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
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July 12, 2024 SPECIAL EDITION – SALVI ELECTED
SPECIAL EDITION – SALVI ELECTED
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Kathy Salvi Elected Chair of the Illinois Republican Party
https://illinois.gop/kathy-salvi-elected-chair-of-the-illinois-republican-party/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Today, The State Central Committee of the Illinois Republican Party elected Kathy Salvi as the next Chair by acclimation, with a start date of July 19th in accordance with outgoing Chairman Don Tracy’s resignation. Chairman Tracy released the following statement following the election of the new Chair: “Congratulations to Kathy Salvi for taking on this challenging yet important position to build a brighter future for Illinois. Republicans in this state are united behind President Trump and understand that the Biden/Pritzker agenda is wrong for our families. We will show in Milwaukee this week that we are unified in purpose – to make this state and this country great once again with a message of hope and prosperity for the future.”)
— Illinois Republican Chairwoman-Elect Kathy Salvi Statement
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Following today’s vote by acclamation to elect Kathy Salvi as the next Chair of the Illinois Republican Party, the Chairwoman-Elect released the following statement: “It is an honor to be recognized by my fellow Illinois Republicans as the next Chair of the Illinois Republican Party. As we prepare to nominate the next President of the United States, Illinois stands as a testament to what Democrat governance can do: out of control cost of living, rampant crime, and rife with corruption. Illinois Republicans will stand and fight for our conservative ideals and set this state, and nation, back on the right track. Thank you Chairman Tracy for your commitment to this State and our Party.”)
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— National Committeeman Richard Porter looks ahead to GOP convention as party names new state chair. – PETER HANCOCK
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/national-committeeman-richard-porter-looks-ahead-to-gop-convention-as-party-names-new-state-chair
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans will gather in Milwaukee next week for what promises to be a historic national convention. Former President Donald Trump will be nominated for the third consecutive time as the party’s presidential nominee, the first major party candidate to win nomination that many times since Franklin Roosevelt. And if he’s successful in the fall campaign, he’ll be the first American president since Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms. But amid the speeches, the cheerleading, the flag-waving and balloons, the Illinois Republican Party hopes for an opportunity to send its own message to the nation. “We want people to see a party that’s on the swing up,” Richard Porter, the state party’s national committeeman, told Capitol News Illinois during a podcast interview this week. “We’ve been in a long dry spell.” This year will mark Porter’s third convention as national committeeman, a senior post within the state party and a post he has held since 2014 (2010?). He and National Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte serve as the state party’s representatives to the Republican National Committee, as well as the RNC’s liaisons with state and local GOP organizations. It can be a difficult job in a reliably Democratic state like Illinois, where no Republican presidential candidate has won since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Democrats currently hold all statewide elected offices, both U.S. Senate seats, 13 of the state’s 17 seats in the U.S. House, and supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. This year in particular, though, Porter said Illinois Republicans need to make a positive impression because just a few weeks after the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker will play host to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “And so we’d like to show what the future of Illinois can be,” Porter said. “A future of freedom and renewal, where Illinois becomes a place where you want to raise a family again, build a business. Because right now people are leaving. And there’s no reason why that should be. Illinois is the heart of the country and has all sorts of natural advantages. It’s just not been governed well.” This year’s convention, however, comes at a challenging time for the state party. On June 21, less than a month before the start of the convention, state party chairman Don Tracy announced his plans to resign from that job by the end of the convention due to “intra party power struggles, and local intra party animosities.” “In better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intra party elections,” Tracy said in his announcement. “Now however, we have Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats by convincing swing voters to vote Republican.” During a closed-door meeting Friday, party officials met and elected Kathy Salvi, of Mundelein, as the new chair beginning July 19, the day after the RNC concludes. Salvi, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate against Democrat Tammy Duckworth in 2022, was chosen over two other candidates for the job: state Rep. John Cabello, of Machesney Park; and Aaron Del Mar, of Palatine, a party activist who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor in 2022. Tracy struck a different tone in a Friday statement, congratulating Salvi and saying the party is “united behind President Trump.” “We will show in Milwaukee this week that we are unified in purpose – to make this state and this country great once again with a message of hope and prosperity for the future,” he said in the statement. At the national level, meanwhile, Republicans also face a unique challenge with their nominee, who will be the first convicted felon to win a major party’s presidential nomination. Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony charges for paying hush money to cover up a prior affair with the adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump has also been indicted on other felony charges stemming from his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and the mishandling of classified documents. Much like Trump himself has done, however, Porter brushed aside those issues as politically motivated. “I think they’re all seen as being part of a broader plan, which is to try to use the legal system to squelch political competition,” he said. “They recognize that Donald Trump has an enormous appeal, particularly with constituencies the Democrats used to (attract) such as labor, such as the Hispanic community, such as the Black community.” Listen to the full interview with Richard Porter on Capitol Cast wherever you get your podcasts. ( https://soundcloud.com/user-592090129-621623053/richard-porter-on-the-rnc-capitol-cast-july-12-2024 ).)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Time for a reset? Illinois Republicans enter GOP convention with a new leader — and old divisions. The convention will mark a coming-out party for Kathy Salvi, who faces the challenge of rebuilding a party incrementally decimated by failed statewide campaigns, division within its ranks — and Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s vast fortune bolstering Democratic supermajorities. – Tina Sfondeles and Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/12/republican-national-convention-milwaukee-illinois-gop-reset-kathy-salvi
DAILY HERALD
— Republican Party names Kathy Salvi state chair; National Committeeman Richard Porter looks ahead to GOP convention.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240712/news/republican-party-names-kathy-salvi-state-chair-national-committeeman-richard-porter-looks-ahead-to/
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— After Contentious State Party Convention, Illinois GOP Names Kathy Salvi As New Chair. Palatine Republican Committeeman Aaron Des Mar, 1 Of 3 Chair Finalists, Says Salvi Will ‘Help Heal Party’ – Tom Robb
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/after-contentious-state-party-convention-illinois-gop-names-kathy-salvi-as-new-chair/
ABC7
— Kathy Salvi elected new Illinois Republican chair after Don Tracy’s resignation
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-republican-party-elects-kathy-salvi-new-chair/15054462/
WGN9
— Illinois Republican Party elects Kathy Salvi as new chair. – Lourdes Duarte, Alonzo Small
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/illinois-republican-party-elects-kathy-salvi-as-new-chair/
FOX32
— Illinois GOP selects Kathy Salvi as new state chairwoman. – Paris Schutz
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-gop-kathy-salvi-chairwoman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8W2jA_TQ-I
WTTW
— Illinois Republicans Select Kathy Salvi as New State Party Chair – Erica Demarest
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/12/illinois-republicans-select-kathy-salvi-new-state-party-chair
LAKE FOREST PATCH
— Former Candidate For Senate, Congress Picked As New Chair Of Illinois Republican Party. Following Don Tracy’s resignation, Illinois GOP officials selected a new leader ahead of next week’s Republican National Convention. – Jonah Meadows
https://patch.com/illinois/lakeforest/new-illinois-republican-party-chair-be-picked-three-finalists
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-118/
(FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF ILLINOIS: “We are not surprised to see the ILGOP pick a far-right extremist to sit at the head of their party. However, we are surprised that they chose someone whose draconian views on abortion will almost certainly drag down their entire Republican ticket. The ILGOP is littered with anti-abortion extremists, but it is now chaired by someone who once opposed abortions for victims of rape, saying, ‘abortion only adds insult to injury.’ The election of Kathy Salvi is not just a threat to the ILGOP’s ill-fated ticket, but to women all across our state. Kathy Salvi’s extreme stances on healthcare, immigration, and women’s rights are fundamentally at odds with the values of Illinois working families. Salvi will fit right in with the modern-day ILGOP as she is no stranger to losing elections. We defeated Kathy Salvi and MAGA extremism across Illinois in 2022, and we are more determined than ever to combat the ILGOP’s far-right agenda at the ballot box this November. While the ILGOP is in turmoil, we are focused on electing leaders who will enhance access to affordable healthcare, defend reproductive rights, and promote inclusive policies that benefit all Illinoisans.” MILLER: Kathy Salvi, who was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for U.S. Senate against Sen. Tammy Duckworth in 2022, has consistently aligned herself with far-right ideologies that Illinois voters have repeatedly rejected. Her failed Senate run underscores the state’s rejection of her regressive policies. Now, as the new ILGOP Chair, Salvi’s leadership threatens to drag the party even further into the depths of extremism, away from the values that define our diverse and inclusive state.)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Here’s how Milwaukee — a heavily Democratic city — is feeling about welcoming thousands of Republicans for the party’s convention. – ROBERT CHIARITO and MITCH SMITH
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/milwaukee-democrats-republican-national-convention/
— Pro-Palestine DNC protesters win route within ‘sight and sound’ of convention, but still want tweaks. – JASON MEISNER and JAKE SHERIDAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/pro-palestine-dnc-protesters-win-route-within-sight-and-sound-of-convention-but-still-want-tweaks/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/illinois-touts-diversity-in-pot-industry-but-new-owners-say-they-need-financial-help/
ABC7
— Trump taps celebrities to speak at RNC, including Savannah Chrisley and Dana White
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-taps-celebrities-speak-rnc-including-savannah-chrisley/15054149/
NBC5
— Republicans use Democratic squabbles to their advantage ahead of RNC in Milwaukee. The RNC is in Wisconsin, a battleground state that political insiders see as key to winning the White House. – Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/republicans-use-democratic-squabbles-to-their-advantage-ahead-of-rnc-in-milwaukee/3487987/
WBEZ
— Democrats crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2024/07/12/young-biden-delegates-in-illinois-make-the-case-for-him-to-stay-in-the-race
SOUTHERN
— Biden’s post-debate struggles could drag down Democrats in tough races. – ABC
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/12/bidens-post-debate-struggles-could-drag-down-democrats-in-tough-races-heres-how-theyre-responding/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Polling since debate shows Trump gaining an edge over Biden. – AUSTIN DENEAN
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/polling-since-debate-shows-former-president-donald-trump-gaining-an-edge-over-president-joe-biden-2024-election-politics
ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers.
https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.30208.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— Balich on drug bust of foreign nationals: ‘Illegals are not better than citizens and do not belong here’
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/661778187-balich-on-drug-bust-of-foreign-nationals-illegals-are-not-better-than-citizens-and-do-not-belong-here
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO SCHOOL SPENDING NEARLY DOUBLES AS SCORES DROP – Kurtis Karg
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-education-formula-is-to-spend-more-see-students-do-worse/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Doctor at center of president’s health troubles so close to Biden clan that his objectivity doubted. – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/12/doctor-at-center-of-presidents-health-troubles-so-/
— How the IRS let Trump’s tax returns be stolen. – Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: In 1977, when I had been an IRS employee for 6 years, Money Magazine selected me to be the subject of one of its “One Person’s Finances” articles because it intended to and did paint my education deductions as being improper.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/12/how-irs-let-donald-trumps-tax-returns-be-stolen/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pro-Palestinian protests set to embroil Chicago Democratic National Convention. – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3080175/pro-palestinian-protests-set-embroil-chicago-dnc/
NEW YORK POST
— With terrorists streaming in via Biden’s open borders, it’s time to repeal NY’s sanctuary-city laws. – Robert Holden
https://nypost.com/2024/07/12/opinion/with-terrorists-streaming-in-via-bidens-open-borders-its-time-to-repeal-nys-sanctuary-city-laws/
BREITBART
— The Dismantle DEI Act would eliminate such practices in the government and terminate DEI offices “throughout every single agency” in the federal government, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) said during a Wednesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily. – HANNAH KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/12/exclusive-rep-michael-cloud-dismantle-dei-act-would-target-federal-government/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Official Photos Are Full Of ‘Broad Scale Doctoring,’ Yet White House Complains About ‘Cheapfakes’ – LEENA NASIR
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/12/joe-biden-white-house-photos-broad-scale-doctoring-cheapfakes/
FOX NEWS RADIO
— NYC Shelters House 65k Illegals
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/07/12/nyc-shelters-house-65k-illegals/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FORBES
— Democrats ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lenwoodvlongsr/2024/07/12/60-years-of-progress-the-civil-rights-act-and-the-unfinished-journey/
POLITICO
— House Dem tells Biden directly: Time for someone else to lead. It happened during a virtual meeting between the president and the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the host ended it shortly after, according to a person familiar with the matter. – NICHOLAS WU and SARAH FERRIS
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/12/congress/hispanic-caucus-to-meet-with-biden-00167820
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 10, 2024
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Richard Porter, the outgoing national committeeman for the Illinois Republican Party, sent a note to GOP colleagues thanking them for their support over the past 10 years and announcing he won’t be running for party chair, a position that opened up recently. The reason: He’s been diagnosed “with a curable form of throat cancer” that will keep him off the radar for a while as he undergoes treatment. He’s talked to applicants: Porter says he’s spoken to three folks thinking of running. “Each of them have different strengths — I am confident any of them would do an excellent job..” Here’s his full letter. ( https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000190-9a28-deec-a1d1-deba1a0f0000 ) – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/10/johnson-pritzker-and-the-biden-barrage-00167248
ILLINOIZE
— Cabello jumping into race for GOP Chairman – PATRICK PFINGSTEN
https://theillinoize.substack.com/p/the-illinoize-cabello-jumping-into
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A third candidate has jumped into the race to succeed Don Tracy as Illinois Republican Party chairman. Multiple sources say Rep. John Cabello (R-Machesney Park) is making calls to members of the GOP’s State Central Committee seeking support to become party chairman.)
