Tag: officials

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot should seek bankruptcy authority – Richard Porter, Illinois national committeeman, Republican National Committee, Northfield
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-101019-20191009-ahmzcyz2lvfynfnzhv5lnxia4q-story.html
— DuPage referendum question on eliminating recorder’s office could be on March 2020 election ballot – ALICE FABBRE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-dupage-recorder-office-merger-referendum-st-1011-20191009-y4orlapbxjdahmttyktuwq6pd4-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: An Aurora City Council committee Wednesday recommended a zoning change that would allow recreational marijuana sales in the city. – STEVE LORD
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-marijuana-st-1010-20191009-bfqcbzx5mncjbe4i7ffhvr5hpy-story.html
— CPS teachers want an affordable housing provision in their contract. It’s among the new topics starting to land on bargaining tables. – CORILYN SHROPSHIRE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chicago-teachers-union-affordable-housing-collective-bargaining-20191009-724srz35mfbvhhsqcse5krndzy-story.html
— Mayor says teachers holding up contract talks over affordable housing. Union replies: ‘We have nearly 17,000 homeless students.’ – DIANA WALLACE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cps-strike-teachers-union-affordable-housinig-20191009-vcqjqc6t6rgynd3adjyn2jhaxm-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come to America illegally and to illegally stay in America illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-mexico-border-immigrants-catholic-charities-20191009-6e5uy6u345f3lndidhnv3yt3au-story.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTO OF MARTY QUINN: Relentless visits, repeated voicemails and yelling: Inside Madigan ward’s push to keep a college student from running for alderman – RAY LONG and GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-madigan-13th-ward-quinn-election-20191010-6p6bexkfr5htnpbontth2dixeq-story.html
— Naperville council to decide Tuesday if advisory pot referendum question will go to voters – ERIN HEGARTY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-recreational-cannabis-referendum-naperville-st-20191010-elfm7umisfc4ph6fd74nbf3u5y-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— No layoffs or tax hikes in Preckwinkle’s $6.1B county budget — but also no pot revenue or gambling jackpot The proposed budget does find funding for new county employees to work on taxpayer appeals of property assessments and expunging past cannabis convictions. – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2019/10/9/20907295/no-layoffs-tax-hikes-preckwinkles-cook-county-budget-marijuana-gambling

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO OF COVERT: DuPage County Board member Sadia Covert says fellow Democrats are bullying her – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20191009/dupage-county-board-member-says-fellow-democrats-are-bullying-her

WGN TV
— Silence on Sandoval? Illinois lawmaker’s reaction is priceless – BEN BRADLEY
https://wgntv.com/2019/10/08/silence-on-sandoval-illinois-lawmakers-reaction-is-priceless/

WBBM 780
— Hastert Accuser Honored By Children’s Advocacy Group – JIM GUDAS
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/hastert-accuser-honored-childrens-advocacy-group

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Poll shows widespread support for graduated tax – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Who supports graduated tax? ANSWER: Those who pay little or no tax and those who can easily afford to pay more tax.) 
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20191009/poll-shows-widespread-support-for-graduated-tax

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Illinois must do better to serve the powerless – Richard Porter (DIERSEN: How much power do you have? My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout and talk/act like they manipulate/dominate the a) Wheaton Mayor and City Council members, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) Milton Township officers and trustees, d) DuPage County Board Chairman and County Board members, e) federal and Illinois officials who represent or seek to represent any part of Wheaton, f) Milton Township Republican Central Committee officers, g) DuPage County Republican Central Committee officers, h) my representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, i) the IRP officers, j) etc.) 
https://www.pjstar.com/opinion/20191009/richard-porter-illinois-must-do-better-to-serve-powerless

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— DISGUSTING TRAGIC: DeKalb residents ask city to embrace myriad pot businesses Some say city should allow more than just sellers – KELSEY RETTKE
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2019/10/09/dekalb-residents-ask-city-to-embrace-myriad-pot-businesses/ax8l1l4/

WPSD
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Carbondale City Council votes to allow recreational marijuana sales
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/top-videos/carbondale-city-council-votes-to-allow-recreational-marijuana-sales/video_aaaac50e-ea4c-11e9-85ae-6775544180b0.html

