatred against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Who are the lead Trump-haters in your neighborhood, in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois? How successful have these Trump-haters been in promoting “right-wing violence?”) https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/there-is-no-surge-in-right-wing-violence/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— California Republicans see what happens when more voters vote, and they don’t like it one bit – MICHAEL HILTZIK (DIERSEN: What percent of voters are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? What percent of the aforesaid want government to promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things? What percent of the aforesaid want government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time once and for all?) https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-voters-cal-20181130-story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats and Racial Division They now play the race card in every hand—because often it works. – Editorial (DIERSEN: The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist and even worse things: Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about those in my neighborhood, in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who hint/imply/argue/shout that I am a racist and even worse things. Better yet, I should sue them.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-and-racial-division-1543621887
— It’s Time to Start Paying Your Taxes Like a Billionaire Last year’s tax overhaul means multiyear planning strategies used by wealthy Americans now make sense for many others – Laura Saunders https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-start-paying-your-taxes-like-a-billionaire-1543573801
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Guidance Warning Feds Not to Discuss ‘Resistance’ or ‘Impeachment’ at Work Sparks Uproar – Charles S. Clark (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government and virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Of course, because they want to freely demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans without worrying about violating the Hatch Act, they do everything that they can a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of Republicans.) https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2018/11/guidance-warning-feds-not-discuss-resistance-or-impeachment-work-sparks-uproar/153180/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— BRINKMAN: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF ILLINOIS’ ONCE-DEPENDABLE DUPAGE REPUBLICAN PARTY https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/11/the-rise-and-decline-of-the-dupage-republican-party.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: When James “Pate” Philip left as DuPage party chair in 2003 he left it with half a million dollars. Without their long time leader the DuPage GOP quickly fragmented into the nine individual township organizations who learned to fend for themselves. The money quickly dwindled and was never replenished. Neither were these organizations created equal in their ability or resources to fend for themselves. The lasting coup of the 2010 redistricting map is that it took those districts that followed GOP organizational lines and smashed them up. Local Republican organizations long used to having one representative and one senator now suddenly had five or six in some cases. To be required to focus on too much is to focus on nothing at all. This has undone local efforts to bolster candidates. Tea Parties admirably tried to pick up some of this slack as have larger more well-heeled groups like that of Dan Proft. Tactical victories partially explain the decline, but not the broader trends. While the township organizations helped slow the decline they were not the essential force in DuPage’s rise to preeminence. How then was the county so effective at its peak? Was it all just demographics as some would argue, or purely leadership? Surely both played a role, however one feature absent over the decline of the DuPage party was its massive and systematic outreach during its peak. The county GOP sent a quarterly newsletter to each and every voter. A substantial portion of what was raised every year and at massive events (like the one where Nancy Louise met Pate) went to their distribution. These efforts helped to educate all voters and especially newer ones to see why conservative governance was essential first at the local level, then at the state level. Before they knew it, they had become reliable Republican voters!)
CAPITOL FAX
— The governor talks about the election and the future of the ILGOP https://capitolfax.com/2018/11/30/the-governor-talks-about-the-election-and-the-future-of-the-ilgop/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: Though he criticized Democrats, Rauner also said his own party needs to take a look at itself post-election. When asked who should lead the Illinois Republican Party, Rauner did not give a direct answer. “Well, we have a chairman, Tim Schneider and a co-chairman,” Rauner said, referring to the newly ousted Cook County Commissioner, whom he handpicked to lead the party, and conservative Lake County GOP Chairman Mark Shaw, who led a quasi-coup of the party leadership in May. “We have some wonderful elected officials who are Republicans,” the governor continued. “We have major donors and funders who are proud Republicans and I think it’s going to be an appropriate process for the Republican party to do some reflection and some discussion about where we go as a party and where we go as a state and lay out a vision for the future. Clearly, changes are needed. Clearly, improvements are needed.”)