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Team Illinois at the RNC Summer Meeting in Milwaukee.
https://www.instagram.com/ilgop/p/C9NeY4NuaqP/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Biden gets strong backing from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson. – OLIVIA OLANDER, ALICE YIN, and JAKE SHERIDAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/09/gov-j-b-pritzker-stands-by-the-president-joe-biden-is-going-to-be-our-nominee/
— Predawn targeting of Rep. Schneider’s home wasn’t legitimate protest. It was hate. – Editorial (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attract/encourage haters to come to America.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/10/editorial-brad-schneider-gaza-israel-protesters-pritzker/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker says he’s ‘all in’ for Biden — but won’t take himself out of presidential run speculation. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday said she would not become a candidate if President Joe Biden opts out. But Pritzker, who has been on shortlists as a potential replacement, wouldn’t make the same vow. – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/09/jb-pritzker-joe-biden-debate-performance-democratic-national-convention-potential-replacements
— Pro-Palestinian group seeks larger protest route near Democratic convention as city raises safety concerns. March organizers were denied a route mostly on Washington Boulevard. The city pitched a route on smaller streets near the United Center. – Mary Norkol (COMMENT: What did your ancestors do during WWI and WWII? My grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. My father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/09/dnc-protest-march-permits-pro-palestinian-group
DAILY HERALD
— Northwest suburban Republicans think Trump will tap Tim Scott for VP – Steve Zalusky
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240709/news/northwest-suburban-republicans-think-trump-will-tap-scott-for-vp/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS OF WHITE AND KACZMAREK: Audit reveals shortcomings that led to DuPage County cannabis tax snafu. – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240709/news/audit-reveals-shortcomings-that-led-to-dupage-county-cannabis-tax-snafu/
ABC7
— Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson double down on support for President Biden’s reelection bid. Meanwhile, Congressman Mike Quigley ratcheted up his concerns.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-call-president-joe-biden/15046032/
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that the following call you an extremist: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs. Because I support all the planks in the Republican Party platform, the aforesaid have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being an extremist and even worse things.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-office-inspector-general-not-enough-being-done/15047119/
— All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had. All of the aforesaid were Democrats, 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://abc7chicago.com/post/black-womens-equal-pay-day-2024-bronzeville-celebration/15047023/
NBC5
— Pritzker offers blunt take on Biden staying in presidential race. Pritzker and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are among those linked to presidential speculation who have spoken out in recent days. – Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/gov-j-b-pritzker-offers-blunt-take-on-biden-staying-in-presidential-race/3484904/
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that the following call you an extremist: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs. Because I support all the planks in the Republican Party platform, the aforesaid have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being an extremist and even worse things.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/cpd-refuses-chicago-oig-demand-to-reopen-probe-into-officers-with-extremist-ties/3484823/
CBS2
— Illinois Democrats divided on whether President Biden should continue reelection campaign. – Charlie De Mar, Adam Harrington, Dan Kraemer
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-democrats-divided-president-biden-continue-reelection-campaign/
— Under the Democrats, more and more and more people abuse opioids.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/program-seeks-to-train-barbers-and-beauticians-to-use-narcan/
FOX32
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. It promotes a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, that is, the destruction of traditional marriage and family, c) abortion, that is, disrespect for human life, 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, reversed discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1482578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwJ4LveHOs
WTTW
— Board Yanked Convicted Ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s $96K Annual City Pension Just Minutes After Sentencing – Heather Cherone and Jared Rutecki
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/09/board-yanked-convicted-ex-ald-ed-burke-s-96k-annual-city-pension-just-minutes-after
WBEZ
— Mayor Johnson slowly builds on a campaign promise to hire more young people for city’s summer jobs program. Chicago slightly grew a youth jobs program this summer, including hiring 100 people to learn conflict resolution and relationship building. – Mariah Woelfel (COMMENT: In 1964, when I was 16 years old, to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and my part-time dishwashing job in Chicago Heights 5 miles to the north, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with money that I earned and saved doing yard work and delivering newspapers 1962-1964.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2024/07/09/mayor-johnson-slowly-builds-on-a-campaign-promise-to-hire-more-young-people-for-citys-summer-jobs-program
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats say “RNC in Milwaukee: Everything you need to know.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/rnc-in-milwaukee-everything-you-need-to-know/amp/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Ahead of the Republican Convention, Nikki Haley tells her delegates to vote for Trump. – Sarah McCammon (COMMENT: What do the Haley delegates and the Haley alternate delegates in your congressional district have to say about this? Elizabeth Roskam is/was the Haley delegate for the 3rd Congressional District and Peter Roskam is/was the alternate.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-09/ahead-of-the-republican-convention-nikki-haley-tells-her-delegates-to-vote-for-trump
— Illinois corn growers join lawsuit against EPA over vehicle emissions rules. – Colin Hardman
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2024-07-08/illinois-corn-growers-join-lawsuit-against-epa-over-vehicle-emissions-rules
WGLT
— Democrats say “Dissecting the GOP platform and what a 2nd Trump term would look like.”
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-10/dissecting-the-gop-platform-and-what-a-2nd-trump-term-would-look-like
WQRF
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-offer-spanish-cdl-exams-214459263.html
CWB CHICAGO
— Pickpockets ravaged Pride Fest and Pride Parade, with 31 thefts reported in one evening – Tim Hecke
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/07/pickpockets-ravaged-pride-fest-and-pride-parade-with-31-thefts-reported-in-one-evening.html
DURBIN
— Durbin, Duckworth Announce $30.9 Million In Federal Funding For Pace Suburban Bus’ Hybrid Buses Program (COMMENT: In 1964, when I was 16 years old, to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and my part-time dishwashing job in Chicago Heights 5 miles to the north, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with money that I earned and saved doing yard work and delivering newspapers 1962-1964.)
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-duckworth-announce-309-million-in-federal-funding-for-pace-suburban-bus-hybrid-buses-program
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-322/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-115/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about how the following treat Trump supporters: 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. Far too few of the aforesaid leaders and activists support Trump supporters. Far too many despise/hate Trump supporters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Former GOP state lawmaker Sam McCann, candidate for governor sentenced to 42 months in prison. – HANNAH MEISEL
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/former-gop-state-lawmaker-candidate-for-governor-sentenced-to-42-months-in-prison
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois lawmakers pay themselves nearly $100K for a bottom-of-the-barrel performance. – John Klingner and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-pay-themselves-nearly-100k-for-a-bottom-of-the-barrel-performance-wirepoints/
— Illinois ranks 46th, 47th on all the economic issues that really matter
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-ranks-46th-47th-on-all-the-economic-issues-that-really-matter-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO, EVANSTON LEADERS PUSH FOR NONCITIZENS TO VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS – Chris Coffey (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-evanston-leaders-push-for-noncitizens-to-vote-in-local-elections/
— CAN NONCITIZENS VOTE IN ILLINOIS? DEPENDS ON THE ELECTION – Chris Coffey (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/can-noncitizens-vote-in-illinois-depends-on-the-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois has about 425,000 noncitizens and Chicago 43,000 migrants, representing potential votes elected leaders either want or want to stop.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP no longer friend to Christians
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/letter-editor-gop-no-longer-friend-christians/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
— Pence warns against pro-life ‘surrender’ in revised RNC platform – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/mike-pence-warns-against-pro-life-surrender-in-rev/
— Biden is simply not up to being president. Democratic Party’s disasters. – Richard A. Viguerie
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/biden-is-simply-not-up-to-being-president/
— Trump at Doral rally invites Biden to golf showdown, another debate. – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/trump-invites-biden-to-golf-showdown-another-debat/
— Democratic senator Michael Bennet warns that Biden will lose to Trump, potentially in ‘landslide’ Bennet warns of down-ballot collapse that gives Republicans full control of Washington. – Lindsey McPherson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/michael-bennet-warns-biden-will-lose-trump-potenti/
— America’s armed forces have become petri dish for ‘woke’ policies, DEI nonsense. – L. Scott Lingamfelter (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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/americas-armed-forces-have-become-petri-dish-for-w/
— Hiding in plain sight: Biden’s mental, physical decline on display from the start – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/10/hiding-in-plain-sight-joe-bidens-mental-physical-d/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— It isn’t Nixon’s fault Democrats have run Chicago for a century. – Zachary Faria (COMMENT: In 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors were furious at Nixon. They took their furry out on me, one of their extremely few Republican employees.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3075339/it-isnt-nixons-fault-democrats-have-run-chicago-for-a-century/
— Brandon Johnson isn’t protecting Chicagoans. – Joseph Nepomuceno
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3075193/brandon-johnson-isnt-protecting-chicagoans/
— Chip Roy argues DEI is ‘destroying our country’ in criticism of Kamala Harris. – Asher Notheis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3075063/chip-roy-argues-dei-destroying-country-criticism-kamala-harris/
NEW YORK POST
— A vote for Biden is a vote to make Kamala Harris president all too soon. – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/opinion/a-vote-for-biden-is-a-vote-to-make-kamala-harris-president-all-too-soon/
— Biden should follow Richard Nixon’s lead: resign for the good of the country. – Daniel McCarthy
https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/opinion/biden-should-follow-richard-nixons-lead-and-courageously-resign/
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson bizarrely blames Richard Nixon for surging gun violence. (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents and what they blame me for.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSo9JNSSgM
— Trump-shaped GOP platform: Rx for economic boom in wake of Biden disasters. – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/opinion/trump-shaped-gop-platform-can-get-us-back-on-track-post-biden/
— Expecting people to be on time is part of ‘white supremacy culture,’ Duke Medical School claims. – Hannah Grossman, Maria Lencki
https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/us-news/expecting-people-to-be-on-time-is-part-of-white-supremacy-culture-duke-medical-school/
— John Bolton: Trump wants to test personal loyalty of VP candidates with two questions. – Nicholas McEntyre
https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/us-news/trump-has-two-questions-for-his-vp-candidates-john-bolton/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Blaming Nixon? – Silvio Canto, Jr.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/blaming_nixon.html
— An immigration debacle and America’s elections. – Robert Curry
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/an_immigration_debacle_and_america_s_elections.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump warns a new kind of crime is coming once hordes of Biden migrants settle in. – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/09/trump-warns-a-new-kind-of-crime-is-coming-once-hordes-of-biden-migrants-settle-in-1470972/
— ‘Fight Back. You’re The Speaker!’ Johnson runs into buzzsaw while calling out Biden on migrant voting. – Tom Tillison
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/09/fight-back-youre-the-speaker-johnson-runs-into-buzzsaw-while-calling-out-biden-on-migrant-voting-1471120/
— Prestigious medical school says ‘timeliness’, ‘dress code’ and more are part of ‘White supremacy culture’ – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/09/prestigious-medical-school-says-timeliness-dress-code-and-more-are-part-of-white-supremacy-culture-1471129/
BREITBART
— Sen. J.D. Vance Grills Fed Chair on Mass Immigration Driving Up Housing Prices While Cutting Americans’ Wages. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/09/watch-sen-j-d-vance-grills-fed-chair-on-mass-immigration-driving-up-housing-prices-while-cutting-americans-wages/
— Rep. Chip Roy: SAVE Act Adds Safeguards to Stop Non-Citizens from Voting in Federal Elections. – HANNAH KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/09/exclusive-rep-chip-roy-save-act-adds-safeguards-to-stop-non-citizens-from-voting-in-federal-elections/
— Ron Johnson: U.S. Airports Risk Being ‘Exploited Avenue for Illegal Immigration, Terrorism’ Under Biden. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/10/exclusive-ron-johnson-u-s-airports-risk-being-exploited-avenue-for-illegal-immigration-terrorism-under-biden/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump green card proposal for foreign grads of U.S. colleges draws mixed reviews. – EMMA VERRIGNI (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO employers prefer employees who are citizens of foreign countries over employees who are citizens of America.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-green-card-proposal-for-foreign-grads-of-u-s-colleges-draws-mixed-reviews/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Yes, Kamala Harris Is a DEI Hire – Ian Haworth (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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.)