KMOX
— Metro East Congressman John Shimkus pulls Trump support after Syria decision “Pull my name off the ‘I support Donald Trump’ list.” – BRIAN KELLY
https://kmox.radio.com/articles/news/trump-loses-metro-east-ally-john-shimkus-over-syria-decision

CHANNEL 3000
— UW reviewing complaint after anti-Trump signs posted on College Republicans office – Jaymes Langrehr 
https://www.channel3000.com/news/uw-reviewing-complaint-after-anti-trump-signs-posted-on-college-republicans-office/1130874949

CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois cannabis group expects only minor changes to state’s recreational cannabis program during veto session – Greg Bishop 
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-cannabis-group-expects-only-minor-changes-to-state-s/article_13961314-eab8-11e9-9b57-23cca7d0d385.html

WEST COOK NEWS
— Oak Park trustee Susan Buchanan: ‘You stop it, you are a white male! Your skin is light enough.’ (DIERSEN: Buchanan and my critics/opponents would applaud my Democrat superiors in the federal government. They used Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, job assignments, up-or-out, pay-for-performance, budget cuts, etc. to get rid of their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.) 
https://westcooknews.com/stories/514469720-oak-park-trustee-susan-buchanan-you-stop-it-you-are-a-white-male-your-skin-is-light-enough
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Oak Park trustee Susan Buchanan berated fellow trustees for speaking on racial equity and oppression during Monday’s board meeting. “You have been white from birth,” Buchanan told fellow trustees Dan Moroney and Deno Andrews. “Why are you arguing what is a system of oppression? You’ve never experienced one, so shut up! I don’t want to hear from you! Just stop Dan, just stop Deno. You are not oppressed and people in Oak Park and we are trying to recognize that as a community.” Buchanan’s comments drew a round of applause from the audience.)

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Privacy in Bathrooms Going, Going, Soon Gone – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/privacy-in-bathrooms-going-going-soon-gone/
— Trans Wreck – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/trans-wreck/

CAPITOL FAX
— Leader Brady wants Sandoval chairmanship yanked
https://capitolfax.com/2019/10/10/leader-brady-wants-sandoval-chairmanship-yanked/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Obamacare for illegal immigrants may cost taxpayers $23 billion a year, study shows – Stephen Dinan 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/10/obamacare-for-illegal-immigrants-may-cost-taxpayer/
— Philippine police arrest over 500 mostly Chinese for fraud – AP
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/10/philippine-police-arrest-over-500-mostly-chinese-w/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— 2020 Democrats health plan for illegal immigrants to cost $23 billion, $4,600 each – Paul Bedard 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/2020-democrats-health-plan-for-illegal-immigrants-to-cost-23-billion-4-600-each

AMERICAN THINKER
— Being ‘Woke’ has a Price – John Leonard
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/where_are_they_now.html
— Democrats turning California into a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition – Tom Trinko
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/democrats_turning_california_into_a_thirdworld_hellhole_going_without_electricity_edition.html

BREITBART
— San Diego City College Labels ‘MAGA’ as ‘Covert White Supremacy’ – ALANA MASTRANGELO
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/09/san-diego-city-college-labels-maga-as-covert-white-supremacy/
— GOP Politicians Draft Farm Sector Amnesty with Democrats – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/10/09/gop-politicians-draft-farm-sector-amnesty-democrats/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— It’s RINO Mitt Romney and the establishment boys vs. Trump – Jeffrey A. Rendall
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/31163-assault-america-day-280-it%E2%80%99s-rino-mitt-romney-and-establishment-boys-vs-trump

DAILY CALLER
— As Long As Libertarians Reject Traditional Institutions, They’re As Doomed As America – NICK HANKOFF (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. I should write a book about Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), Illinois Republican Party (IRP), etc. They do everything that they can to a) stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) stop everyone from reading those emails. They fail/refuse to defend/advance the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, illegal drugs, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the IRP platform and the Republican Party platform. They promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things. Ever-increasingly, they force out of the MTRCC, DCRCC, IRP, etc. those who they cannot manipulate/dominate and those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, White, male, older, gun owners, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) 
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/libertarians-reject-traditional-institutions-doomed-america/

