June 6, 2024

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— 6/5/24 PRESS RELEASE: This Isn’t the First Time Democrats Raised Taxes CHICAGO — Today, JB Pritzker signed legislation that pushed a BILLION dollars in new taxes onto Prairie State residents. Without billions in federal assistance, Governor Pritzker signed the largest tax-and-spend bill in Illinois HISTORY and is making you and your families pay for it. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time. . .”Illinois Democrats’ bloated budget, which is filled with hundreds-of-millions of dollars of new tax increases for pet projects, illegal immigrants and his socialist agenda, is bad for Illinois,” said Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy. “Illinois families are dealing with Bidenflation, higher prices and more financial problems than ever before and Democrats’ solution is to take even more of their money. Pritzker needs to stop treating taxpayers as his personal piggy bank as he dreams of running for President and of being the far-left’s tax-and-spend darling.”
https://illinois.gop/this-isnt-the-first-time-democrats-raised-taxes/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Tell the RNC to Protect Life in the 2024 GOP Platform – Pastor Calvin Lindstrom
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/tell-the-rnc-to-protect-life-in-the-2024-gop-platform/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Judge rules unconstitutional Gov. J.B. Pritzker-backed election law that aided Democrats in November. – RICK PEARSON (COMMENT: U.S. President was the only contested race on the Republican primary ballot in my precinct. One office on the ballot would have been “no candidate” if it had not been filled by a write-in candidate.  As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood Illinois with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats, anticipate/expect that because the likelihood of winning is less, fewer candidates will run for offices as Republicans and those who do run will be less qualified for the offices that they seek. Further, anticipate/expect that Republican leaders will ever-increasingly encourage only those who are the following to run: non-conservative, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time. Therefore, anticipate/expect that Republican organizations will ever-increasingly run candidates.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/05/judge-rules-unconstitutional-gov-j-b-pritzker-backed-election-law-that-aided-democrats-in-november/
— Prosecutors want Donald Trump to remain under a gag order at least until he’s sentenced July 11. – MICHAEL R. SISAK (COMMENT: Ever since I started sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2000, my critics/opponents have wanted to gag me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/05/prosecutors-want-donald-trump-to-remain-under-a-gag-order-at-least-until-hes-sentenced-july-11/
— Pay increased for many elected county offices in Kane County – R. CHRISTIAN SMITH
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/05/pay-increased-for-many-elected-county-offices-in-kane-county/
— Potential victims are shooting back. This should raise alarms for Chicago public officials. – Editorial
https://news.yahoo.com/news/editorial-potential-victims-shooting-back-100000127.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Teen attack on couple prompts alderperson’s call for 8 p.m. curfew for minors downtown. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) made the proposal in response to an attack in Streeterville. The woman, who was two weeks pregnant, was kicked in the stomach and lost her baby. Two teens have been arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery. – Cindy Hernandez
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/06/05/alderperson-hopkins-chicago-curfew-minors-crime-cpd-city-hall-streeterville-attack-battery-arrest
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/pride/2024/06/05/pride-transphobia-homophobia-safety-slur
— As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly urge voters to vote for Democrats who share their demographics and/or who promise to give preference to voters who share their demographics. Democrat candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly promise to give preference to voters who are non-conservative, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2024/06/05/chicago-mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-women-gender-politics-morena-xochitl-galvez

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— The price tag for Oberweis Dairy, which was recently sold through a bankruptcy auction, was $21.25 million. – Ally Marotti
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-sale-price-revealed

ABC7
— Gov. Pritzker signs $53B state budget including tax hike on sportsbooks, businesses – JERRY NOWICKI,
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-sign-53-billion-budget/14913775/
— Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be handing out welfare and/or receiving welfare.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/northern-illinois-food-bank-free-meals-kids-summer/14915187/
— Chicago Ald. Brian Hopkins pushes earlier curfew for unaccompanied minors downtown. Effort prompted by attack on couple by teens in Streeterville where pregnant woman was kicked in stomach and lost her baby
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-ald-brian-hopkins-pushes-8-pm-curfew/14916146/
— Woman critically injured in stabbing outside Union Station while walking dog
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-woman-71-critically-injured-stabbing-union/14914901/
— ‘Roseland Cease Fire’ marches down South Side streets in call to reduce violence – Leah Hope
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-stats-nonprofit-marches-south-side-streets/14914970/

NBC5
— Suspect in custody after 71-year-old woman critically wounded in stabbing near Union Station. The woman was on the sidewalk near the intersection of Adams Street and Canal Street when she was stabbed multiple times.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-custody-71-year-old-woman-critically-wounded-stabbing-union-station/3456096/

CBS2
— Woman, 71, stabbed in broad daylight in front of Chicago’s Union Station – Darius Johnson, Alex Ortiz
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-71-stabbed-chicagos-union-station/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/stabbing-near-chicagos-union-station-leads-to-arrest-woman-critically-hurt/
— Chicago teens march for peace in the streets. CBS 2’s Andrew Ramos reports they donned orange, part of a national movement starting in Chicago more than a decade ago to raise awareness of gun violence and how young people when given proper tools, could fight back. (COMMENT: When you were young, what opportunities were you given? Starting in grade school, I knew that I wanted to earn a college degree and that because my parents lacked money, I would have to work my way through college. I was given the following opportunities and I took them a) I did yard work 1962-1964, b) I delivered newspapers 1962-1966, c) I washed dishes 1964-1966, d) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, e) I delivered mail 1966-1969, and f) I worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970. Because I took the aforesaid opportunities, I was able to and I did a) buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964, b) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) pay for my UIC expenses 1966-1968, d) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, f) pay for my NIU expenses 1969-1970, and g) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management and owning that Charger.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-teens-march-for-peace-in-the-streets/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEAOY8_g24A
— Democrat candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are non-conservative, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/senate-takes-up-measure-to-protect-access-to-contraception/
— Chaos in Dolton, Illinois spreads to rest of Thornton Township communities
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chaos-dolton-illinois-spreads-rest-033200605.html
— Mayor of Chicago suburb of Markham says pandemonium in Dolton is creeping into other communities – Jermont Terry
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-markham-pandemonium-dolton-township-politics/

WGN9
— Woman stabbed while walking dog outside Chicago’s Union Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3fAKka7Fkw

FOX32
— Chicago alderman pushes for downtown curfew after teens attack married couple – Tia Ewing
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-alderman-downtown-curfew-teens-attack-married-couple
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1466694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYddP3PAAsE
— States with highest, lowest personal incomes in 2024 – Joyce Lupiani (COMMENT: Illinois is ranked 7th with a median annual income of $78,304. In today’s dollars, my father never earned more than $50,000/year. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/states-highest-lowest-personal-incomes-2024-according-wallethub

WGN RADIO
— Bremen High School high school utilizes heart monitors to monitor students’ stress – Brian Althimer (COMMENT: What caused you stress when you were in high school? For me it was taking college preparatory courses, getting into the upper 20% of my class, getting a high ACT score, getting accepted by UIC, and earning and saving enough money to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and UIC. Neither of my parents attended college. I had to work my way through college. In today’s dollars, my father never earned more than $50,000/year. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. She stayed home and raised my brother and me.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/south-suburban-high-school-utilizes-heart-monitors-to-monitor-students-stress/

WBEZ
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/2024/06/05/the-rundown-your-guide-to-pride-month-in-chicago

WCIA
— Prosecutors want Donald Trump to remain under a gag order at least until he’s sentenced July 11. – AP (COMMENT: Ever since I started sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2000, my critics/opponents have wanted to gag me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-prosecutors-want-donald-trump-to-remain-under-a-gag-order-at-least-until-hes-sentenced-july-11/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Biden is ‘slipping,’ report says as concern over his mental fitness grows – MATTHEW GALKA (COMMENT: To defend your health, what do you stress? I stress my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that I put together and send out each and every morning.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/biden-mental-fitness-trump-election-2024-voters-health-decline-president-republicans-democrats-white-house-statement
— Trump campaign steps up vice presidential vetting efforts – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/who-will-it-be-trump-campaign-steps-up-vice-presidential-vetting-efforts-marco-rubio-jd-vance-doug-burgum-tim-scott-byron-donalds-elise-stefanik-rival-cabinet-member-ben-carson

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump campaign steps up vice presidential vetting efforts – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-campaign-steps-up-vice-presidential-vetting-efforts/
— Trump’s conviction prompts election-year debate among Democrats: How much to focus on the verdict? – AP (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. More recently, they had their operatives and their dupes a) end my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions membership and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-conviction-prompts-election-year-debate-among-democrats-how-much-to-focus-on-the-verdict/

NEWS CHANNEL 20 & WSIL TV
— VP Harris mocks GOP outrage over Trump conviction: ‘Cheaters don’t like getting caught’ – JACKSON WALKER (COMMENT: What would Harris call you? What would Harris call me for complaining about a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to take they early retirement “offer” and b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowing my education deductions and travel vouchers?)
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/vp-harris-mocks-gop-outrage-over-trump-conviction-cheaters-dont-like-getting-caught-vice-president-kamala-harris-president-joe-biden-2024-election-former-president-donald-trump-hush-money-trial-felony-34
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/cheaters-dont-like-getting-caught-vp-harris-speaks-about-trump-conviction-on-jimmy-kimmel/article_da75731c-0a63-5079-a8d3-e1366da9c6dc.html

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
— Democrats ever-increasingly encourage students to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2024/06/a-labor-of-love-boyan-golden-21-aims-to-empower-queer-community-with-social-networking-and-dating-app/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-304/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-99/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Unsustainable: Illinois’ tiny, five-year jobs growth due only to new government, healthcare and social services – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/unsustainable-illinois-tiny-five-year-jobs-growth-due-only-to-new-government-healthcare-and-social-services-wirepoints/
— This new budget offers no tax relief, but instead imposes tax hikes on Illinoisans
https://wirepoints.org/this-new-budget-offers-no-tax-relief-but-instead-imposes-tax-hikes-on-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-nbc-5-chicago/

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Judge: Democrats can’t change 2024 election rules now to block Republicans from fall ballot (COMMENT: U.S. President was the only contested race on the Republican primary ballot in my precinct. One office on the ballot would have been “no candidate” if it had not been filled by write-in. As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood Illinois with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats, anticipate/expect that because the likelihood of winning is less, fewer will run for offices as Republicans and those who do run will be less qualified for the offices that they seek. Further, anticipate/expect that Republican leaders will ever-increasingly encourage only those who are the following to run: non-conservative, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/660463924-judge-democrats-can-t-change-2024-election-rules-now-to-block-republicans-from-fall-ballot

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker calls Biden’s border order ‘imperfect,’ Republicans respond – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6eb64f72-2382-11ef-a1c5-77fc0af9e9a3.html

WEST COOK NEWS
— River Forest grammar schools host pro-homosexual “walk”
https://westcooknews.com/stories/660320530-river-forest-grammar-schools-host-pro-homosexual-walk

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— California rolls out red carpet for illegal immigrants – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/5/editorial-california-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-ille/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Keeping pornography out of schools isn’t banning books – Ben Rothove
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3029295/keeping-pornography-out-of-schools-isnt-banning-books/
— Pride camp counsels children the wrong way – Ericka Andersen
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3028749/pride-camp-counsels-children-the-wrong-way/

NEW YORK POST
— Swing state voters still favor Trump over Biden after guilty verdict – Victor Nava
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/us-news/swing-state-voters-still-favor-trump-over-biden-after-guilty-verdict-poll/
— Biden breaks law to give millions of migrants work permits – Don Barnett
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-breaks-law-to-give-millions-of-migrants-work-permits/ar-BB1nuze2

AMERICAN THINKER
— Three years late, Biden suddenly announces he’s swinging the barn door shut a tad to illegal migrants – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/three_years_late_biden_suddenly_announces_he_s_swinging_the_barn_door_shut_a_tad_to_illegal_migrants.html

AMERICAN WIRE
— Shock comes as number of NYC hotels used as immigrant shelters goes up to 135 – Frieda Powers
https://americanwirenews.com/wow-shock-comes-as-number-of-nyc-hotels-used-as-immigrant-shelters-goes-up-to-135/

BREITBART
— Sen. Tom Cotton Proposes to Bar Children of Illegal Aliens, Foreign Terrorists from Birthright Citizenship – SEAN MORAN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/05/exclusive-sen-tom-cotton-proposes-to-bar-children-of-illegal-aliens-foreign-terrorists-from-birthright-citizenship/
— NC School Suspends Teen for Saying ‘Illegal Alien,’ Compares to ‘Saying the N-Word’ – OLIVIA RONDEAU
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/06/05/nc-school-suspends-teen-saying-illegal-alien-compares-saying-n-word/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Rep. Jim Jordan Submits Proposals To DEFUND Lawfare Against Donald Trump – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/rep-jim-jordan-submits-proposals-to-defund-lawfare-against-donald-trump

DAILY SIGNAL
— Despite Liberals’ Hysterical Denials, Aliens Are Registering and Voting – Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are using their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden and the rest of the Democrats in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/06/despite-liberals-hysterical-denial-aliens-are-registering-and-voting/
— Why Biden’s Executive Order Won’t Solve the Illegal Immigration Crisis – Simon Hankinson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/05/why-bidens-executive-order-wont-solve-illegal-immigration-crisis/

FEDERALIST
— The Size Of Planned Parenthood’s Global Murder Campaign Will Shock You – BRADLEY HALEY
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/05/the-size-of-planned-parenthoods-global-murder-campaign-will-shock-you/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago couple brutally beaten while on date, pregnant woman loses baby as a result. Chicago-based reporter William Kelly sounds off on an incident involving a couple who was brutally beaten by a mob of teens in the Windy City.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6354357586112

GOPUSA
— RNC Making Backup Plans For Presidential Nomination If Trump Is Sentenced To Prison
https://www.gopusa.com/rnc-making-backup-plans-for-presidential-nomination-if-trump-is-sentenced-to-prison/

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Job Programs for Americans: No Jobs For Illegal Aliens, Period – MARK MECKLER (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers want cheap labor.)
https://ijr.com/mark-meckler-job-program-for-americans-no-jobs-for-illegal-aliens-period/

MRC TV
— MASSIVE Group of Illegals Floods Into California As Biden’s EO Takes Effect – BRITTANY M. HUGHES
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/massive-group-illegals-floods-california-bidens-eo-takes-effect

NEW AMERICAN
— Biden’s EO Won’t Secure Border, Tells Big Lie; Damage Already Done – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/bidens-eo-wont-secure-border-tells-big-lie-damage-already-done/

NEWSMAX
— Beware of BLM Rebranded as Pro-Palestinian Advocacy – Xaviaer DuRousseau
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/blm-floyd-palestine/2024/06/05/id/1167571/
— Colorado GOP: Burn Pride Flags in June – Sam Barron
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/colorado-republican-party-pride-month/2024/06/05/id/1167574/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Biden’s Immigration Order Too Little, Too Late for Conservatives — and Too Far for Progressives – DAVID ZIMMERMANN
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bidens-immigration-order-too-little-too-late-for-republicans-and-too-far-for-progressives/

PJ MEDIA
— Far Left Democrats Rail Against Biden’s ‘Shift to the Right’ on the Border – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/06/05/far-left-democrats-rail-against-bidens-shift-to-the-right-on-the-border-n4929626#google_vignette
— Biden’s Executive Order: 1 Illegal for Every 2 U.S. Births – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/06/05/bidens-exec-order-1-illegal-for-every-2-us-births-n4929622

TOWNHALL
— Here’s How the Left Is Going to Lie to Voters Ahead of November – Derek Hunter
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/06/06/heres-how-the-left-is-going-to-lie-to-voters-ahead-of-november-n2640038
— Biden’s Border Executive Order Is a Joke – Jenny Beth Martin
https://townhall.com/columnists/jennybethmartin/2024/06/06/bidens-border-executive-order-is-a-joke-n2640031
— Gov. Abbott Announces New Efforts to Stop Joe Biden’s Border Crisis – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/06/05/abbott-announces-10-most-wanted-criminal-illegal-immigrants-list-n2640036

ZERO HEDGE
— Wall Street Admits The Biggest Economic Shocker: All Jobs In The Past Year Have Gone To Illegal Aliens – TYLER DURDEN (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/wall-street-admits-biggest-economic-shocker-all-jobs-past-year-have-gone-illegal-aliens

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York – John Miller
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-gun-nypd-revoke/index.html?utm_term=17176215708107616508949c0

CBS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/migrants-looking-to-claim-asylum-concerned-over-bidens-executive-action-on-us-border/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/nyregion/new-york-asylum.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/politics/biden-asylum-restrictions-laywer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/opinion/asylum-border-immigration.html

WASHINGTON POST
— No one who is not a citizen of America has a “fundamental’ right” to come into America or to stay in America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/05/unchr-concern-asylum-refugees-usa-biden-restrictions/280d1bc0-233f-11ef-bc8d-a8ae61b84dde_story.html
— From what I see, in America, if your patents did not have college degrees like mine did not, you were born into a low caste. What if Affirmative Action had only been for those whose parents did not have college degrees?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/05/india-election-modi-bjp-dalits/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/06/05/border-biden-migrants-asylum/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/06/texas-border-abbott-immigration-shelters/

USA TODAY
— Chicago woman loses baby after teens kicked, punched her in random attack – Taylor Ardrey
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/05/woman-baby-attack-chicago-streeterville/73985673007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping. Participants in meetings said the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics. – Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes (COMMENT: To defend your health, what do you stress? I stress my ability to put my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out each and every morning.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246

June 4, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Saint Ignatius priest grazed while confronting suspected catalytic converter thieves in Little Italy – Rob Hughes
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italy-chicago-shooting-today-st-ignatius-priest-jeremiah/14907272/
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in forcing LGBTQ on everyone.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mayor-brandon-johnson-local-leaders-raise-progress-pride/14906569/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success in promoting hatred against Republicans. I became eligible to take early retirement in 1993 when I was 45 years old. I was able to survive another 4 years before my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave by Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. If there had been as much Democrat-generated hatred within GAO against Republicans back then as there is now, they would have succeeded in forcing me to retire much sooner. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had earned my third job-related master’s degree and my sixth job-related professional certification that year. Previously, I had earned job related professional certifications in 1996,1994,1990, 1981, and 1979 and I had earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/cook-county-city-chicago-officials-encourage-community-submit/14906518/

NBC5
— ‘Flash mob’ involving hundreds of teens leads to cancellation of suburban carnival. Posen police said just before 7 p.m. Sunday that officers were working to disperse crowds after a “large fight” broke out, the second such incident to take place at the carnival since it began. – Regina Waldroup (COMMENT: Posen today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suburban-carnival-abruptly-shut-down-early-due-to-large-fight-police-say/3453275/
— Sidewalk snow removal pilot sparks intense debate among Chicago lawmakers (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/sidewalk-snow-removal-pilot-sparks-intense-debate-among-chicago-lawmakers/3453897/
— Peloton users report bike systems ‘freezing’ following latest software update (COMMENT: Recently, I bought a Gotrax Dolphin from Amazon.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/peloton-users-report-bike-systems-freezing-following-latest-software-update/3454101/

CBS2
— Catalytic converter thief fires shots at priest near Chicago Catholic school, UIC – Darius Johnson, Todd Feurer, Adam Harrington
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/st-ignatius-shots-fired-at-priest-catalytic-converter-thieves/
— Chicago alderwoman believes she was targeted with signs about Gaza because she is Jewish – Adam Harrington, Natalie Goldstick, Steffanie Dupree
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-alderwoman-signs-gaza/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/long-delays-hurdles-asylum-seekers-chicago-work-permits/

FOX32
— Chicago gunmen open fire on Jesuit priest after he catches them stealing catalytic converter
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-gunmen-open-fire-jesuit-priest-catalytic-converter-theft
— Chicago woman suffers miscarriage after she and husband attacked by teens in Streeterville
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-woman-husband-attacked-teens-streeterville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGwxkjtc3NY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-pride-month-flag-raising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM71TV2Vg6s

WTTW
— After Would-Be Illinois GOP Candidates Sue, Judge Considering Whether Slated Candidates Can Appear on November Ballot – Hannah Meisel (COMMENT: U.S. President was the only contested Republican primary race in my precinct. One office would have been “no candidate” if it had not been filled by write-in. As Democrats ever-increasingly run Illinois, anticipate/expect fewer and fewer and fewer candidates will run as Republicans. Further, anticipate/expect that fewer and fewer and fewer of them will be conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/03/after-would-be-illinois-gop-candidates-sue-judge-considering-whether-slated-candidates
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Sangamon County judge is weighing whether to block a new state law that bans the long-practiced tradition of political parties slating candidates for a general election after sitting out of a primary race. Democrats who control the General Assembly pushed the measure through the legislative process and Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law in a matter of days last month, arguing that slating is unfair to voters who didn’t get a say in a primary contest. Several would-be Republican candidates then sued over the law, claiming it’s unfair to ban the practice in the middle of an election cycle.)