https://www.creators.com/read/Ian-Haworth/07/24/yes-kamala-harris-is-a-dei-hire
DAILY SIGNAL
— House GOP Faces Down Biden Veto Threat on Halting Noncitizen Voting. – Fred Lucas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/09/house-gop-faces-down-biden-veto-threat-on-halting-noncitizen-voting/
DAILY WIRE
— Idaho Governor Cracks Down On Illegals Voting With Executive Order. Gov. Little signed the ‘Only Citizens Will Vote’ Act. – Amanda Prestigiacomo (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-state-gov-cracks-down-on-illegals-voting-with-executive-order
— Johnson Rips Biden For Saying He’ll Veto Bill Preventing Non-Citizens From Voting. – Hank Berrien (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-rips-biden-for-saying-hell-veto-bill-preventing-non-citizens-from-voting
EPOCH TIMES
— Haley Releases Delegates, Urges Them to Back Trump Ahead of RNC Convention. The former GOP presidential candidate announced in May that she will be voting for former President Trump. – Jackson Richman (COMMENT: What do the Haley delegates and the Haley alternate delegates in your congressional district have to say about this? Elizabeth Roskam is/was the Haley delegate for the 3rd Congressional District and Peter Roskam is/was the alternate.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/haley-to-release-delegates-to-trump-ahead-of-rnc-convention-5682895
FEDERALIST
— Biden’s Idea Of ‘Secure Elections’ Is Letting People Who Might Not Be Citizens Keep Voting. – BBRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/09/bidens-idea-of-secure-elections-is-letting-people-who-might-not-be-citizens-keep-voting/
— No, We Don’t Already Have ‘Effective Safeguards’ To Verify Voter Citizenship. – BRIANNA LYMAN (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/09/no-we-dont-already-have-effective-safeguards-to-verify-voter-citizenship/
— Biden’s Border Invasion Is A Daily Reminder To Reelect His Predecessor. – MARGOT CLEVELAND
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/09/bidens-border-invasion-is-a-daily-reminder-to-reelect-his-predecessor/
— There’s Only One Reason Democrats Oppose Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote. – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/10/theres-only-one-reason-democrats-oppose-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote/
FOX NEWS RADIO
— Dems Don’t Want Proof of Citizenship Requirement to Vote! (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/07/09/dems-dont-want-proof-of-citizenship-requirement-to-vote/
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ‘Sanctuary cities’ regretful: Biden border invasion hits their budgets hard, walk back sanctuary policies. – Pat Droney
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/sanctuary-cities-feeling-buyers-remorse-after-biden-border-invasion-hits-their-budgets-walk-back-sanctuary-policies
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Mike Pence Slams RNC for Ditching National Abortion Ban in Party Platform: ‘Profound Disappointment’ – JAMES LYNCH
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mike-pence-slams-rnc-for-ditching-national-abortion-ban-in-party-platform-profound-disappointment/
PJ MEDIA
— Woke activists oppose California bill making it a felony to purchase sex from children, claiming it will harm LGBTQ community, people or color. “The harsher penalties contained in this bill will disproportionately impact marginalized communities, particularly black and brown individuals who already bear the brunt of systemic biases within our criminal justice system.
https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-activists-oppose-california-bill-making-it-a-felony-to-purchase-sex-from-children-claiming-it-will-harm-lgbtq-community-people-or-color
— Personal Income Fell $24B in Commie-fornia – CATHERINE SALGADO (COMMENT: The more Democrats and RINOs who move into your county, township, municipality, and/or school district, the more that income and home values will fall and the more that crime will increase.)
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/09/personal-income-fell-24b-in-commie-fornia-n4930519
REASON
— If You Don’t Trust Media Now, Wait Until It’s Government-Funded. – J.D. TUCCILLE (COMMENT: He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)
https://reason.com/2024/07/08/if-you-dont-trust-media-now-wait-until-its-government-funded/
TOWNHALL
— Biden Administration Opposes SAVE Act. Here’s Why. – Jamie Parsons
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jamie-parsons/2024/07/09/biden-administration-opposes-save-act-here-is-why-n2641560#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Is there a limit to the number of immigrants Biden will allow into the US? – NOLAN RAPPAPORT (COMMENT: Democrat leaders might stop bringing in illegals when they believe that they have enough that no Republican will ever be elected again. RINO leaders might stop bringing in illegals when they believe that they have all the cheap labor that they can use.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4760665-biden-immigration-no-limits/
MSN
— How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-2024-platform-makes-veiled-threat-of-secure-elections/ar-BB1pCVMD
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pelosi Hints That Biden Should Reconsider Re-Election Run
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/10/us/biden-trump-election
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans are heterosexual, conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American. Demographics that vote for Democrats are LGBTQ, liberal, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/09/save-act-republican-voting-immigration/
— Many universities are abandoning race-conscious scholarships worth millions. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions, colleges have walked away from scholarships with racial criteria. – Danielle Douglas-Gabriel (COMMENT: What if Affirmative Action had only been for those whose parents did not have college degrees? 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. Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents have/had parents who have colleges degrees and are/were wealthy. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/09/college-scholarships-race-affirmative-action/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrats Want To Give Undocumented Migrants The Vote (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are in America? How many of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-claims-democrats-want-give-undocumented-migrants-vote-1922872
TWIN CITIES PIONEER PRESS
— President Joe Biden’s student debt relief is another blow to meritocracy and personal responsibility. Borrow whatever you would like, and the government and taxpayers will pick up the tab? – JENNIFER SCHWAB
https://www.twincities.com/2024/07/10/jennifer-schwab-president-joe-bidens-student-debt-relief-is-another-blow-to-meritocracy-and-personal-responsibility/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Takes a Dig at Harris, Implying She and Biden Are Both Unfit to Be President. Republican presumptive nominee also briefly teases his coming choice for VP. – Vivian Salama
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-takes-a-dig-at-harris-implying-she-and-biden-are-both-unfit-to-be-president-906b5f23
— FRONT PAGE: How President Biden’s Inner Circle Kept His Signs of Aging Under Wraps
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/google-news-update/how-president-bidens-inner-circle-kept-his-signs-of-aging-under-wraps/5c5c8e7f-d080-4c6d-956b-944971781276
— Democrats’ Effort to Push Biden Off Ticket Hits Uncertainty. ‘Right now, President Biden is the nominee, and we support the Democratic nominee,’ says a top House Democrat. – Natalie Andrews and Katy Stech Ferek
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-huddle-in-washington-as-biden-teeters-at-top-of-ticket-831991f8
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/whats-news/how-president-bidens-inner-circle-kept-his-signs-of-aging-under-wraps/e8688b6b-4160-4226-b442-d1c56bdfd502
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91152973/anti-dei-movement-hits-a-new-low-attacks-kamala-harris-dei-president
POLITICO
— Trump didn’t invite Haley to the RNC. She’s encouraging her delegates to back him anyway. Haley’s decision to release all of her delegates was the final detente between her and Trump. – MERIDITH MCGRAW (COMMENT: What do the Haley delegates and the Haley alternate delegates in your congressional district have to say about this? Elizabeth Roskam is/was the Haley delegate for the 3rd Congressional District and Peter Roskam is/was the alternate.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/09/nikki-haley-delegates-convention-trump-00167093
— Trump toys with Miami crowd — and Rubio — over vice presidential pick. When it was his turn to speak, Sen. Marco Rubio attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, providing a preview into how he might act as running mate. – KIMBERLY LEONARD
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/09/trump-vp-marco-rubio-00167230
NPR
— How long have your ancestors been in America? Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you will be demonized, denigrated, and condemned, and especially if you are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, and/or German American.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/1197956772/code-switch-honoring-ancestors-part-1-07-10-2024
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— House Republicans Advance 2 Contested Antisemitism Bills. While backers say the proposals will help protect students from discrimination, Democrats and higher ed advocates say they’re aimed at punishing elite universities and international students. – Jessica Blake
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/07/10/house-republicans-advance-two-contested-antisemitism
July 9, 2024
In American politics, everything is either conservative or liberal. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. The Republican Party exists to promote conservative principles. The Democrat Party exists to promote liberal principles. The sequence should be this: a) political parties develop and approve their platforms, b) political parties encourage candidates who can/will defend/advance their platforms to run in primaries, and c) the candidates who win those primaries defend/advance those platforms while they are in office.
TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT
— RNC Platform Committee Adopts 2024 Republican Party Platform. Document Reflects 20 GOP Principles, Roadmap to Make America Great Again
https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/eQjBXyTuzC
(MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee adopted President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform with overwhelming support– a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created by Joe Biden. President Trump’s platform serves as a contract with the American voter that makes clear what we can and will deliver under a President Trump administration with the Republican Party leading the country for the next four years. “President Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform articulates his vision to Make America Great Again in a way that is concise and digestible for every voter,” said Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. “While Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, opened the floodgates to migrant crime via wide-open borders, shackled American energy with red tape forced by Washington bureaucrats, and sewn chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will Make America Great Again through these America First principles.” “Only President Trump can restore our economy, restore our Southern Border, and restore America’s standing in the world,” said RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump. “His 2024 Republican Party Platform is a bold roadmap that will undo the devastating damage that Joe Biden’s far-left policies have done to this country, power President Trump to a historic victory in November, and Make America Great Again. Read the 2024 Platform, as passed by Committee, below: Our Nation’s History is filled with the stories of brave men and women who gave everything they had to build America into the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. Generations of American Patriots have summoned the American Spirit of Strength, Determination, and Love of Country to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. The American People have proven time and again that we can overcome any obstacle and any force pitted against us. But now we are a Nation in SERIOUS DECLINE. Our future, our identity, and our very way of life are under threat like never before. Today we must once again call upon the same American Spirit that led us to prevail through every challenge of the past if we are going to lead our Nation to a brighter future. For decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas with unfair Trade Deals and a blind faith in the siren song of globalism. They insulated themselves from criticism and the consequences of their own bad actions, allowing our Borders to be overrun, our cities to be overtaken by crime, our System of Justice to be weaponized, and our young people to develop a sense of hopelessness and despair. They rejected our History and our Values. Quite simply, they did everything in their power to destroy our Country. In 2016, President Donald J. Trump was elected as an unapologetic Champion of the American People. He reignited the American Spirit and called on us to renew our National Pride. His Policies spurred Historic Economic Growth, Job Creation, and a Resurgence of American Manufacturing. President Trump and the Republican Party led America out of the pessimism induced by decades of failed leadership, showing us that the American People want Greatness for our Country again. Yet after nearly four years of the Biden administration, America is now rocked by Raging Inflation, Open Borders, Rampant Crime, Attacks on our Children, and Global Conflict, Chaos, and Instability. Like the Heroes who built and defended this Nation before us, we will never give up. We will restore our Nation of, by, and for the People. We will Make America Great Again. America needs determined Republican Leadership at every level of Government to address the core threats to our very survival: Our disastrously Open Border, our weakened Economy, crippling restrictions on American Energy Production, our depleted Military, attacks on the American System of Justice, and much more. To make clear our commitment, we offer to the American people the 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again! It is a forward-looking Agenda that begins with the following twenty promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate.
1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5; STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY — ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
*****
When America is united, confident, and committed to our principles, it will never fail. Today and together, with Love for our Country, Faith in our People, and Trust in God’s Good Grace, we will Make America Great Again!)