— So far, the transition is going smoothly https://capitolfax.com/2018/11/30/so-far-the-transition-is-going-smoothly/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Federal workers warned: Advocating Trump impeachment not allowed until second term – Steven Nelson (DIERSEN: Of course, because I have always been a Republican, my Democrat superiors, Democrat supervisors, Democrat coworkers, and Democrat subordinates in the federal government always treated me like I was a member of the Republican “deep state.” They always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I frustrated their efforts a) to hire, retain, and promote young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) to make way for them by getting rid of employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.) https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/federal-workers-warned-advocating-trump-impeachment-not-allowed-until-second-term
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The memo was highlighted by the group American Oversight, which is calling on the OSC to rescind the guidance. “With the Trump administration already corruptly trying to root out the ‘deep state,’ the OSC should not empower Trump appointees to target people who ‘resist’ administration policies like family separation,” the advocacy group said in a statement.)
TOWNHALL
— Liberals Want America To Go Borderless – Ilana Mercer https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/11/30/liberals-want-america-to-go-borderless-n2536777
— The Religion of Leftism – Allie Stuckey https://townhall.com/columnists/alliestuckey/2018/11/30/the-religion-of-leftism-n2536798 (FROM THE ARTICLE: Over the last decade, America has moved drastically to the left. Not only are more people on the left than ever before, the left is further left than it’s ever been. This radical brand of progressivism has come to be known as “leftism”—an extreme yet increasingly dominant segment of the political spectrum. At the same time, America has grown more secular. According to Pew, “religious nones” are rapidly growing in number. These “nones” are most concentrated among millennials: 36% of millennials are religiously unaffiliated. Millennials happen to also be America’s most politically progressive generation. This probably isn’t a coincidence, especially since the same trends have occurred in a similar way in other parts of the world, such as Europe. While correlation doesn’t prove causation, politics and religion are so closely related that it’s hard to believe the simultaneous popularization of extreme leftism and secularism is insignificant.)
(FROM THE ARTICLE: NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations told Breitbart: I don’t ever recall seeing a formal agreement between Congressional staff and employers to draft legislation to increase employers’ access to cheap, foreign labor….Donald Trump won the White House by running on a pro-American-worker immigration message, but his party lost control of the House during the midterms by abandoning that message. This agreement is evidence that Republicans haven’t learned from their recent election losses.)
CAMPUS REFORM
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC, TREASONOUS: UC-Berkeley student gov unanimously approves resolution to fund migrant caravan – Celine Ryan https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11579
WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters promote hatred not only against of Trump, but hatred against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/how-online-hate-speech-is-fueling-real-life-violence/
FED SMITH
— Federal Employees Warned Not to ‘#Resist’ Trump Administration While on Duty – Ian Smith (DIERSEN: Of course, because I have always been a Republican, my Democrat superiors, Democrat supervisors, Democrat coworkers, and Democrat subordinates in the federal government always treated me like I was a member of the Republican “deep state.” They always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I frustrated their efforts a) to hire, retain, and promote young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) to make way for them by getting rid of employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.) https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/11/30/federal-employees-warned-not-resist-trump-administration-duty/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: One agency that gained particular attention was the Environmental Protection Agency since it was the target of numerous budget cuts by the Trump administration. FOIA lawsuits were filed seeking evidence of the existence of a “deep state” within the EPA, and the agency even was conducting its own investigation into whether employees were sending encrypted text messages after news reports surfaced saying it was taking place within the agency.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Why are we so sad? – Mona Charen (DIERSEN: What discourages you from being happy? For me, it is seeing the success that Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs are having in my neighborhood, in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois in getting rid of individuals, organizations, and companies that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/mona-charen-suicide-loneliness-sadness-life-expectancy-drug-overdose/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tollway reform rollout takes back seat to political firing brouhaha – Marni Pyke https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181129/tollway-reform-rollout-takes-back-seat-to-political-firing-brouhaha (FROM THE ARTICLE: Controversy erupted at the Illinois tollway Thursday as Executive Director Liz Gorman pushed back against allegations of politically motivated “firings” and said one administrator’s exit was a cause of celebration. The blowup coincided with the agency’s rollout of new ethics procedures prepared in response to concerns about potential favoritism regarding contracts and hiring. “The tollway is a well-run, transparent organization, but we can always look for better ways and better practices,” Chairman Robert Schillerstrom said. However, Director Joseph Gomez criticized the ethics report for failing to address “what might be considered political firings.” Gomez said high-ranking managers in communications and human resources were terminated this year and told “the toll road was headed in a different direction.” “I don’t find that a good reason to fire senior members of the toll road staff,” Gomez said. “What was the ‘new direction’ at the tollway?” Gorman told Gomez, “If you’re inferring that I’m a woman and can’t handle it, I don’t appreciate it and that’s not the case.” “I don’t believe in firing people. They fire themselves,” she said. And when one department head left this spring, “I believe the building was in (unison) in singing, ‘Ding, dong, the witch is dead,'” Gorman said. At that point, Senior Assistant Attorney General Robert Lane admonished Gorman and board members that personnel discussions should occur in executive session. “I am so sorry you would think that anybody is disparaging you because of being a female,” Gomez told Gorman. “There are no political firings,” Schillerstrom clarified, adding personnel issues are handled by tollway executives, not board members.)