WBEZ
— Ahead of the DNC, Chicago IG warns about police tactics, ‘insufficient’ training. Experts flag issues leading up to the Democratic National Convention in August, including foreign interference.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/06/03/ahead-of-the-dnc-chicago-ig-warns-about-police-tactics-insufficient-training

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Dolton trustees override Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s veto, solidifying the hiring of Lori Lightfoot as special investigator. – OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/dolton-trustees-override-mayor-tiffany-henyards-veto-solidifying-the-hiring-of-lori-lightfoot-as-special-investigator/
— Hemp can get you high. Illinois needs to better protect its minors. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/editorial-hemp-can-get-you-high-illinois-needs-to-better-protect-its-minors/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/cannabis-dispensary-with-1950s-diner-theme-to-open-in-niles/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect to see fewer and fewer and fewer people who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/03/fox-valley-mall-in-aurora-wins-international-award-for-its-multicultural-events/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: College graduates are concerned pro-Palestinian activism could deter future employers. – ZAREEN SYED (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not. I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/04/college-graduates-are-concerned-pro-palestinian-activism-could-deter-future-employers/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/06/03/pride-month-flag-daley-plaza
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in Civil War and Republicans as having been the Confederacy.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/06/03/juneteenth-cook-county-chicago-illinois

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrats ever-increasingly make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/06/03/city/evanston-pride-youth-car-parade-cultivates-safe-space-amidst-increased-anti-lgbtq-legislation-nationwide/

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, the more of the following that you are, the more reparations that you should pay: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2024/06/03/letter-to-the-editor-dont-dignify-the-lawsuit-targeting-reparations/

SOUTHERN
— Who do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want the Republican presidential candidate to be instead of Trump?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/06/04/majority-of-independents-and-double-haters-think-trump-should-end-2024-campaign-poll/

WMBD RADIO
— Judge considering whether slated candidates can appear on November ballot
https://wmbdradio.com/2024/06/04/judge-considering-whether-slated-candidates-can-appear-on-november-ballot/

WIFR
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more contraception.
https://www.wifr.com/2024/06/03/gov-pritzker-pushes-contraception-protections-federal-level/

25 NEWS NOW
— Democrats ever-increasingly push LGBTQ on everyone.
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2024/06/04/illinois-is-beacon-hope-lgbtq-community-says-state-lawmaker-peoria/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/03/19-chicago-lgbtq-organizations-to-support-year-round/

ILLINOIS PATCH
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in taking adverse actions against Trump. How many demographics do you share with Trump? Trump and I share lots of demographics. I should write a book about the adverse actions that my Democrat GAO, IRS, Firestone Stores, and Post Office superiors took against me. Further, I should write another book about the adverse actions that my Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, Independent plant, and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have taken and continue to take against me.
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/il-patch-readers-agree-trump-conviction-slim-margin

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-302/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois lobbyist Pat Brady, who switched from GOP to Democrats, is an ‘absolute traitor’ who ‘would sell out anyone for those thirty pieces of silver’ – Dan Proft (COMMENT: I should write a book about the many big adverse actions that Pat Brady, his operatives, and his dupes have taken against me.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/660323468-proft-illinois-lobbyist-pat-brady-who-switched-from-gop-to-democrats-is-an-absolute-traitor-who-would-sell-out-anyone-for-those-thirty-pieces-of-silver

KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 45.7% of Kane County’s districts student body in 2021-22 school year
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/660250750-enrollment-analysis-hispanic-students-comprised-45-7-of-kane-county-s-districts-student-body-in-2021-22-school-year

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/ballys-chicago-casino-to-host-diversity-vendor-fair-on-june-11/

SOUTH COOK NEWS
— There were 267,255 Hispanic students enrolled in Cook County districts in 2021-22 school year
https://southcooknews.com/stories/660250818-there-were-267-255-hispanic-students-enrolled-in-cook-county-districts-in-2021-22-school-year

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— There were 41,466 Hispanic students enrolled in Lake County school districts in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/660250754-how-many-hispanic-students-were-enrolled-in-lake-county-districts-in-2021-22-school-year

WIREPOINTS
— The evidence so far on Illinois’ ‘Evidence-Based Funding’ for K-12 schools: It’s a flop – Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/the-evidence-so-far-on-illinois-evidence-based-funding-for-k-12-schools-its-a-flop-wirepoints-special-report/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Big City Blacks, Hispanics Bail on Biden and Democrats – MARK VARGAS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/06/vargas-big-city-blacks-hispanics-bail-on-biden-and-democrats.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Harvard faculty drops mandatory diversity statements in latest blow to DEI push – Valerie Richardson (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/3/harvard-faculty-drops-mandatory-diversity-statemen/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson’s agenda will make Chicago schools less safe – Matt Lamb
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3025697/brandon-johnsons-agenda-chicago-schools-less-safe/
— Democrats launch offensive against Republican IVF initiative with new bill. – Ailin Vilches Arguello
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3026084/democrats-offensive-against-republican-ivf-initiative-new-bill/
— The anti-CPAC: A conference for conservatives that prioritize debate not grandstanding – Erin Dunne (COMMENT: I not only attended but helped sponsor many CPACs, but not recently.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1484642/the-anti-cpac-a-conference-for-conservatives-that-prioritize-debate-not-grandstanding/
— Harvard eliminates DEI requirement for some tenure-track professors – Emily Hallas (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3026670/harvard-eliminates-dei-requirement-some-tenure-track-professors/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Mexico Elects Sheinbaum as President. State of the Union: The left-populist is open to working with Trump on border enforcement. – Mason Letteau Stallings (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mexico-elects-sheinbaum-as-president/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— No vacation for the agenda: ‘Pride’ push prevails, even when school is out. – Bob Kellogg, Charlie Butts (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexual active LGBTQers?)
https://afn.net/education/2024/06/03/no-vacation-for-the-agenda-pride-push-prevails-even-when-school-is-out/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden’s sneaky back-door amnesty for illegals – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/biden_s_sneaky_back_door_amnesty_for_illegals.html

BREITBART
— Biden to Announce Symbolic Election-Year Border Curbs – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/06/03/report-biden-announce-symbolic-border-curbs/
— Backdoor Border: Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants Stay in U.S. Thanks to Case Dismissals. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/03/backdoor-border-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-stay-in-u-s-thanks-to-case-dismissals/

COLLEGE FIX
— Don’t say ‘America’: Michigan State has 140+ employees working on 222 DEI action items. – MJ CADMAN
https://www.thecollegefix.com/dont-say-america-michigan-state-has-140-employees-working-on-222-dei-action-items/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Trump Stronger After ‘Conviction’ – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/trump-stronger-after-conviction

DAILY CALLER
— There’s A Long List Of Reasons To Toss Trump’s Conviction — But His Appeal Venue Isn’t The Friendliest – KATELYNN RICHARDSON (COMMENT: The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/03/trumps-conviction-appeal-venue/

DAILY SIGNAL
— America Is Under Attack – Johnny Cochran
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/03/america-is-under-attack/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago leader to stop sharing crime alerts with constituents because they create bad ‘perception’ Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth cited research that states the over-reporting of crime negatively impacts the marginalized and underserved. – Louis Casiano (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Democrats run the news media. Anticipate/expect ever-increasing underreporting of poverty and crime.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-leader-stop-sharing-crime-alerts-constituents-because-create-bad-perception
— Trump vows to fire generals who push wokeness: ‘You can’t have a woke military’ Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ US has a ‘great military’ that must be focused on winning wars. – Bailee Hill
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-vows-fire-generals-push-wokeness-cant-woke-military
— Epoch Education CEO Dr. Nancy Dome called employees who don’t accept notions included in CRT, such as the existence of “White privilege,” a “poison to culture and climate,” and criticized equality in favor of equity. The DEI firm’s YouTube videos, meanwhile, espouse CRT’s tenets and indicate that color blindness isn’t sufficient. – Hannah Grossman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/school-district-dei-trainer-says-american-flag-hate-symbol-resisting-employees-fired

JUDICIAL WATCH
— TRUMP VERDICT OUTRAGE: CAN THE COUNTRY BE SAVED?!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/trump-verdict-outrage-can-the-country-be-saved/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Harvard Faculty End Mandatory DEI Statements in Hiring – CAROLINE DOWNEY
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-faculty-end-mandatory-dei-statements-in-hiring/

PJ MEDIA
— Barack Obama Offered Jeremiah Wright Hush Money During 2008 Campaign – MATT MARGOLIS
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/03/obama-offered-jeremiah-wright-hush-money-during-2008-campaign-n4929574

TOWNHALL
— Crime and Punishment in Joe Biden’s America – Brent Bozell III
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozelliii/2024/06/04/crime-and-punishment-in-joe-bidens-america-n2639947#google_vignette

TURNING POINT USA
— State Department DEI Practices have led to Inefficiencies in Hiring – Stephen Davis (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and 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.tpusa.com/live/new-report-claims-state-department-dei-practices-have-led-to-inefficiencies-in-hiring

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4700827-biden-campaign-looks-to-mobilize-lgbtq-voters-with-pride-month-media-blitz/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://apnews.com/article/ceo-pay-compensation-ratio-workers-fa25db3338b68ad9eb395dfd46190383

MSN
— What Car Is The Most Woke? – Amber DaSilv (COMMENT: The vehicles that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/what-car-is-the-most-woke/ar-BB1nymHl

NEW YORK TIMES
— Another Milestone in Mexico: Its First Jewish President – Simon Romero and Natalie Kitroeff
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/world/americas/claudia-sheinbaum-jewish-mexico-president.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html
— Benjamin B. Bolger has 14 advanced degrees, plus an associate’s and a bachelor’s. I have only 4 degrees, a 1997 master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT, a 1980 master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, a 1976 MBA from Loyola, and a 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html

WASHINGTON POST
— If Trump is not elected president on November 5, 2024, no Republican president will ever be elected president again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/03/mexico-sheinbaum-morena-one-party-state/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats focus on getting everyone to despise/hate Republicans. I should write about what my Democrat GAO superiors did to get my Black GAO subordinates to despise/hate me. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they succeeded in forcing me to retire and they gave one of my Black subordinates my job and my preferred corner office.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-06-03/we-refuse-american-history-juneteenth

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/06/03/gay-transgender-least-most-welcoming-states/73909721007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Mexico Hands More Power to the Left. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and her Morena party win big. The peso and stock market fell in response. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-presidential-election-amlo-xochitl-galvez-f70301fd

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexico-election-president-claudia-sheinbaum-af55cbce

FORBES
— Garmin DriveCam 76 Review: Finally, A GPS Device With A Built-In Dash Camera – William Roberson (COMMENT: I am considering buying this for my 2018 Chevrolet Cruze LT.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billroberson/2023/02/28/garmin-drivecam-76-finally-a-gps-device-with-a-built-in-dash-camera/

HARVAD BUSINESS REVIEW & FORBES & INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2024/06/research-why-companies-should-disclose-their-lack-of-progress-on-dei
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2024/06/03/stop-the-dei-backslide-with-these-4-steps/?sh=3d3bdc484910
https://www.inc.com/sarah-lynch/business-leaders-arent-abandoning-dei-even-if-staying-quiet.html

SOUTH COAST TODAY
— What are e-bikes? Here’s what riders say you need to know. – Matthew Ferreira (COMMENT: Recently, I bought a Gotrax Dolphin from Amazon.)
https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2024/06/03/what-are-e-bikes-and-can-you-ride-them-on-the-road-cycling-experts-give-pros-and-cons/73909707007/

POLITICO
— More Republicans now identify as working or lower class than Democrats. And white voters without a college education, once a core Democratic constituency, remain a key element of Trump’s reelection bid heading into November. – TOM MCGRATH (COMMENT: My parents were conservative Republicans. Neither of them attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He often decried his not having a college degree. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/04/yuppies-donald-trump-book-excerpt-00160689

June 1, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Republicans slam Trump conviction. ‘Stalin would be proud’ said state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dieterich. Even more moderate Illinois Republicans who don’t support the former president said they were “troubled” by the case that resulted in a conviction on 34 felony counts in New York. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/31/donald-trump-hush-money-conviction-illinois-republicans-reaction
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a state where Donald Trump has divided many Republicans, Illinois GOP leaders were united in their condemnation of the former president’s conviction for falsifying business records, blasting what they deemed a “sham trial,” a “fraud case” — and downright “chicken s—.” Soon after a New York jury on Thursday found the presumptive GOP presidential nominee guilty in a hush-money case, Illinois Republican Party chairman Don Tracy called it “a political prosecution the likes of which occur in banana republics but not previously in these United States.” “Democrat activist investigators and prosecutors have relentlessly hounded President Trump for years,” Tracy said in a statement. “This weaponization of the judicial system has weakened our country here and in the eyes of the world, which I’m sure President Biden will savor while he vacations in Delaware as his handlers make critical decisions for the country.” Illinois Republican National Committee member Richard Porter, who has criticized Trump — and who backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primary — accused Democrats of “perverting the judicial system for political purposes.” “Everyone sees what happened in Manhattan, the second most Democrat county in the nation — where Democrat prosecutors are trying to take his money, with a fraud case in which no one was defrauded, and take his liberty with a criminal case in which no crime was committed,” Porter said in an email. “It’s just another example of how Democrats turn all institutions against the people they are supposed to be serving. Democrats will rue the day that they chose this path,” he said, suggesting President Joe Biden could face prosecution down the line. “There are many, many more Republican county prosecutors than Democrat county prosecutors across the country, and they are watching what the New York County district attorney did and are taking notes,” Porter said. “Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, too.” How will the Biden campaign exploit the Trump hush money guilty verdict? Even self-declared “Never-Trump” Illinois Republicans slammed the verdict, including former Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, who said he was “troubled by how this case was charged.” “People in Manhattan were looking for a reason to convict. He was low-hanging fruit, based on electoral results in that area,” Durkin said, adding that he thought the case should have been brought to election authorities, not a criminal court. “It’s easy to dislike Donald Trump… But I also have respect for the way the justice system is applied, and I thought this was an egregious example of selective prosecution by the Manhattan district attorney,” Durkin said. “Now he can say he got a conviction on Donald Trump. I’m still not sure what crime it was.” The barbs were even sharper from Republicans downstate, where Trump remains immensely popular outside the solid blue Chicago area. “Joseph Stalin would be proud,” said state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dieterich, a member of the far-right Illinois Freedom Caucus of the General Assembly. “The Democrats have shown that they cannot be trusted to be anywhere near power. They must be stopped and the only way to do that is for Donald Trump to win in a landslide in November.” Fellow Freedom Caucus Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, bemoaned “the trampling of our Constitution by the worst people imaginable.” “The same people who allow criminals to murder, rape, and commit unspeakable acts of violence have the audacity to prosecute a former President of the country,” Wilhour said in a statement. “The American people see right through this, and they will come out in huge numbers to vote for President Trump because they understand the battle facing us is not one of politics and political disagreement — it is truly good versus evil.” Former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Darren Bailey — and a former Freedom Caucus member until he gave up his southern Illinois state Senate seat — exclaimed on social media: “I don’t cuss, but this is chicken s—!” Rep. Mike Bost, a staunch Trump supporter who beat Bailey as GOP nominee for the 12th Congressional District, said “New York’s six-week sham trial against President Trump has eroded the public’s trust in our legal system in a way that will take years to overcome… Even after today’s verdict, he is strengthened with an American public that is fed up with liberals weaponizing the legal system for their partisan political gain.” Rep. Darin LaHood, the central Illinois congressman who has periodically criticized Trump but endorsed his 2024 comeback bid, said, “This political prosecution undermines the rule of law and faith in our justice system. It should be overturned on appeal.” LaHood is hosting House Speaker Mike Johnson Saturday at the Peoria-Tazewell Lincoln Day Dinner, a marquee event on the state GOP calendar. “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” Johnson said in a statement. “President Trump will rightfully appeal this absurd verdict—and he WILL WIN.”)
— 10,560 Illinois-based Mexican nationals to vote in historic presidential election. Up to 1,500 Mexicans with a voting ID will be eligible to vote at the Mexican Consulate of Chicago by 6 p.m. on Sunday. – Andrea Flores (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2024/05/31/mexican-nationals-to-vote-in-historic-presidential-election
— Mexican nationals in Chicago get to vote for the first time to elect Mexico’s president. The election marks the first time that Mexicans abroad are able to vote by mail, electronically or in person across 23 locations around the world, including several U.S cities. – Adriana Cardona-Maguigad (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/06/01/mexico-historic-presidential-election-chicago-mexican-nationals-vote-sheinbaum-galvez
— Michigan Avenue, once a picture-perfect postcard, is now a depressing mess. “I inhale smoke from so much weed I wonder why I don’t feel high. Adults, apparently mentally ill, scream on street corners.” – Carol Felsenthal (COMMENT: During 1974, 1975, and 1976, I walked Michigan Avenue to/from my IRS job in the Loop, graduate evening business classes at Loyola, and my Outer Drive East condo.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/05/31/michigan-avenue-grim-depressing-mess-once-beautiful-richard-daley-brandon-johnson-carol-felsenthal
— University of Chicago faculty, City Council members criticize withholding degrees of encampment protesters. At a news conference Friday morning, Denis Hirschfeldt, a math professor at the university, said its disciplinary process had lost “all credibility.” – Violet Miller (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/31/university-of-chicago-faculty-alderpeople-pro-palestinian-protester-degrees
— Breaking down tense moments in the Illinois House as it passed a budget package. You really have to wonder if House Speaker Chris Welch could’ve mollified a few more of his members before he locked in a budget deal. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/31/illinois-house-budget-package-passes-speaker-chris-welch-winning-ugly-jb-pritzker-rich-miller
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/chicago-pride-2024-events-calendar-lgbtq
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/31/donald-trump-hush-money-joe-biden-conspiracy-murder-gene-lyons

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ – AP (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I not only questioned, I opposed their race and gender based preference giving, that is, I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/biden-says-questioning-trumps-guilty-verdicts-is-dangerous-and-irresponsible/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/trump-conviction-voters-november-election/
— Chicago to provide free sidewalk snow removal services in four areas next year, Mayor Brandon Johnson announces. – ALICE YIN (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/31/chicago-free-sidewalk-snow-removal-pilot/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Not surprisingly, suburban political leaders divided on Trump verdict – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/nation-and-world-politics/not-surprisingly-suburban-political-leaders-divided-on-trump-verdict/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Across the aisle, Will County Republican Party Chair Christina Clausen defended Trump and said the verdict “represents a profound crisis for our democratic process.” Clausen, of Homer Glen, alleged the trial was unfair and said the verdict interferes with the upcoming presidential election.
“It is deeply troubling that, despite living in what many consider the most free and fair society in history, a judge and prosecutor in New York City can wrongfully condemn and imprison one of our nation’s greatest presidents,” said Clausen, overlooking that a jury handed down the verdict. “I stand firmly with Donald Trump during these challenging times and hope that justice will prevail, demonstrating his innocence to the world.” Republican congressional candidate Mark Rice of Chicago, who’s challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg in the entirely suburban 8th District, said he expects the verdict will be overturned by an appellate court. “What a farce,” Rice said Friday in a Facebook post. . .In a statement on social media, Seth Cohen, a Skokie resident and the GOP’s nominee for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District seat, supported “the role and authority” of the justice system while “respectfully” disagreeing with the verdict. Cohen also said he opposes the weaponization of the system by members of either major political party. Cohen is vying to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th District, which includes parts of Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. . .Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin of Barrington Hills turned to social media after the verdict, posting a photo of the U.S. flag displayed outside his office and a jab at the people of New York City. “I left the office flag flying high and proud,” wrote McLaughlin, of the 52nd District. “Thankfully there are still a lot of ‘Old Souls’ still present in our Great Nation if not in Manhattan. Blue skies ahead.”)
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump responds to his guilty verdict by falsely blasting a ‘rigged trial’ and attacking star witness.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/crime/trump-responds-to-his-guilty-verdict-by-falsely-blasting-a-rigged-trial-and-attacking-star-witness/
— What do you say to those who promote opioid abuse?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/news/wheaton-providing-narcan-overdose-antidote/
— College of DuPage board appoints interim president – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240531/education/college-of-dupage-board-appoints-interim-president/

ABC7
— 16 alderpersons call on UChicago to reconsider withholding diplomas for 4 sanctioned students – Mark Rivera (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/university-chicago-students-faculty-speak-disciplinary-process-participants/14894627/
— Mayor Johnson unveils sidewalk snow removal pilot; alderman says it will bring blizzard of trouble – Fran Spielman (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-unveils-sidewalk-snow-removal/14897709/
— Mexico presidential election: Chicago Mexicans to vote in-person at consulate for 1st time. Mexican voters set to make history with expected election of female president. – Sarah Schulte (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico and many other countries have declared war on America. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mexico-election-2024-chicago-mexicans-vote-claudia-sheinbaum/14897226/

NBC5
— President Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdict is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ – AP (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I not only questioned, I opposed their race and gender based preference giving, that is, I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/biden-slams-questioning-trump-verdict/3451959/
— Diplomas withheld from 4 University of Chicago students following pro-Palestine encampment. The four students on Friday were supported by two professors who believe the decision is inconsistent with free speech values. – Natalie Martinez (COMMENT: When you were in high school and college, were you an activist? I was not active in Republican politics while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, and DePaul 1976-1980. If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/university-of-chicago-withholds-diplomas-from-4-students-who-took-part-in-pro-palestine-protest/3452355/
— Donald Trump holds news conference day after guilty verdict in hush money trial
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/watch-live-trump-news-conference-friday-time/3451650/

CBS2
— Private security patrols come to Chicago’s Fulton Market District – Jermont Terry (COMMENT: As crime ever-increasingly increases under the Democrats and under the RINOs, how soon, if not already, will your neighborhood have to hire private security?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/private-security-patrols-come-to-chicagos-fulton-market-district/
— Chicago minister gets another “Chance” as his church is rebuilt after fire – Shardaa Gray (COMMENT: When my father was a leader of the Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Crete, he questioned the need to replace the congregation’s existing wooden church with a brick one and he paid the price for doing that.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-chance-ministries-church-rebuilt/
— University of Chicago withholding degrees from four students
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/university-of-chicago-withholding-degrees-from-four-students/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moS3HybYz1w
— Chicago kids swing into confidence through First Tee Chicago (COMMENT: Because I majored in business at UIC 1966-1968, UIC required me to take a course in either golf or bowling.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-students-life-skills-golf-lessons/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-kids-swing-into-confidence-through-first-tee-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNhLDZ0qM1Y

WGN9
— Where do Chicago, other Midwest cities rank in retiree Social Security income? – Katie Smith, Jeremy Tanner (COMMENT: I paid into Social Security 1964-1974. But my Social Security is only $2,935/year because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/where-do-chicago-other-midwest-cities-rank-in-retiree-social-security-income/

FOX32
— Chicago aldermen criticize CPS budget cuts to top-performing schools. Some Chicago City Council members are voicing concerns that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is disproportionately making budget cuts to top-performing schools in favor of increasing funds for under-enrolled neighborhood schools.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1464426

WBEZ
— Illinois legislative staff union sues Speaker Welch demanding recognition. Members of the Illinois Legislative Staff Association filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch Friday, alleging he’s violating their right to organize as workers. – Alex Degman
https://www.wbez.org/2024/05/31/illinois-legislative-staff-union-sues-speaker-welch-demanding-recognition