WASHINGTON TIMES
— RNC adopts Trump-inspired platform that rolls back anti-abortion positions. – Seth McLaughlin and Kerry Picket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/8/rnc-adopts-donald-trump-inspired-platform-that-rol/
ABC7
— RNC committee adopts GOP’s 2024 policy platform — including on abortion. RNC membership will vote to officially confirm the platform at the convention. – Isabella Murray
https://abc7chicago.com/post/project-25-rnc-committee-adopts-gops-2024-policy/15043711/
THE HILL
— ‘Migrant invasion,’ mass deportations top 2024 GOP platform. – RAFAEL BERNAL
https://thehill.com/latino/4760673-migrant-invasion-mass-deportations-southern-border-2024-gop-platform/mlite/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Republicans move to adopt platform at Trump’s behest without explicit call for a national abortion ban
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/alert-republicans-move-to-adopt-platform-at-19561050.php
— Republicans move at Trump’s behest to change how they will oppose abortion
https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/07/08/republicans-move-trumps-behest-change-how-they-will-oppose-abortion-ap-sources-say/
MSN
— Democrats say “RNC Passes Radical 20-Point Platform.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rnc-passes-radical-20-point-platform/ar-BB1pDemN
ABC NEWS
— RNC committee adopts GOP’s 2024 policy platform — including on abortion. RNC membership will vote to officially confirm the platform at the convention. – Isabella Murray
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2024-rnc-platform-alter-gops-abortion-position-time/story?id=111728686
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/2024-rnc-platform-alter-gops-abortion-position-time/story?id=111728686
WASHINGTON POST
— GOP adopts platform that softens language on abortion, same-sex marriage. The scaled-back draft was approved by the 2024 Republican convention platform committee after Trump addressed the group. – Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/trump-abortion-republican-platform/
USA TODAY
— Democrats say “RNC’s GOP platform is a Trump-inspired, all-caps scare tactic.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/09/trump-republican-party-platform-rnc-2024/74330024007/
CBS WISCONSIN
— As new GOP platform calls for same day voting, party leaders encourage early voting. – A.J. Bayatpour
https://www.cbs58.com/news/as-new-gop-platform-calls-for-same-day-voting-party-leaders-encourage-early-voting
SOUTHERN
— 2024 RNC platform could alter the GOP’s abortion position for the first time in decades. – Isabella Murray
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/08/2024-rnc-platform-could-alter-the-gops-abortion-position-for-the-first-time-in-decades/
FOX ILLINOIS & NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Republicans move at Trump’s behest to change how they will oppose abortion. – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/republicans-move-at-donald-trumps-behest-to-change-how-they-will-oppose-abortion-president-constitution-14th-amendment-roe-wade-supreme-court-joe-biden-federal-ban
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/republicans-move-at-donald-trumps-behest-to-change-how-they-will-oppose-abortion-president-constitution-14th-amendment-roe-wade-supreme-court-joe-biden-federal-ban
THE HILL
— Anti-abortion groups back RNC platform despite scaled-back language. – Nathaniel Weixel
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/anti-abortion-groups-back-rnc-platform-despite-scaled-back-language/amp/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Adopt Stripped-Down Platform That Reflects Trump’s Abortion Views. Document, with fewer details on key policy issues than past years, approved ahead of next week’s convention. – Andrew Restuccia and John McCormick
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-adopt-stripped-down-platform-that-reflects-trumps-abortion-views-14a5ba98
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— On Monday, Joe Biden killed off any possibility of a graceful exit. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/editorial-on-monday-joe-biden-killed-off-any-possibility-of-a-graceful-exit/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Mayor condemns ‘choice to kill’ after more than 100 people are shot in Chicago over holiday weekend. – SAM CHARLES and NELL SALZMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/mayor-condemns-choice-to-kill-after-more-than-100-people-are-shot-in-chicago-over-holiday-weekend/
— For political candidates, the issue should be their health, not their age.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/09/opinion-joe-biden-democracy-youth-leadership/
— Skokie police sergeant files lawsuit alleging gender discrimination. – RICHARD REQUENA (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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/skokie-police-sergeant-files-lawsuit-alleging-gender-discrimination/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Mayor hardens stance on gun violence after more than 100 people shot in Chicago during holiday weekend. Johnson, who called on the feds to help, said those who did the shootings made “a choice to kill women, a choice to kill children, a choice to kill the elderly. And I’m here to say emphatically that we have had enough.” – Tom Schuba, Sophie Sherry and Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/07/08/mayor-johnson-hardens-stand-gun-violence-more-than-100-shot-chicago-holiday-weekend
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/07/08/murders-transgender-women-chicago-unsolved
— After bloody July Fourth weekend, mayor calls for the feds. We hope they’re listening. We cannot let gun violence become as much of an American tradition on July Fourth as fireworks. Here in Chicago, there were at least 105 people shot — 19 fatally — over the long holiday weekend. – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/07/09/july-fourth-gun-violence-mass-shootings-grand-crossing-mayor-brandon-johnson-editorial
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats glorify and praise Biden’s character and demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s character.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240708/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-supreme-court-ruling-means-voters-must-double-down-on-weighing-a-presidential/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As Biden’s position continues to weaken, will Pritzker end up on revamped Dem ticket? – Greg Hinz
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bidens-position-weakens-will-pritzker-end-ticket
— Pritzker steps up anti-Trump drive with Milwaukee abortion ads – Miranda Davis
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-buying-abortion-ads-milwaukee-rnc
ABC7
— Parkinson’s expert visited White House 8 times in 8 months, met with Biden’s doctor. The White House will not confirm if he was advising on the president’s care.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/parkinsons-expert-visited-white-house-8-times-8/15042981/
NBC5
— Where do Illinois Democrats stand on supporting President Joe Biden’s reelection bid? U.S. Mike Quigley is the lone member of the IL delegation to say Biden should drop out. – Rose Schmidt and Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/where-do-illinois-democrats-stand-on-supporting-president-joe-bidens-reelection-bid/3483976/
CBS2
— Chicago officials alarmed by violent July 4th weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWjqOfeNts
— Officials address Chicago Police deployments after violent July 4th weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/officials-address-chicago-police-deployments-after-violent-july-4th-weekend/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/planned-parenthood-expands-medication-abortion-to-12-weeks-for-patients-in-illinois
CITIES 92.9
— Black households in Chicago lag behind others, without liquid assets. – Glenn Minnis (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for problems that Blacks have. My Democrat superiors in the federal government did that big time. I should write a book about my Democrat superiors and their successes and failures in doing that. In my defense, I stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they were never in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.cities929.com/2024/07/08/black-households-in-chicago-lag-behind-others-without-liquid-assets/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-321/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-114/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Mayor Johnson blames Richard Nixon for Chicago shootings – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/mayor-johnson-blames-richard-nixon-for-chicago-shootings-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Illinois is a drag on America’s economy and continues to be a ‘net taker’ from the federal government. – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/new-reports-show-illinois-is-a-drag-on-americas-economy-and-continues-to-be-a-net-taker-from-the-federal-government-wirepoints/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois Biden delegate says contested convention will further divide Democrats. – Greg Bishop
https://www.cities929.com/2024/07/08/illinois-biden-delegate-says-contested-convention-will-further-divide-democrats/
— Chicago mayor blames disinvestment, Republicans after violent weekend. – Jim Talamonti (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for problems that Blacks have. My Democrat superiors in the federal government did that big time. I should write a book about my Democrat superiors and their successes and failures in doing that. In my defense, I stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they were never in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4bcde2e-3d6e-11ef-85f7-8b164ce33f51.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Parkinson’s doctor made 10 White House visits, logs show. – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/8/parkinsons-doctor-made-10-white-house-visits-logs-/
— Biden’s appeal for Democratic unity falls short on Capitol Hill. Calls to step aside tempered on Monday, but many lawmakers want more proof he’s up for a second term. – Lindsey McPherson and Kerry Picket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/8/bidens-appeal-democratic-unity-falls-short-capitol/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— National Education Association cares more about politics than students – Ben Rothove
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3072990/national-education-association-cares-more-about-politics-than-students/
— Facts can’t be racist – Brad Polumbo
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3072819/sorry-progressives-but-facts-cant-be-racist/
NEW YORK POST
— Shelters do nothing for communities except bring crime – Robert Holden
https://nypost.com/2024/07/08/opinion/shelters-do-nothing-for-communities-except-bring-crime/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Biden Admin Bringing ‘World’s Predators’ Into America – former senior advisor to President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/miller-biden-admin-bringing-worlds-predators-into-america/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— New York City Hotels Housing Illegal Aliens Receive Over $1 Billion in Taxpayer Funds – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/08/report-new-york-city-hotels-housing-illegal-aliens-receive-over-1-billion-in-taxpayer-funds/
AMERICA MAGAZINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus hates immigration laws and borders
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/07/08/cara-poll-immigration-migration-refugees-248240
AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden’s failure vs. Trump’s success. – Joseph Ford Cotto
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/biden_s_failure_vs_trump_s_success.html
— Biden’s Dementia: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? – Brian C. Joondeph
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/biden_s_dementia_what_did_they_know_and_when_did_they_know_it.html
BLAZE
— 10% of illegal aliens admit they’re registered to vote: Heritage Foundation survey – CANDACE HATHAWAY (COMMENT: Illegals vote for Democrats. Democrats run election commissions. How many illegals are registered to vote in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with more and more and more of their illegals.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/10-of-illegal-aliens-admit-they-re-registered-to-vote-heritage-foundation-survey
DAILY CALLER
— Biden Admin ‘Strongly’ Opposed To Bill Cracking Down On Illegal Immigrants Voting. – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/08/biden-opposes-illegal-migrant-voting-bill/
FOX NEWS
— Biden’s physician says neurologist visited White House as part of annual examinations. President Biden did not see a neurologist outside his annual physicals, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said. – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-physician-says-neurologist-visited-white-house-part-annual-examinations?lid=7b9dj31tyrv2
FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
— ‘God Bless the Blackest City in the World’ Only slavery reparations can save Chicago. – Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/god-bless-the-blackest-city-in-the-world/
HOT AIR
— Suburban Democrats Rejecting Wokeness
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/08/suburban-democrats-rejecting-wokeness-n3791519
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— Academia Portrays Racism as Exclusively Perpetrated by Whites, but That’s Not the Case. – Larry Fuqua
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/07/09/academia-portrays-racism-as-exclusively-perpetrated-by-whites-but-thats-not-the-case/
NEWSMAX
— The Biden administration said Monday it strongly opposes legislation that would require a proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections, an effort by congressional Republicans to prevent millions of illegal immigrants from voting. – Michael Katz (COMMENT: Illegals vote for Democrats. Democrats run election commissions. How many illegals are registered to vote in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with more and more and more of their illegals.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-administration-voting-legislation/2024/07/08/id/1171664/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Elon Musk BLASTS Dem opposition to preventing illegal immigrants from voting in election. “The goal all along has been to import as many illegal voters as possible.” – Thomas Stevenson
https://thepostmillennial.com/elon-musk-blasts-dem-opposition-to-preventing-illegal-immigrants-from-voting-in-election#google_vignette
TOWNHALL
— It Was a Lot Easier Being Black in Donald Trump’s America – CJ Pearson
https://townhall.com/columnists/cj-pearson/2024/07/09/it-was-a-lot-easier-being-black-in-donald-trumps-america-n2641550
— The Themes of the 2024 RNC Convention Are Here. – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/07/08/the-themes-of-the-rnc-convention-are-here-n2641536
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months. The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office. But it would not say whether the visiting expert was consulting with the president’s physician about his health. – Emily Baumgaertner and Peter Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/us/politics/parkinsons-expert-white-house.html
— The Supreme Court has sharply limited the regulatory authority of federal agencies, upending 40 years of legal precedent. – David Gelles and Manuela Andreoni (COMMENT: In Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange, ( https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html ), the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, ruled that “the NHTSA exceeded the scope of its statutory authority when it created this exemption for older cars.”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/climate/supreme-court-climate-chevron.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Biden meets with Congressional Black Caucus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/election-2024-campaign-updates/
MSN
— 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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservatives-are-already-attacking-kamala-as-a-dei-hire/ar-BB1pCO39
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/lauren-boebert-blasted-for-calling-white-house-press-secretary-dei-hire/ar-BB1pqbxh
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Chicago Mayor Evokes Richard Nixon When Explaining Why Over 100 People Shot In His City – Jake Smith
https://www.tampafp.com/chicago-mayor-evokes-richard-nixon-when-explaining-why-over-100-people-shot-in-his-city/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— White House Says Biden is Not Being Treated for Parkinson’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeQOa7AFwfU
BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Steps Up Anti-Trump Drive With Milwaukee Abortion Ads. Governor’s pro-choice group bought billboard ads before RNC. Campaign seeks to tie former president to Roe v. Wade reversal. – Miranda Davis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-08/pritzker-steps-up-anti-trump-drive-with-milwaukee-abortion-ads
— Biden Meets Black Lawmakers, Pushes to Quash Democratic Revolt. ‘We can’t waste any more time,’ Biden tells financial backers. More Democrats say privately they want Biden to step aside. – Josh Wingrove
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-08/biden-tells-lawmakers-he-s-running-time-to-end-talk-of-swap?srnd=homepage-americas
NEWSWEEK
— Chicago Mayor Blames Richard Nixon as Over 100 People Shot at Weekend
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-mayor-richard-nixon-gun-violence-1922590
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/07/asylum-backlog-could-double-end-decade-without-dhs-staffing-surge/397886/
HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat educators hate America, hate patriotism.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/07/09/gop-platform-calls-patriotic-campuses
SALON
— 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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/08/it-makes-you-sound-like-a-racist-former-aide-slammed-for-calling-kamala-harris-a-dei-hire/
ADVOCATE
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/news/vatican-excommunicates-antigay-archbishop
GLOBE AND MAIL
— Nixon’s resignation in 1974 provides a road map for how Biden’s presidential campaign could end. – DAVID SHRIBMAN (COMMENT: What were you doing 50 years ago in 1974? I worked for IRS in its Chicago Loop office as a 25-year-old GS-12 (currently $97,079/year) Revenue Officer. I lived in my studio condo in the Outer Drive East building weekdays and my University Park townhome weekends. I took graduate evening business courses at Loyola. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I kept in my mother’s garage in Crete and my daily driver was a 1962 Chevrolet Be Air. Virtually all my IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats who hated Nixon, that is, who hated Republicans, that is, who hated me.)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-nixons-resignation-provides-a-roadmap-for-how-bidens-presidential/
July 8, 2024
Exactly, what impact will Trump have on the new Republican Party platform? In American politics, everything is either liberal or conservative. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. The Democrat Party platform is liberal and the Democrat Party helps elect candidates who can/will defend/advance the Democrat Party platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative, but the Republican Party far too often fails/refuses to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance the Republican Party platform. Far too often, the Republican Party lets far too many hold leadership positions who are anti-conservative if not anti-Republican and who reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write a book about the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. I would focus on those leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me because I promote the aforesaid planks. I would focus on those who removed me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & THE HILL
— Democrats say “Fears grow among conservatives over abortion in GOP platform.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/fears-grow-among-conservatives-over-abortion-in-gop-platform/amp/
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4754938-rnc-trump-abortion-platform/
HERALD WHIG & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WAND TV & ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “National abortion ban splits the Trump campaign and Republican activists writing the party platform. Republicans may remove a vow to ban abortion from their party platform for the first time in 40 years.”