— Foster: I won’t support Pelosi as speaker without a succession plan – Katlyn Smith https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181129/foster-i-wont-support-pelosi-as-speaker-without-a-succession-plan
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump has an unethical inner circle because he wants unethical jobs done.” While I worked for GAO, to get promoted to GS-14, currently $113,920/year, you had to agree to unethically help get rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made GS-13, currently $96,403/year, by age 25. https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20181130/trump-has-an-unethical-inner-circle-because-he-wants-unethical-jobs-done
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— Why Illinois Is the Mecca of Black Political Power Underwood’s win in an overwhelmingly white district yet again shows Illinois’s openness to electing black politicians. – EDWARD MCCLELLAND (DIERSEN: Underwood won because of Democrat success in a) promoting hatred against Trump and b) getting voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrats.) http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2018/Why-Illinois-Is-the-Mecca-of-Black-Political-Power/
DAILY CALLER
— GOOGLE EMPLOYEES DEBATED BURYING CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IN SEARCH – Peter Hasson (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always done everything that they can a) to bury GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) to bury www.gopillinois.com. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican to give them standing to destroy conservatives like me.) https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/google-censorship-conservative-media/
— TRUMP’S GREAT WALL BECOMES TRUMP’S GREAT STALL – ANN COULTER https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/trump-great-wall-great-stall/
GOPUSA
— California governor-elect wants more money to help illegal caravan (DIERSEN: Will California be the first state to leave the United States and joint up with Mexico?) http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60231
— Migrant caravan mostly standard illegal aliens, not asylum seekers http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60126
NEW YORK TIMES
— Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work – Charlie Savage (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the many times that my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government asked me questions to confirm that I oppose promoting a) dependency on government, b) dependency on charity, c) LGBTQ activity, d) abortion, e) mass/illegal immigration, f) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, g) patronage, h) political affiliation discrimination, i) reverse discrimination, j) age discrimination, k) retaliation, l) etc. They used my opposition to the aforesaid to justify their wasting my career and getting rid of me.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/federal-employees-hatch-act-trump-impeachment.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear a) that they do NOT want jobs and b) that they WANT dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to use government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/american-economy-working-class.html
— Border Drug Cases Hit 20-Year Low as Prosecutors Focused on Migrants – Richard A. Oppel Jr. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/drugs-border-migrants-zero-tolerance.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: The ‘Green Dimension’: Inside the Lives of California’s Marijuana Trimmers
Each autumn, young people flock to Northern California to find temporary work pruning cannabis bound for the state’s legal dispensaries, or black markets as far away as the East Coast. – Dan Levin https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/marijuana-trimmers-emerald-triangle.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The ABA Strikes Back After a demotion from Trump, the lawyers guild smears judicial nominees. – Kimberley A. Strassel (DIERSEN: Who views you as being a Trump supporter? What if Trump demoted the professional association(s) that you are/were a member of, the organizations that you are/were a member of, the school(s) that you graduated from, the employer(s) that you work/worked for, etc.? From what I see, if Trump demoted them, those who dominate the following would smear me to strike back at Trump: Illinois CPA Society, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Government Accountants, National Association of Certified Financial Services Auditors, National Association of Forensic Accountants, Milton Township Republican Central Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants, Crete-Monee High School, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, IIT, Post Office, IRS, GAO, etc. Those who dominate the aforesaid view me as being a Trump supporter.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aba-strikes-back-1543534905