SPRINGFIELD STATE JORNAL REGISTER
— Are Illinois Republicans still backing Trump after being found guilty? – Patrick M. Keck (COMMENT: How many of those who could/should have attended the Illinois Republican Party State Convention but failed/refused to do so to protest Trump?)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/31/trump-convicted-are-illinois-republicans-still-supporting-him/73922423007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot in Danville.
https://www.news-gazette.com/business/entrepreneurs/latest-proposal-for-danville-cannabis-dispensary-includes-truck-stop-restaurant/article_d5e5f7a8-a5e2-5e2b-9ea7-88347124919c.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/third-danville-cannabis-site-the-charm/article_d5e5f7a8-a5e2-5e2b-9ea7-88347124919c.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/lgbtq-pride-month-is-starting-to-show-its-colors-around-the-world-what-to-know/article_0990923f-8b23-50dd-abd2-51ebdf5527e2.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER & HERALD & REVIEW
— Chicago police misconduct records to be searchable by officer name – SAM CHARLES (COMMENT: Constructively, federal employment records are in the public realm. Potential employers could find out about the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me including a) GAO forcing me to take its early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old, b) GAO always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, c) GAO never promoting me beyond GS-13, d) GAO requiring me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, e) IRS never promoting me beyond GS-12, f) IRS disallowing my education deductions in 1978, g) IRS disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, h) the Post Office forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_40cd398b-9afe-52da-976e-0763662c672d.html
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_6035e1d7-6545-5117-bed9-f0cc00df2c6e.html
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/chicago-police-misconduct-records-to-be-searchable-by-officer-name/article_23369fad-5acb-534c-bdd9-a824ba9fd51e.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Several GOP senators on Friday signed a forceful letter to their Democratic colleagues revoking their cooperation on any legislation that does not affect the safety of the American people in the wake of the verdict against former President Donald Trump.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/gop-senators-sign-letter-refusing-to-cooperate-with-dems-after-trump-conviction-sens-tommy-tuberville-r-ala-marsha-blackburn-r-tenn-roger-marshall-r-kan-jd-vance-r-ohio-eric-schmitt-r-mo-rick-scott-r-fla-and-marco-rubio-r-fla-mike

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans join Trump’s attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-join-trumps-attacks-on-justice-system-and-campaign-of-vengeance-after-guilty-verdict/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in convicting Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-carries-the-stain-of-conviction-like-a-crown-will-the-verdict-matter-to-voters/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Legal experts say Trump’s conviction is unlikely to lead to a prison sentence
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-30/legal-experts-say-trumps-conviction-is-unlikely-to-lead-to-a-prison-sentence
— Trump allies say his felony conviction has helped unify Republicans – Franco Ordoñez
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-31/trump-allies-say-his-felony-conviction-has-helped-unify-republicans

WJPF
— Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy joined WJPF to discuss upcoming elections and the importance of engagement and participation.
https://x.com/ILGOP/status/1793673251408990413

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISON
— Replica Vietnam Memorial Wall at College of DuPage honors veterans – Jesus Cortez,
https://www.nctv17.org/news/replica-vietnam-memorial-wall-at-college-of-dupage-honors-veterans/
— New legislation could end feud between DuPage County Board and county clerk – Will Payne
https://www.nctv17.org/news/new-legislation-could-end-feud-between-dupage-county-board-and-county-clerk/

SIU
— SIU uses $186K grant to fully fund training for counselors as drug, alcohol problems rise. – Christi Mathis (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more vice.)
https://news.siu.edu/2024/05/053124-siu-uses-186k-grant-to-fully-fund-training-for-counselors-as-drug-alcohol-problems-rise.php

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Chicago Could Start Plowing The Sidewalks Under Pilot Program. The pilot program launching in late 2025 and would target specific “zones” throughout the city. If the initiative moves forward, Chicago would be the largest city in the U.S. to pilot a sidewalk plowing program. – Molly DeVore (COMMENT: My wife and I walked to/from Wheaton train stations 1978-1997. We greatly appreciated those homeowners who shoveled their sidewalks.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/31/chicago-could-start-plowing-the-sidewalks-under-pilot-program/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— IL Supreme Court rewrites attorney ‘discrimination’ rule; Critics predict court challenges forthcoming
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/660076176-il-supreme-court-rewrites-attorney-discrimination-rule-critics-predict-court-challenges-forthcoming

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 96)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-96/

NEW YORK POST
— Institutions have violated the trust of Americans, and a new revolution is coming – Victor Davis Hanson
https://nypost.com/2024/05/31/opinion/institutions-have-violated-the-trust-of-americans-and-a-new-revolution-is-coming/

AMAC
— Mass Migration Hurting, Not Helping, Western Economies – Andrew Shirley
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/study-mass-migration-hurting-not-helping-western-economies/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Worse Than Woke, the Libertarians Have Gone Globalist – M. Walter
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/worse_than_woke_the_libertarians_have_gone_globalist.html

BLAZE
— Armed thugs try to steal Chicago homeowner’s Ferrari and Range Rover, but he grabs his gun and foils their plan – CARLOS GARCIA (COMMENT: What are you doing to protect your vehicles from theft?)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-ferrari-firefight-homeowner-thieves
— Even Dems alarmed as illegal aliens, 11-year-olds allowed to vote on some Boston expenditures – CORTNEY WEIL
https://www.theblaze.com/news/even-dems-alarmed-as-illegal-aliens-11-year-olds-allowed-to-vote-on-some-boston-expenditures

BREITBART
— ‘We’re Going to Fight’: Donald Trump Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/31/were-going-to-fight-donald-trump-vows-to-appeal-guilty-verdict/
— Migrants Arriving from ‘Corners of the Globe’ – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/31/donald-trump-migrants-arriving-border-corners-globe/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Campaign Says It Raked In $34 Million After Guilty Verdict – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/donald-trump-campaign-rakes-34-million-guilty-verdict/
— Rod Blagojevich Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict – HAILEY GOMEZ (COMMENT: Blagojevich defeated Jim Ryan in 2002. I should write a book about those who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for that. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Organization, b) Republican leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, c) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/rod-blagojevich-democrat-black-voter-donald-trump-2024-presidential-election/
— Democrats Are The Real Racists. But There’s An Even Bigger Problem – GAGE KLIPPER
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/31/democratic-racism-demand-for-hate-crime-hoax-documentary/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Soros-Backed DA’s Office Gave Free Consultations to Illegal Aliens Charged With Violent Crimes – Jason Hopkins
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/01/soros-backed-das-office-gave-free-consultations-to-illegal-aliens-charged-with-violent-crimes/
— The Sick, Sociopathic Symbiosis of the Woke Left and Jihadi Enthusiasts – Peter Berkowitz
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/01/confronting-woke-left-jihad-enthusiast-alliance/

DAILY WIRE
— Elon Musk Slams Politically-Motivated Trump Trial: ‘Great Damage Was Done’ To America – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-slams-politically-motivated-trump-trial-great-damage-was-done-to-america

FOX NEWS
— Chicago watchdog agency warns police unprepared for protests ahead of Democratic National Convention. Democratic National Convention will be held in August. – Lindsay Kornick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-watchdog-agency-warns-police-unprepared-protests-ahead-democratic-national-convention

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Illegal Immigrants Driving up NYC Hotel Costs
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/05/31/illegal-immigrants-driving-up-nyc-hotel-costs/

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Biden’s Border Crisis Promotes Foreign Espionage in Plain Sight – Simon Hankinson
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/bidens-border-crisis-promotes-foreign-espionage-plain-sight

HOT AIR
— Biden’s Latest on Handling Illegal Immigration: Send Them to Greece or Italy – KAREN TOWNSEND
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/05/31/bidens-latest-on-handling-illegal-immigration-send-them-to-greece-or-italy-n3789388

JUDICAL WATCH
— Judicial Watch Denounces Abuse of Trump!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/abuse-of-trump/
— Air Force Paid For Drag Queen To Appear At ‘Bingo’ Event And ‘Glow Party’
https://www.judicialwatch.org/air-force-paid-for-drag-queen-to-appear-at-bingo-event-and-glow-party-docs-show/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Denver, which cut police and fire budget, issues ‘playbook’ for handling illegal immigrants, calls them ‘newcomers’ – Matthew Holloway (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a newcomer. They stress that I have lived in Wheaton only since 1978.)
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/denver-govt-issues-playbook-for-handling-illegal-immigrants-calling-them-newcomers

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Conviction Probably Isn’t Good for Trump’s Electoral Prospects – CHARLES C. W. COOKE
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-conviction-probably-isnt-good-for-trumps-electoral-prospects/

NEWSMAX
— Biden Wants Illegals Voting – Texas AG Paxton
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ken-paxton-newsmax-joe-biden/2024/05/31/id/1167067/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/pride-month-lgbtq-2024/2024/06/01/id/1167071/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Facebook Being Used to Facilitate Illegal Immigrants’ Infiltration of the US, from Border Crossing to Fake Work Credentials – Christine Favocci
https://www.westernjournal.com/facebook-used-facilitate-illegal-immigrants-infiltration-us-border-crossing-fake-work-credentials-report/

ZERO HEDGE
— 10 Million Illegals Later, Biden To Use Executive Orders To Fix It. – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/10-million-illegals-later-biden-use-executive-orders-fix-his-f-report

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— How Trump’s Most Loyal Supporters Are Responding to the Verdict – Elizabeth Dias and Richard Fausset (COMMENT: Who heads the Trump campaign in Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/trump-verdict-voters.html
— Trump Verdict Hardens Many Views, but Changes Some, Too. For the remaining undecided voters, the decision to pick former President Donald J. Trump could be more difficult now that he is a felon. – Jonathan Weisman, Kellen Browning and Maya King (COMMENT: Generally, the more adverse actions that are taken against you, the more that people dump you. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/us/politics/trump-verdict-voters-election.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in destroying him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-nyc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/trump-speech-fact-check.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/lgbtq-movies-documentaries.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/01/pride-month-lgbtq-rights-gay-trans/

MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “The Texas GOP’s new platform is a terrifying preview of MAGA’s future. There are many, many horrors to behold in the latest platform.” Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions have never been anywhere near as conservative as the Texas GOP platforms and resolutions. But nevertheless, Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs who run Republican organizations in Illinois have always a) demonized, denigrated, and condemned Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions as being too conservative and b) blamed Illinois GOP platforms and resolutions for Republican defeats.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-republican-party-platform-trump-rcna154805
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now, their latest platform, which delegates voted on last weekend, endorses the conspiracist “great reset” theory, declares that “abortion is not health care, it is homicide,” and calls for a new election law requiring candidates running for statewide offices to win a majority of Texas’ 254 counties, effectively barring any Democrat from the position. And that’s just the start. Yet the chief politics reporter for the Austin American Statesman just called the platform “more of a wish list for the most activist members of the GOP than a road map that will be followed to the letter by lawmakers in Austin or Washington.” Even the Texas Tribune’s otherwise thoughtful, comprehensive reporting on the convention describes the party platform as “traditionally … seen not as a definitive list of Republican stances, but a compromise document that represents the interests of the party’s various business, activist and social conservative factions.” . . . There are many, many horrors to behold in the latest platform, and they must be taken seriously not in spite of how terrifying the document is, but because of how terrifying the document is. It is because the latest Texas GOP platform endorses “prohibiting the teaching of sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity” that we should take it seriously. It is because the platform equates abortion and murder that we should take it seriously. It is because the platform aims to ban any Democrat — and indeed, any noncompliant Republican — from ever holding statewide office, that we should take it seriously.)

MSN
— Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is “abnormal” – Daniel Villarreal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gop-platform-calls-for-ban-on-same-sex-parenting-because-being-gay-is-abnormal/ar-BB1ndhH9
— 50,000 New Yorkers died fighting slavery — is that not reparations? – Bob McManus (COMMENT: Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/50-000-new-yorkers-died-fighting-slavery-is-that-not-reparations/ar-AA1cjmz9

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters say “Texas Republicans want rural voters to count more than city slickers, pushing radical policies.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-republican-platform-elections-19484820.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders have made it impossible for Trump to get a fair trial. Further, the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially being conservative, Republican, Protestant, and/or German American, the more that you will be discriminated against if not gotten rid of.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-was-convicted-by-a-jury-not-by-his-political-enemies-13f2654e
— The Long View of Higher Ed’s Decline. Harvey Mansfield arrived at Harvard in 1949. By the time he retired last year, he was practically the last conservative standing. – Tunku Varadarajan (COMMENT: In 1966, 1971, and 1980, I was one of last Republicans that the Post Office, IRS, and GAO hired respectively.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-view-of-higher-eds-decline-college-university-professor-conservative-harvard-96bb22a5

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters say “Texas GOP Exposes Ugly Truth About Letting States Ban Abortion.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/texas-gop-abortion-platform.html

NEW YORKER
— Will Mexico Decide the U.S. Election? Top officials from the two countries are wrangling over immigration policy. What they resolve will have huge implications on both sides of the border. – Stephania Taladrid (COMMENT: How many millions of Mexican illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/will-mexico-decide-the-us-election

FEDWEEK
— Court Takes Restrictive Reading on Completing Probationary Period (COMMENT: In 1970, Firestone Store’s Chicago district office hired me and assigned me to its Chicago Heights store. My Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss would never had hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana store before he would let me report to work. He disapproved of my having avoided the Vietnam War draft, my having more education than he did, my having been a federal employee for almost 3 years, my being Protestant, my being German American, and my ancestors having been in America for a long time. In 1980, when I transferred from IRS to GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could just fire me because I had already passed the federal employee probationary period while I worked for IRS.)
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/court-takes-restrictive-reading-on-completing-probationary-period/

QUORA
— Good old days (COMMENT: When you were working, when were your good old days? For me, they were 1971-1974 when IRS promoted me from GS-7 (currently $54,728/year) to GS-12 (currently $97,079/year). During that time, I bought a new Corvette, a new town home, and a studio condo and I completed 12 graduate evening business courses at Loyola. But then my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Then the good old days for me were 1986-1988 when the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 was finally able to get me assigned me to audits of IRS in 1986 and to promote me to GS-13 (currently $115,439/year) in 1986. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $123,136/year in 1988. But then my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of him.)
https://www.quora.com/When-were-the-good-old-days

May 26, 2024

BOST FOR CONGRESS
— The Illinois Republican Party’s State Convention
https://x.com/BostForCongress/status/1794340527892312105

DALLAS NEWS
— Texas Republican Party delegates vote on party platform (COMMENT: In my opinion, delegates to state party conventions should be provided with at least a week before the convention a) copies of the platform and the resolutions that they are going to vote on and b) the names of and lots of information on the National Committeeman and Committeewoman candidates who they are going to vote on.)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/05/25/texas-republican-platform-calls-for-teaching-bible-in-schools-blocking-abortion-drugs/

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Texas GOP to vote on Bible lessons, deportations to platform (COMMENT: In my opinion, delegates to state party conventions should be provided with at least a week before the convention a) copies of the platform and the resolutions that they are going to vote on and b) the names of and lots of information on the National Committeeman and Committeewoman candidates who they are going to vote on.)
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/texas-gop-bible-lessons-school-19472547.php

TEXAS TRIBUNE
— Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office. The platform was voted on Saturday, with tallies expected next week. Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.” – ROBERT DOWNEN AND RENZO DOWNEY (COMMENT: In my opinion, delegates to state party conventions should be provided with at least a week before the convention a) copies of the platform and the resolutions that they are going to vote on and b) the names of and lots of information on the National Committeeman and Committeewoman candidates who they are going to vote on.)
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/25/texas-republican-party-convention-platform/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Republicans go all in for Trump at state convention – RICK PEARSON and JEREMY GORNER (COMMENT: Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) a) to issue a detailed press release on the convention and b) to post on its website its new platform and its 12 new resolutions. At the convention, there was very strong support for Trump and for Dean White for IRP National Committeeman, but there very few delegates were from DuPage County. IRP chairman Don Tracy spoke vehemently against direct election of IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members. Many of the delegates who I spoke with had been strongly lobbied by opponents of direct election against direct election. Tracy’s IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee (PRC) killed direct election. Illinois Republicans who want direct election are overwhelmingly conservative. Illinois Republicans who oppose direct election are overwhelming moderate, that is, they reject some, many, most, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. It seems that to get PRC members to kill direct election, those who oppose direct election a) loaded the PRC with members who oppose direct election or could be made to oppose direct election and b) dumped efforts to move the platform to the left. I was appointed to the PRC even though I have always promoted direct election. But that appointment was made before those who oppose direct election knew that major efforts were going to be made to promote direct election. Therefore, I was removed from the PRC before its first meeting. The Democrat news media at the convention again demonstrated its hostility toward me. I have attended as a delegate and as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor all the IRP State Conventions since 2000. The 2020 convention was by Zoom. The last big push for direct election was at the 2008 convention.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/25/illinois-republicans-go-all-in-for-trump-at-state-convention/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The state GOP party platform has long opposed same-sex marriage, though its been almost a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans against those unions. On Saturday, the party added a plank “confirming the immutable biological sex of humans and the protection of women” and opposing gender treatments as well as “all efforts to validate transgender identity,” The platform adopted by more than 500 delegates at the convention also attacked the Democratic Party for eliminating cash bail, contending it “opposes law and order and law enforcement.” . . . The only contentious note in the festivities occurred when former Lake County GOP chairman Mark Shaw was twice overwhelmingly rejected in votes from the convention floor in his bid to become the state’s new Republican National Committeeman, replacing Richard Porter, who is term limited. Shaw, a Trump delegate and a “senior adviser” to the presidential candidate, has a controversial party history. Once viewed as a grassroots supporter, his attempts to maneuver into the RNC job were rejected by delegates who viewed him as too establishment. Dean White of St. Charles, a construction company owner and a member of the Republican State Central Committee, was ultimately named national committeeman after Shaw dropped out. Hardin County GOP Chair Rhonda Belford, who chairs the Republican County Chairs’ Association, was voted as national committeewoman, replacing Demetra DeMonte.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for pollution.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/prairie-state-coal-plant/
— We can’t let summer events distract us from violence prevention in Chicago – Faith Leaders (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty, crime, and violence.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/opinion-chicago-summer-gun-violence-prevention/
— Mayor Johnson hires organizer as administration liaison to progressive groups – Jake Sheridan (COMMENT: Who serves as liaisons for the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization to conservative groups?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/mayor-johnson-hires-organizer-as-administration-liaison-to-progressive-groups/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: NCTV17 seeks funding support from Naperville as the nonprofit TV station deals with urgent financial crisis – TESS KENNY (COMMENT: I am a conservative Republican nonprofit political and government news and commentary aggregator. All the money and time needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out each and every morning comes from me. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/naperville-city-council-nctv17-cable-news-funding/

DAILY HERALD
— Biden to Black students: You’re nothing without me – Debra J. Saunders
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240525/syndicated-columnists/biden-to-black-students-youre-nothing-without-me/

NBC5
— At least 2 killed, 10 others injured in Chicago Memorial Day weekend shootings
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-violence-crime-memorial-day-weekend-shootings/3446710/

WGLT
— Trump confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech – AP (COMMENT: I should write a book about those Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Libertarians promote pot, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, etc.)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-05-26/trump-confronts-repeated-booing-during-libertarian-convention-speech

WGIL
— Illinois bill allows out-of-state minors to apply for taxpayer funded abortions – Catrina Petersen
https://www.wgil.com/2024/05/25/illinois-bill-allows-out-of-state-minors-to-apply-for-taxpayer-funded-abortions/

CWB CHICAGO
— Huge brawl leaves migrant stabbed, cop injured as police declare emergency outside downtown Chicago shelter. (COMMENT: Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/05/huge-brawl-leaves-migrant-stabbed-cop-injured-as-police-declare-emergency-outside-downtown-chicago-shelter.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Budget negotiations will extend into next week as House leaves Springfield – JERRY NOWICKI & HANNAH MEISEL
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/budget-negotiations-will-extend-into-next-week-as-house-leaves-springfield

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois legislators eye $870 million in tax increases ahead of budget deal. Package includes tax credits for hiring journalists, ex-felons, live theatre. – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2b3aeb7e-1b06-11ef-905a-1fa73edcfead.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AMERICAN THINKER
— Acknowledging Truth – Thomas Klocek
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/acknowledging_truth.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC’s Joy Reid takes racist shot at Rep. Byron Donalds over Trump support – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/25/msnbcs-joy-reid-takes-racist-shot-at-rep-byron-donalds-over-trump-support-1461605/

BREITBART
— Chicago: 10 Shot During First Night of Memorial Day Weekend – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/05/26/chicago-10-shot-during-first-night-of-memorial-day-weekend/

FOX BUSINESS
— Walmart promotes Pride merchandise as Target scales back following backlash. – Brie Stimson
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/walmart-promotes-pride-merchandise-target-scales-back-following-backlash

HOT AIR
— Schumer Clearly States Citizenship for Illegals Is the Goal
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/05/25/when-chuckles-schumer-clear-states-citizenship-for-illegals-is-the-goal-n3789060

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— “Not one Mexican”: Group of illegal immigrants interviewed near San Diego border wall. – Matthew Holloway
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/not-one-mexican-group-of-illegal-immigrants-interviewed-near-san-diego-border-wall

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Illinois Chemical Abortion Free-for-All Puts Women in Danger – ERIK BAPTIST
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-illinois-chemical-abortion-free-for-all-puts-women-in-danger/
— Merit Must Trump DEI in Medical Education – IAN KINGSBURY (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/merit-must-trump-dei-in-medical-education/

NEW AMERICAN
— Is the Constitution Now an “Inconvenient Document”? – Selwyn Duke
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/constitution/is-the-constitution-now-an-inconvenient-document/

PARADISE
— Great Replacement: Sen. Schumer Calls For Amnesty of Millions of Illegals to Offset Declining U.S. Population
https://theparadise.ng/great-replacement-sen-schumer-calls-for-amnesty-of-millions-of-illegals-to-offset-declining-u-s-population/
— 40+ Dem Mayors Beg Joe Biden to Create Jobs Program — for Illegal Aliens!
https://theparadise.ng/40-dem-mayors-beg-joe-biden-to-create-jobs-program-for-illegal-aliens/#google_vignette

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Confronting the Woke-Left and Jihad-Enthusiast Alliance – Peter Berkowitz
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/26/confronting_the_woke-left_and_jihad-enthusiast_alliance_151003.html

TOWNHALL
— Chuck Schumer Admits Democrats’ ‘Ultimate Goal,’ And It’s Not Good – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: Democrat elected and appointed officials ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/25/chuck-schumer-our-ultimate-goal-is-to-give-every-illegal-immigrant-citizenship-n2639528
— Half of UCLA Med School Students Fail Basic Tests Thanks to DEI Push – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/25/half-of-ucla-med-school-students-fail-basic-tests-thanks-to-dei-push-n2639525

WESTERN JOURNAL
— New Low: Illegals Across U.S. Hiring Fake Robbers to Attack Them So They Gain Asylum – Jack Davis
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-low-illegals-across-us-hiring-fake-robbers-attack-gain-asylum/

— FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCESSOUTHERN

AOL
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly crow about their success in using DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/news/republican-leaders-unc-board-claims-144739678.html
— How to Check Your Employment Eligibility – LISA JOHNSON MANDELL
https://www.aol.com/news/2011-03-24-how-to-check-your-employment-eligibility.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Green cards? Passports? Visas? Just what exactly to they allow you to do? A lot of people coming to the U.S. are uncertain about whether or not they’re able to legally work in the U.S. Now there’s a super simple way to find out. The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services recently unveiled a free online tool called E-Verify Self Check, that allows people to see if they’re eligible to work in the U.S. before they start looking.)