https://www.whig.com/ap/national/national-abortion-ban-splits-the-trump-campaign-and-republican-activists-writing-the-party-platform/article_0f05e32b-2658-5fed-a45e-29dbe8d88366.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-national-abortion-ban-splits-the-trump-campaign-and-republican-activists-writing-the-party-platform/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/national-abortion-ban-splits-the-trump-campaign-and-republican-activists-writing-the-party-platform/article_7a146a61-0b38-5931-b453-9013f0e5af1d.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/national-abortion-ban-splits-trump-campaign-republican-activists-111736365
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2024-rnc-platform-alter-gops-abortion-position-time/story?id=111728686
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “Donald Trump will define 2024 RNC platform.” – Tommy Barone
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/07/donald-trump-will-define-2024-rnc-platform-committee-members-say/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP’s first new platform since 2016 will also be the first truly defined by former President Donald Trump, Republicans who have served on the platform committee say. In 2016, then-candidate Trump deferred to party operatives to craft the document, according to the platform veterans. In 2020, the GOP declined to introduce a new platform, merely appending an updated introduction to the same platform from Trump’s first campaign. Now, several veterans of the platform committee predict that the document to be unveiled at the RNC convention in two weeks will reflect a Republican Party united behind the person and policies of Donald Trump. “I think the dynamic between then and now is totally different,” said Tom Schreibel, the Wisconsin Republican Party national committeeman and a platform subcommittee chair in 2016. “The campaign didn’t carry as much sway back then,” said Schreibel, who serves on the Committee on Arrangements for the 2024 convention, which will take place in his home-state capital of Milwaukee. “We spent weeks working with House and Senate staff to get their insights on what was happening currently.” “What were the sensitivities of the House? What were the sensitivities of the Senate? Where were the conferences at at that point? And what was the art of the possible?” said Schreibel, recalling the considerations he had weighed. James Bopp Jr., an Indiana lawyer who served on every platform committee from 2000 through 2016, called the process that produced the former president’s first platform “quite unusual.” “The Trump campaign took the explicit and well-circulated position that they were going to be very light-handed in terms of fashioning the 2016 platform,” said Bopp, “and leave it to the platform committee and the delegates to do that.” While that platform certainly bore Trump’s mark, it also contained positions out of step with the former president. On LGBTQ+ issues, it veered to Trump’s right, affirming a definition of marriage as strictly a union between a man and a woman, something fought for by religious conservatives. And at the convention, then-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort successfully pushed to dilute the platform’s support for Ukraine — a change Trump later said he was neither involved in nor aware of. This year, Trump may not be able to say the same. “I expect this to be Trump’s platform,” said Jesse Law, a 2016 platform committee member reprising his role this year. “I expect the members of the committees to fall in line.” Schreibel concurred, saying, “Trump has gained control of the Republican Party, being the former president.” Schreibel, Law, and Bopp each made a version of the same point, though: This platform won’t be Trump’s because Trump has commandeered the platform process — this platform will be Trump’s because Trump has united the party behind him. “If you have 50 states, and we’re averaging 70% of every state party, every county party being pro-Trump in such a way, you’re going to see this in the makeup of those who are delegates,” said Law, who serves as chairman of the Republican Party in Clark County, Nevada. Law contrasted this dynamic with the 2016 convention, where “you had the Bible Belt, and you had the northeastern folks, and you had the Midwest folks, and you had the West Coast folks.” “We didn’t have a lot of cohesion,” he added. To Law’s point, RNC platform committee membership lists reviewed by ABC News show that only 12 members of the 2024 committee also served on the committee in 2016 — less than 15% of the total. While an ABC News analysis finds that this figure is consistent with the churn from 2012 to 2016, it shows that the 2024 platform will be shaped by a new generation of party leadership. The three leaders of the 2024 platform committee — who work with policy staff weeks before the convention to decide the drafts on which the broader committee will then deliberate — also come from Trump’s orbit. Two — Randy Evans and Russ Vought — served in the Trump administration, as ambassador to Luxembourg and Office of Management and Budget director, respectively. The third platform leader, Ed Martin, did not have a role in the Trump administration, but he marched to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has become a prominent figure in the “Stop the Steal” movement advancing the false theory that Trump won the 2020 election. Schreibel pointed to a similar dynamic in the congressional considerations that influence the platform, noting that “issues within the House and Senate on X, Y or Z are turned by President Trump and his ideals.” And, said Schreibel, because Trump was relatively new to politics in 2016, he had less familiarity with the process, causing him to have “a lot of people at the table” working on plans for transition and the administration. One area where Trump’s influence over the party platform may make all the difference is on the polarizing issue of abortion rights. Since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion, nearly two dozen states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. This tide of state-level restrictions has become politically toxic for national Republicans, as Democrats have made it a signature campaign theme, attacking the GOP as extreme on the issue. As recently as a year ago, Trump — who appointed the conservative justices that enabled the overturning of Roe — eagerly took credit for the decision, writing in a post on Truth social, “I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.” More recently, however, the former president has adopted a more muted tone, saying that he wouldn’t sign a national abortion ban and emphasizing his support for leaving the issue to the states. Trump’s circumspection — along with the news that the 2024 platform will be much shorter than usual — has fueled speculation that the document might only briefly discuss the issue, drawing criticism from some anti-abortion rights groups. The New York Times has reported that a coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to Trump, asking he “make clear that you do not intend to weaken the pro-life plank.” But the platform committee veterans who spoke with ABC News were largely unconcerned. Bopp, who told ABC News he had played an instrumental role in advocating for anti-abortion rights provisions in the platform since 1980, said of Trump’s abortion stance, “I fully embrace it, 100%. I think he’s absolutely right that the focus should be on the states.” “There is no votes for any national, substantive law on abortion,” said Bopp. “We should not be — nor have I ever been — confused with Don Quixote.” For Law, Trump’s line on abortion in the first presidential debate augured the approach the platform would take: “He was very concise with his comments the other day. That’s what I would expect.” “The majority of the Republican base agrees with that,” Law added. During his debate with President Joe Biden, Trump said he would not block access to the mifepristone abortion pill and stressed that the states should decide the extent of abortion rights, with exceptions for rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother. As much as the 2024 platform may bespeak a party remade in Trump’s image, the platform committee veterans interviewed by ABC News stressed that it will remain, at least in part, a document that responds to the needs of the party as a whole. “This is a document that is worked on and thought about quite a bit by many members. Ensuring that all the parts of the Republican Party are heard and that we hear from the leadership — the elected leadership of the party — is important,” said Arkansas Lt. Gov. Leslie Rutledge, who chaired a platform subcommittee in 2016. “It will be reflective of the Republican Party as a whole.” “President Trump is in charge of the Republican Party, and so he’s going to have a bigger voice in what is said,” echoed Schreibel. “But still, at the end of the day, that document’s gonna have to represent House members and also Senate members.”)
BREITBART
— Border Security, 2nd Amendment, Judges Examples of Winning GOP Platform Issues. – KEN BLACKWELL and KEN KLUKOWSKI
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/07/blackwell-and-klukowski-border-security-second-amendment-and-judges-examples-of-winning-gop-platform-issuesll-klukowski-border-security-second-amendment-and-judges-examples-of-winning-gop-platform/
MSN
— Democrats say “‘Behind closed doors: Republicans break with precedent to pass policy platform in secret.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/behind-closed-doors-republicans-break-with-precedent-to-pass-policy-platform-in-secret/ar-BB1pi9vO
ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “Donald Trump will define 2024 RNC platform” and “Different from 2016, it will show a party in lockstep with the former president.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-define-2024-rnc-platform-committee-members/story?id=111715854
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “A Republican Platform That Could Read Like a Trump Rally. The former president’s campaign team has packed the 2024 platform committee, which meets in Milwaukee this week, with the MAGA faithful.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/us/politics/trump-republican-platform.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Trump doesn’t want Americans to know what Republicans stand for. The former president wants the 2024 GOP platform to be anodyne, but don’t be fooled. He has an extreme agenda.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/07/rnc-platform-2024-gop-trump/
— Democrats say “Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allies. The former president has sought to disavow the plan being touted by former advisers and aides, but Trump has endorsed many of the same ideas.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/08/project-2025-trump-election/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— PICKING A POOBAH: The Illinois Republican State Central Committee is scheduled to meet Friday, just a few days ahead of the Republican National Convention, to elect a new party chair “on an interim or permanent basis,” according to the Illinois GOP. Behind-the-scenes: Party leaders are grappling with how to manage the friction between its establishment and more conservative members, who are also divided regionally with moderate Republicans near Chicago and conservatives living downstate. The search for a new leader follows current Chair Don Tracy’s announcement last month that he’s stepping down. Names in the running (so far): State Rep. John Cabello, who represents Winnebago County and parts of Boone and Stephenson counties up north; state Sen. Jason Plummer, who represents the Edwardsville area near St. Louis; and Aaron Del Mar, a former Cook County GOP chair. The deadline to apply is Wednesday. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/08/the-illinois-chatter-about-biden-00166773
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago shootings: At least 103 shot, 19 fatally, in citywide holiday weekend gun violence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-101-shot-18-fatally/15041696/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSQD38faDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aInjzRMkAA0
— Protesters arrested at NASCAR Street Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVN0D1Drj8
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/ag-dei/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/column-chicago-pride-weekend-vandalism-washington/
— Democrats say “Americans are split over whether Trump should face prison in the hush money case.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/08/trump-hush-money-2/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Americans are split over whether Trump should face prison in the hush money case (COMMENT: My critics/opponents who have taken big adverse actions against me have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their operatives and their dupes wanted them to take those big adverse actions against me. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have taken the biggest adverse actions against me and their operatives and their dupes. I would focus on those a) who removed me from the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and b) who ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-americans-are-split-over-whether-trump-should-face-prison-in-the-hush-money-case-ap-norc-poll-finds/
NPR ILLINOIS
— In your county, in your township, in municipality, and in your school district, how many cast Republican ballots in primary elections but then vote for Democrats in general elections?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-08/why-some-republican-led-states-are-limiting-who-can-vote-in-party-primaries
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-320/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker tells CNN that jobs are coming back to Illinois. The number of people employed in Illinois under his watch says the opposite. Ted Dabrowski and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-tells-cnn-that-jobs-are-coming-back-to-illinois-the-number-of-people-employed-in-illinois-under-his-watch-says-the-opposite-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— In letter to congressional Democrats, Biden says he’s ‘firmly committed’ to staying in the race. – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/8/in-letter-to-congressional-democrats-biden-says-he/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=oD8jJF9rz%2BvactMnz44gYY4Mz0Xgvu%2FJGTGNQlRQ6d4%3D&bt_ts=1720447331583
— Democrats set deadline for Biden to prove himself or withdraw from the race. Party coalescing around Harris as replacement atop 2024 ticket if he steps aside. – Mallory Wilson and Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/7/democrats-set-deadline-biden-president-must-prove-/
— White House doctor who gave Biden glowing health report helped him cash in on business deal. – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/7/kevin-oconnor-who-gave-joe-biden-glowing-health-re/
NEW YORK POST
— ‘Woke’ policies fall flat as NY suburban Dems fight to take back party in blow to activist liberals. – Carl Campanile and David Propper
https://nypost.com/2024/07/08/us-news/woke-policies-fall-flat-as-ny-suburban-dems-fight-to-take-back-party-in-blow-to-activist-liberals/
BREITBART
— 99% of Illegal Aliens, Border Crossers Living Freely Across American Communities – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many millions of them will use their false identifications to vote for Biden.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/07/report-99-illegal-aliens-border-crossers-living-freely-across-us/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Roughly 99 percent of illegal aliens and border crossers are living freely across the United States as President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitors fewer than 1.5 percent of the nation’s illegal population, a report states. The federal data, compiled by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) and circulated by several House and Senate Republicans, looks at the overall illegal population living in American communities — estimated at nearly 17 million today.)