— FRONT PAGE: OK, Computer: How Much Is My House Worth? Proposed regulations would allow the majority of homes to be bought and sold without being appraised by a human – Ryan Dezember and Cezary Podkul https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-computer-how-much-is-my-house-worth-1543492800
— I Learned to Love Standardized Tests They don’t have to be basic, boring or biased. A good question provokes deep engagement. – Mathina Calliope (DIERSEN: What standardized tests have you passed? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I passed standardized tests because those tests favored those who shared my demographics. I passed standardized tests to earn three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), two job-related professional certifications (1979 and 1981), a job-related bachelor’s degree (1970), job offers from IRS (1971) and the Post Office (1966), etc.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-learned-to-love-standardized-tests-1543534599
— The Immigrant-Unicorn Connection Most billion-dollar startups have foreign-born founders. – Stuart Anderson https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-immigrant-unicorn-connection-1543534312
NBC5
— Federal Agents Search Ald. Ed Burke’s Offices, Paper Over Doors Burke is the longest-serving alderman in Chicago history, elected in 1969, and chairs the powerful Finance Committee – Carol Marin, Don Moseley and Shelby Bremer https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/ed-burke-chicago-501553981.html
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Big financial names put financial muscle behind paid internships for low-income students – LISA BERTAGNOLI (DIERSEN: While you were earning your undergraduate degree, were you a low income student? I was not. I delivered mail part-time 1966-1969 and worked part-time on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970. That, along with my parents providing me room and board 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester in 1969, and the summer of 1969, enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.) https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/big-financial-names-put-financial-muscle-behind-paid-internships-low-income
GOPUSA
— Trump ‘totally willing’ to shut down government over $5B target for border wall funding http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60109
— Barbra Streisand accuses Donald Trump of misogyny as she attacks female GOP voters http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60121
WRAL
— GOP governors minimize Trump impact on midterm losses – AP (DIERSEN: In Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Glen Ellyn, and in Wheaton, Republican candidates lost on November 6, 2018 because of Democrat success a) in promoting hatred of Trump and b) in getting voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrats. In my precinct, Trump got only 21 votes in the 2016 Republican primary and he got only 137 votes in the 2016 General Election.) https://www.wral.com/gop-governors-minimize-trump-impact-on-midterm-losses/18028894/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— House Dems to probe whether Trump ‘nationalist’ claims fueling hate crimes – Stephen Dinan (DIERSEN: What percent of anti-Americans in the world, in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, in your precinct, and in your neighborhood are also, anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? Birds of a feather flock together.) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/27/jerry-nadler-demands-trump-administration-answers-/
BREITBART
— GOP Cuts Deal with Business Lobby for 2X Importation of Foreign Workers – John Binder (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, big employers talk and/or act like they are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/27/report-gop-cuts-deal-with-business-lobby-for-2x-importation-of-foreign-workers/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican Senators have reportedly cut a deal with the business lobby to more than double the annual importation of low-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. to take blue-collar American jobs. Every year, the U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. The H-2B visa program is used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.)