CNN
— Trump courts Libertarians amid mounting concern over third-party candidates – Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish (COMMENT: I should write a book about those Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Libertarians promote pot, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, etc.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/25/politics/donald-trump-libertarian-party-rfk/index.html

MSN
— Wokeness has gone full circle with the separation of Americans by race thanks to DEI
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/entertainment/news/wokeness-has-gone-full-circle-with-the-separation-of-americans-by-race-thanks-to-dei-says-conservatives/ar-BB1idbhx
— ‘Zapped time and time again’: More workers say they expect to retire at 65, but research shows they may be overly optimistic about how long they can remain in the workforce. – Serah Louis (COMMENT: I should write a book about age discrimination. I am 75. As age discrimination ever-increasingly increases under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that as you get older, there will be ever-increasingly pressure to get rid of you and especially if you are conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time like me. Currently, age discriminators are using age discrimination concurrently against both Trump and Biden to “kill two birds with one stone.” In my defense, I stress the GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that I put together and send out each and every morning. I had no trouble driving non-stop to/from Wheaton and Collinsville for the Illinois Republican Party State Convention.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/zapped-time-and-time-again-more-workers-say-they-expect-to-retire-at-65-but-research-shows-they-may-be-overly-optimistic-about-how-long-they-can-remain-in-the-workforce/ar-BB1n201B

NEW YORK TIMES
— What Do Students at Elite Colleges Really Want? – Francesca Mari (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, that my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/business/gen-z-college-students-jobs.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/trump-deportation-immigration-border.html
— Biden Addresses Graduating Cadets at West Point Military Academy – Michael D. Shear
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/biden-commencement-west-point.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Biden indirectly rebukes Trump at West Point commencement. – Tyler Pager
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/trump-biden-military-academy/
— Democrats continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/25/george-floyd-anniversary-retrenchment/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Teach Your Children to Love America. – Peggy Noonan (COMMENT: What inspires your patriotism? For me, it includes my being able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teach-your-children-to-love-america-memorial-day-7c97666e

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly crow about their success in using DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayarichard-craven/2024/05/25/racial-trauma-can-affect-your-career-heres-how/

PBS
— JULY 21, 2022 FLASHBACK: Jan. 6 committee says Donald Trump is to blame for the violence (COMMENT: He who determines the membership of a committee determines the outcome of that committee.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-jan-6-committee-says-donald-trump-is-to-blame-for-the-violence

May 25, 2024

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— 2024 Illinois State Convention – RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaSXeMRHkh4

NEW YORK TIMES

— Biden to Deliver Commencement Address at West Point Military Academy. President Biden’s address comes at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming White House rematch with former President Donald J. Trump. – Michael D. Shear

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Mayor Brandon Johnson rolls out summer safety plan, hoping to prevent Memorial Day weekend violence. – Christian Piekos, Craig Wall, and Eric Horng
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-beaches-open-season-friday-castaways-restaurant-north/14864792/
— Illinois lawmakers working through holiday weekend on budget as spring legislative session ends
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmakers-state-budget-finalized-governor-jb-pritzker/14867028/

WTTW
— State Lawmakers Pass 250 Bills, Including Measure Targeting ‘Legacy’ Admissions at Public Universities (COMMENT: How much did your parents’ education help you? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/state-lawmakers-pass-250-bills-including-measure-targeting-legacy-admissions-public
— Advocates Underscore Need for Statewide Reentry Programs as Several Bills Aimed at Supporting People With Criminal Records Stall – Dilpreet Raju (COMMENT: Democrats advocate for criminals. Republicans advocate for the victims of criminals.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/advocates-underscore-need-statewide-reentry-programs-several-bills-aimed-supporting
— Bill Banning Illinois From Aiding Other States’ Investigations Into Abortion Services Clears General Assembly – Peter Hancock and Cole Longcor (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/24/bill-banning-illinois-aiding-other-states-investigations-abortion-services-clears-general

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Judicial Watch files lawsuit over Evanston reparations program – ALEX HULVALCHICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/conservative-group-files-lawsuit-over-evanston-reparations-program/?clearUserState=true
— Illinois Senate pitches budget, but talks continue into holiday weekend as Democrats struggle to reach consensus – DAN PETRELLA, OLIVIA OLANDER, EREMY GORNER, and OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/24/illinois-senate-pitches-budget-but-talks-continue-into-holiday-weekend-as-democrats-struggle-to-reach-consensus/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— As Pritzker, Dems hash out state budget, lawmakers tackle health care, abortion protections and digital IDs. Topping Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s legislative agenda and on track for approval heading into the weekend was a health insurance reform package targeting so-called “junk plans” and step therapy. – Mitchell Armentrout and Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2024/05/24/jb-pritzker-democrats-health-care-abortion-protections-digital-ids-legislative-roundup
— A former DuPage County prosecutor accused of threatening state lawmakers, gun control groups on social media. Samuel Cundari, 30, is charged with making threatening posts on X directed at the children of two state lawmakers, gun control groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office. He’s also accused of posting about a potential bomb at a Springfield LGBTQ festival. – Kade Heather
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/24/dupage-county-threats-state-lawmakers-gun-control-groups-social-media

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s Hispanic community welcomes Biden and the DNC — and demands work permits – Leigh Giangreco (COMMENT: When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicagos-hispanics-want-worker-permits-biden

HERALD
— Republican campaign aide charged in Will County with harassment, obscenity
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2024/05/24/republican-campaign-aide-charged-in-will-county-with-harassment-obscenity/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois’ tiny jobs growth due only to new government hiring – Mark Glennon
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/illinois-tiny-jobs-growth-due-new-government-19462440.php

SOUTHERN
— What Haley donors, voters think about her saying she’ll vote for Trump in November – Soo Rin Kim, Hannah Demissie, and Kelsey Walsh (COMMENT: Who are the leaders of Haley voters in your congressional district, county, township, and municipality? What do they say?)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/24/what-haley-donors-voters-think-about-her-saying-shell-vote-for-trump-in-november/
— VP hopefuls modify their stance on abortion to more closely align with Trump – Hannah Demissie
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/24/vp-hopefuls-modify-their-stance-on-abortion-to-more-closely-align-with-trump/

WGLT
— Campaigns are starting earlier than ever — due, in part, to early voting – Domenico Montanaro, Steve Inskeep
https://www.wglt.org/2024-05-24/campaigns-are-starting-earlier-than-ever-due-in-part-to-early-voting

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-24/abortion-can-be-difficult-to-talk-about-these-14-strangers-took-it-on-anyway

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/understanding-inequality-redlining-is-only-part-of-the-story/Event?oid=18458376

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— South Side Chicago GOP delegate makes history – Jim Talamonti
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ad2bbf7a-19ec-11ef-a863-e7a3816125c9.html

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois Public Schools Fail: Kids Can’t Read. Only 35 in every 100 Illinois students can read at grade level. Is your child one of them? (COMMENT: At Crete-Monee High School, only 15% are proficient in reading and only 7% in math. I graduated from Crete-Monee High School in 1966. My ACT score was 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. That got me accepted by UIC.)
https://wirepoints.org/kidscantread/statewide/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— An Opposing View of Direct Election of GOP SCC – Larry D. Smith (COMMENT: I should write a book about those past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who oppose direct election of IRP SCC members and who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000 because I promote direct election of IRP SCC members. I would focus on those who removed me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/an-opposing-view-of-direct-election-of-gop-scc/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden is downsizing, politicizing our military – Want to avoid war? Prepare for one. – Don Feder
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/24/biden-is-downsizing-politicizing-our-military/
— Biden, Democrats and the dangerous religion of race. It’s being used to justify totalitarianism. – Tom Basile
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/24/biden-democrats-and-dangerous-religion-of-race/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Left’s war on merit comes for medical schools – Brad Polumbo (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3016582/the-lefts-war-on-merit-comes-for-medical-schools/
— DEI is going to get people killed: Medical edition – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3016922/dei-is-going-to-get-people-killed-medical-edition/
— Biden’s fiscal vigilantes are robbing people – Rep. Jodey Arrington
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3015339/bidens-fiscal-vigilantes-robbing-people/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UCLA Medical School Denies Whistleblower Allegations, Claims Students Admitted ‘Based on Merit’ Admissions officers say the school lowers standards for minorities in an effort to boost diversity. – Aaron Sibarium (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-medical-school-denies-whistleblower-allegations-claims-students-admitted-based-on-merit/
— ‘A Failed Medical School’: How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA. Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame. – Aaron Sibarium
https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-failed-medical-school-how-racial-preferences-supposedly-outlawed-in-california-have-persisted-at-ucla/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Make America great, and competitive, again – Jack Hellner
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/make_america_great_and_competitive_again.html

AMERICAN THINKER
— At UCLA, the DEI medical students are a disaster – Andrea Widburg (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/at_ucla_the_dei_medical_students_are_a_disaster.html

BREITBART
— Over 40 Mayors Plead with Joe Biden to Create Jobs Program — for Migrants – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: Democrats want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/24/over-40-mayors-plead-with-joe-biden-to-create-jobs-program-for-migrants/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Northwestern journalism school’s chair of ‘social justice in reporting’ has history of pro-Hamas rhetoric – Patrick McDonald
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exposed-northwestern-journalism-schools-chair-social-justice-reporting-history-pro-hamas-rhetoric/25525
— UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard, as school ‘cuts corners’, admits applicants based on race – Adam Sabes (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-med-students-alarmingly-sub-standard-school-cuts-corners-admits-students-based-race/25529

CENTER SQUARE NORTH CAROLINA
— Jews ‘fit neatly’ into universities’ DEI oppression matrix – Alan Wooten |
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_fe852b0a-19d7-11ef-9adc-63d6dbfbd38b.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said the Committee on Education and the Workforce will continue getting to, and ending, the “roots of antisemitic hatred, including anti-Israel DEI bureaucracies, and questionable foreign funding” that enabled a group to be found – the Jews – that “fit neatly” into the oppression matrix of diversity, equity and inclusion. “Over the course of years, decades even,” Foxx said, “universities gradually nurtured a campus culture of radicalism in which antisemitism grew and became tolerated by administrators.”)

DAILY CALLER
— Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Rips Biden For Border Crisis, Details Concerns Over Migrants Crossing – HAILEY GOMEZ
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/24/anna-paulina-luna-rips-biden-border-crisis-illegal-immigrants-crossing/
— How We Built A World Meant To Cave To The Mob – GAGE KLIPPER
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/24/build-world-cave-mob-jussie-smollett-demand-for-hate-crime/

DAILY WIRE
— Up To Half Of UCLA Med Students Are Failing Basic Medical Competency Tests, Affirmative Action To Blame – Ashe Schow (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/up-to-half-of-ucla-med-students-are-failing-basic-medical-competency-tests-affirmative-action-to-blame

FEDERALIST
— Democrats Want Aliens To Vote In U.S. Elections – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/24/yes-democrats-want-aliens-to-vote-in-u-s-elections-take-jamie-raskins-word-for-it/

FOX NEWS
— California bill would ban schools from telling parents if student identifies as LGBTQ. Opponents say the bill will ‘keep parents in the dark.’ – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-bill-would-ban-schools-telling-parents-student-identifies-lgbtq-gut-and-amend
— Top House Republican launches probe into failed breach of military base by illegal immigrants. Lawmakers in both congressional chambers have demanded answers. – Adam Shaw, Griff Jenkins
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-house-republican-launches-probe-failed-breach-military-base-illegal-immigrants

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Evanston faces federal class action over reparations program
https://www.judicialwatch.org/chicago-suburb-faces-federal-class-action-over-reparations-program/

MRC TV
— Half of UCLA Med Students Are Failing Family Medicine Amid Racial Admissions Reports – SCOTT GIEBEL (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/scott-giebel/data-shows-half-ucla-med-students-are-failing-family-medicine-amid-racial

NEWSMAX
— Chicago Officials Concerned About Violence at DNC Convention – Solange Reyner
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/dnc-chicago-officials/2024/05/24/id/1166141/

PATRIOT POST
— Illegals in Chicago Fake Armed Robberies for Immigration Benefit. Illegal immigrants in the Windy City are paying to be “victimized” in fake armed robberies, attempting to obtain a visa and protection from deportation.
https://patriotpost.us/videos/107127-illegals-in-chicago-fake-armed-robberies-for-immigration-benefit-2024-05-24

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— How UCLA Became ‘a Failed Medical School’ – Aaron Sibarium (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.realcleareducation.com/2024/05/24/how_ucla_became_a_failed_medical_school_1033829.html

TOWNHALL
— The High Art of Virtue Signaling – Jeff Davidson (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest virtue signalers in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2024/05/25/the-high-art-of-virtue-signaling-n2638867
— Tired of Waiting for Border Agents, Illegal Aliens Call a Lyft and Become ‘Gotaways’ – Spencer Brown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/05/24/tired-of-waiting-for-border-agents-illegal-aliens-call-a-lyft-and-become-gotaways-n2639498

WESTERN STANDARD
— Half of UCLA med students fail basic tests since lowering standards for minorities – Jen Hodgson (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, professional license, and work experience.)
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/half-of-ucla-med-students-fail-basic-tests-since-lowering-standards-for-minorities/54812

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Anti-Trump Republicans Worried About the Biden Campaign (COMMENT: I should write about the biggest anti-Trump leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2015.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-biden-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— How the Libertarian Party that turned from Trump came to embrace him. The decision to invite the former president to speak at Saturday’s convention is the latest battle in a raging, contentious war over the party’s direction. – Meryl Kornfield (COMMENT: Because I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ, abortion, and pot, Libertarian plants in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have always worked very hard against me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/libertarian-party-trump/

USA TODAY
— Democrats continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/25/george-floyd-racism-backlash/73548393007/

MSN
— Migrant stuns reporter saying ‘killers’ and ‘psychopaths’ entering US – Jon Michael Raasch
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/migrant-stuns-reporter-saying-killers-and-psychopaths-entering-us/ar-BB1mZK4z
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/welcome-desperate-migrants-without-excuses-or-delays-pope/ar-AA1cMSDI

YAHOO
— Legacy Students Four Times More Likely to Be Accepted to Top Schools – Daniel Kreps (COMMENT: How much did your parents’ education help you? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/legacy-students-four-times-more-130428192.html
— Wall Street is paring its bets on ESG and DEI as political pressure rises – BEN WERSCHKUL (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.aol.com/wall-street-paring-bets-esg-150045085.html

FORBES
— Who have your superiors made role models? My superiors have always made those who are following role models: team players, moderate/liberal, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/04/26/recruiting-gen-z-how-to-engage-young-talent-in-the-workplace/

NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Ready to Certify Your Affirmative Action Plans Before July 1, 2024? – Lsa B. Marsh, Marolhin D. Mendez (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://natlawreview.com/article/ready-certify-your-affirmative-action-plans-july-1-2024-podcast

May 14, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Officially, who are all the candidates for Illinois Republican Party (IRP) National Committeeman and National Committeewoman? What are their qualifications? Why are they running? Illinois Republicans await a press release from the IRP. The deadline for applying was Friday, May 3, 2024 at 5:00 PM. According to a May 8, 2024 Prairie State Wire article at https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/658419645-kolber-seeking-rnc-committeeman-seat-important-green-shoots-are-growing-in-illinois , Vince Kolber is seeking the IRP National Committeeman seat and he faces Dean White (8th CD) and Mark Shaw (1st CD). While I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2010, I conducted a candidate forum for an open IRP National Committeeman seat. Jack Roeser participated. See a Chicago Tribune article titled “Illinois Republicans pick Williamson as new national GOP representative” at https://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/04/illinois-republicans-pick-williamson-as-new-national-gop-representative.html and a Huffington Post article titled “Jack Roeser, Wealthy Conservative, Passed Over For GOP Leadership Role; Rich Williamson Wins National Committeeman” at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jack-roeser-wealthy-conse_n_549492 . From the Tribune article: “Williamson succeeds Pat Brady, who vacated the position when he became chairman of the Illinois Republican Party last year. Also interested in the national post were conservative Carpentersville businessman Jack Roeser and former governor candidate Jim Oberweis. The selection was made before a Republican fundraiser in honor of the statewide ticket and featuring controversial RNC Chairman Michael Steele. It was supposed to be open to the media, but Brady decided to close it today.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— APRIL 13, 2024 FLASHBACK: IL GOP National Committeeman Race Heats Up, Includes a Former State Party Chairman and a Wisconsin Voter
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/il-gop-national-committeeman-race-heats-up-includes-a-former-state-party-chairman-and-a-wisconsin-voter.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The race amongst the Illinois Republican Party’s State Central Committee to be the next Republican National Committeeman is heating up as candidates campaign to replace outgoing national committeeman Richard Porter and national committeewoman Demetra Demonte, who cannot run for a third time because of term limits. While the state central committee represents the governing board of the IL GOP, the national committeeman – one male and one female, represents the state party along with the state GOP chairman before the Republican National Committee The position requires frequent travel to RNC meetings throughout the country and they are elected by delegates at the state convention. The national committeeman also votes in the RNC chairman’s election, and last year, Porter, Demonte and IL GOP chairman Don Tracy all voted to support Ronna Romney-McDaniel over the grassroots-backed candidate Harmeet Dhillon. Running to replace Porter are three candidates: state central committee members Mark Shaw and Dean White, and IL GOP Finance Committee Chair Vince Kolber.”)

IDAHO POST REGISTER
— This race matters (COMMENT: Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman? Since 2002, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) who oppose direction of IRP State Central Committee members and/or who reject planks in the IRP platform have failed in their efforts to recruit a registered Republican in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 (previously Precinct 9) in Wheaton to run against me and to defeat me for Precinct Committeeman. But I anticipate/expect that the aforesaid leaders will do whatever that they believe is necessary to get a registered Republican in my precinct to run against me and to defeat me in 2026. I should write a book the aforesaid leaders and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me so far, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)

https://www.postregister.com/freeaccess/opinion-this-race-matters/article_3cabc650-0d5d-11ef-8912-03b65b4c49d4.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Precinct committeemen wield tremendous power within the Republican and Democratic parties. They elect the county political party leaders, set the county party rules and send delegates to the state convention where they vote on the state party platform and state party officers. You vote for them during the May primary elections. They’re on your ballot if you are affiliated with the Republican or Democratic parties. Registered Republicans vote for Republican PCOs, and registered Democrats vote for Democratic PCOs. If you are not affiliated with a party, you have no say.”)