— Joe Biden’s Social Service Programs for Migrants Almost Ensure They Are Never Deported. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/07/report-bidens-programs-migrants-almost-ensure-theyre-never-deported/
— NYC’s Low-Income Neighborhoods Overwhelmed by Migrant Shelters – OLIVIA RONDEAU
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/07/report-nycs-low-income-neighborhoods-overwhelmed-migrant-shelters/
DAILY CALLER
— Trans Kids Are The New Fashion Accessories Among Hollywood’s Most Deranged Moms – LEENA NASIR
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/07/transgender-kids-fashion-accessories-hollywood-mom-charlize-theron-jennifer-lopez-megan-fox/
FOX NEWS
— What would a President Pritzker do on immigration, border crisis? Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has called for significantly more federal action on the crisis. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-would-president-pritzker-do-immigration-border-crisis
— Anti-Israel protesters arrested after locking themselves inside fence at NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race. Organizers condemn Israeli driver Alon Day, who spoke out about city’s pro-Hamas protests. – Scott Thompson
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/anti-israel-protesters-arrested-after-locking-themselves-inside-fence-at-nascars-chicago-street-race
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Gaslighting: Task Forces “sanitizing antisemitism under the guise of fighting ‘Islamophobia’” “Harvard tries to ‘both sides’ the campus problems, but in reality the anti-Israel and antisemitic students were the aggressors. Jewish and pro-Israel students were not holding rallies calling for the destruction of Palestinians and using anti-Muslim rhetoric. It was almost all in one direction, but you wouldn’t know that from the reports.” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/harvard-gaslighting-task-forces-sanitizing-antisemitism-under-the-guise-of-fighting-islamophobia/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats say “If Joe Biden can’t do it, Kamala Harris sure can.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4756495-biden-harris-trump-presidential-race/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Read Biden’s Letter to Congressional Democrats.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/08/us/president-biden-letter-to-congressional-democrats-78.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats acknowledge that “6 Top Democrats Privately Saying Biden Should Go.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/biden-democrats-congress-murphy.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats acknowledge that “Nine House Democrats call for Biden to step aside as he seeks to energize his campaign. Amid rising unease among Democratic leaders, the campaign scrambled to schedule Sunday events to show Biden’s vigor and his intention to forcefully confront Donald Trump.” (COMMENT: What do you stress that shows your vigor? I stress the my putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters every morning.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/07/biden-campaign-trump/
USA TODAY
— Democrats acknowledge that “Trump’s presidency viewed more favorably than Biden’s.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/07/trump-presidency-viewed-more-favorably-poll-finds/74292329007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/23/democrats-anti-trans-rhetoric-in-2024-lgbtq/74118688007/
CNN
— Biden’s defiant delusion. – David Axelrod
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/opinions/biden-failed-to-quell-panic-abc-interview-axelrod
— At least 100 people shot, 17 fatally, during violent Fourth of July weekend in Chicago – up 27% from last year’s holiday. – Chris Boyette, Fabiana Chaparro, and Chris Boyette
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/us/chicago-shootings-july-fourth-weekend/index.html
— 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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office 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 one I had.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/07/opinions/kamala-harris-dei-hire-racism-2024-obeidallah/index.html
MSN
— How would a brokered convention to replace Joe Biden work – Sarah Ewall-Wice
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-would-a-brokered-convention-to-replace-joe-biden-work/ar-BB1pyGyj
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/editorial-donald-trump-s-vile-attack-on-immigrants-pushes-gop-further-into-a-white-nationalist-party/ar-AA1lLMDv
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Prominent House Democrats Want Biden to Exit 2024 Race. President travels to Pennsylvania events to try to shore up support after disastrous debate. – Annie Linskey, Natalie Andrews, Siobhan Hughes
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/some-democrats-urge-biden-to-weigh-options-as-age-worries-linger-2ff735e6
— The Thomas Eagleton Precedent for Democrats. George McGovern changed running mates in 1972 for mental-health reasons, but the ticket still lost big. – Joshua M. Glasser
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-thomas-eagleton-precedent-for-democrats-fe95f5c3
— FRONT PAGE: ‘We’re Not Dead Yet.’ Baby Boomers’ Good Times Drive the Economy. Sky-diving, concerts, classic cars. An influx of older Americans bolsters the nation’s fastest-growing city. Heather Gillers and Ben Eisen
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/baby-boomers-drive-economy-d4b72e40
BOOMBERG
— Griffin Gives $500,000 to Back Miami-Dade’s Democratic Mayor. – Anna J Kaiser
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-05/ken-griffin-gives-500-000-to-back-miami-dade-s-democratic-mayor
FAST COMPANY
— Employers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire. This is why they’re wrong. – JINJA BIRKENBEUEL (COMMENT: In 1974, when I was 25 years old, my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to write me off as being too old to be promoted to GS-13. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. That rendered worthless my a) earning job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91142325/employers-believe-this-is-the-age-youre-too-old-to-hire-this-is-why-theyre-wrong
POLITICO
— Democrats say “Biden’s Survival Plan: Decry ‘Elite’ Critics, Appeal to His Base. Black voters and organized labor have been the president’s key backers and they’re going to have to carry him now.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/08/bidens-campaign-black-union-voters-00166761
— Lindsey Graham: Anybody who could be president should undergo cognitive tests. – Isabella Ramírez (COMMENT: What do you stress that shows your cognitive abilities? I stress my putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters every morning.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lindsey-graham-anybody-could-president-163919891.html
— Leaders of foreign countries who want America to lead the free word want Trump. Leaders of foreign countries who want to destroy America want Biden.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/07/nato-prepare-trump-2024-00165522
July 5, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democratic governors, including J.B. Pritzker, meet with Biden, who insists he’s in the race to stay – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/03/democratic-governors-including-j-b-pritzker-meet-with-president-joe-biden-at-white-house-amid-growing-unease-within-party/
DAILY HERALD
— Protesters targeting Schneider in the middle of the night went too far. – Editorial
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240705/opinion/daily-herald-opinion-protesters-targeting-schneider-in-the-middle-of-the-night-went-too-far/
ABC7
— Biden vows to stay in race, told governors he’s in good health after medical checkup. A source said he had a ‘brief’ exam because of his cold. – Rachel Scott
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-biden-told-governors-he-had-medical-checkup-sources/15029075/
— IL Gov. JB Pritzker, Democratic governors say they have Biden’s back after ‘candid and open’ meeting. – Craig Wall and Ravi Baichwal
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-goes-dc-meet-president/15025592/
— If Biden drops out, who could replace him? A look at possible candidates. Several major Democrats have pledged support for Biden after the debate. – Ivan Pereira
https://abc7chicago.com/post/could-replace-biden-he-drops-harris-does-better/15028101/
— Biden privately signals ‘open mind’ on path forward, sees next few days as critical. “This is false,” a White House spokesman said. – Rachel Scott and Rick Klein
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-joe-biden-privately-signals-open-mind-path/15024934/
— 2 women, boy killed in Grand Crossing shooting; 2 boys critically wounded
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-2-women-killed-3-boys-critically/15028437/
CBS2
— Chicago mass shooting leaves 2 women dead, 3 children critically hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqvvnRL6Lg8
WGN9
— At least 9 killed, dozens shot across Chicago in violent July Fourth. – Andrea Medina, Anna Roberts
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-july-fourth-shootings/
FOX32
— Biden tells governors he needs more sleep as calls to step down grow. President Biden hits the Midwest on Friday in an effort to kickstart his campaign. This as calls from within the Democratic party grow for him to step aside. (COMMENT: Since 2000, instead of sleeping, I have spent a tremendous amount of time putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1480638
— July 4th mass shooting: Chicago women died shielding children from gunfire. – Tia Ewing
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/july-4th-mass-shooting-chicago-mom-died-shielding-1-year-old-from-gunfire
— July 4th mass shooting: 2 women and 1 child dead, 2 more children in critical condition. – Will Hager
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/july-4th-mass-shooting-chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Ec7qbOxJk
WBEZ
— President Biden finds JB Pritzker and other Democratic governors complimentary and critical in White House meeting. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the governors in an hourlong White House discussion described by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as ‘honest and open’ and by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as “candid.” But the president also heard comments and questions that ranged from complimentary to ‘a little targeted.’ – Tina Sfondeles
https://www.wbez.org/government-politics/dnc-2024/2024/07/04/president-biden-trump-debate-pritzker-harris-democratic-governors-meeting-walz-newsom-moore-whitmer
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more discrimination in Evanston against its remaining residents who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/07/04/fourth-of-july-parades-seeds-of-change-theme-championed-by-participants/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Northern Illinois RNC delegate Jan Klaas says issues, not personality matter in her support for Donald Trump – Maria Gardner Lara
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2024-07-05/northern-illinois-rnc-delegate-says-issues-not-personality-matter-in-her-support-for-donald-trump
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Mayor Johnson’s Call for Reparations Ignores Chicago’s Most Serious Problems. – JACK LUCEY
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/mayor-johnson-reparations-chicago-serious-problems
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republican candidates and elected officials who walked with the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) entry in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade included Jeff Castle, Grant Eckhoff, Amy Grant, Richard Jorgensen, Seth Lewis, Amber Quirk, and Kenton Skarin. I walked with the MTRO entry, but according to one of the aforesaid, because I did not wear a MTRO shirt or a shirt with one of the candidates’ or elected officials’ names on it, I did not really walk with the MTRO entry. According to my critics/opponents, the more that I do to help elect a candidate, the more votes that candidate loses. I should write a book about Republican participation in Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I started serving as the Republican fundraiser for the parades in 2005, but my anti-conservative, that is, anti-Republican critics/opponents ended that in 2021. In my book, I would focus on those who have worked the hardest to diminish/stop Republican participation in the parades. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOUSA ILLINOIS
— Yesterday, before the parade started, I had a conversation with one of the leaders of my critics/opponents in Wheaton. He justified the many big adverse actions that he and his followers have taken against me since the 1980s, including ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. According to him, I cause all my own problems. What did I do? During the 1980s, I successfully fought Wheaton’s efforts to install a traffic signal at Harrison and President and I sued Wheaton, its favorite developer, Milton Township, and DuPage County. More recently, I led successful efforts to stop video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton. But since 2015, their unmitigated hatred against Trump has ever-increasingly increased and I refuse to share their unmitigated hatred against Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praised them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and/or for everyone’s problems. They blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. They despise if not hate those who my demographics including my religion and national origin. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. They would love it. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do your critics/opponents blame their problems on? My critics/opponents who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time blame their problems on those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, heterosexual, draft avoider, have more money than they have, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
DUPAGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
— The DuPage Republican Society. Become A Member Today! (COMMENT: Yesterday, I applied to be a $240/year member. Will my critics/opponents within the DCRCC reject my application? My critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for George Ryan not seeking a second term, Jim Ryan’s and Jim Durkin’s losses in 2002, Andy McKenna’s loss in 2004, Bill Brady’s and Judy Baar Topinka’s losses in 2006, Bill Brady’s loss in 2010, Mark Kirk’s loss in 2016, Paul Hinds’ and Bruce Rauner’s and Peter Roskam’s losses in 2018, and Greg Hart’s and Richard Irvin’s losses in 2022.)
https://dupagegop.com/become-a-member/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago alderman pushes harsher penalties for crimes committed wearing facemasks – Glenn Minnis
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4c965556-3979-11ef-81d8-cba6bf2e1afa.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Third House Democrat calls for Biden to drop out of race. – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/4/third-house-democrat-calls-biden-drop-out-race/
— Media concealed Biden’s cognitive decline because they hate Trump. Reporters turned on president only when the lie became impossible to sustain. – Tim Murtaugh
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/4/media-concealed-bidens-cognitive-decline-because-t/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What caused the Biden-era illegal immigration spike?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3056275/what-caused-the-biden-era-illegal-immigration-spike/
NEW YORK POST
— This 5,500-mile loophole may be the SMALLEST one in Biden’s ‘border crackdown’ – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/07/04/opinion/this-5500-mile-loophole-may-be-the-smallest-one-in-bidens-border-crackdown/
— Biden loses train of thought in Fourth of July speech to vets. – Katherine Donlevy
https://nypost.com/2024/07/04/us-news/biden-loses-train-of-thought-in-fourth-of-july-speech-to-vets/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Wokeness is weakness – Nick Lopez
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/wokeness_is_weakness.html
— Mount Rushmore, make room for Trump – Bucky Fox
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/mount_rushmore_make_room_for_trump.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— America’s never-ending war of independence. – Kenneth Abramowitz (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote dependency on government and charity, if not socialism, if not communism, if not dictatorship.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/04/americas-never-ending-war-of-independence-1470136/
DAILY CALLER
— Sanctuary Cities Crack Down On Shelter Programs After Rolling Out Red Carpet For Illegal Migrants – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/04/sanctuary-cities-cut-back-migrant-shelters/
— Lauren Boebert called “racist” for saying Karine Jean-Pierre is a “DEI hire” – Alex Bollinger
FOX NEWS
— Former U.S. Space Force officer loses retirement after speaking out against DEI – Hannah Grossman , Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi (COMMENT: I not only spoke out against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, I because an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged by GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, they wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/space-force-commander-lost-pension-criticizing-crt-military-says-gut-punch-betrayal
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— The questions about Biden’s age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan’s in 1984. – LAURIE KELLMAN (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://apnews.com/article/biden-reagan-age-president-trump-debate-292069ac97df6841ae84c215e63c84ec
MSN
— Woke New Yorkers whine America ‘doesn’t deserve a birthday party’ – Rachel Bowman (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have worked the hardest since 1978 to destroy Wheaton’s Independence Day parades and fireworks.)
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/woke-new-yorkers-whine-america-doesn-t-deserve-a-birthday-party/ar-BB1pqn75
— Lauren Boebert called “racist” for saying Karine Jean-Pierre is a “DEI hire” – Alex Bollinger (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. All those who GAO, IRS, and the Post Office hired and/or 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 one I had.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lauren-boebert-called-racist-for-saying-karine-jean-pierre-is-a-dei-hire/ar-BB1plnM4
— To promote reparations is to promote more hatred against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-s-progressive-mayor-brandon-johnson-claims-reparations-will-help-tackle-the-cycle-of-violence-amid-a-17-per-cent-surge-in-crime/ar-AA1ma3LW
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Aside. The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere. – Kenneth P. Vogel, Theodore Schleifer and Lauren Hirsch
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/us/politics/biden-donors.html
— Student Loan Borrowers Owe $1.6 Trillion. Nearly Half Aren’t Paying. Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts. – Stacy Cowley
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/business/student-loan-nonpayment.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/05/sarah-mcbride-running-first-trans-person-congress-election/74197445007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Biden Tries to Prove He Is Still Democrats’ Best Bet. President suggests to governors that he should avoid events that begin after 8 p.m. – Ken Thomas
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-tries-to-prove-he-is-still-democrats-best-bet-66fcd5ac
— Sign Snatchers Beware, That Campaign Poster Might Have an AirTag. The tracking devices leave thieves dumbfounded—and occasionally facing criminal charges. – James Fanelli
https://www.wsj.com/politics/campaign-signs-stolen-apple-airtag-tracking-e7d17efb
— The IRS Has a High-Earner Delusion. The agency can’t find all those wealthy tax cheats that Democrats swear exist. – Editorial (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-audits-wealthiest-americans-tigta-report-steven-mnuchin-janet-yellen-4d3f678c
— Only the Fed Can Rekindle America’s Love for Cars. New-vehicle sales are stuck in middle gear as high interest rates and high prices push less affluent consumers into the secondhand market. – Stephen Wilmot (COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes despise/hate cars and especially American-nameplate cars.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/only-the-fed-can-rekindle-americas-love-for-cars-5f0f3d4d
NEW REPUBLIC
— Pritzker Floated as Biden Replacement Issues Dire Warning. Pritzker warned Joe Biden has to prove himself once more.
https://newrepublic.com/post/183420/democratic-governor-pritzker-biden-issues-dire-warning
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 3, 2024
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.