PJ MEDIA
— ‘MAGA’ Slogan Listed on California College’s ‘White Supremacy’ Pyramid – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/trending/maga-slogan-listed-on-california-colleges-white-supremacy-pyramid/
— Meet Kyle Frese: Trump Hater, Federal Employee, Arrested for Leaking National Security Secrets – J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/meet-kyle-frese-trump-hater-federal-employee-arrested-for-leaking-national-security-secrets/

EPOCH TIMES
— Michelle Malkin Follows the Money Behind the Open Borders Movement A well-funded, broad network of individuals and groups is working to erase US borders, author says in her new book – CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON
https://www.theepochtimes.com/michelle-malkin-follows-the-money-behind-the-open-borders-movement_3111394.html

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION
— The American Conservative Union Foundation will be hosting CPAC Atlanta tomorrow and we’d like to invite you to attend. (DIERSEN: When will there be a CPAC Illinois?)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cpac-atlanta-tickets-62938899944

FORDHAM RAM
— College Republicans Talk 2020 Elections – Helen Stevenson (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party’s “Big Tent” policy is destroying the Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), etc. I should write a book about Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs in the MTRCC, DCRCC, IRP, etc. They do everything that they can to a) stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) stop everyone from reading those emails. They fail/refuse to defend/advance the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, illegal drugs, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the IRP platform and the Republican Party platform. They promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things. Ever-increasingly, they force out of the MTRCC, DCRCC, IRP, etc. those who they cannot manipulate/dominate and those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, White, male, older, gun owners, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) 
https://fordhamram.com/71006/news/college-republicans-talk-2020-elections/

THE HILL
— Adam Kinzinger mocks Trump on ISIS: ‘Campaign promise fail’ – MARTY JOHNSON
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/465158-gop-lawmaker-mocks-trump-on-isis-campaign-promise-fail
— Trump feud with Minneapolis mayor to take center stage at rally – BRETT SAMUELS (DIERSEN: If Trump held a rally in your municipality, in your township/ward, or in your county, who would stage a counter-rally?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/465082-trump-feud-with-minneapolis-mayor-to-take-center-stage-at-rally

WASHINGTON POST
— The ‘I’m rubber, you’re glue’ presidency: Trump turns to schoolyard taunts in impeachment battle – Ashley Parker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-im-rubber-youre-glue-presidency-trump-turns-to-schoolyard-taunts-in-impeachment-battle/2019/10/09/a609ba8c-eaab-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html

DALLAS NEWS
— Beto O’Rourke to stage counter-rally during President Donald Trump’s visit to Dallas The evening will be similar to when they held dueling El Paso events in February. – Gromer Jeffers Jr. (DIERSEN: If Trump held a rally in your municipality, in your township/ward, or in your county, who would stage a counter-rally?)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/10/10/beto-orourke-to-stage-counter-rally-during-president-donald-trumps-visit-to-dallas/

MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
— Minneapolis awaits Trump, crowd of protesters downtown Some estimate more than 10,000 people will flood downtown to oppose the president’s visit, with two dozen disparate groups planning to protest. They’ll be met by counterdemonstrators supporting the president. – Andy Mannix and Libor Jany (DIERSEN: If Trump held a rally in your municipality, in your township/ward, or in your county, who would stage a counter-rally?)
http://www.startribune.com/as-trump-arrives-minneapolis-braces-for-impact/562671512/

DESERT NEWS
— Trump supporters outnumbered at anti-impeachment event – Lisa Riley Roche
https://www.deseret.com/2019/10/9/20907085/trump-supporters-outnumbered-at-anti-impeachment-event