IDAHO CAPITOL SUN & NEWS FROM THE STATES
— Idaho 2024 primary election: Precinct committee races represent battle for soul of GOP. Hundreds of Idahoans are running for obscure precinct positions that could shake up the state’s Republican Party leadership. – CLARK CORBIN
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/05/13/idaho-2024-primary-election-precinct-committee-races-represent-battle-for-soul-of-gop/
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idaho-2024-primary-election-precinct-committee-races-represent-battle-soul-gop
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Hundreds of obscure, down ballot primary election races for neighborhood-level political positions are drawing intense competition in Idaho and have the potential to shake up party leadership – particularly within the dominant Republican Party. The problem – according to officials on both sides of the fight for control and influence of the Republican Party – is that many voters have no idea what precinct committeemen are and likely don’t recognize the names of candidates running for these positions because they aren’t high profile offices like a congressional representative, state legislator or even a county commissioner or city council member. “I would say 99% of people don’t know and don’t know who their precinct committeeman is,” former Idaho Lt. Gov. Jack Riggs said in a telephone interview. “But your neighborhood precinct is the foundation of the party, and in our case, the Republican Party.” The stakes are so high that Riggs wrote in an April 26 opinion piece for the North Idaho Republicans that “This May, precinct committeeman will be the most important race on the ballot.” Riggs, a Republican physician who served as lieutenant governor from 2001 to 2003, is the co-founder of a group called North Idaho Republicans. The group is one of at least two groups of established, traditional Idaho Republicans who are engaging heavily in the precinct committee elections this year as part of an effort to take the Republican Party back from its current leadership team that includes Chairwoman Dorothy Moon. The other group is called Gem State Conservatives, and it includes former Idaho Republican Party chairmen Trent Clark and Tom Luna. Moon defeated Luna to become chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party in 2022. . .“There is a statewide effort to take over the party at the precinct level,” Regan said in a telephone interview. “That is not what precinct committeemen are supposed to be; it’s not supposed to be the elites and the higher ups, it’s supposed to be the grassroots, the ma and pa,” Regan added. “It’s supposed to represent the voters and the people, not a bunch of special interests. When Tom Luna lost in a landslide and his faction of the party was no longer in charge of the party, they set aside their prior calls for unity at the convention when they lost and a bunch got up and left.” Multiple efforts to reach Moon, the chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, were unsuccessful. Additionally, Moon did not respond to a list of questions about precinct committee races that a reporter from the Sun emailed to Moon and another Idaho GOP official on April 22. What is a precinct committeeman and what do they do in Idaho? There are only a few requirements to run for precinct committeeman. Candidates must be at least 18 years old, be a U.S. citizen and have been a registered voter in the precinct for at least six months before the election. Idaho law refers to the position as precinct committeeman, but anyone can run for the office, not just men. Although they are obscure, the precinct committeemen are important because they make up the grassroots level of political parties and help determine the parties’ leaders and rules. For example, the precinct committeeman elected in the May 21 Republican primary will play a big role in who is elected chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party during the upcoming GOP state convention this summer. Precinct committeemen essentially make up the county central committees for political parties in Idaho. Under state law, within 10 days of the primary election, the precinct committeemen who are elected are required to meet, organize their county central committees and elect a county chairperson and officers. Once the county central committees are organized, they select the delegates that will attend the 2024 Idaho GOP State Convention that begins June 13 in Coeur d’Alene. At the convention, delegates will vote on who to elect as chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party and will help write and pass any changes to party rules or the party platform, which lists the party’s core beliefs and policies it supports. In Idaho, it is basically impossible to track how much money is going into precinct committeeman campaigns. Unlike other offices, there are no campaign finance reporting requirements for precinct committeemen with the county or the state, and there is no limit to what they can raise or spend, said Chelsea Carattini, a spokesperson for the Idaho Secretary of State’s office. Precinct committeemen are required to disclose a “paid for by” designation on any materials, Carattini said. Campaign finance information gives the public a transparent look at money funding political campaigns and candidates, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. For state level candidates, all money raised and spent on a campaign must be tracked and accounted for, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. Even local county candidates and judicial candidates must report campaign finance information once they raise $500, including the sources and expenses for that first $500. But for precinct committeemen, there are no such reporting requirements, Carattini said. How many precinct candidates are running in Idaho’s primary election this year? Unlike statewide races and elections, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office does not maintain a list of all the statewide candidates running for precinct committeeman in Idaho, Carattini said. Instead of the state keeping tabs, it’s up to local county election officials. But for context, there are almost 300 Republicans in Ada County alone running for a precinct committeeman position in the May 21 Republican primary. . .How can you tell where precinct committeeman candidates stand on issues? The ability to inform voters about these tiny precinct level offices is a challenge for everybody on all sides of this election. The North Idaho Republicans and supporters of the Gem State Conservatives have published lists of the precinct committeeman candidates they are supporting or have recruited. Regan said Republican Party rules prevent central committees from endorsing precinct committeemen. Instead, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has published a list of its current precinct committeemen in a list posted below a list of candidates for other offices that have been vetted and recommended by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. Beyond looking at lists published online or on social media, Wasden recommends voters find out what precinct they are in and spend time researching the candidates running for precinct committeeman in their neighborhood. To support establishment Republicans looking to take the party back, Wasden urged voters to listen to see if candidates support education and public schools, reasonable government services, low taxes and fewer regulations. There’s been an increase in those running for the position in other Idaho counties as well. “For years now, the public’s interest and participation in Idaho’s Republican Party has been growing, and this year there were a record number of applicants to serve in Bonneville County,” said a press release from Nicholas Contos, Bonneville County Republican Party chairman. Across the state, there are more than 930 precincts in total, and each precinct can be represented by a different precinct committeeman in each of the four political parties the state recognizes. While state election officials do not have an exact number of precinct committeeman candidates running for office this year, longtime political observers say they have never seen this much interest and competition for the positions. “Right now what is happening is traditional, true Republicans have decided we are going to take back this party,” said Tracey Wasden, a longtime Republican booster and party official who has served as a precinct committeeman and president of the Idaho Federation of Republican Women.”)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A Republican operative is running for Congress in Georgia with Trump’s blessing. Will it be enough? (COMMENT: I have never been an operative for any person and I never will be. My critics/opponents have a very hard time calling me an operative because I do not need/want more money. I have enough money. I have a Civil Service Retirement System pension, currently $65,165/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance. We have no debts. We have no children or dependents. We have substantial retirement savings. We own a home in Wheaton, a car condo in Naperville, and seven cars and an SUV. I have no desire for a political office or government office. I am 75 years old. Because of the aforesaid, no one manipulates me, no one dominates me, and no one ever will. While they can and do take big public adverse actions against me, for example, removing me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolution Committee, my critics/opponents decry that no one can tell me what to do.)
https://srnnews.com/a-republican-operative-is-running-for-congress-in-georgia-with-trumps-blessing-will-it-be-enough/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The Illinois Democratic Party elected their seven “base” members to serve on the Democratic National Committee on Monday. They are Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, Congresswomen Robin Kelly and Delia Rameriz, former Senate President John Cullerton, Democratic Committeewoman Kristina Zahorik and former Deputy Gov. Dan Hynes. Here’s how the votes broke down, via Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore. ( https://twitter.com/brendenmoore13/status/1790178141769466021 ) – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: It would be great if the Illinois Republican Party would be so open.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Northwestern threatens disciplinary action as American, Israeli flags vandalized. Flags were set up for Israel’s Memorial Day. – Jessica D’Onofrio
https://abc7chicago.com/post/northwestern-president-threatens-disciplinary-action-as-american-israeli-flags-near-former-pro-palestinian-encampment-vandalized/14812323/
— CPD’s massive safety plan to protect Chicago during DNC – Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Tom Jones, Maggie Green and Adriana Aguilar and Chuck Goudie
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14810925/

NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/city-announces-more-changes-to-chicago-pride-parade-reversing-course-after-reducing-event-size/3435618/

CBS2
— End-of-year FEST at DePaul University canceled with protest encampment continuing – Adam Harrington
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/end-of-year-fest-depaul-university-canceled-protest-encampment/
— Antisemitic signs left on cars in Chicago’s West Ridge community
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/antisemitic-flyers-cars-chicago-west-ridge-community/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WjlfuTux4

FOX32
— Chicago police investigate anti-Semitic fliers found on predominantly Jewish block – Nic Flosi
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-police-antisemitic-fliers-jewish-neighborhood

WTTW
— Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin Fined $10K for Firing Whistleblowers – Heather Cherone (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Consequently, they increasingly took big adverse actions against me.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/13/chicago-city-treasurer-melissa-conyears-ervin-fined-10k-firing-whistleblowers

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With or without CPS/CTU ‘day of action’ in Springfield, there’s no more money for Chicago schools – Editorial
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-without-cps-ctu-day-100500103.html
— ‘We’re on the friends and family plan now’: New details emerge in alleged AT&T scheme to bribe House speaker. – Jason Meisner, Ray Long
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-on-the-friends-and-family-plan-now-new-details-emerge-in-alleged-at-t-scheme-to-bribe-house-speaker/ar-BB1mjYvV

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/13/donald-trump-going-overseas-president-elections-gene-lyons

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH TWO PHOTOS: GOP legislative hopefuls sue state over slating ban – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240513/illinois-state-politics/gop-legislative-hopefuls-sue-state-over-slating-ban/
— Democrats promote Democrats who blast Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240513/nation-and-world-politics/democratic-ad-campaign-tries-to-chip-away-at-trump-support-among-rural-swing-voters-in-3-key-states/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Ron DeSantis is planning to raise money for Donald Trump in Florida and Texas and possibly other large states in the coming weeks. – AP
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/ron-desantis-is-planning-to-raise-money-for-donald-trump-in-florida-and-texas-ap/article_b1fc6b05-981a-56b4-b12c-b03c7f84f727.html

SOUTHERN
— Haley voters don’t want Trump – Isabella Murray (COMMENT: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. For general elections, Republican Precinct Committeemen are required to help elect those candidates who win Republican primary elections. I have always done that.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/13/zombie-haley-voters-dont-want-trump-but-many-not-sold-on-biden-either/

WSIL TV
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run America. The more that you question the 2020 election, the faster that they destroy you.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/rudy-guiliani-s-radio-show-has-been-canceled-after-he-repeatedly-discussed-false-2020-election/article_530e149b-0b63-5343-96da-7034bed4a7f6.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUID & WCIA
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will send their illegals to battleground/swing states to use their false identifications to vote for Biden.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/johnsons-intuition-clashes-with-data-on-illegal-voting/
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-to-stump-in-minnesota-a-traditionally-blue-state-he-insists-he-can-win-is-it-really-in-play/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/13/afternoon-roundup-196/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Candidates file lawsuit challenging Illinois’ hastily changed election law – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1718e3a2-115c-11ef-93b1-47f6d0682015.html

COOK COUNTY
— IL Dems unconstitutionally changed election rules to block Republican candidates from fall ballot, lawsuit says
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/658603879-il-dems-unconstitutionally-changed-election-rules-to-block-republican-candidates-from-fall-ballot-lawsuit-says

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP lawmakers Tuberville, Vance, Malliotakis attend court to support Trump – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/gop-sens-tuberville-vance-and-rep-malliotakis-atte/
— GOP leaders clash with Secret Service over ‘protest trap’ near Republican National Convention site – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/gop-leaders-clash-with-secret-service-over-protest/
— Trump campaign rails at ‘disgusting’ Mother’s Day ad from Biden-Harris campaign – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/donald-trump-campaign-rails-at-disgusting-mothers-/
— Pull federal funding from universities that won’t protect Jewish students. ‘Never again’ is right now – Rep. Ashley Hinson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/pull-federal-funding-from-universities-that-wont-p/
— After U.S. withdrawal, terror groups ‘gaining strength’ in Afghanistan, report warns. Critics questions effectiveness of ‘over the horizon’ surveillance. – Ben Wolfgang
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/14/after-us-withdrawal-terror-groups-gaining-strength/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Can Blinken stand up to anyone other than Israel? – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3002409/blinken-stand-up-israel/
— Illegal immigration up 3.8 million since Biden became president – Conn Carroll (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your county, township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3002214/illegal-immigration-up-3-8-million-since-biden-became-president/
— Campus mayhem, funded by our adversaries – Robert Bellafiore
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3002063/campus-mayhem-funded-by-our-adversaries/

NEW YORK POST
— Ken Griffin slams pro-Palestinian protests as ‘performative art,’ urges Harvard to embrace ‘Western values’ – Ariel Zilber
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/business/ken-griffin-slams-pro-palestinian-protests-as-performative-art/
— Nancy Pelosi yet again reveals Democrats’ disdain for average Americans – Joe Concha (COMMENT: My critics/opponents a) distain those who have less money than they have and/or b) glorify, praise, and pander to those who have more money than they have.).
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/opinion/nancy-pelosi-yet-again-reveals-democrats-disdain-for-average-americans/
— Border charities spending taxpayer millions on music therapy, ‘people-plant interactions’ and huge salaries – Megan Palin
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/border-charities-spend-millions-on-music-therapy-salaries-report/
— Anti-Israel Columbia grads wear zip ties, rip diplomas on stage during commencement – Doree Lewak and Emily Crane
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/columbia-university-grads-wear-zip-ties-rip-diplomas-on-stage-during-commencement-ceremony/

BLAZE
— Boston uses taxpayer funds to support anti-ICE groups providing services to illegal aliens – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/boston-uses-taxpayer-funds-to-support-anti-ice-groups-providing-services-to-illegal-aliens
— House Committee investigates surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing border after Biden relaxes vetting – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-committee-investigates-surge-of-chinese-nationals-illegally-crossing-border-after-biden-relaxes-vetting-report

BREITBART
— Catch and Release: Biden’s DHS Freed Illegal Alien Convicted Killer into U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/13/catch-and-release-bidens-dhs-freed-illegal-alien-convicted-killer-into-u-s/

COLLEGE FIX
— Northwestern journalism professor counts Yemeni terrorism supporter among his ‘comrades’ – HUDSON CROZIER
https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-journalism-professor-counts-yemeni-terrorism-supporter-among-his-comrades/

DAILY WIRE
— San Francisco Slammed For Spending Millions Of Dollars For Vodka And Beer For Homeless Alcoholics – Zach Jewell
https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-program-slammed-for-spending-millions-of-dollars-giving-vodka-and-beer-to-homeless-people-with-severe-alcohol-addiction

FEDERALIST
— Teachers Unions’ Fanatical Hatred Of Children Ignited The Parent Revolution – COREY DEANGELIS
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/13/teachers-unions-fanatical-hatred-of-children-ignited-the-parent-revolution/

EPOCH TIMES
— Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed. The two elections bear striking similarities, but important differences allowed one to succeed, while the other failed. – Lawrence Wilson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/why-1960-alternate-electors-succeeded-where-2020-ones-failed-5637240
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A November election decades ago produced a clear winner in a hotly contested presidential race. Yet the popular vote immediately came under scrutiny in several states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote totals. In others, credible evidence of election fraud was uncovered. With a court challenge underway, electors from both parties met at a state capitol and conducted the electoral vote. Two certifications were forwarded to Washington, one declaring the Democratic candidate to be the victor, the other naming the Republican. The Republican vice president—also a candidate in the race—convened a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Without fanfare, he moved to accept the Democratic slate of electors and set the Republican electors aside. So ended the presidential election of 1960. The state in question was Hawaii. The vice president was Richard Nixon, who ran against Democrat John F. Kennedy, and would have won if as few as 11,000 votes spread over five battleground states had gone the other way. Sixty years later, history nearly repeated itself as Republican electors from seven states sent alternative electoral certifications to Washington amid allegations of election fraud.)

FEDERALIST
— Without The SAVE Act, The Only Thing Keeping Foreigners From Voting Is The Honor System – MIKE LEE (COMMENT: Do not anticipate/expect that Democrat election officials will stop illegals from voting.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/13/without-the-save-act-the-only-thing-keeping-foreigners-from-voting-is-the-honor-system/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— House Passes Bill to Stop Illegal Aliens from Distorting Congressional Apportionment (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your congressional district and how many of their illegals have Democrat leaders sent there recently?)
https://www.fairus.org/news/congress/house-passes-bill-stop-illegal-aliens-distorting-congressional-apportionment

FOX NEWS
— Biden’s unvetted migrant parole plan putting every community at risk. Abuse of parole is only one layer of Biden’s immigration ‘strategy,’ one that should be shut down immediately. – Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-unvetted-migrant-parole-plan-putting-every-community-at-risk

JUDICIAL WATCH
— New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Democrats.)
https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents-reveal-dc-training-noncitizen-voting/

NEW AMERICAN
— Could Biden Use Executive Order to Let Illegals Vote? – Catherine Engelbrecht (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Biden will do that.)
https://thenewamerican.com/video/could-biden-use-executive-order-to-let-illegals-vote-catherine-engelbrecht/
— Trump’s Popularity Is Soaring. But Will It Make a Difference? – Steve Bonta (COMMENT: Joseph Stalin said “It’s Not Who Votes That Counts, It’s Who Counts The Votes.”)
https://thenewamerican.com/video/trumps-popularity-is-soaring-but-will-it-make-a-difference/

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Embattled Dolton Mayor’s Sky-High Salary Revealed – Adam Andrzejewski
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/05/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_illinois_mayors_sky-high_salary_revealed_1030909.html

TOWNHALL
— NYC Sued for Denying IVF Coverage to Gay Male Couples – Madeline Leesman (COMMENT: Should I write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who used my and my wife giving up trying to have children in the 1980s without trying IVF to justify taking big adverse actions against me including throwing me off audits of IRS, giving me an extremely bad job assignment and performance appraisal, and ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for performance purposes in 1989?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/05/11/nyc-invitro-lawsuit-n2638872

TURNING POINT USA
— Illinois Math and Science Academy Faces Backlash Over Equity Training Requirements for Teachers (COMMENT: Who has used DEI to get rid of you? Those above me in the following continue to use DEI to get rid of me: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party. Those above me in the following used DEI to get rid of me: American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter in 2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012. Those above me in the following continue to use DEI to get rid of me: Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Those above me in the following used DEI to get rid of me: Post Office in 1969, IRS in 1980, and GAO in 1997. I should write a book those above me in the aforesaid and what they are doing and have done to get rid of me. If I had been a woman or a minority, they would not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.)
https://www.tpusa.com/live/illinois-math-and-science-academy-faces-backlash-over-equity-training-requirements-for-teachers

ZERO HEDGE
— Biden Calls Illegals Crossing The Border “Hispanic Voters” – TYLER DURDEN (COMMENT: No one anticipates/expects that any illegal will ever vote for a Republican. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promise to give illegals more and more and more preference.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-calls-illegals-crossing-border-hispanic-voters

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— He’s Running for Senate With an Immigrant’s Origin Story. Here’s the Rest. Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio, tells a riches-to-rags-to-riches tale. But the reality isn’t so tidy. – Jonathan Weisman, Patricia Mazzei and Simón Posada (COMMENT: How much money did your ancestors have when they immigrated? On my father’s side, they had to work in a brick factory in Chicago 1844-1854 before they had enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township. On my mother’s side, they were sharecroppers in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/politics/bernie-moreno-ohio.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/us/politics/gop-earmarks-lgbtq-centers.html

MSN
— U.S. Anchor Baby Policy Ensures Easy Welfare Access for Illegals – Jordan Andrews
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/study-finds-u-s-anchor-baby-policy-ensures-easy-welfare-access-for-illegals/ar-AA1mqd0o

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/red-states-sue-eeoc-over-harassment-guidances-lgbtq-protections

NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1250880650/girl-scouts-migrant-children-asylum-latin-america

QUORA
— Are people responsible for the actions of their ancestors? (COMMENT: What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, my father took and kept an office job in a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights in 1941 and kept it until he died suddenly in 1969. He married my mother in 1945 and they had me in 1948 and my brother in 1953. My grandfather fought the Germans in WWI, operated Crete’s only a hardware store, had my father and my aunt Eunice, and had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete. My great grandfather raised and sold horses in Crete, operated Crete’s only hardware store, had my grandfather and other children, and had a large historical home built on Main Street in Crete. My great great grandfather and his father immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844, worked in brick factory in Chicago until 1854, homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854, had my great great grandfather and other children, sold the farm and bought 10 acres just northeast of downtown Crete in 1864, raised horses on it, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, my mother was born and raised on a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. She raised me and my brother. Her parents operated that farm. Her grandparents operated that farm. Her great great grandparents immigrated from what is now Germany in the 1850s and were sharecroppers.)
https://www.quora.com/Are-people-responsible-for-the-actions-of-their-ancestors

DAILY MAIL
— Illegal migrants are being ‘encouraged’ to vote, top Republican warns after shocking documents reveals ‘training’ for noncitizens to cast ballots in Washington D.C. Chip Roy is the lead sponsor of new legislation that will soon hit the House floor to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. DC City Council voted to allow illegal immigrants to vote last year. – MORGAN PHILLIPS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13413623/elections-illegal-migrants-washington-dc-chip-roy.html

TELEGRAPH
— Blame Democratic dysfunction on big cities. The herd effect is leading progressive lawmakers down a dark path where fashion is more important than function. – RICHARD PORTER
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/05/12/democrats-crime-herd-affect-urban-joe-biden/

May 4, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Mayor Johnson considers moving downtown migrant shelter to South Side ahead of DNC
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-considers-moving-downtown-migrant-shelter-to-bridgeport-ahead-of-dnc-11th-ward-ald-nicole-lee-says/14762736/
— University of Chicago protest: President says pro-Palestinian encampment ‘cannot continue’ University president said protesters have vandalized buildings, flown Palestinian flag on school flagpole. – Stephanie Wade
https://abc7chicago.com/uchicago-protest-university-of-chicago-president-says-student-pro-palestinian-encampment-on-college-campus-cannot-continue/14760654/
— 9 Chicago police officers on leaked Oath Keepers list will not be punished, CPD says. Far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers played large role in Jan. 6 insurrection. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition not only played a role in Republican defeats, they caused Republican defeats.)
https://abc7chicago.com/9-members-of-chicago-police-department-on-leaked-oath-keepers-list-will-not-be-punished-cpd-says-group-played-role-in-jan-6/14759928/

NBC5
— Pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally on University of Chicago campus. Students and university officials on Friday reached an “impasse” during talks about the encampment, which was set up on Monday by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pro-israel-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-rally-on-university-of-chicago-campus/3428439/

CBS2
— University of Chicago United for Palestine protesters clash with counter-protesters; police head to scene
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/university-of-chicago-united-for-palestine-protesters-clash/
— Dueling protests as University of Chicago United for Palestine encampment continues. University of Chicago police officers were seen in the center of the Main Quad, separating the UChicago United for Palestine protesters from a group with American flags. – Darius Johnson
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/dueling-protests-as-university-of-chicago-united-for-palestine-encampment-continues/
— Chicago activists make plea for 48 hours of peace this weekend. Community leaders in Pilsen issued a call to action ahead of the Cinco de Mayo weekend. They called for a 48-hour unity challenge – a message they’re spreading not only through a video on social media, but also to neighborhoods outside of their own. – Marybel Gonzalez
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-activists-make-plea-for-48-hours-of-peace-this-weekend/
— Police come to University of Chicago amid clash between protest groups. The university has said the UChicago United for Palestine tent encampment that has been on the Main Quad since Monday must come to an end. – Darius Johnson
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/police-come-to-university-of-chicago-amid-clash-between-protest-groups/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker signs election bill that would favor Democrats in November – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/02/legislators-pass-election-bill-that-would-favor-democrats-in-november/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: University of Chicago prepares to ‘intervene’ to remove pro-Palestine encampment from campus – REBECCA JOHNSON, ALICE YIN, CAROLINE KUBZANSKY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/03/university-of-chicago-prepares-to-intervene-to-remove-pro-palestine-encampment-from-campus/
— Alderman opposes Johnson’s proposed new migrant shelter location ahead of Democratic convention – ALICE YIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/03/alderman-opposes-johnsons-proposed-new-migrant-shelter-location-ahead-of-democratic-convention/
— Jewish students grapple with how to respond to pro-Palestinian campus protests – JESSE BEDAYN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/03/campus-protests/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— University of Chicago officials, protesters hit ‘impasse’ over pro-Palestinian encampment. On a mostly peaceful day, tensions briefly bubbled over when counter-protesters confronted the demonstrators at the university’s Edward Levi Hall. An altercation prompted campus police to respond. – Violet Miller, Jessica Ma and David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/03/university-of-chicago-officials-pro-palestinian-protesters-encampment-impasse

DAILY HERALD
— Republicans slam new state election law favoring incumbents – JERRY NOWICKI
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240503/illinois-state-politics/republicans-slam-new-state-election-law-favoring-incumbents/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/illinois-awards-35-new-pot-shop-licenses
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that discrimination against Blacks has caused, is causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/midwest-economy-growth-depends-addressing-racism-opinion#/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Local officials feel Illinois bill is aimed at Madison County Republican Jay Keeven. Bill to eliminate ‘slated’ General Assembly candidates awaits JB Pritzker’s action. – Scott Cousins
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/jay-keeven-madison-county-republican-party-19435887.php

DAILY JOURNAL
— Illinois gun lawsuits headed to U.S. Supreme Court? – Greg Bishop
https://www.daily-journal.com/news/illinois/illinois-gun-lawsuits-headed-to-u-s-supreme-court/article_139b6902-07ed-11ef-919c-7774b1a48291.html

WJOL
— IRS Acts To Address Wide Disparity In Audit Rates Between Black Taxpayers And Other Filers – AP
https://www.wjol.com/irs-acts-to-address-wide-disparity-in-audit-rates-between-black-taxpayers-and-other-filers/

WGLT
— Scientists welcome new rules on marijuana, but research will still face obstacles – Rhitu Chatterjee (COMMENT: What percent of scientists are stoners?)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-05-03/scientists-welcome-new-rules-on-marijuana-but-research-will-still-face-obstacles

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-marijuana-backers-eye-proposed-federal-regulatory-change-as-an-aid-to-legalizing-pot-in-more-states/

WIFR
— IRS says it will boost audits on wealthy, address racial disparities
https://www.wifr.com/2024/05/03/irs-says-it-will-boost-audits-wealthy-address-racial-disparities/

WGME
— 108 paid sick days? Illinois school district superintendent’s contract sparks outrage – KRISTINA WATROBSKI
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/108-paid-sick-days-illinois-school-district-superintendents-contract-sparks-outrage-edwardsville-community-school-district-7-dr-patrick-shelton-education-vacation-time-sick-leave-personal-days-crisis-in-the-classroom

CHICAGO MAROON
— Pro-Palestine Encampment Enters Fifth Day on Quad
https://chicagomaroon.com/42726/news/live-updates-pro-palestine-encampment-enters-fifth-day-on-quad/

WHEATON PATCH
— DUPAGE VETERANS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 10th ANNUAL FUNDRAISER – Sat, May 4, 2024 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM – DuPage County Fairgrounds, Wheaton
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20240504/5765b6e4-f00c-4fcd-8182-d2d3bcc3fff3/dupage-veterans-foundation-announces-10th-annual-fundraiser

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-83/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

IBENDAHL ON POLITICS
— See Who Supports and Who Opposes Restoring Direct Elections
https://ibendahlonpolitics.com/2024/05/02/who-supports-and-opposes-restoring-direct-elections/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Below are two lists of public officials, party officials, civic leaders, grassroots leaders, activists, and candidates who have communicated either their support or their opposition to giving back to all Republican voters the right to directly elect their representatives to the Illinois Republican Party’s state central committee, our state party’s senior governing board.)
— Help Me, Help You
https://ibendahlonpolitics.com/2024/05/02/help-me-help-you/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thank you to everyone who has already stood up for fellow Republican voters in Illinois by demanding that our vote be restored in OUR state party. Please keep spreading the word and encouraging others to sign-on. Any Republican in Illinois is invited to do so HERE. And my latest piece with some interesting history about the Illinois GOP and how we got to where we are (i.e., Republicans losing the big races most all of the time), is HERE. Thanks again and have a great weekend.)