POLITICO
— Trump campaign blocks pair of anti-abortion activists from RNC platform committee. The shakeup, which has not been previously reported, comes as anti-abortion groups petition Trump, his campaign advisers and members of the RNC not to make significant changes to the party’s platform on abortion. – NATALIE ALLISON and MEGAN MESSERLY (COMMENT: What do the following have to say about this: a) Illinois Republican Party’s (IRP) members on the RNC platform committee, b) the IRP State Central Committee members, c) the IRP chairman, d) the applicants for that position, e) the current and incoming IRP National Committeeman and Committee woman, f) the Illinois Republican county party chairmen, g) etc.?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/anti-abortion-delegates-committee-gop-platform-debate-00166323
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Two hardline anti-abortion delegates to next week’s GOP platform committee have been stripped of their positions, according to several members of the Republican National Committee, underscoring a broader fear among evangelicals and other social conservatives that the party is poised to moderate its stance on abortion at the direction of former President Donald Trump. The Trump campaign’s efforts to block the two South Carolina delegates from the platform committee and replace them with loyalists is described in several affidavits as “interference from paid RNC staff … to circumvent the will of the delegation.” The shakeup, which has not been previously reported, comes as anti-abortion groups petition Trump, his campaign advisers and members of the RNC not to make significant changes to the party’s platform on abortion. While running for the platform committee, the two South Carolina delegates, longtime party activist LaDonna Ryggs and former state party chair Chad Connelly, made clear they would not vote to “water down” the party’s positions on abortion, marriage or Israel, according to a person with knowledge of the comments and granted anonymity to speak freely. A Trump campaign official disputed that Connelly and Ryggs were ever on the platform committee and maintained that two other people were the ones properly elected to the body by South Carolina’s convention delegates, suggesting that the “state party” had tried to circumvent the RNC. And Danielle Alvarez, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign and RNC, said in a statement that the platform committee “has yet to convene to discuss what language should be in the final document.” Trump officials have privately maintained, meanwhile, that no specific language on abortion has been determined ahead of the scheduled platform meetings next week in Milwaukee. The party platform has long condemned the procedure and supported both state and federal restrictions on abortion, including a 20-week national ban. Anti-abortion groups fear the RNC’s platform committee is about to make Trump’s leave-abortion-to-the-states position — which they have reluctantly accepted — the official position of the Republican Party. Doing so, they say, would undo decades of progress by their movement to restrict access to the procedure at all levels of government, and they warn that it could cost Trump the election in the process. “I would strongly urge the leadership of the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign to proceed with great caution on the platform and avoid doing anything that would discourage or in any way deflate the enthusiasm of pro-life and evangelical voters,” said Ralph Reed, founder and chair of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. “Right now, sitting here today, they are prepared to crawl across broken glass, to do everything in their power to see President Trump re-elected. I don’t want to see anything happen that would change that current dynamic.” Delegates in four other states told POLITICO they, too, had been blocked by operatives with the Trump campaign from securing seats on the platform committee. According to the affidavits prepared for the RNC’s committee on contests, obtained by POLITICO, the Trump campaign and RNC staffers held a separate vote to elect a different slate of platform committee delegates. The documents allege that at least two GOP staffers who were formerly employed by the Trump campaign “[pressured] them to vote against” Ryggs and Connelly and tried to “circumvent” the official vote. Two slates of convention committee members were ultimately elected — one slate from the meeting organized by the Trump staffers, and another, including Connelly and Ryggs, at the party’s official meeting that was presided over by South Carolina GOP Chair Drew McKissick. Ryggs and Connelly have appealed the RNC’s decision to accept the other slate of convention committee members, though no hearing has been set. Ryggs — who said in her affidavit that she has been such a loyal supporter of Trump that she and her husband had a gun pulled on them while knocking on doors for the campaign in 2020 — served on the RNC’s platform committee three times previously, including in 2016 when she celebrated the party moving its positions on social issues to the right. Connelly, who runs a faith-based conservative group, was the RNC’s national director of faith engagement under previous chair Reince Priebus. While many prominent anti-abortion leaders have weighed in with proposed language and called for the RNC to open platform meetings to activists and press, some in the movement have publicly and privately said their suggestions seem to be falling flat with Trump and at RNC headquarters. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a member of the platform committee, accused RNC Chair Michael Whatley of “stalling tactics” in a letter on Monday about efforts to ensure the meetings are open. Closing the meetings, Perkins wrote in the letter obtained by POLITICO, “heightens speculation that the GOP platform will be watered down to a few pages of meaningless, poll-tested talking points.” A Trump campaign official said the meeting would be closed to members of the press, though guest passes would be available. Members of the platform committee, largely elected by convention delegates in their states, are set to gather in Milwaukee starting Sunday to iron out the party’s updated platform after foregoing changes in 2020. “I’m going to be fighting hard for the president’s agenda and making the platform America First and consistent with the president’s campaign agenda and what his promises are,” said conservative radio host John Fredericks, a delegate from Pennsylvania and member of the platform committee. Fredericks said he is serving as a whip for the Trump campaign, and it’s his opinion that the new party platform will reflect Trump’s own 2024 campaign positions — including that states should determine abortion law, a position the former president repeated during Thursday’s debate. Trump has also said he supports exceptions to abortion bans in cases of rape, incest and threats to the mother’s life. Jesse Law, chair of the Clark County Republican Party and a platform committee delegate from Nevada, added that he sees delegates “all getting into line.” “Best I can say is that this is going to be President Trump’s platform,” Law said. “That’s how I see it.” Oscar Brock, an RNC member from Tennessee who is not on the platform committee, said that based on Trump’s own positions, he expects the updated platform to become “more socially moderate,” not just on abortion, but on marriage equality, too. Polling shows Trump has the support of an overwhelming support of evangelical Christians, and there’s no evidence that droves of social conservatives would stay home if Republicans endorse a more moderate platform on abortion. Still, a rebuff from the Trump campaign threatens to divide a party that has largely managed to remain united behind the former president as Democrats grapple over internal divisions over whether Biden is even fit to run. “The problem isn’t just dampening enthusiasm. It’s also the fact that there’ll be a fight over it. There will be a platform fight, and it’ll be the week before the convention when you don’t want a fight, you want unity. And it’ll be for everyone to see in Milwaukee,” said a Republican strategist who consults with anti-abortion groups, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “If I were on the inside of a campaign I would be saying, ‘I don’t want to give everybody this story.’” In recent days, prominent evangelical and anti-abortion leaders have launched campaigns, hosted webinars and talked about the issue on podcasts in an effort to rally their supporters to pressure the Trump campaign and members of the platform committee. Perkins, at the Family Research Council, has been talking about the issue nearly daily on his podcast, while Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins hosted an “emergency webcast” Monday night on the topic to rally young anti-abortion activists around the cause. Others are lobbying members of the platform committee directly and voicing their concerns. Broadly, anti-abortion leaders would like to see the party platform on abortion — which includes specific details like affirming that “the unborn child has a fundamental right to life” and opposing the use of public funds to perform or promote abortion — to remain as strong as it is. Some are making the case to Trump and his campaign that even if they want to simplify the platform, it need not reflect the president’s views exactly. “The platform doesn’t necessarily ever reflect 100 percent the view of the party. That’s the case we’ve been making to the Trump campaign and as we’ve been speaking with those who’ve been discussing this,” Hawkins said in an interview. “We’ve been in conversations with the campaign for more than a month now about the platform and how it should reflect the views of the entire movement.” Lori Hinz, an RNC member from North Dakota who is serving on this year’s platform committee, said she is concerned about the plan to overhaul the platform altogether, and would prefer the RNC and Trump campaign create a separate, shorter, “Contract With America”-style document to go alongside the platform. “My view, honestly, is that we did a pretty fantastic platform in 2016, and I hope to preserve that,” Hinz said. Arizona state Rep. Alex Kolodin, another platform committee delegate, said the balance between state and federal restrictions on abortion is “complicated.” In April, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state’s near-total abortion ban was enforceable, a law Democrats in the legislature, with help from a handful of Republicans, quickly moved to repeal; voters will weigh in on a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until fetal viability in November. “The conservative grassroots and the pro-life movement very much want to ensure that we keep or even fortify our very robust language in defense of life,” Kolodin said. “The Republican Party platform, since the party was founded, has always strongly emphasized the equal dignity of every human person and the need to defend them from having their life taken away without due process of law. That’s integral to who we are as a party.” Some members of Congress are also using their political capital to help anti-abortion groups make their pitch to the platform committee. Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) said recently that he had contacted one of his state’s platform committee members to share his concerns about the platform, while Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) joined Hawkins on the webcast, which was centered around criticism of a state-only approach to abortion policy. “The federal government has activated to increase the numbers of abortion in America, and so when I hear anyone say this is not a federal issue, it certainly is a federal issue because this administration has found ways to be able to advance abortion,” Lankford said during the webcast. “I’m keenly aware we don’t have the 60 votes in the Senate, but the worst thing we can do is not talk about it at all and somehow make people presume this is no longer a value … The way you win the argument is to keep talking about it, not to talk about it less.” Anti-abortion groups and their allies in Congress and statehouses say that maintaining a federal role for abortion in the party’s platform is not only the right policy, but also electorally crucial. Reed, a longtime Trump ally whose organization plans to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, said that any “equivocation or retreat” by the Republican Party on the issue of abortion will “deflate voters of faith.” “Self-identified evangelical voters are roughly half of the entire Republican vote. And in some states, like Georgia, they’re about 60 percent of the entire Republican vote,” Reed said. “When you’re talking about a presidential election that could well be decided by thousands of votes spread out over three or four states, anything that discourages the enthusiasm or turnout of base or faith-based voters will not be helpful.”)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The following email was sent out by the Illinois Republican Party Executive Director Matt Janes on July 1, 2024. I urge the IRP to immediately post it on its website. I am very interested in learning what each the applicants have done and have 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
(FROIM THE EMAIL: As you may know, the Illinois Republican State Central Committee will be meeting on Friday, July 12, 2024 at 12:00 Noon to elect a new Chairman on an interim or permanent basis. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in being considered for the position, please submit the following information to Matt Janes, Executive Director of the Illinois Republican Party, at Matt@illinois.gop by Wednesday, July 10th at 5:00 PM. This is a hard deadline, and is necessary to provide the Committee sufficient time to review all applicant material. Applicants may be asked to address the Committee on July 12th.