— The Real ‘Voter Suppression’ in 2018 Came from Big Tech – Allum Bokhari https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/27/bokhari-the-real-voter-suppression-in-2018-came-from-big-tech/
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Compares Central America to Nazi Germany – John Nolte https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-compares-central-america-nazi-germany/
— House Democrats to Investigate ‘White Nationalism’ – Joel Pollak (DIERSEN: What percent of anti-Whites in the world, in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, in your precinct, and in your neighborhood are also anti-American, anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? Birds of a feather flock together.) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/27/house-democrats-to-investigate-white-nationalism/
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doubles Down: ‘On the Right Side of History’ Linking Migrant Caravan to Holocaust – Warner Todd Huston https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-attacks-sebastian-gorka-twitter/
HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps hint/imply/argue/shout a) that GOD is anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that GOD wants Democrats to get rid of once and for all those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christians-decry-trump-administration-children-tear-gas-border_us_5bfc5156e4b0771fb6bcdec6
NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, if you disagree with or criticize someone who is a minority and/or a female, anti-Trumps call you a racist, a sexist, and even worse things. Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps want political parties to only back candidates who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-iq-republicans-opinionated-women-1233647
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— OPM can help agencies with performance evaluation, but agency isn’t the problem – Jeff Neal (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government used the extreme subjectivity in their performance evaluation systems a) to retain and promote their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger and b) to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.) https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2018/11/2150662/
CBS2
— Record Number Of Latinos In Congress (DIERSEN: What are your demographics? Of those who will be representing you in Congress, that is, Durbin, Duckworth, and your newly elected Congressman, too what extend do they share your demographics, most importantly, your political affiliation?) https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/11/27/record-number-of-latinos-congress/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— State Representative Stephanie A. Kifowit, D-Aurora, tries ‘to clarify’ Legionnaire’s death wish for Republican’s relatives – Tina Sfondeles https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/democrat-kifowit-apologizes-legionnaires-death-republicans-relatives-quincy/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: After Kifowit’s remarks, state Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, quickly came to Breen’s defense saying the Aurora Democrat “essentially wished a death on a Republican floor speaker.” “How dare you. How dare you concoct up some sort of story about brewing up some batch of Legionella and having him feed it to his family. How dare you take the discussion and the debate about a very serious bill that has a huge cost consequence on both sides, both for the victim and the state taxpayers. How dare you take an honest debate about an issue and then wish death on my colleague Peter Breen, his wife and his two adopted kids,” Ives said.)
— No ‘skullduggery,’ lawyers vow, after judge OKs scrutiny of Madigan’s HQ – Tina Sfondeles https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/madigan-gonzales-lawsuit-pulaski-headquarters-inspection-skullduggery-lawyers-sham-candidates/
DAILY HERALD
— Milton Township trustee fills state Senate seat in wake of Nybo’s resignation – Justin Kmitch https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181127/milton-twp-trustee-fills-state-senate-seat-in-wake-of-nybos-resignation (FROM THE ARTICLE: The first Indian-American to serve in the state Senate, Yadav “Nick” Nathwani, was sworn in Tuesday to fill the remaining term of former Republican state Sen. Chris Nybo of Elmhurst, who resigned Nov. 15. Nathwani, a 35-year-old Milton Township trustee, will represent the 24th District until Jan. 9, when Democrat Suzie Glowiak, who defeated Nybo on Nov. 6, will be sworn in. . .Nybo quietly resigned on Nov. 15 in an email to DuPage County Republican Chairman Brian Krajewski and Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady. In his email, Nybo suggested a member of his staff fill the seat. “As we discussed, I am resigning from the Illinois State Senate. I believe that my district director, Laura Fitzpatrick, could more than capably serve the remainder of my term and assist with winding down our office operations,” Nybo wrote. “I appreciate that you also share that belief, and that you have agreed to support her appointment to serve the remainder of my term.” Both Nybo and Fitzpatrick declined to comment Tuesday on Nathwani’s appointment and the apparent change in plans. “Yadav will be a great state Senator for the 24th District during the upcoming veto session,” Krajewski said in a written statement Tuesday. “As a Milton Township trustee, Yadav knows the difficult issues facing West suburban residents.”)
