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DUPAGE GOP
— Statewide Candidate Rally. Monday, October 5 at 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Bloomingdale Golf Club, 181 N. Glen Ellyn Road, Bloomingdale
https://dupagegop.com/candidatemeetandgreet/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Illinois Senate race: Republican Don Tracy, a onetime Democrat, makes long-shot bid against Juliana Stratton. DD: Don Tracy’s outstanding campaign literature piece was one of the 14 candidate literature pieces along with the outstanding Milton Township Republican Organization Voter Guide and sample ballot that I hand-delivered last week to the 370 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican voter or one registered Independent voter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/04/illinois-senate-don-tracy/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/illinois-senate-race-republican-don-100000412.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Granted, (Stratton) has more name ID than I do, so far,” Tracy said. “But it’s not that much more.” Such is the political challenge for Tracy, a candidate for a statewide office with a unique background — a onetime Democrat who became chair of the Illinois Republican Party, a position he later left amid party turmoil. Nonetheless, he has taken up the GOP mantle to make a long-shot Senate bid. The 76-year-old attorney and eldest son of the founders of one of the state’s largest family-owned businesses faces Democratic nominee Juliana Stratton, Illinois’ lieutenant governor. While Tracy notes she may not be a household name, Stratton is one of the top officials in the state’s dominant party and No. 2 to billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker, who has long supported her politically and financially. . .Tracy said his own candidacy will help other Illinois Republicans. “We don’t have a strong bench in the Republican Party,” Tracy said in a September interview with the Tribune. “I (was) state party chair. I know the players. And I think this is an opportunity to begin to make it a two-party state again. “I happen to think I’m, for better or for worse, the best-qualified Republican to win that seat.” Long odds, less cash. Tracy faces a two-headed challenge: Pritzker’s vast resources behind Stratton and “the Trump factor,” said Kirk Dillard, a former Republican state senator and former chair of the Regional Transportation Authority. Dillard has known Tracy for decades and ran for governor in 2014 with Tracy’s sister-in-law, Jil Tracy, as his running mate. “For anyone that is scared off by Darren Bailey — and that would especially probably be suburban women — Don Tracy needs to differentiate himself from that, as well as letting people know that he clearly understands the importance of the city of Chicago,” Dillard said. “Having Don Tracy be the standard-bearer of the Republican Party … it should reassure regular traditional establishment Republicans that there is still a place for them in the Republican Party.” Tracy said it was an easy decision to skip the Trump-led GOP midterm convention in Dallas last month, deciding instead to campaign in Illinois and sit down with the Tribune at a downtown Chicago coffee shop to discuss his priorities. “I’m just 100% focused on winning this campaign, and I just didn’t see how going out, going to Dallas was going to be as important as, say, sitting with you or speaking in Evanston tonight, being on Polish radio earlier today or attending the joint meeting of the German American Police Association, Polish American Police Association and Emerald Society last evening, and whatever else I did yesterday,” he said. Still, Tracy repeatedly declined to say whether running alongside Bailey, with Trump leading the national party, made it harder to win over independent Illinois voters. Then there’s money. Tracy is a scion of a large family business, but says he doesn’t have “Pritzker bucks,” a reference to the governor’s status as a billionaire member of one of the wealthiest families in the country. Tracy, who previously lent his campaign $2 million, said early this month he had lent his campaign another $1 million-plus. He didn’t immediately share how much he raised this summer, and the deadline to report fundraising activity is weeks away. Stratton’s campaign said it raised $1.53 million across multiple campaign funds this summer, though it also had not yet formally filed its reports. Tracy raised about $133,000 from April through June and spent more than he brought in, according to federal campaign finance records filed