An applicant must provide:
– A current copy of the applicant’s professional and political resume
– A brief letter/document outlining the applicant’s vision for the Illinois Republican Party
– A Letter of Recommendation from an Illinois elected Republican Party Official or an Illinois elected Republican Government Official (no limit on number that may be submitted)
– A certified copy of the applicant’s voting record
– The applicant must fill out and submit the attached Ethics Statement
– In addition, to be considered by this position, an applicant must agree to a background check.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race. The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday. – Katie Rogers
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/biden-election-debate.html
THE HILL
— Michelle Obama only Democrat to beat Trump in new poll – Lauren Sforza
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/michelle-obama-only-democrat-to-beat-trump-in-new-poll/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pritzker says he still supports Biden after poor debate performance; some Democrats express concern. Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley concerned over down-ballot election impact if Biden stays in race. – Craig Wall and Ravi Baichwal
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-biden-debate-il-congressman-mike-quigley-worries/15021402/
— Democrats pressure Biden to answer questions after faltering in 1st debate. Doggett is the first sitting Democrat in Congress, House, or Senate to publicly call on Biden to withdraw as the Democratic candidate for president. – ABC News
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-rep-lloyd-doggett-calls-president-biden-withdraw/15021029/
— US Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Illinois’ assault weapons ban, for now. – Peter Hancock
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-supreme-court-hear-challenge-illinois-assault-weapons/15020363/
— 14, including 5 teens, face felony charges in mass arrests hours after Chicago Pride parade 2024. 53 arrested, including 9 juveniles, in all early Monday morning
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-parade-arrests-14-including-5-teens/15020238/
— 80 pro-Palestinian protesters have charges dropped after Art Institute encampment arrests. Local leaders worry dropping charges sends wrong message, with DNC 1 month away. – Jasmine Minor
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-80-pro-palestinian-protesters-have-charges/15021763/
NBC5
— Pritzker comments on President Biden’s candidacy amid debate fallout in CNN interview. Pritzker confirmed Biden is set to meet with Democratic governors on Wednesday while reiterating his support for the incumbent in a CNN interview.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/gov-pritzker-comments-bidens-candidacy-amid-fallout-debate-performance/3479988/
— Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Illinois’ assault weapons ban. Opponents of the measure believe the court will take up another challenge later this year.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/supreme-court-declines-challenge-illinois-assault-weapons-ban/3479726/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/undocumented-residents-receive-illinois-drivers-licenses/3479952/
— Chicago closes Daley College migrant shelter as city’s asylum seeker population continues to drop. – Todd Feurer (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect Democrat leaders to ramp up their efforts to promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-closes-daley-college-migrant-shelter-asylum-seekers/
— Rep. Lloyd Doggett becomes first Democrat in Congress to call for Biden’s withdrawal from 2024 race. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said in a statement Tuesday that Biden should “make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.” – AP
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/rep-lloyd-doggett-first-house-democrat-publicly-call-biden-step-down-partys-nominee/3479509/
CBS2
— Chicago closes Daley College migrant shelter as city’s asylum seeker population continues to drop. – Todd Feure (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect Democrat leaders to ramp up their efforts to promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-closes-daley-college-migrant-shelter-asylum-seekers/
— After confrontation at Dolton, Illinois board meeting, activist faces misdemeanor. A Chicago activist was taken away in handcuffs after attempting to confront a village trustee at a board meeting in Dolton on Monday night.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/after-confrontation-at-dolton-illinois-board-meeting-activist-faces-misdemeanor/
FOX32
— Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Illinois assault weapons ban. – Lindsay Whitehurst
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-illinois-assault-weapons-ban-declines-challenge
— Evanston residents calling ‘dibs’ as they stake out spots for July 4th parade. – Nate Rodgers (COMMENT: Which Republican candidates will have entries in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/evanston-dibs-july-4th-parade
WTTW
— Pritzker Signs Bill to Increase Party Power in Primary Elections – Andrew Adams
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/02/pritzker-signs-bill-increase-party-power-primary-elections
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Lawsuit challenges affirmative action in hiring at Northwestern law school (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.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/lawsuit-challenges-affirmative-action-in-hiring-at-northwestern-law-school/
— Today in History: Civil Rights Act signed into law. AP (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.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/today-in-history-civil-rights-act-signed-into-law/
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/with-climate-change-coming-chicagos-current-migrant-influx-only-going-to-be-the-beginning/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Command performance — Pritzker, other Democratic governors to meet with Biden after dismal debate showing. Democratic governors spoke amongst themselves Monday and wondered why they hadn’t heard from the president since last week’s debate. A White House meeting with Biden is now scheduled for Wednesday evening. – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/02/jb-pritzker-democratic-governors-president-biden-meeting-debate-performance
— Battle over Illinois’ assault weapon ban will continue after Supreme Court declines to get involved. Groups challenging the law made their bid to the U.S. Supreme Court after last fall’s ruling from the federal appeals court in Chicago, which found that weapons covered by Illinois’ assault-weapons ban don’t have Second Amendment protection. – Jon Seidel
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/07/02/supreme-court-declines-hear-challenge-illinois-assault-weapons-ban
SOUTHERN
— Survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre call on President Biden to open investigation into 1921 attack – ABC (COMMENT: What did your ancestors do in 1921? On my father’s side, they operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, they operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. Ever-increasingly, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and if you are a Republican, the more that Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that you have benefitted from slavery, racism, and discrimination against Blacks and you owe more reparations.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/02/survivors-of-tulsa-race-massacre-call-on-president-biden-to-open-investigation-into-1921-attack/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage/force children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-03/in-just-a-few-years-half-of-all-states-passed-bans-on-trans-health-care-for-kids
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/07/02/how-lakeside-prides-latin-band-is-bringing-rhythm-and-joy-to-chicagos-lgbtq-scene/
WHEATON PATCH
— Road Closures To Take Effect For Independence Day Events In Wheaton – Lisa Marie Farver (COMMENT: Which Republican candidates will have entries in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade?)
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/road-closures-take-effect-independence-day-events-wheaton
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pressed on whether he’d pick up the mantle if Biden were to bow out, Pritzker was careful in his words: “Right now, Joe Biden is our nominee, and I’m 100 percent on board with supporting him as our nominee unless he makes some other decision. And then I think we’re all going to be discussing what’s the best way forward.” – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/03/pritzker-right-now-biden-is-the-nominee-00166414
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: What indicates that a website is having more and more and more big problems and that it is soon to go down? ANSWER: More and more and more a) days with nothing new posted, b) self-promotion, c) pay walling, d) advertising, e) cookie permission requests/demands, f) donation requests, and g) promotion of vices and sex. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— A 50/50 chance for a police response to a 911 call in Chicago shows total dysfunction
https://wirepoints.org/a-50-50-chance-for-a-police-response-to-a-911-call-in-chicago-shows-total-dysfunction-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Chicago’s worst-in-nation pension crisis strikes again. – Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-worst-in-nation-pension-crisis-strikes-again-wirepoints/
— UHaul, United Van Lines, the Census, the IRS…all show that Illinois is losing people
https://wirepoints.org/uhaul-united-van-lines-the-census-the-irs-all-show-that-illinois-is-losing-people-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— South and southwest Chicago suburbs to be hammered by massive property tax increases. – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/south-and-southwest-chicago-suburbs-to-be-hammered-by-massive-property-tax-increases-wirepoints/
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Pritzker on Axios ‘shortlist’ to replace Biden
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/661440513-pritzker-on-axios-shortlist-to-replace-biden
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION MAKES MOST EXTREME CONTRACT DEMANDS IN U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/chicago-teachers-union-makes-most-extreme-contract-demands-in-u-s/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘There’s a price for being Russia’s enemy’: Putin, Kim aim to intimidate U.S. – Ben Wolfgang (COMMENT: When Russia, China, North Korea, etc. officially declare war on America, which countries will side with them and which countries will side with America?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/2/theres-price-for-being-russias-enemy-putin-kim-aim/
— Shifting claims: Biden blames bad debate performance on international travel. Biden had been in U.S. for two weeks, also does not mention the cold his allies have been citing. – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/2/joe-biden-blames-bad-debate-performance-internatio/
— Illegal aliens are still voting in our elections. Inaction is not an option. – Matthew Tragesser
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/2/illegal-aliens-are-still-voting-in-our-elections/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Justice Thomas: Of course, the AR-15 is legal under Second Amendment – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3067835/justice-thomas-of-course-the-ar-15-is-legal-under-second-amendment/
— Conservatives are starting to win against DEI – Ben Rothove (COMMENT: My critics/opponents reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. They have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3068216/conservatives-starting-win-against-dei/
NEW YORK POST
— There’s no way to restore the illusion that Biden is fit for the presidency. – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/07/02/opinion/enablers-have-been-hiding-the-worst-of-bidens-senility-from-americans/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— ‘Biden Replacement Theory’ Gains Steam with First Elected Democrat’s Defection. Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first elected Democrat to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president. He may not be the last. – Bradley Devlin
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/biden-replacement-theory-gains-steam-with-first-elected-democrats-endorsement/
BREITBART
— Hunter Biden, 54, the president’s son, who was recently convicted of three gun-related felonies, is reportedly sitting in on meetings with his father in the West Wing, as the Biden family tries to manage the fallout of last week’s debate. – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/02/convicted-felon-hunter-biden-sits-in-on-west-wing-meetings-with-president/
— Joe Biden Took Naps During Each Day of Debate Prep. – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/02/report-joe-biden-took-naps-during-each-day-of-debate-prep/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden Admin Caught Taking Fake Victory Lap On Border. It’s Much Worse Than We Imagine. – MARY ROOKE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/02/rooke-biden-admin-border-crossings/
DAILY WIRE
— Affirmative Action Suit Details How Northwestern Law School Blackballed Accomplished White Men, Opted For Unqualified Black Women. Only 14% of law professor job offers went to white men due to affirmative action that blocked elite scholars in favor of incompetents, lawsuit says. – Luke Rosiak (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.dailywire.com/news/affirmative-action-suit-details-how-law-school-blackballed-accomplished-white-men-opted-for-unqualified-black-women
FEDERALIST
— Nonprofit Sues Northwestern University Over Discriminatory Affirmative-Action Hiring Practices. – MONROE HARLESS (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://thefederalist.com/2024/07/02/nonprofit-sues-northwestern-university-over-discriminatory-affirmative-action-hiring-practices/
— Counting The Most Horrific Crimes Allegedly Committed By Illegals Who Crossed The Border Under Biden’s Watch. – JORDAN BOYD
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/02/counting-the-most-horrific-crimes-allegedly-committed-by-illegals-who-crossed-the-border-under-bidens-watch/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— When it Comes to Executive Action, the Administration Tells the American People One Thing and Migrants Another. – Ira Mehlman
https://www.fairus.org/when-it-comes-executive-action-administration-tells-american-people-one-thing-and-migrants-another
FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s mayor plans reparations task force. I’m on the South Side and I’ve got loads of questions. The last thing we need is more liberal gaslighting from Mayor Johnson that will only extend the misery of Black people. – Corey Brooks
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicagos-mayor-plans-reparations-task-force-im-south-side-ive-got-loads-questions
— Supreme Court staying away from Illinois gun ban cases as Thomas seeks ‘more guidance’ on protected weapons. Illinois gun control law went into effect following 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting. – Greg Norman
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-staying-away-illinois-gun-ban-cases-thomas-seeks-more-guidance-protected-weapons
— Overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants aren’t under federal supervision. The non-detained docket has exploded to more than 7.4 million cases. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-98-illegal-immigrants-not-under-federal-supervision-analysis
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— What country are we in? 43 illegal immigrants who stormed the border during riot near El Paso RELEASED into U.S. – Matthew Holloway
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/forty-three-illegal-immigrants-who-stormed-the-border-during-riot-near-el-paso-released-into-u-s
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Biden’s Cognitive Problems Were Raised in 2020, Including By Fellow Democrats. The media coverup of Biden’s cognitive problems in many ways was worse than the fake Russian collusion because with Biden the media had to cover up what was in plain sight. – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/flashback-bidens-cognitive-problems-were-raised-in-2020-including-by-fellow-democrats/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Faculty, Alumni, & Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP) Sues Northwestern University Over Race and Sex Discrimination. – ED WHELAN (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.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/fasorp-sues-northwestern-university-over-race-sex-discrimination/
NEWS BUSTERS
— PRIDE: Full Frontal Nudity for Kids, Urinating on Grandpa & Woke Military – Tierin-Rose Mandelburg
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/tierin-rose-mandelburg/2024/07/02/pride-full-frontal-nudity-kids-urinating-grandpa
NEWSMAX
— ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ in DOD Harms Military. – Brian Freeman
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/military-study-dei/2024/07/02/id/1171031/
TOWNHALL
— There Is Some Serious Blood in the Water Regarding Kicking Biden Off the Ticket – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/03/cnn-reporter-on-biden-replacement-theory-the-dam-is-breaking-n2641315
— ‘It’s 3am’: Chip Roy Releases Chilling Ad on the Need to Use the 25th Amendment – Rebecca Downs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/07/02/chip-roy-ad-n2641273
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome. People who have spent time with President Biden over the last few months or so said the lapses appear to have grown more frequent, more pronounced and, after Thursday’s debate, more worrisome. – Peter Baker, David E. Sanger, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Katie Rogers
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/politics/biden-lapses.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiring. The complaint alleges that the private university’s law school gives hiring preference to “mediocre” women and applicants of color. – Laura Meckler and Susan Svrluga (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.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/02/northwestern-university-faculty-lawsuit-affirmative-action/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations, first for Blacks, but then for Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, females, younger people, those who are not married, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-Italian American, non-German Americans, those whose ancestor have not been in America for a long time, those who have less money than others, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/07/01/california-reparations-budget-black/1512220c-37fa-11ef-93fe-36cbc6f6ab36_story.html
USA TODAY
— How felon voting laws vary by state and what it means for Donald Trump – Rachel Barber
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/02/what-states-can-felons-vote/74203695007/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/migrants-pause-amazon-us-harder-idea-lies-ahead-111632957
NEWSWEEK
— Rudy Giuliani Disbarred – Sean O’Driscoll
https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-new-york-donald-trump-1920238
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden’s Worst Liability Isn’t His Infirmity. It’s his judgment. He has a special talent for making the worst possible choice out of all available options. – Barton Swaim
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-worst-liability-isnt-his-decrepitude-poor-record-judgment-decisionmaking-2b3a7ff4
— The ‘MAGA Supreme Court’ Doesn’t Exist. Democrats are fuming, but look at the record of the cases this term. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-term-donald-trump-joe-biden-chuck-schumer-sonia-sotomayor-7ea655b3
— Was There a ‘Biden’ Presidency? ‘Scranton Joe’ was a fig leaf for a White House bent on woke appeasement. – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-there-a-biden-presidency-election-voters-ec0839e4
BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Urges Biden to Address Americans After Poor Debate – Isis Almeida
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-03/pritzker-urges-biden-to-address-americans-after-debate-debacle
NEWS NATION
— Pritzker, a possible replacement for Biden? – Damita Menezes
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/jb-pritzker-biden-president/
POLITICO MAGAZINE
— This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time. Any move to replace Biden just four months before the election carries considerable risk. – JOSHUA ZEITZ (COMMENT: On March 31, 1968, I was watching TV when Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation when he announced he was pulling out of that year’s presidential election.)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/03/biden-steps-down-what-next-00166065
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
— Asylum-seekers in Chicago receive pro bono legal aid from ABA staff. – MIKE RAMSEY (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/aba-staffers-provide-legal-aid-to-asylum-seekers-in-chicago
ACLU
— Democrat and RINO leaders have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attacks-on-dei-reveal-administrations-agenda-for-second-term