— DuPage County approves $433.8 million budget with some cuts, no tax hike – Robert Sanchez https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181127/dupage-county-approves-4338-million-budget-with-some-cuts-no-tax-hike
— Residents endure power outages with camping gear, generators, help from friends – Marie Wilson and Russell Lissau https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181127/residents-endure-power-outages-with-camping-gear-generators-help-from-friends
— Out on a limb with storm-damaged trees? Here are some tips – Marni Pyke https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181127/out-on-a-limb-with-storm-damaged-trees-here-are-some-tips
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Building the Wall and Making the Democrats Pay for It The crisis at the border sets up a pitched battle between President Trump and the new Democratic House. – W. JAMES ANTLE III (DIERSEN: Of course, those who encourage illegal immigration, that is, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs, should pay for the Wall.) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/building-the-wall-and-making-the-democrats-pay-for-it/
MEDIA MATTERS
— Right-wing sources dominated migrant caravan coverage on Facebook and YouTube – NATALIE MARTINEZ (DIERSEN: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs DO NOT WANT ME TO INCLUDE LINKS IN GOPUSA ILLINOIS EMAILS TO NEWS AND COMMENTARY THAT PROMOTE THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY, RIGHT TO LIFE, IMMIGRATION, SECOND AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL DRUGS, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (NO RACE OR GENDER BASED PREFERENCE GIVING), AND OTHER PLANKS IN THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM.) https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/27/study-right-wing-sources-dominated-migrant-caravan-coverage-facebook-and-youtube/222159
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Record 21 candidates file for mayor The 21 people running for Emanuel’s job is the highest tally since at least 1901, but downtown aldermen Brian Hopkins and Brendan Reilly are unopposed, and Walter Burnett faces only one challenger. – GREG HINZ https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/record-21-candidates-file-mayor
OUR QUAD CITIES
— Iowa & Illinois able to pursue partisan agendas Illinois has bigger challenges of deficit, pensions and taxes – Jim Niedelman (DIERSEN: In Illinois, Democrats will promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things. They will do everything that they can to drive out of Illinois individuals, organizations, and companies that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, draft avoiders, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/4-the-record/iowa-illinois-able-to-pursue-partisan-agendas/1619491937
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Perfidy of Illinois’ Public Payrolls – Steve Cortes (DIERSEN: I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.) https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/26/the_perfidy_of_illinois_public_payrolls_138742.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: I grew up in Park Forest, Ill., a working-class suburb of Chicago. In my youth, Park Forest was pleasantly middle-class — a solid community of well-kept lawns, strong churches, and active sports. Unfortunately for my hometown, times have been tough over the years, reflected by a jobless rate about twice the national one and a poverty rate 43 percent higher than the state of Illinois average. As a consequence, Park Forest has lost almost a third of its peak population of 30,000 since the 1970s. But like many such struggling communities, one class of people has found a way to prosper: public employees. Recently, Fox affiliate Channel 32 and Open the Books detailed the exorbitant pay package for part-time interim school Superintendent Joyce Carmine. She retired in 2017 making $398,000 annually, the highest-paid superintendent in Illinois, in a community where the median household income is $44,000. She will receive, courtesy of taxpayers, a pension of just under $300,000 for the rest of her life. Adding insult to injury, the school district hired this retiree back as a consultant at the rate of $1,200 per day for a total of 100 days, bringing her pay this year to $419,000 total for part-time work. Given the modest $75,000 median home price in Park Forest, her salary equates to 5.5 home purchases…per year.)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump: ‘I don’t believe’ government climate report finding – SETH BORENSTEIN and ZEKE MILLER https://apnews.com/c1dfca3088b448d398ddc27ffa8dedbf
— Defeated Republican Rep. Mia Love delivers rebuke to Trump – LINDSAY WHITEHURST (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Who loves those who rebuke Trump? ANSWER: Those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, anti-GM, anti-Ford, anti-Chrysler, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://www.apnews.com/7e8302adeabd46d38bcc10de8a462785
EDUCATION WEEK