in July. By comparison, Stratton raised more than $1.1 million, and Bailey raised $1.33 million. It’s hard to raise “big money” as a Republican running statewide in Illinois, Tracy said. “In Illinois, money still gravitates to the power. Illinois Republicans have very little power in this state.” Tracy also hasn’t gotten much free media attention. The general election campaign for the U.S. Senate seat representing Illinois has been far quieter than the blockbuster races in competitive states around the nation where control of the Senate hangs in the balance. It hasn’t even generated the same interest seen in the primaries earlier this year, with Democrats so highly favored statewide. Tracy and Stratton are scheduled to appear together just once, on WTTW in late October, according to the campaigns. The Tracy camp blames that on the Democrat’s lack of engagement. Even so, Tracy has continued to appear on TV, including a mid-September Fox 32 interview that he said was supposed to be a debate with Stratton. He is running digital ads pitching himself as someone who can “keep it simple,” while also trying to tie Stratton to socialism. As he introduces himself to more voters in Chicago and the suburbs, he has often stayed in a city condo he bought last fall. Opposing ‘socialism’ and ‘extremes.’ To understand how high Tracy thinks the stakes are, look up at his campaign billboards, like the one looming over the junction of the Dan Ryan and Stevenson expressways. “SOCIALISM DESTROYS LIVES,” it reads. “VOTE DON TRACY FOR US SENATE.” Stratton doesn’t identify as a socialist. But she carved out a lane in the Democratic primary by taking progressive positions, campaigning to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 — positions that helped her stand out in the primary earlier this year. Tracy calls Stratton’s positions radical and is campaigning against “extremes” in energy, business regulation and resistance to immigration enforcement. Also central to his campaign is a call for geographic balance. Illinois, he says, shouldn’t be represented in the Senate by two Cook County Democrats, as it would be if Stratton wins. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat, lives in Hoffman Estates, and Stratton lives in Chicago; Durbin lives in Springfield. “Most of the Democrats in charge of the state and the city are career politicians, or career government workers,” Tracy said. ”They’ve never had to make a payroll like I had to make a payroll. So we need someone from a more conservative basis with a business background to be involved, and I think I’m it.” But to win in heavily blue Illinois, Tracy will need to win over independents and even some Democrats. And in his Tribune interview, he took several stances that seem unlikely to appeal to Democrats, including defending a position he took in a primary campaign appearance on CBS Chicago when asked whether he agreed with Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics. “In sanctuary cities, immigration law enforcement is more of a challenge because of massive resistance,” Tracy said in the CBS interview. “Much like the resistance to civil rights in the South.” Asked whether he was comparing Chicagoans resisting federal immigration enforcement to white Southerners resisting integration during the Civil Rights Movement, Tracy said he was, “in a sense.” “A lot of the elected officials in the South and their supporters were opposed to that federal law, and they were in open defiance of a federal law. And in sanctuary cities, particularly … relative to the enforcement of federal immigration law, have been in open defiance of federal immigration law,” Tracy said. “There’s no civil rights law that says you cannot enforce federal immigration law.” . . . A ‘throwback candidate.’ Tracy is a “throwback candidate,” “as earnest as the day is long” and a contrast to the “professional politicians” on the Democratic side, said Richard Porter, a former Republican National Committeeman and a friend of Tracy’s who considered a run for the seat last year. Porter repeatedly compared him to Jimmy Stewart’s character, Jefferson Smith, in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” a classic 1939 movie about an ordinary, good man appointed to the U.S. Senate. But unlike Mr. Smith, Tracy has no shortcut to Capitol Hill. Because of Tracy’s time leading the party, he could serve as a bridge between Trump-enthusiast Republicans and the rest of the GOP, Dillard said. Several allies emphasized that he’s in the race because of his principles, regardless of the odds. “Don Tracy is a low-key but highly likable gentleman,” Dillard said. “Whatever’s left of the Illinois Republican Party base, he should do pretty well there.”)