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Candidates feel ‘cheated, violated, robbed’ after Pritzker enacts law ending slating. Despite law, elections board will accept petitions. – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1667fea4-097b-11ef-8d4e-237d3a918b26.html
— Illinois taxpayer cost to consolidate transit system could be out $1.5 billion – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_47a96222-0963-11ef-9c2c-dba4212a7ba5.html

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— With less than one month to go, session hits high gear in Springfield
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/658220610-with-less-than-one-month-to-go-session-hits-high-gear-in-springfield

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Kenneally Opposition to Bill Eliminating Mandatory DCFS Reporting of Drug Positive Babies to Local State’s Attorney’s Draws Avalanche of Criticism
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/03/kenneally-opposition-to-bill-eliminating-mandatory-dcfs-reporting-of-drug-positive-babies-to-local-states-attorneys-draws-avalanche-of-criticism/
— Free Ride for GOP State’s Attorney Candidate Randi Freese and County Board Candidates Deena Krieger, Carl Kamienski
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/04/free-ride-for-gopstates-attorney-candidate-randi-freese-and-county-board-candidates-deena-krieger-carl-kamienski/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Supermajority Passes Election Bill That Protects Democratic Incumbents as IL GOP Leaders Fail to Identify 50 Candidates to Run in November
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/supermajority-passes-election-bill-that-protects-democratic-incumbents-as-il-gop-leaders-fail-to-identify-50-candidates-to-run-in-november.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Noncitizens caught voting in U.S. elections — here’s how they did it. Illegal noncitizen voters were three times more likely to be Dems than GOP. – Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: Illegals use false identifications.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/3/noncitizens-do-vote-in-us-elections-heres-how-they/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Denial of equal protection for whites: How culture countered the Constitution in America – William Perry Pendley (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Americans who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time should not count on equal protection.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2990750/denial-of-equal-protection-for-whites-how-culture-countered-the-constitution-in-america/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 92)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-92/

NEW YORK POST
— US taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing idiotic college extremism – David Harsanyi
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/opinion/us-taxpayers-shouldnt-be-subsidizing-idiotic-college-extremism/

AMAC
— How much value does a college degree hold in 2024? (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are WORTHLESS, that is, a) my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU is WORTHLESS, b) my 1976 MBA from Loyola is WORTHLESS, c) my 1980 master’s degree in accounting from DePaul is WORTHLESS, and d) my 1997 master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT is WORTHLESS. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://amac.us/poll/college-degree-2024/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— Biden approves 100,000 illegals for Obamacare next year – AP
https://afn.net/ap/politics/biden-approves-100-000-illegals-for-obamacare-next-year/
— ‘Enough is enough’: Survey shows Americans fed up with illegal immigration – Chad Groening
https://afn.net/national-security/2024/05/03/enough-is-enough-survey-shows-americans-fed-up-with-illegal-immigration/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— University of Chicago Protesters Demand Defunding of Police, Reparations, and Emissions Reductions – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/03/university-of-chicago-protesters-demand-defunding-of-police-reparations-and-emissions-reductions/
— House Speaker Johnson Finally Has Border Crisis Concerns
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/03/too-little-too-late-house-speaker-johnson-finally-has-border-crisis-concerns/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals fly Florida – Mike McDaniel
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/illegals_fly_florida.html

BREITBART
— J.D. Vance Blasts Joe Biden Giving Americans’ ‘Hard-Earned Money’ to DACA Illegal Aliens via Obamacare – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/03/j-d-vance-obamacare-daca-illegals/
— Blue State Blues: Democrats Should Skip Chicago, Hold Zoom Convention Again – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/03/blue-state-blues-democrats-should-skip-chicago-hold-zoom-convention-again/

CENTER SQUARE
— Why no room at the inns? Feds filled ’em with people here illegally. – Brian Lonergan
https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/article_c4b3ba7a-0962-11ef-b775-fb703c5ba5a0.html

DAILY CALLER
— Will States Prevent Illegal Immigrants From Unlawfully Voting In November?
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/03/berry-states-prevent-illegal-aliens-unlawful-vote-november/
— Want To Alleviate The Border Crisis? Follow Texas’ Blueprint
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/03/davis-alleviate-border-crisis-texas-blueprint/
— To promote DEI is to promote hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/03/abc-news-president-kim-godwin-dei-chopping-block/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Congressional Subpoena Reveals Airports Used to Facilitate Illegal Immigration – Kari Jacobson
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/congressional-subpoena-reveals-airports-used-facilitate-illegal-immigration
— Illegal Aliens Issue List of Demands After Hundreds Take Over City Park and Refuse to Leave – Joey Chester
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/05/03/illegal-aliens-issue-list-demands-after-hundreds-take-over-city-park-and-refuse

FOX NEWS
— ‘Stop caving to the woke mobs’: GOP ramps up attacks on vulnerable Dems amid anti-Israel campus unrest. A veteran political strategist argues that protests sweeping college campuses are ‘problematic for Democrats on several fronts’ – Paul Steinhauser
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stop-caving-woke-mobs-gop-ramps-up-attacks-vulnerable-dems-anti-israel-campus-unrest

MISSOURI SYNOD LUTHERAN CHURCH
— When God’s design is rejected, the whole community suffers – Stacey Eising (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have used against me the most my having been baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have stressed the most that unlike them, I am not a member of a church, I do not attend church services, and I do not give money to a church. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me including removing me from the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee and ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.)
https://reporter.lcms.org/2024/gods-design-for-sexuality-starting-the-conversation/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Northwestern Hit with Lawsuit, Civil-Rights Complaints over Concessions to Encampment Organizers – ZACH KESSEL
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/northwestern-hit-with-lawsuit-civil-rights-complaints-over-concessions-to-encampment-organizers/
— Biden Giving Obamacare to 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Is Gross Executive Overreach – PHILIP KLEIN
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-giving-obamacare-to-100000-illegal-immigrants-is-gross-executive-overreach/

TOWNHALL
— Illegal Immigrants Ambush Michigan State Capitol to Demand Driver Licenses – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/03/illegal-immigrants-gather-at-michigan-state-capitol-to-demand-driver-licenses-n2638620
— Investigating the Investigators | Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson with Andrew McCarthy on Trump case
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2024/05/02/investigating-the-investigators-%7C-dan-proft-&-amy-jacobson-with-andrew-mccarthy-on-trump-case
— The Left’s Radicalization Of Our Children – Scott Hogenson
https://townhall.com/columnists/scotthogenson/2024/05/04/the-lefts-radicalization-of-our-children-n2638619

ZERO HEDGE
— Biden Parole Program Has Flown Illegals To More Than 45 US Cities – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unlawful-sleight-hand-biden-parole-program-has-flown-illegals-more-45-us-cities

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— University of Chicago President Says ‘Encampment Cannot Continue’ The university is home to the Chicago statement, a framework for free expression that has been embraced by other colleges. – Mitch Smith and Robert Chiarito
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/university-of-chicago-protest.html
— Joe Biden, Pot President? The president’s allies say the Justice Department’s chill take on marijuana has a political upside. – Jess Bidgood (COMMENT: Pot is poison.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/politics/marijuana-reclassification-biden.html

WASHINGTON POST
— 134 protesters arrested on 2 campuses had no connection to schools, NYPD says. More than a quarter of protesters arrested Tuesday at Columbia and 60 percent at the City College of New York had no connections to the schools. – Daniel Wu
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/03/columbia-arrests-not-students-nypd/

ABC NEWS
— Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that I am a White supremacist, NAZI, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-compares-political-opponents-vermin-root-alarming-historians/story?id=104847748

YAHOO
— Nikki Haley calls former president ‘diminished’ and ‘unhinged’ (COMMENT: What do the Haley supporters in your congressional district, county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct say about Trump? How many would rather see Biden elected than Trump?)
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-federal-election-case-paused-081120649.html

REUTERS
— Trump vows to fight ‘anti-white feeling’ in US. His allies have a plan – Gram Slattery and Nathan Layne (COMMENT: To curry favor more with minorities, White Democrats and White RINOs ever-increasingly paint themselves as being anti-White.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-fight-anti-white-feeling-us-his-allies-have-plan-2024-05-04/

MSNBC
— In a second term, Trump intends to address ‘a bias against white’ As his team prepares to protect white people from discrimination, Donald Trump says he’s concerned about the “problem” related to the “bias against white.” – Steve Benen (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Americans who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time should not count on equal protection.)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/second-term-trump-intends-address-bias-white-rcna150556

MSN
— Lara Trump’s Plan For RNC Is Utterly Shredded By Former Chair – Lee Moran
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lara-trump-s-plan-for-rnc-is-utterly-shredded-by-former-chair/ar-BB1ivFva
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The duty of the RNC, Steele said, was raising money for all Republican candidates on the ballot and putting in place “the infrastructure every candidate will need.” “You are required, Lara, so let me give you a little bit of training here since you want the job,” he continued. “You are required to organize and coordinate every state party and the territories of the United States who are in the Republican family and you are to provide them the platform from which you will launch a platform to talk about what the party believes in.” “Oh, I’m sorry, we don’t have a platform so is that your number one priority, madame co-chair? No, I don’t think so,” Steele added. “You gotta understand what a party is there for.”)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/hope-hicks-on-trump-campaign-messaging-we-were-all-just-following-his-lead-f1fbd2d0
— Illinois’s Plan to Fund Public Universities on the Basis of Race. Schools with abysmal graduation rates would get more money simply for enrolling minorities. – Neetu Arnold
https://wirepoints.org/illinoiss-plan-to-fund-public-universities-on-the-basis-of-race-wall-street-journal/
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING: The UAW Has a Gaza Policy. Auto workers chief Shawn Fain signals the union’s solidarity with violent protesters. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/shawn-fain-uaw-hamas-gaza-israel-campus-protests-39d68e2f
— Are Americans Ready for War? As our enemies advance, a prescient author considers what it would take for the U.S. to avoid defeat. The answer is sobering. – Barton Swaim (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly flood America with anti-Americans.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-helprin-asks-are-americans-ready-for-war-novelist-scholar-0214b82b
— Biden Needs to Learn From the Democrats’ Disaster in ’68. The lesson of that tumultuous political summer is clear: The fireworks may be on the party’s left, but the votes needed for victory are on the right. – James Traub
https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-needs-to-learn-from-the-democrats-disaster-in-68-9024144a
— ‘Follow Your Dreams’ and Other Terrible Career Advice. Want to make a strong professional start? Be open to every opportunity and embrace the lowliest tasks. – Bonnie Hammer (COMMENT: After you earned your bachelor’s degree, what was the lowliest task that your boss gave you? In 1971, when I was 22 years old, when I was in my 7th month as the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store, while the store was open, my boss had me get on a ladder and clean the white walls on moldy tires that had been hanging on the walls of the showroom for many years. That was too much for me. I politely gave him my 2-week notice that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He immediately rudely/threadedly fired me. But then, Oldsmobile withdrew its job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Previously, my Firestone Store boss had me pump gasoline, mount, balance, and install tires, change engine oil and filters, remove and install batteries, deliver major appliances, etc. He did not approve of my demographics including my being a draft-avoider, college graduate, conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, Crete resident, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844. He had not hired me, the Firestone district office had hired me and assigned me to his store. He refused to let me start in his store until I passed a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana store. What little understanding/tolerance/sympathy he had for me was because a) I had worked my way through college and b) my father had died suddenly in October of 1969 and I was living with and helping support my mother and brother because of that.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/follow-your-dreams-and-other-terrible-career-advice-3f23590b
— The Government-Spending Jobs Boom. Most new jobs are in healthcare, government and social assistance. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-jobs-healthcare-social-assistance-economy-investment-efe3a8e2
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In many states run by progressives such as Oregon, California and Illinois, government, healthcare and social assistance account for more than all of the net new jobs. That means those states are losing jobs in other industries. Illinois has added about 52,000 jobs in government, healthcare and social assistance over the last year—about double the number of its overall new jobs.)

INSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
— Public accounting had absolutely no interest in me even though a) I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, b) I had become a licensed CPA, c) I had earned four other job-related professional certifications, d) I had earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, and f) I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year a) because I was “too old” (30) when I passed the CPA examination and b) because I am not minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://insidepublicaccounting.com/2024/05/03/countering-arguments-against-dei-through-metaphors/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Election 2024: Trump Now +10 Over Biden
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/election_2024_trump_now_10_over_biden

DAILY MAIL
— University of Chicago protestors at pro-Palestine encampment rattle off list of demands on their Instagram – including HIV tests and Plan B. Students protestors at UChicago posted a list of supplies they need to camp. UCLA Protestors demand gluten free and vegan supplies. – ALEXA CIMINO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13380137/university-chicago-pro-palestine-encampment-demands.html

April 28, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NBC5
— Unruly crowds, fights lead to early closure of Lake in the Hills spring carnival (COMMENT: Lake in the Hills today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/reported-unruly-crowds-fights-lead-to-early-closure-of-lake-in-the-hills-spring-carnival/3422577/
— Answers sought over use of taxpayer dollars in Thornton Township – Regina Waldroup
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/answers-sought-over-use-of-taxpayer-dollars-in-thornton-township/3422449/

WGN9
— Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity – AP
https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-student-anti-war-protesters-dig-in-as-faculties-condemn-university-leadership-over-calling-police/

WBEZ
— Hundreds joined pro-Palestinian protests at Chicago universities. Protesters from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University rallied in support of people living in Gaza. – Isabel Funk, Sophie Sherry and Violet Miller
https://www.wbez.org/stories/hundreds-joined-pro-palestinian-protests-at-chicago-universities/a7ad74c9-8332-4fe9-a20c-f74abc833d62
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/migrants-get-married-in-chicago-photos/71799276-67d4-4d08-9a1b-639c313849e0

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call for increasing state pensions. Beyond overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes do not have pensions and they have used my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension against me big time as well as the 72% federal health insurance subsidy that my wife and I get. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years and I paid 7% of my salary into the CSRS. Further, my Social Security is dramatically reduced because I get a CSRS pension.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/28/opinion-illnois-tier-2-pension-crisis-fix/
— APRIL 17, 2010 FLACHBACK: GOP outsider Jack Roeser now wants in (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Roeser participated in.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/04/17/gop-outsider-roeser-now-wants-in/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: After decades as the sharp-tongued, angry outsider of Illinois Republican politics, conservative businessman Jack Roeser is trying to get on the inside. He’s given $50,000 to the state GOP. He’s seeking a leading role as the Illinois liaison to the Republican National Committee. And he’s even agreed to help with a big fundraiser honoring statewide Republican candidates, including a man he vilified before the February primary, U.S. Senate nominee Mark Kirk. Ask the 86-year-old Roeser to explain the sudden change of heart, and he cites new party leadership and a desire to stop the circular firing squad the Illinois GOP had become. “Very simply, the Republican Party is very different than it was a short while ago,” said Roeser, the wealthy founder of Otto Engineering, a Carpentersville manufacturing firm.)

DAILY HERALD
— Man on release in domestic charge kills wife, self in Villa Park – Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240427/news/man-on-release-in-domestic-charge-kills-wife-self-in-villa-park-authorities-say/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Biden’s approval continues to drift along at historic low as rematch with Trump looms – JACKSON SINNENBERG
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-joe-bidens-low-approval-continues-to-drift-along-at-historic-downturn-as-rematch-with-donald-trump-looms-2024-election-barack-obama-gallup-pew-research-poll-gaza-israel-palestine-economy-afghanistan-leadership

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & NPR ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about those who reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform and who have worked the hardest against me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-a-woman-might-win-the-presidency-of-mexico-what-could-that-mean-for-abortion-rights/
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-04-27/what-abortion-politics-has-to-do-with-new-rights-for-pregnant-workers

WGLT
— Gaza protestors picket White House correspondents dinner, as Biden ribs Trump. – AP
https://www.wglt.org/2024-04-27/gaza-protestors-picket-white-house-correspondents-dinner-as-biden-ribs-trump

WSIL TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/biden-administration-restores-protections-for-gay-and-transgender-americans-seeking-health-care/article_02de72da-cf34-5e04-b16e-4768ef30e4ec.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Is the Worst Yet to Come? – Steve Huntley
https://johnkassnews.com/is-the-worst-yet-to-come/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Foster Heckled in Huntley
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/28/bill-foster-heckled-in-huntley/
— Over $500 Million in Subsidies for Chinese Communist Party Gotion, $30 Million for Revitalizing Other Illinois Towns
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/27/over-500-million-in-subsidies-for-chinese-communist-party-gotion-30-million-for-revitalizing-other-illinois-towns/
— Florida Inmates Building Tiny Houses in Public-Private Partnership
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/27/florida-inmates-building-tiny-houses-in-public-private-partnership/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pro-Palestinian protesters attempt to disrupt annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/27/pro-palestine-protest-erupts-annual-white-house-co/
— Republican introduces bill to ban waiving foreign flags on House floor – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/27/republican-introduces-bill-ban-waiving-foreign-fla/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pro-Palestinian protests result in around 600 student arrests across the country – Gabrielle M. Etzel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2981920/pro-palestinian-protests-result-in-around-600-student-arrests-across-the-country/
— NRCC selling ‘F*** Hamas’ T-shirts to counter campus protests – Heather Hunter
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2978611/nrcc-selling-f-hamas-t-shirts-counter-campus-protests/

NEW YORK POST
— Biden tries to downplay age with jokes, mocks Trump at White House Correspondents Dinner – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/biden-cracks-jokes-about-his-old-age-makes-fun-of-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
— Columbia students once rallied against Nazis — now they cheer for them. – Rafael Medoff
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-students-rallied-against-nazis-now-they-them-on/
— JPMorgan Chase’s woke DEI style guide nixes terms like ‘manpower,’ ‘blacklist’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/jpmorgan-chase-dei-style-guide-nixes-terms-like-manpower-and-blacklist/
— DEI has ‘gone too far’ in the media: ‘It’s become a religion’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/don-lemon-says-dei-has-gone-too-far-in-the-media/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Is China Rethinking its Invasion of Taiwan? – Mike Phelps
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/is_china_rethinking_its_invasion_of_taiwan.html
— The University of Washington canceled its planned protest because it was too white – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_university_of_washington_canceled_its_planned_protest_because_it_was_too_white.html

BLAZE
— Hundreds of migrants hitch train ride to El Paso border — Texas prepares for another potential riot – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hundreds-of-migrants-hitch-train-ride-to-el-paso-border-texas-prepares-for-another-potential-riot

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Cheap H-1B Labor – John Miano (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want cheap labor.)
https://cis.org/Miano/Case-Study-Cheap-H1B-Labor

DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Israel Protesters Cause Chaos For White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attendees
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/27/pro-palestine-protesters-white-house-correspondents-dinner-washington-hilton-hotel/

DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Establishment’s Days Are Numbered – Kevin Roberts
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/27/conservatives-are-winning-soul-of-gop/

FEDERALIST
— To Understand Campus Protesters, The Right Should Dig Much Deeper – EMILY JASHINSKY
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/27/to-understand-campus-protesters-the-right-should-dig-much-deeper/

FOX NEWS
— Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/antisemitism-campus-surges-agitators-take-over-columbia-yale-universities
— Online videos expose how human traffickers are sneaking illegal migrants into US – Adam Shaw
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/us/watch-online-videos-expose-how-human-traffickers-are-sneaking-illegal-migrants-into-us/ar-AA1nAtqk
— White House correspondents’ dinner features jabs at Biden’s age, Trump’s legal woes, mainstream media. President Biden made jokes about his age and took shots at former President Trump. – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner-features-jabs-bidens-age-trumps-legal-woes-mainstream-media