— Why Are We So Uninformed? We Don’t Read What We Share – Peter DeWitt (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who ascribe bad judgment and/or evil motive to everything that I do, and especially to the decisions that I make a) to include or to not include links to articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) to comment on articles linked in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. They blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems. They blame me for all defeats that Republican candidates have suffered in Illinois since 2000, and especially for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct. What arguments will they make to blame me for the defeats suffered by candidates on the November 6, 2018 ballot in my precinct?) https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2018/11/why_are_we_so_uninformed_we_dont_read_what_we_share.html (FROM THE ARTICLE: Many people share articles that they actually don’t read, which contributes to a great deal of chaos on their social-media pages. In fact, this Forbes Magazine article cites research that shows that 59% of us share articles we never read. . .The reality seems to be that people don’t read the articles they share because they care less about the content of the article and more about what sharing the article does for them.)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Chris Nybo has resigned from his 24th District Illinois Senate seat and Yadav “Nick” Nathwani has been selected to fill the remainder of Nybo’s term. Nathwani lives in Glen Ellyn, is a Milton Township Trustee, and is the newly elected Vice Chairman of the Milton Township Republican Central Committee. The 24th District includes some or all of the following communities: Addison, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, Lombard, Villa Park, Oak Brook, Oak Brook Terrace, Elmhurst, Hinsdale, Westmont, Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Western Springs, and Lisle. – Dave Diersen http://www.gopillinois.com
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County will have at least three contested mayoral races – Robert Sanchez https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181126/dupage-county-will-have-at-least-three-contested-mayoral-races (FROM THE ARTICLE: Wheaton Voters in Wheaton will choose between two contenders vying to succeed Mayor Michael Gresk, who is stepping down after three terms. City Councilman Phil Suess officially entered the mayoral race on the last day of candidate filing, though he confirmed his campaign months ago. His council colleague and opponent in the mayoral race, John Prendiville, turned in his nominating petitions when the filing period opened a week ago. Three candidates — incumbent Suzanne Fitch and newcomers Ron Almiron and Erica Bray-Parker — will square off for two available at-large council seats. Nominating papers were filed last Monday on behalf of Fitch and Almiron, an attorney who finished out of contention in a crowded GOP primary last spring for two District 4 seats on the county board. Erica Bray-Parker also filed last Monday for an at-large council seat. Bray-Parker has been a civics teacher at Glenbard North High School for 25 years and lived in Wheaton for more than two decades. Four council members represent the city’s four voting districts, while two members and the mayor are elected at-large. Suess, a partner in an investment consulting firm, ran unopposed last year to retain his seat representing the North District. His fourth term on the council doesn’t expire until 2021. Prendiville served on the council from 2007 to 2011 and again since 2013 after an unsuccessful run to unseat Gresk as mayor. He is the managing director and senior managing counsel for The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., a firm that acts as a trustee for municipal bond issues.)
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s collar counties no longer GOP turf The final election totals underline that Democratic wins weren’t just at the top of the ticket, but for key county-level jobs, too. – GREG HINZ https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/chicagos-collar-counties-no-longer-gop-turf (FROM THE ARTICLE: Political insiders are divided over how much of this has to do with a drag on the ticket from the locally unpopular President Donald Trump and Gov. Bruce Rauner, with the latter losing to Democrat J.B. Pritzker in all but McHenry County. But when even long-time entrenched GOP incumbents like DuPage County Board President Dan Cronin barely survive, something is different. In DuPage, which for decades was the center of GOP statewide politics, Cronin got just 51.02 percent of the vote against his Democratic foe, according to unofficial but complete totals compiled by the county’s election commission. Democrats took the county clerk’s spot and apparently will have seven seats on the county board, up from just one now. All of that comes on top of Democratic U.S. Reps. Dan Lipinski, Mike Quigley, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Bill Foster, and Reps.-elect Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood, each leading the ballot in that portion of their districts located in DuPage.)
DOWNERS GROVE PATCH
— Casten Slams ‘Shameful’ Use Of Tear Gas At Border Crossing The recently elected representative said, “Seeking asylum is not a crime.” – Lisa Marie Farver (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Americans side with foreign countries and with their citizens.) https://patch.com/illinois/downersgrove/casten-slams-shameful-use-tear-gas-border-crossing
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— GAO: OPM Failing to Guide Feds in Performance Management – Darwin McDaniel (DIERSEN: I should write a book about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors used the subjectivity in their performance management systems a) to retain and promote their Democrat employees, and especially those who were minority, female, and/or younger and b) to get rid of their Republican employees, and especially those like me who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.) https://www.executivegov.com/2018/11/gao-opm-failing-to-guide-feds-in-performance-management/