— Endorsement: Angel Oakley for US House of Representatives in District 3. DD: Angel Oakley’s outstanding campaign literature piece was one of the 14 candidate literature pieces along with the outstanding Milton Township Republican Organization Voter Guide and sample ballot that I hand-delivered last week to the 370 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican voter or one registered Independent voter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/04/editorial-angel-oakley-for-u-s-house-of-representatives-in-district-3/
(FROM THE ENDORSEMENT: The 3rd Congressional District, which includes much of the Northwest Side of Chicago, parts of suburban Cook County and some suburbs in the eastern part of DuPage County, is represented by Democrat Delia Ramirez, 43, who has served the district since 2023. Ramirez was unopposed in the primary, as was her opponent, former Winfield Village Trustee Angel Oakley, 50, who describes herself as “a conservative moderate who leads with American values, love, and compassion — seeking to bring people together around common-sense solutions.” We have had our issues with Ramirez, most notably when it comes to her slow condemnation of Hamas and when she said last year in Mexico City that she was “a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,” hardly ideal rhetoric for a U.S.-born member of Congress who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. In an editorial at the time, we argued that Ramirez’s words “crossed the line between honoring heritage and undermining public trust,” although she did later attempt to walk them back. We’d also note that Ramirez, on the left flank of the Democratic Party, has worked hard to serve her district. She describes herself as “a staunch advocate of housing as a human right, healthcare for all, climate justice, and the fight to preserve and protect our democracy.” Oakley, though, does not occupy the right flank of her party; we think she would be a moderate very much in the political center. “Every dollar Congress spends should be tracked, audited, and posted online so taxpayers can see where it goes,” she told us, arguing that we should “get money out of politics so decisions are made for constituents, not donors.” She also said the U.S. should “back true free markets with real competition, so big companies can’t rig the game and small businesses can grow.” Agreed. “When government spends wisely and markets are fair,” she told us, “prices can come down and paychecks can go further.” We also appreciated her bipartisan approach: “I believe there are major issues where Americans across the political spectrum should be able to find common ground,” she told us. “The health and well-being of our children is one of them. Regardless of party, we should all want our kids to have access to healthy food and to grow up with clean air, clean water, and healthy soil. Those are not Republican values or Democratic values — they are fundamental to the health and future of our communities.” We differ with her on her support for Donald Trump’s tariffs, though, although she did say her support was nuanced. Elsewhere, in conversation, she outlined several other departures from Trumpian rhetoric and Republican orthodoxy with which we agree, and that should appeal to independents (and there are many) in this district. In conversation, Oakley told us that she meets initial resistance when she says the word “Republican,”  especially in the city, but said she has managed to change several minds when she describes her independence. She also said that her extensive international experience in the corporate sector compensates for any lack of national political experience. With limited campaign funds compared to Ramirez, Oakley has a very tough path to victory. But she has our support. Angel Oakley is endorsed.)
— DD: Democrat leaders create problems and then blame those problems on Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/03/midterms-ap-norc-party-poll/
— Gaming giant Bally doesn’t like video betting odds. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/28/charles-selle-column-video-gaming/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Social media influencers may soon be required to disclose campaign ties. DD: No one pays me for what I do as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor. All the money I spend to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/10/03/social-media-influence-disclose-political-campaign-curtis-tarver-rich-miller