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— University Presidents “have participated in the creation of a monstrous movement on campuses that uses targeting of Jews and Israel as an organizing mechanism” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/university-presidents-have-participated-in-the-creation-of-a-monstrous-movement-on-campuses-that-uses-targeting-of-jews-and-israel-as-an-organizing-mechanism/

MRC TV
— CNN Touts Book Blaming Racism for Wealth Gap in U.S. – BRAD WILMOUTH (COMMENT: According to Democrats, those who vote for Democrats have less money because of those who vote for Republicans.)
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-touts-book-blaming-racism-wealth-gap-us

PJ MEDIA
— Trump’s Vow to Clean Out the Deep State and Reform the Federal Bureaucracy Has CNN TERRIFIED – ROBERT SPENCER (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.)
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/04/27/trumps-vow-to-clean-out-the-deep-state-and-reform-the-federal-bureaucracy-has-cnn-terrified-n4928564
— Surge of Violent Transgenders Highlights Democrats’ Violent Ideology – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/04/27/surge-of-violent-transgenders-highlights-dems-violent-ideology-n4928556

TOWNHALL
— Illegals Get Separate Line at Airports Because they Don’t Have Documentation Verifying Who They Are – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/27/illegals-given-their-own-line-at-airports-because-they-dont-have-documentation-verifying-who-they-were-n2638352
— These Protests are the Result of Bad Parenting and an Education System Churning Out Morons
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/04/28/these-protests-are-the-result-of-bad-parenting-and-an-education-system-churning-out-morons-n2638371

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Percentage of Americans Wanting Mass Deportation Will Terrify Illegals Everywhere – Connor Cavanaugh
https://www.westernjournal.com/shock-percentage-americans-wanting-mass-deportation-will-terrify-illegals-everywhere/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in making students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-university-protests.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/magazine/trump-rallies-rhetoric.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 2024 is our final battle. With you at my side — and you’ve been at my side from the beginning — we will demolish the deep state.)
— A Wealth Shift That Could Leave Some Younger Americans Behind. Assets held by baby boomers are changing hands, but that doesn’t mean their millennial heirs will be set for life. – Martha C. White (COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents had wealthy parents. I should write a book about them.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/business/retirement-millennials-baby-boomers-wealth.html
— New York Is Turning 400. We Should Celebrate. But How? – Russell Shorto
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/new-york-dutch-lenape-slavery.html

USA TODAY
— Republican Party sues over absentee ballots, voter rolls in battleground states – Erin Mansfield
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/27/rnc-targets-absensee-ballots-voter-rolls-2024/73428152007/

BALTIMORE SUN
— Progressives are driving the Democratic Party, and destroying America – Chris Roemer
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/28/chris-roemer-progressives-are-driving-the-democratic-party-and-destroying-america-commentary/

SEATTLE TIMES
— A child care crisis is holding parents back – Daniel Beekman, Moriah Balingit and Sharon Lurye (COMMENT: Since I was born in 1948, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have falsely/outrageously/disgustingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents were filthy rich because my mother stayed home and raised me. In my defense, my father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-wa-and-beyond-a-child-care-crisis-is-holding-parents-back/

ABC NEWS
— Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza. A glitzy election-year roast by President Joe Biden drew journalists, celebrities and politicians — but also hundreds of protesters against the war in Gaza. – AP
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-give-election-year-roast-annual-correspondents-dinner-109720521

NBC NEWS
— College campus protests over war in Gaza show no sign of slowing, new crackdowns on demonstrators
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/college-campus-protests-over-war-in-gaza-show-no-sign-of-slowing-new-crackdowns-on-demonstrators-209833029628

CBS NEWS
— College protesters vow to keep demonstrations as schools shut down encampments amid reports of antisemitism
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-student-protesters-demonstrations-israel-hamas-war-grow/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-2ab919ad849c50c9d177a32c0309bd1e

CNN
— Pro-Palestinian protests continue at colleges across the US
Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/politics/trump-federal-workers-2nd-term-invs/index.html

AOL & MSN
— Democrats crow about their success in getting churches to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.aol.com/news/united-methodist-church-lgbtq-advocate-090000167.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/white-house-responds-to-pope-condemning-trans-procedures/ss-AA1nM7C5

MSN
— How To Become a Millionaire If You Weren’t Born Into Wealth – Deborah Sabinus (COMMENT: Virtually all my critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents. I should write a book about them. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.msn.com/en-my/money/personalfinance/ramit-sethi-how-to-become-a-millionaire-if-you-weren-t-born-into-wealth/ar-AA1noMRT?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds

YAHOO
— ‘Buying a first home is harder when you’re single’ – Kevin Peachey (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, in September of 1972, when I was single and 24 years old, my $66,942/year IRS salary in today’s dollars and my part-time Firestone Store salary enabled me to buy a new town home in University Park. In October of 1971, my $54,728/year IRS salary in today’s dollars and my part-time Firestone salary enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette. In addition, starting in January of 1972, my IRS salary enabled me to pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola.)
https://au.news.yahoo.com/buying-first-home-harder-youre-001029638.html
— My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. I should write a book about that.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/m-average-middle-class-retiree-130020378.html

ARIZONA CENTRAL
— The Arizona Republican Party just elected indicted Sen. Jake Hoffman and expelled Rep. Liz Harris to represent Arizona on the RNC. Could this party get any more nutso? – Laurie Roberts (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Jack Roeser participated in.)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/04/28/this-just-in-from-the-arizona-republican-party-we-be-crazy/73489433007/

KVNU
— Utah Republicans to select national committee members at statewide gathering (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Jack Roeser participated in.)
https://kvnutalk.com/utah-republicans-to-select-national-committee-members-at-statewide-gathering-on-april-27-news/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: SALT LAKE CITY – One of the responsibilities of Republican delegates from Cache County at the upcoming statewide convention on April 27 will be selecting a committeeman and committeewoman to represent Utah on the Republican National Committee. In addition to deciding which GOP candidates do or don’t make it to the June statewide primary and the November election, delegates will also chose between six candidates for RNC committeeman and two candidates for RNC committeewoman. Those candidates for RNC committeeman are Ty Jensen, a candidate in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District; author and climate scientist William Pekny; Dustin Kearl, a certified public accountant and financial consultant; businessman Michael Pierce; entrepreneur Brad Bonham; and David Yonan of Ogden. The candidates for RNC committeewoman are Teena Horlacker, a distance educator for the Western Governor’s University, and Kim Coleman, a former member of the Utah Legislature. The primary role of delegates is to represent their precincts in selecting candidates for the primary and general elections, according to Cache GOP chair Geoff Cox. They will also need to exercise sound judgment in determining the fitness and fidelity to Republican principles of the aforementioned candidates for the national GOP committee. According to the agenda for its convention, the Utah GOP’s state delegates will begin gathering at the Salt Palace Convention Center starting at 7 a.m. for credentialing. They are scheduled to begin considering nominating candidates for multi-county elections, including several state school board, state House and state Senate races at 8 a.m. Throughout the afternoon, delegates will also hear speeches and vote on candidates for state-level races, including nominations for state auditor, attorney general and the governor. The goal of the RNC is to officially nominate and confirm candidates for president and vice president; adopt a comprehensive party platform; unify the party; and publicize and launch the fall campaign. The high-profile Republicans who will fill the roles of chair and vice chair of the RNC have already been chosen. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed President Donald Trump’s charges of a voter fraud in the 2020 election, has been selected as the party’s new national chairman. He will be assisted by Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, as co-chair.)

BUSINESS TIMES
— Latest victim of diversity backlash – your workplace affinity group (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors promotes affinity groups for their employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, parents, etc.)
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/working-life/latest-victim-diversity-backlash-your-workplace-affinity-group

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans, to not retain their Republican employees, and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91113957/4-common-arguments-against-dei-and-how-to-dismantle-each-one

April 26, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Northwestern students set up pro-Palestinian encampment as university changes protest policy. – ALYSA GUFFEY, NELL SALZMAN, STACY ST. CLAIR, CAROLINE KUBZANSKY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/25/northwestern-students-set-up-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-university-changes-protest-policy/
— Wilmette enacts busing ordinance despite concerns from migrant volunteers – ALEX HULVALCHICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/25/wilmette-enacts-busing-ordinance-despite-concerns-from-migrant-volunteers/
— Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testifies he suppressed a story about alleged Rahm Emanuel affair
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/25/enquirer-publisher-emanuel-affair-allegation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/25/opinion-single-mothers-children-multigenerational-households-grandparents/
— CTU’s Sustainable Community Schools model is a Trojan horse – Paul Vallas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/26/opinion-ctu-contract-demands-sustainable-community-schools-model/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Anti-Republicans promote ranked choice voting.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/25/naperville-ranked-choice-voting-election-referendum/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Republicans grapple with mail voting amid mixed signals from Trump. ‘We have to adapt’ A greater share of Chicago area Republicans cast their ballots by mail in March compared to the 2022 primary, but they were still vastly outpaced by Democrats in utilizing a voting system that has become increasingly popular. – Mitchell Armentrout (COMMENT: I contacted 14 registered Republican voters in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton who had requested mail-in ballots, but the election commission had no record of their receipt as the March 19, 2024 election approached.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/04/26/vote-by-mail-republicans-illinois-donald-trump
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While rallying his political troops last summer in Springfield heading into the primary campaign season, Illinois Republican Party chairman Don Tracy highlighted some of his top priorities to help the party regain a foothold in the Democratic-dominated state. “We’ve got to embrace early voting and voting by mail,” Tracy said at the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee & County Chairmen’s Association breakfast in August. “Democrats have won too many close elections on the strength of their vote-by-mail programs.” Tracy said such vote-banking “needs to be the focus of every campaign in every county and township throughout the state” — no small order for a party led by former President Donald Trump, who has routinely sown mistrust for mail-in voting since he lost his 2020 reelection bid. . .The state GOP chairman has downplayed the possibility of Trump’s unfounded fraud claims discouraging Illinois voters from signing up for mail ballots, noting that Trump has embraced it as he tries to retake the Oval Office from President Joe Biden. “ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS,” Trump wrote in a social media post last week. “REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE!” On the biggest stages, though, Trump has regularly fallen back on the myths of rampant voter fraud that he’s claimed denied him a second term. “Mail-in voting has to be totally corrupt. Get that through your head,” Trump said at a Michigan rally in February. “I mean, it has to be.” The FBI and other authorities have confirmed there was no widespread mail voter fraud or any other interference in the 2020 election. While Tracy and other establishment Illinois Republicans have kept Trump’s lies about election fraud at arm’s length, they have suggested Democrats who hold all statewide offices and supermajorities in the General Assembly aren’t committed to preventing ballot-box shenanigans. “We want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. Democrats want it to be easy no matter what. They loosen voter integrity rules every chance they get,” Tracy said, pointing to Democratic rejection of voter ID requirements. Republican leaders have also argued state laws that have expanded mail voting eligibility since 2020 “remove important election safeguards” — but they agree their opponents across the aisle have left them in the dust when it comes to voter registration and mail ballot sign-up efforts. “Look at the model of what Democrats have done over the years,” said former Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, a Republican from Western Springs who stepped down last year. “They have been incredibly successful at registering and mobilizing voters. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen Republicans up 3 to 4 points on Election Day, and everyone is thrilled until — ‘whoa, whoa, there are still mail ballots out.’ Then there’s a flip, and we continue to be on the losing side,” said Durkin, a vocal opponent of Trump. “It took Republicans a while to see this is where elections are won and lost,” he said. “It’s here to stay. It’s in every state, whether you like it or not, and you have to deal with it.”)
— Northwestern students set up protest encampment, call out university censorship of pro-Palestinian speech. Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy. – Isabel Funk
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/04/25/northwestern-students-set-up-palestine-solidarity-camp-on-campus
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2024/04/25/pritzker-action-plan-combat-homelessness-unhoused-racial-disparity
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/04/25/hate-crimes-acts-antisemitism-racism-rising-what-chicago-is-doing-311-debra-silverstein
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2024/04/25/asylum-seekers-venezuela-wedding-chicago-migrants-immigration-city-hall-news

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrats promote cashless-bail.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240425/news/hows-cashless-bail-going-heres-what-the-data-says/
— DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek appears to be pitching her defiance of county policy requiring a bidding process for major business contracts on the technicality that a state attorney general’s opinion gives her unfettered autonomy in how she runs her office. And she’s willing to go to court, she says, “to carry out my office’s duties.” She misses some key points. – Editorial
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240426/editorials/the-basic-tenets-of-public-administration/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Students on Northwestern’s campus set up encampment – Brandon Dupré
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/northwestern-university-students-set-anti-gaza-war-encampment-campus

ABC7
— Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday gave their final approval to legislation criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, clearing the way for the first-in-the-nation proposal to be sent to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/tennessee-law-lawmakers-ok-bill-criminalizing-adults-who-help-minors-receive-gender-affirming-care/14735418/
— 93 arrested at USC following pro-Palestinian protest
https://abc7chicago.com/usc-protest-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-police-clash-during-rally-at-alumni-park-university-of-southern-california-campus/14728289/

NBC5
— Effort to recall Mayor Johnson picks up police union endorsement. FOP upset by what it calls violations of its recently signed contract. – Charlie Wojciechowski
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/effort-to-recall-mayor-johnson-picks-up-police-union-endorsement/3421005/
— Protesters set up tent encampment on Northwestern University campus. The protests mirror several demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war happening at college campuses in the U.S.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/protesters-set-up-tent-encampment-on-northwestern-university-campus/3420482/
— With pro-Palestine encampment set up at Northwestern, some Jewish students worry about safety – Sara Machi
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pro-palestine-encampment-northwestern-jewish-students/

CBS2
— With pro-Palestine encampment set up at Northwestern, some Jewish students worry about safety – Sara Machi
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pro-palestine-encampment-northwestern-jewish-students/
— Northwestern University students set up pro-Palestine tent encampment on campus – Todd Feurer, Sabrina Franza
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northwestern-university-palestinian-protests-tent-encampment-israel/
— Democrats ever-increasingly shout at Blacks and at women that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/call-to-action-conversation-justice-black-women/
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gov-jb-pritzker-seeking-an-extra-50-million-next-year-to-fight-homelessness-in-illinois/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/gov-jb-pritzker-proposes-50-million-more-next-year-to-fight-homelessness-in-illinois/
— Wilmette village board approves ordinance on timeframe for buses carrying migrants – Jeramie Bizzle
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wilmette-village-board-approves-ordinance-for-migrant-drop-offs/

WGN9
— Democrats ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/pritzker-uic-discuss-report-focused-on-black-homelessness-in-illinois/

FOX32
— Northwestern students set up encampment on Evanston campus in support of Palestine – Joanie Lum and Will Hager
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwestern-palestine-israel-campus-protest

WBEZ
— Northwestern students set up protest encampment, call out university censorship of pro-Palestinian speech. Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy. – Isabel Funk
https://www.wbez.org/stories/northwestern-students-set-up-palestine-protest-camp-on-campus/214265c1-c53a-4a4f-b89e-705962fcb256

STATELINE
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run everything and b) blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/the-university-of-illinois-reports-black-residents-are-8-times-more-likely-to-be-homeless/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Pro-Palestine encampment continues into morning despite warnings from NU administration
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/25/campus/live-pro-palestinian-student-activists-set-up-encampment-on-deering-meadow/
— Northwestern Hillel released a statement Thursday on the ongoing encampment set up by pro-Palestinian student activists on Deering Meadow and a Wednesday evening vote by the Associated Student Government Senate to sign onto a People’s Resolution calling for NU divestment from Israeli institutions. – Shannon Tyler
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/25/campus/nu-hillel-releases-statement-on-nu-liberated-zone/
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run everything and b) blame Republicans for all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/25/city/ywca-evanston-north-shore-talks-solidarity-white-supremacy-at-annual-unite-against-racism-campaign/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— 17 states challenge federal rules entitling workers to accommodations for abortion – AP (COMMENT: I should write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who BOTH promoted abortion AND demonized, denigrated, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-17-states-challenge-federal-rules-entitling-workers-to-accommodations-for-abortion/

WRKR
— Democrats ever-increasingly push pot. Pot is poison.
https://wrkr.com/illinois-worst-state-to-get-stoned/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-277/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-78/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

IBENDAHL ON POLITICS
— See Who Supports and Who Opposes Restoring Direct Elections
https://ibendahlonpolitics.com/2024/04/25/who-supports-and-opposes-restoring-direct-elections/

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Ives on DEI funding for universities: ‘The funding program these elitists conceived is so obviously racist that only someone in the bubble of higher ed would propose it’
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/657998560-ives-on-dei-funding-for-universities-the-funding-program-these-elitists-conceived-is-so-obviously-racist-that-only-someone-in-the-bubble-of-higher-ed-would-propose-it

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Students, Faculty Set up Pro-Gaza Camp at Northwestern University, Accuse Israel of War Crimes, Just Miles from Illinois Holocaust Museum
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/students-faculty-set-up-pro-gaza-camp-at-northwestern-university-accuse-israel-of-war-crimes-just-miles-from-illinois-holocaust-museum.html
— Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, TPUSA COO Tyler Bowyer Among 18 Indicted by AZ Grand Jury for Election Interference, Trump Listed as “Unindicted Co-Conspirator”
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/breaking-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows-tpusa-coo-tyler-bowyer-among-18-indicted-by-az-grand-jury-for-election-interference-trump-listed-as-unindicted-co-conspirator.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Activists use Black Americans to push through radical DEI agenda. The ultimate blackface. – John K. Amanchukwu Sr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/25/activists-use-black-americans-to-push-through-radi/
— GOP tightens rules on pork-barrel spending after LGBT blowup – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/25/gop-tightens-rules-on-pork-barrel-spending-after-l/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Marxist takeover of higher education reaches a fever pitch – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/2979708/the-marxist-takeover-of-higher-education-reaches-a-fever-pitch/
— California’s new affirmative action plan – Jeremiah Poff
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2974536/californias-new-affirmative-action-plan/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more reparations that Democrats and RINOs will force you to pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid. In my defense, while my ancestors have been in America since 1844, they have always lived in northeast Illinois. Further, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone and they never did. Further, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://freebeacon.com/california/as-california-voters-sour-on-cash-reparations-state-dems-push-subsidized-property-taxes-and-expedited-business-licenses-instead/

NEW YORK POST
— Don’t buy the left’s gaslighting — ‘outside agitators’ aren’t behind campus antisemitism. – Andy Ngo (COMMEMT: I should write about antisemitism in GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997.)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/opinion/dont-buy-the-lefts-gaslighting-outside-agitators-arent-behind-campus-antisemitism/

AMERICAN THINKER
— We Won’t Live By Your Wokeness – Patty Knap
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/we_won_t_live_by_your_wokeness.html

BLAZE
— Durbin pushes voting rights for illegal aliens without public consent – CATHERINE ENGELBRECHT
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/durbin-pushes-voting-rights-for-illegal-aliens-without-public-consent

BREITBART
— Biden’s deputies are using science agencies to promote transgenderism, including among K-12 children. – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/25/transgender-rachel-levine-attacks-heterosexuality-homosexuality/

DAILY WIRE
— Andrew Klavan Urges Americans To Push Back On Transgenderism Because It’s Teaching People To ‘Live A Lie’ – Leif Le Mahieu
https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-klavan-urges-americans-to-push-back-on-transgenderism-because-its-teaching-people-to-live-a-lie

CATHOLIC VOTE
— DEI schemes do not lead to increased productivity. DEI schemes promote hatred against employees who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://catholicvote.org/dei-schemes-not-leading-to-improved-performance/

FOX NEWS
— Our campuses are occupied and our streets are being overrun with ‘wild-eyed Jew haters’ Democrats are trying to manage a ‘horde of child monsters’ – Greg Gutfeld
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-campuses-occupied-streets-being-overrun-wild-eyed-jew-haters
— The progressive little chickens have come home to roost. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld gives his take on anti-Israel protests on college campuses and the White supremacy ‘threat’ the left allegedly has been pushing on ‘Gutfeld!’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6351775578112
— Democrats have created a ‘horde of child monsters’ – Greg Gutfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRaW6GLOgTc
— Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe illegal immigration is real crisis, not a media narrative. 32% of respondents believe Biden administration ‘most responsible’ for border crisis. – Hanna Panreck
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nearly-two-thirds-americans-believe-illegal-immigration-real-crisis-not-media-narrative-poll
— The more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more reparations that Democrats and RINOs will force you to pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid. In my defense, while my ancestors have been in America since 1844, they have always lived in northeast Illinois. Further, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone and they never did. Further, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessee-house-tables-bill-banned-consideration-reparations

HOT AIR
— Sanctuary Cities Keep Releasing Sex Offenders to Avoid ICE Detainers – DAVID STROM
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/25/sanctuary-cities-keep-releasing-sex-offenders-to-avoid-ice-detainers-n3787157

MRC TV
— Nearly Half of Latinos Support Mass Deportations of Illegal Aliens – More than Blacks – CRAIG BANNISTER
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/nearly-half-latinos-support-mass-deportations-illegal-aliens-more-blacks
— Illegal Aliens Sent to Martha’s Vineyard Get Special ‘Crime Victim’ Visas – BRITTANY M. HUGHES
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/illegal-aliens-sent-marthas-vineyard-get-special-crime-victim-visas

NATIONAL REVIEW
— A Majority Are for Mass Deportations – MICHAEL BRENDAN DOUGHERTY
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-majority-are-for-mass-deportations/

NEWSMAX
— Democrats from the Senate and House are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, saying it’s “time to act.” – Fran Beyer (COMMENT: If I had been a pot user, I would not have been able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/marijuana-schedule-three-drugs/2024/04/25/id/1162459/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Poll: Over Half Of Americans Support Large Deportations Of Illegal Migrants – James Meyers
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/poll-over-half-of-americans-support-large-deportations-of-illegal-migrants/
— Biden To Bring In Gaza ‘Refugees’ – Mark Lamb
https://www.oann.com/video/real-america-video/biden-to-bring-in-gaza-refugees/

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Meritocracy and the Great Power Competition – Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, my being able to do the following was not because of meritocracy, but because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics: a) earn three master’s degrees, b) earn six professional certifications, and c) earn a professional license. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents have/had lots of money.)
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/04/25/meritocracy_and_the_great_power_competition_1027368.html