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who attended the outstanding Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) meeting Wednesday evening, October 9, 2019, at the Holiday Inn in Carol Stream included Almiron, Corrigan, Falbo, Grant, Holder, Holan, Ives, Kachiroubas, Keller, Kinzler, Larsen, LeVan, McCluskey, McGowen, Molitor, Monino, Nathwani, Tatro, Veenstra, Whelan, and Zay. Many of the aforesaid spoke. Other meeting attendees included Baker, Carlson, Cherry, Cooper, Dangelo, Fitzgerald, Lofgren, McCarthy, Ryan, Shaw, Smith, Slinger, and Tatro. I should poll MTRCC members who do not read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and ask them why they do not read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. I should ask MTRCC members who discourage everyone from reading GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails why they do that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Where pot is sold, it brings down everything and everyone around it. How close is a “Disproportionately Impacted Area” (DIA) to where you live or work? Illinois Democrats want pot shops to open up in DIAs to revitalize those areas. Wheaton is the DuPage County Seat. The Democrats who run the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (IDCEO) have outrageously designated western Wheaton as being a DIA, that is, an area that has high rates of arrest, conviction, and incarceration related to cannabis as well as poverty and unemployment. Needless-to-say, that must be a mistake. While Wheaton has banned the sale of pot, the Democrats who run Illinois may very well vote to allow pot shops in DIAs thereby overriding Wheaton’s ban. I ask the following and everyone else who has an interest in Wheaton to ask the IDCEO to immediately rescind its DIA designation: Wheaton Mayor and City Council members, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township officers and trustees, DuPage County Board Chairman and County Board members, and federal and Illinois officials who represent or seek to represent any part of Wheaton.

According to the IDCEO, it designates a census tract as being a DIA if the area 1) has a poverty rate of at least 20%, 2) has 75% or more of its children participate in the federal free lunch program, 3) has an average unemployment rate that is more than 120% of the national average for a period of at least 2 consecutive calendar years, 4) has at least 20% of its households receive assistance under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or 5) has high rates of arrest, conviction, and incarceration related to the sale, possession, use, cultivation, manufacture, or transport of cannabis.

According to the IDCEO, it designated Census Tract 8426.04 in western Wheaton (https://censusreporter.org/profiles/14000US17043842604-census-tract-842604-dupage-il/  and https://www.chicagocityscape.com/maps/index.php?place=censustract-17043842604) as a DIA because a) according to Illinois Department of Employment Security data, it had an average unemployment rate over the last two calendar years that exceeded the national average over that time period by more than 20% and b) because the per-capita rate of parolees residing in the area who had been imprisoned for cannabis offenses exceeded the cutoff for a high imprisonment rate. According to the IDCEO, “Unemployment rate data is from Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES). Data on parolees is from Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). Per-capita rate is determined using census tract population from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Estimates.” From what I see, one or both of the aforesaid must be a mistake. If Census Tract 8426.04 in western Wheaton as a DIA, than all of Illinois is a DIA.

I have asked the IDCEO to provide me ASAP with the specific sources of the following data concerning Census Tract 8426.04: “According to IDES data, it had an average unemployment rate over the last two calendar years that exceeded the national average over that time period by more than 20%” and “The per-capita rate of parolees residing in the area who had been imprisoned for cannabis offenses exceeded the cutoff for a high imprisonment rate.”

Again, I ask the following and everyone else who has an interest in Wheaton to ask the IDCEO to immediately rescind its DIA designation: Wheaton Mayor and City Council members, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township officers and trustees, DuPage County Board Chairman and County Board members, and federal and Illinois officials who represent or seek to represent any part of Wheaton.

For background on the issue, SEE: https://abc7chicago.com/business/illinois-releases-map-for-social-equity-cannabis-program-applicants/5579443/ and https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/Pages/CannabisEquity.aspx and https://chicagodefender.com/state-of-illinois-releases-disproportionately-impacted-areas-for-cannabisprograms-social-equity-applicants/ and https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/new-illinois-social-equity-map-highlights-areas-hit-hardest-by/article_e455a41a-c3e3-52ba-ac06-9d99c20ace30.html and https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marijuanacannabis/state-issues-long-awaited-applications-new-cannabis-shops and https://kanecountyconnects.com/2019/10/state-announces-next-round-of-marijuana-dispensary-license-applications/ and https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/illinois-officials-post-application-for-cannabis-licenses-release-map-highlighting-areas-hardest-hit-by-war-on-drugs and https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2019-10-07/chicago-wants-public-to-weigh-in-on-legal-marijuana-sales . – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
– Top ten reasons why “leaders” who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican do not encourage anyone to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
– They are Democrats or Democrat plants, Libertarians or Libertarian plants, Greens or Green plants, or RINOs.
– They reject the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, illegal drugs, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform and the Republican Party platform.
– They promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things.
– They focus on forcing out Milton Republican Central Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, IRP, etc. members who they cannot manipulate/dominate and those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, White, male, older, gun owners, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.