TOWNHALL
— Sanctuary Cities Defund the Police to Pay for Illegal Immigration – William Davis
https://townhall.com/columnists/williamdavis/2024/04/26/sanctuary-cities-defund-the-police-to-pay-for-illegal-immigration-n2638234
— US, 17 Other Nations Issue Joint Statement Calling on Hamas to Release Hostages – Leah Barkoukis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/04/25/white-house-joint-statement-on-release-of-hostages-n2638277

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— United Methodist Church grapples with deep divides over LGBTQ issues – Maura Barrett and Parnia Mazhar and Deon J. Hampton (COMMENT:I should write about my religious critics/opponents. They stress that unlike them, I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. They stress that unlike them, I am not a member of a church, I do not attend church services, and I do not give money to a church.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-methodist-church-grapples-deep-001437777.html

THE HILL
— Monica Lewinsky joins in on Taylor Swift viral ‘asylum’ meme with White House image – MIRANDA NAZZARO
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4620717-monica-lewinsky-joins-in-on-taylor-swift-viral-asylum-meme-with-white-house-image/
— Immigration advocates see work permits as Biden’s best option – RAFAEL BERNAL (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers will use work permits to replace their employees who vote for Republicans with illegals who vote for Democrats and RINOs.)
https://thehill.com/latino/4618409-immigration-advocates-asylum-work-permits-bidens-border/

NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S.C. Cancels Its Main Graduation Ceremony, Citing Security Concerns. There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian. – Stephanie Saul
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/us/usc-cancels-graduation-campus-protests.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Colleges change graduation plans as protests spread to more campuses. – Kim Bellware, Jonathan Edwards and Daniel Wu
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/24/commencement-graduation-protests/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/21/trump-promises-oil-drilling-deportations-at-odds/73404663007/

NBC MOBILE
— Hundreds of migrants on trains arrive at El Paso-Juarez border – Julian Resendiz
https://www.wkrg.com/news/hundreds-of-migrants-arrive-on-trains-at-el-paso-juarez-border/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Retire at 65? It’s More Like 62. People are overly optimistic about how much they can work later in life. – Anne Tergesen (COMMENT: I should write a book about being forced to retire early. My Civil Service Retirement System pension and retirement savings are dramatically less because I was forced to retire early.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retire-at-65-its-more-like-62-d5f943c4

VANGUARD
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO employers will hire, retain, and promote only Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/equity-in-business-how-to-ensure-equitable-wealth-distribution/amp/

ATLANTIC
— The Myth of Working Your Way Through College – Svati Kirsten Narula (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents whose parents are/were wealthy. I would focus on those who ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that I worked my way through college, b) that I earned three master’s degrees, c) that I earned six professional certifications, and d) that I earned a professional license.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/the-myth-of-working-your-way-through-college/359735/

MEDIUM
— Unfair Advantages in Life – Sean Kernan (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I have had the following unfair advantages in life: a) my ancestors have been in America since 1844, b) I was born a healthy White male, c) I was first born, d) my mother stayed home and raised me, e) my parents sent me to parochial grade schools, f) I avoided the Vietnam War draft, g) I got married when I was 29 years old, and h) my wife and I did not have children.. In my defense, 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, I have not been able to run since grade school because of a hereditary bone disease, my vision has never been correctable to 20/20, I have partial red/green color blindness, I had to work my way through college, and my father died suddenly when I was 21.)
https://medium.com/mind-cafe/4-unfair-advantages-in-life-that-people-take-for-granted-b214de3c0d3a

CHRISTION SCIENCE MONITOR
— The more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more reparations that Democrats and RINOs will force you to pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid. In my defense, while my ancestors have been in America since 1844, they have always lived in northeast Illinois. Further, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone and they never did. Further, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2024/0425/stolen-wealth-of-slavery-David-Montero-reparations

April 17, 2004

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump hush money criminal trial day 2 adjourns after 7 jurors are chosen; 11 more still needed – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/former-president-donald-trump-returns-to-court-after-first-day-of-his-hush-money-criminal-trial-ended-with-no-jurors-picked/14675030/
— Here’s what we know about first 7 jurors seated in Trump’s hush money criminal trial – Peter Charalambous and Lucien Bruggeman (COMMENT: They all were asked where do they get their news from. Thank you for getting your Illinois government/political news/commentary from GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. What do you say to my critics/opponents who crow that they do not read my newsletters? What do you say to my critics/opponents who discourage everyone from reading my newsletters?)
https://abc7chicago.com/donald-trump-new-york-hush-money-trial-jurors-heres-what-we-know-about-first-7-jurors-seated-in-trumps-nyc-criminal/14676970/
— Historic impeachment articles against Alejandro Mayorkas sent to Senate; Will there be a full trial? – Lauren Peller and Alexandra Hutzler
https://abc7chicago.com/alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-charges-house-speaker-mike-johnson-immigration-laws/14674100/

NBC5
— Naperville schools lock down, residents asked to shelter in place after shooting
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/naperville-schools-lock-down-residents-asked-to-shelter-in-place-after-shooting/3412440/
— As cases surge, volunteer ‘child advocates’ needed in Kane County
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/as-cases-surge-volunteer-child-advocates-needed-in-kane-county/3412424/

CBS2
— Chicago officials want more local organizations to manage city’s 18 migrant shelters – Sabrina Franza
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-migrant-shelter-changes/

FOX32
— Chicago Teachers Union reveals contract demands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTi-53DrdnE
— Chicago students receive college assistance from Chick-fil-A (COMMENT: What college assistance did your receive from your employers? I received none except for a token $100 per course from GAO for the 14 graduate evening financial markets and trading courses that I took at IIT 1992-1997.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-students-college-assistance-chickfila

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump’s hush money criminal trial; 11 more still needed – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/16/trump-hush-money-trial-day-2/
— NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview – AP (COMMENT: To retaliate against me for my complaining about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/16/npr-suspends-editor-who-criticized-his-employer-for-what-he-calls-an-unquestioned-liberal-worldview/
— Oberweis Dairy files for bankruptcy after failing to find a buyer – ROBERT CHANNICK (COMMENT: I should write a book about Republican candidates who ran against Oberweis and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers who blamed me the most and who blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems and for Oberweis’ problems. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those a) who unsuccessfully tried to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) to censure me in 2006, b) who successfully threw me off the ICRC Steering Committee in 2007, c) who ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, and d) who ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Oberweis ran for U.S. Senate in 2002, 2004, and 2014; Illinois Governor in 2006; U.S. Congress in 2008 and 2020; and Illinois Senate in 2012 and 2016.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/15/oberweis-dairy-bankruptcy/
— Oberweis Dairy notifies state of potential layoffs as part of bankruptcy filing. – ROBERT CHANNICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/16/oberweis-dairy-layoffs-bankruptcy/
— Lawsuit alleging rampant racism at Chicago Water Department cleared for trial. – JASON MEISNER (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly discriminated against their few remaining Republican employees, and especially against those like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/16/lawsuit-alleging-rampant-racism-at-chicago-water-department-cleared-for-trial/
— Chicago police problems start with poor hiring and training – Paul Vallas (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, all those who they hired and/or promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. Overwhelmingly, they were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/17/opinion-police-training-dexter-reed-shooting/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CTU seeking most ‘ambitious’ demands ever in new contract, wants bargaining done in public. The current contract expires this summer. On top of raises for staff, the union wants help for unhoused students and more dual-language education. – Sarah Karp
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/04/16/chicago-teachers-union-has-ambitious-goals-for-new-contract
— Oberweis Dairy plans to close plant, lay off 127 workers. The company, known for its ice cream stores and milk packaged in glass bottles, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. – Amy Yee
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/04/16/oberweis-dairy-plans-close-plant-layoff-127-workers
— Antisemitic acts in Illinois and nation at worst levels ever, Anti-Defamation League says – David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2024/04/16/antisemitism-anti-defamation-league
— Many Chicago Public Schools students struggle with illiteracy. The consequences are devastating. – Taal Hasak-Lowy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/04/15/reading-literacy-low-income-chicago-students-illiteracy-high-dosage-tutoring-taal-hasak-lowy-op-ed
— Shooting in Naperville leaves 1 wounded, prompts school lockdowns. Officers responded about 1:30 p.m. in the 2500 block of Leach Drive, where they found one person with a gunshot wound. The assailant fled on foot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/04/16/shooting-in-naperville-leaves-1-wounded-prompts-school-lockdowns

DAILY HERALD
— Oberweis Dairy laying off workers after filing for bankruptcy – Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240416/business/oberweis-dairy-laying-off-workers-after-filing-for-bankruptcy/
— Only 1 in 3 U.S. adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240416/nation-and-world-politics/only-1-in-3-u-s-adults-think-trump-acted-illegally-in-new-york-hush-money-case-ap-norc-poll-shows/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Oberweis Dairy to lay off workers following bankruptcy filing – Corli Jay
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-lay-workers-following-bankruptcy-filing
— How Oberweis Dairy wound up in bankruptcy court
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-bankruptcy-filing-lays-out-companys-troubles

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— New data shows nearly every Illinois county see a decrease in population from 2020-2023 – Claire Grant
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2024/04/15/census-data-illinois-sees-another-drop-in-population-from-2020-2023/73165712007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist – AP
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/biden-visits-his-pennsylvania-hometown-to-call-for-more-taxes-on-the-rich-and-cast/article_52159cbd-7e9c-517b-87ab-33e62ed7e2ba.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats say “Trump looks to weed out jurors over political social media posts.” (COMMENT: They all were asked where do they get their news from. Thank you for getting your Illinois government/political news/commentary from GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. What do you say to my critics/opponents who crow that they do not read my newsletters? What do you say to my critics/opponents who discourage everyone from reading my newsletters?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-looks-to-weed-out-jurors-over-political-social-media-posts/

WQAD
— American public divided on Trump’s political future amidst hush money case
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/national/american-public-divided-on-trumps-political-future-amidst-hush-money-case/526-e3e46d62-dc05-4cf6-81fb-c103375f5c82

FOX ILLINOIS
— Hush money trial the first of several politically charged cases involving Trump – AUSTIN DENEAN
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/hush-money-trial-first-of-several-politically-charged-cases-involving-former-president-donald-trump-gag-order-stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-2024-election

KFVS
— IL House passes banning discrimination based on reproductive health decisions (COMMENT: I should write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who punished me the most because a) my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF, b) we did not adopt, and c) we did not become foster parents.)
https://www.kfvs12.com/2024/04/17/il-house-passes-banning-discrimination-based-reproductive-health-decisions/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/16/how-to-celebrate-4-20-in-chicago-a-cannabis-carnival-dank-deals-and-more/

CWB CHICAGO
— Target’s anti-shoplifting camera program is illegal, attorneys claim, seeking $1K to $5K damages per visit for Illinois customers
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/04/targets-anti-shoplifting-camera-program-is-illegal-attorneys-claim-seeking-1k-to-5k-damages-per-visit-for-illinois-customers.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— National Democratic Party leaders visiting Chicago hammered home a message Tuesday: It’s time to brag about President Joe Biden’s accomplishments. – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: Democrats have had great success promoting poverty, crime, dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/04/17/dems-say-we-should-be-bragging-00152728

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-71/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Democrats on Downers Grove Village Council vote to remove sole Republican library board member, Bill Nienburg
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/657766629-democrats-on-downers-grove-village-council-vote-to-remove-sole-republican-library-board-member-bill-nienburg

JOHN KASS
— Dexter Reed as Media Alchemists Build a Martyr
https://johnkassnews.com/dexter-reed-and-the-media-alchemists/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois legislator pushes to end ‘ageist’ mandatory driving tests for seniors – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_34ebc808-fc40-11ee-9a07-9705cc355d8d.html
— ADL: Chants of ‘death to America’ telegraphs troubling protests ahead of DNC – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e391fbce-fc19-11ee-9275-9393ef143e53.html
— Illinois Senate measure allowing police to address squatters advances – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ad7295f8-fc3c-11ee-9047-93a22ddbe386.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Elections Board Calls for Removal of Personal Voter Information Published by McHenry Times and Other Internet Publications
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/state-elections-board-calls-for-removal-of-personal-voter-information-published-by-mchenry-times-and-other-internet-publications/
— Syverson Bill to Catalogue Job Training Programs Heads to House
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/syverson-bill-to-catelogue-job-training-programs-heads-to-house/
— Pritzker Asks Legislature to “Trust Me” Yet Again
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/pritzker-asks-legislature-to-trust-me-yet-again/
— Mahady v. Reick Financial Stats: $19,300 v. $23,300
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/mahady-v-reick-financial-stats-19300-v-23300/
— NPR Critique Raises Hackles of Whistle Blower’s Bosses
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/npr-critique-raises-hackles-of-whistle-blowers-bosses/
— IL-11: Jerry Evans Reports First Quarter Fundraising Results
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/16/fecq1/
— Pro-Hamas Protests: Florida v. Illinois
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/16/pro-hamas-protests-florida-v-illinois/
— Academic Study Backs McLaughlin Position on Eliminating Grocery Sales Tax Without Reimbursing Municipalities
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/16/academic-study-backs-mclaughlin-position-on-eliminating-grocery-sales-tax-without-reimbursing-municipalities/
–LaHood Reports Big Bucks in Campaign Fund
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/16/lahood-reports-big-bucks-in-campaign-fund/
— Feds Go After Thornton Township Supervisor/Dalton Mayor Patronage Worker in “Ongoing Federal Investigation”
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/16/feds-go-after-thorton-township-supervisor-dalton-mayor-patronage-worker-in-ongoing-federal-investigation/
— Legislators, AARP Roll Out Driving Statistics for Those over 75 Years Old Showing Them More Safe That for Younger Motorists
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/17/legislators-aarp-roll-out-driving-statistics-for-those-over-75-years-old-showing-them-more-safe-that-for-younger-motorists/

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-education-officials-keep-trying-to-hide-their-failures-behind-excuse-of-higher-test-standards-wirepoints/
— Wilmette protects government speech…but not free speech.
https://wirepoints.org/wilmette-protects-government-speech-but-not-free-speech-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Cubs Co-Owner, Former Trump RNC Finance Chair Todd Ricketts Endorses Dr. Eric Wallace for Cook County GOP Chairman (COMMENT: Wallace is challenging incumbent Sean Morrison. Who are the candidates running to serve as the chairman of your Republican county party organization?)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/exclusive-chicago-cubs-co-owner-former-trump-rnc-finance-chair-todd-ricketts-endorses-dr-eric-wallace-for-cook-county-gop-chairman.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS is monitoring 617,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/16/dhs-is-monitoring-617000-illegal-immigrants-with-c/
— Mayorkas feuds with GOP as Senate begins long-delayed impeachment – Ramsey Touchberry and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/16/alejandro-mayorkas-feuds-with-gop-as-senate-begins/

NEW YORK POST
— Anti-Israel protesters are disrupting our way of life and have to stop causing chaos – Paul du Quenoy
https://nypost.com/2024/04/16/opinion/anti-israel-protesters-are-disrupting-our-way-of-life-and-have-to-stop-causing-chaos/

AMAC
— Illegals Instructed To Vote Biden For Border NGO To ‘Stay Open’
https://amac.us/newsline/elections/illegals-instructed-to-vote-biden-for-border-ngo-to-stay-open/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Teachers’ Unions Are More Political than Ever. They still may advocate for teachers, but politicking is now their main focus. – Larry Sand
https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/17/the-teachers-unions-are-more-political-than-ever/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Can Chicago protect the people going to the convention? – Silvio Canto, Jr.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/can_chicago_protect_the_people_going_to_the_convention.html
— The Deep State’s Accelerating Attacks On Trump Show A Consciousness Of Guilt – Ron Wright
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/the_deep_state_s_accelerating_attacks_on_trump_show_a_consciousness_of_guilt.html
— Stormy double standard – Michael Letts
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/stormy_double_standard.html
— Hamas Wants The Land of Israel, But It Also Wants Much More Than That – Sha’i ben-Tekoa
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/hamas_wants_the_land_of_israel_but_it_also_wants_much_more_than_that.html
— Karl Marx Conquers American Medicine – John Dale Dunn, M.D.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/karl_marx_conquers_american_medicine.html

AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Over 1,000 mostly male, military age African migrants flood NYC City Hall to demand better perks – Tom Tillison (COMMENT: What perks did your ancestors get when they immigrated?)
https://americanwirenews.com/over-10000-mostly-male-military-age-african-migrants-flood-nyc-city-hall-to-demand-better-perks/

AMERICAN MILITARY NEWS
— 1,300 illegal immigrants swarm NYC’s City Hall (COMMENT: New York City today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/04/videos-1300-illegal-immigrants-swarm-nycs-city-hall/

BLAZE
— Gov. Whitmer proposes $8M for attorneys for asylum-seeking immigrants, 97% of whom are reportedly in the US illegally – CORTNEY WEIL
https://www.theblaze.com/news/gov-whitmer-proposes-8m-for-attorneys-for-asylum-seeking-immigrants-97-of-whom-are-reportedly-in-the-us-illegally

DAILY SIGNAL
— After Discovery of ‘Vote for Biden’ Flyers in Mexico, Mayorkas Can’t Say How to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting – Fred Lucas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/16/after-discovery-of-vote-for-biden-flyers-in-mexico-mayorkas-cant-say-how-to-stop-illegal-aliens-from-voting/

FOX NEWS
— Dem Chicago alderman warns ‘we are not taking care of our own’ as city approves $70M for migrants. $70M request comes after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s initial $150M allocation for migrant funding. – Stephen Sorace
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-chicago-alderman-warns-we-are-not-taking-care-our-own-city-approves-70m-migrants
— Denver mayor boasts ‘shared sacrifice’ is required to make city ‘welcoming’ for migrants. Denver slashed nearly $46 million from their budget last week to deal with spiraling migrant crisis. – Kristine Parks
https://www.foxnews.com/media/denver-mayor-boasts-shared-sacrifice-required-make-city-welcoming-migrants
— The left is using a tactic that would make Putin proud. Ingraham says liberals only allow one mindset.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/laura-ingraham-left-using-tactic-would-make-putin-proud

MRC TV
— Illegal Aliens Rally Outside NYC City Hall, Demanding Housing & Jobs – BRITTANY M. HUGHES (COMMENT: New York City today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/illegal-aliens-rally-outside-nyc-city-hall-demanding-housing-jobs

NEWSMAX
— Illegals a Net Drain on, Not a Boost for, US Economy – Michael Busler
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/michaelbusler/illegal-migrant-immigrant/2024/04/16/id/1161205/

PJ MEDIA
— NGOs in Mexico Are Encouraging Illegals to Vote for Biden – KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/04/16/flyers-in-mexico-encourage-illegals-to-vote-for-biden-n4928214

POST MILLENNIAL
— California moves to create ‘genealogy office’ to determine who gets reparations. Reparations would be limited to “descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.” – Jarryd Jaeger
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-moves-to-create-geneology-office-to-determine-who-gets-reparations

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Hundreds of African Immigrants Flock to NY City Hall to Complain That Living Conditions Are ‘Not What They Were Expecting’ – Michael Schwarz (COMMENT: New York City today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/hundreds-african-immigrants-flock-ny-city-hall-complain-living-conditions-not-expecting/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— New Migrants Get Work Permits. Other Undocumented Immigrants Want Them, Too. – Miriam Jordan and Lydia DePillis (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will ever-increasingly replace their employees who are citizens of America with illegals.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/migrants-work-permits-undocumented.html

MSN
— Illegal immigration toll on taxpayers hits $150 billion
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/entertainment/news/illegal-immigration-toll-on-taxpayers-hits-150-billion/ar-BB1lIrAT

YAHOO
— Democrat and RINO leaders complain about “The mountain of paperwork to apply for asylum.” I should write about the paperwork that was required for my ancestors to immigrate legally and to become citizens.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mountain-paperwork-apply-asylum-221310542.html

CITY COUNTY OBSERVER
— Republican Assembly of Indiana Southwest Endorses A Slate Of 20 Candidates For Precinct Committeemen (COMMENT: I am in the process of hand-delivering the results of the March 19, 2024 Republican primary election to each of the Republican homes in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton in which at least one voted in the election.) .
https://city-countyobserver.com/rains-endorsement-a-slate-of-20-candidates-for-precinct-committeemen/

WABASH VALLEY
— $1B in medical debt could be wiped for Illinoisans under proposed statewide program – Theodora Koulouvaris (COMMENT: What has helped you avoid medical debt? For me, it has been my always having health insurance. Because always having health insurance has always been a top priority for me, I have taken and kept many bad jobs that my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would never stoop to take.)
https://www.mywabashvalley.com/illinois-capitol-news/1b-in-medical-debt-could-be-wiped-for-illinoisans-under-proposed-statewide-program/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois could see their medical debt eliminated. . .About 100 million people across the country are burdened with medical debt. In Illinois, around 14 percent of the state’s population has medical debt in collections. . .A plan included in the proposed budget aims to tackle those expensive medical bills. For the upcoming fiscal year, the proposed budget would set aside $10 million to get rid of $1 billion in medical debt for nearly 340,000 low income people. It would be part of a four year plan to wipe $4 billion in medical debt for more than one million people in Illinois. . .A program like the one the governor proposed in his budget is already in place in Cook County. They’ve been able to get rid of nearly $350 million in medical debt for about 200,000 people.)

POLITICO
— On Day 2, Trump met some of his jurors. His lawyers met their social media accounts. – ERICA ORDEN
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/16/trump-hush-money-trial-jury-selection-day-two-00152704
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a fitting move for a defendant whose public persona has been crafted in large part by his social media behavior, Trump’s lawyers have mined the depths of prospective jurors’ social media accounts for potential signs of bias in their years-old comments and memes. Several of them were cut on Tuesday after the judge examined their prior posts. Merchan dismissed one man after Trump lawyer Todd Blanche presented a social media post in which the juror wrote, “Good news!! Trump lost his court battle on his unlawful travel ban!!!” along with a suggestion to “lock him up.” In other instances, however, Merchan refused Blanche’s effort to kick off certain prospective jurors, including one whose husband shared a post suggesting that the comic book team “The Avengers” unite against Trump. Though Trump himself said little during the day’s events, he earned himself his first reprimand from Merchan. “Your client was audibly uttering something,” Merchan told Blanche after he had finished questioning a prospective juror. “I won’t tolerate that,” Merchan said. “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom. I want to make that crystal clear.” Merchan instructed Blanche to tell Trump to stop his antics. As Merchan spoke, Trump sat slumped in his seat, as though he were sitting in a lounge chair.)