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Demonstrators protest how Wheaton College hid sex abuse allegations.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261003/crime/this-is-enough-demonstrators-protest-how-wheaton-college-hid-sex-abuse-allegations/

ROCKFORD NEWS FIRST
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness.
https://www.rockfordnewsfirst.com/2026/10/03/five-years-what-home-illinois-plan-reveals-about-state-homelessness/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Bailey meets with supporters during DeKalb visit.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2026-10-03/supporters-meet-with-darren-bailey-during-dekalb-visit

WQAD & VIDETTE & EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, there will be more and more and more people in need. Fewer and fewer and fewer people will become productive members of society.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/outreach/pay-it-forward/quad-cities-woman-runs-free-store-for-people-in-need-pay-it-forward-clothes/526-984471f6-2f83-4a1c-905f-6f59f6a98219
https://www.videtteonline.com/news/million-meal-pack-produces-large-turnout-for-students-looking-to-help-community/article_caf40bf6-c048-472c-8738-7ce001c80ae3.html
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/mapo-concert-maryville-il-22453904.php

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Last week, to get out the vote for Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton ( https://electionresults.dupagecounty.gov/election/PrecinctMaps/map50059.pdf ), I walked to the front doors of 370 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter and delivered 370 DuPage County GOP-provided envelopes using 660 DuPage County Election Division-provided mailing labels that contained a) the outstanding Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO)-provided Voter Guide, b) the sample ballot ( https://electionresults.dupageco.org/election/ballots/2026/General/Milton%20059-0316-NP.PDF ), and c) campaign pieces from the 14 of the 18 Republican candidates on that ballot who provided MTRO with their campaign pieces. Those 370 envelopes contained 5,920 pieces: 5,180 campaign pieces (14X370), 370 Voter Guides, and 370 sample ballots. About 200 of those households were Republican and about 170 of those households were Independent. The 18 candidates on the ballot in my precinct are: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JOIHN KASS
— The “Christian” West and War in the Middle East.
https://johnkassnews.com/the-christian-west-and-war-in-the-middle-east/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Four Edison Middle School students overdosed on marijuana gummies in one day, prompting 911 calls. Sources say the students ate marijuana gummies; the school confirms four emergencies but not the cause. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/four-edison-middle-school-students-overdosed-on-marijuana-gummies-in-one-day-prompting-911-calls
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pritzker’s cannabis push, and critics’ warnings about children. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has made cannabis legalization a cornerstone of his administration. He signed the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act in June 2019, making Illinois the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older. Sales began Jan. 1, 2020. Pritzker and the General Assembly have continued to back the state’s legal cannabis market, where edibles such as gummies are sold to adults. The Illinois Family Institute has been one of the most prominent critics of that push. The group has argued that legalization leads to aggressive commercialization that harms children and young adults, and it has pointed to the risks of high-potency marijuana and increased youth addiction. IFI has also criticized Pritzker for treating legalization as a way to raise state revenue, arguing that funding state programs “on the backs of our kids” is an unethical trade-off. It says the normalization of drug use damages neighborhoods and worsens substance abuse. Other groups have focused on accidental ingestion by young children. Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a national anti-legalization group led by former White House drug policy adviser Kevin Sabet, says poison control calls in Illinois for children 5 and under rose from 37 in 2019 to 244 in 2023. The group also says hospitalizations of children for THC exposure in Cook County rose from three in 2017 to 124 in 2021. It blames edibles and high-potency products sold through the legal market.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump files speedy appeal after Biden judge rules Congress can’t ban noncitizens from voting.  DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/oct/2/trump-files-speedy-appeal-biden-judge-rules-congress-cant-ban/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Socialists want to abolish landlords. Good luck finding an apartment. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4744591/rent-control-housing-supply-market-competition/
— DD: To get more votes from non-Republicans, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that they will use socialism to take money and everything else away from Republicans and give it to non-Republicans. To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4753196/voter-back-democrat-economy-affordability-poll/

NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani’s definition of socialism sounds like state-controlled ‘totalitarianism.’
https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/us-news/mamdanis-definition-of-socialism-sounds-like-state-controlled-totalitarianism-critics/

1819
— Far-left protesters target Trump, capitalism outside Mobile rally. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://1819news.com/news/item/their-time-is-coming-to-an-end-far-left-protesters-target-trump-capitalism-outside-mobile-rally

AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke hospitals finally pulling back on transing kids. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been making children LGBTQers in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/woke-hospitals-finally-pulling-back-on-transing-kids/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ICE isn’t backing down from sanctuary cities – and definitely shouldn’t.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/10/03/ice-isnt-backing-down-from-sanctuary-cities-and-definitely-shouldnt-1661688/

BREITBART
— Trump Sending Nearly $100 to More than 20 Million Seniors on Medicare to Offset Healthcare Costs.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2026/10/03/trump-sending-nearly-100-more-than-20-million-seniors-medicare-offset-healthcare-costs/amp/

FEDERALIST
— Difference Between Dems And DSA Is Honesty About Their Socialism.  DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism. What are you honest about? I state that I am a conservative Republican and that I promote conservative principles and the Republican Party platform.
https://thefederalist.com/videos/hemingway-dems-problem-is-they-cant-be-normal-for-five-minutes/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Left Conveniently Forgets Who Writes Immigration Law.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/10/the-left-conveniently-forgets-who-writes-immigration-law/

NEW AMERICAN
— Illegal Border Crossings at Lowest Level in Nearly 60 Years, but a New Migrant Caravan Approaches.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/illegal-border-crossings-at-lowest-level-in-nearly-60-years-but-a-new-migrant-caravan-approaches/

PJ MEDIA
— Republicans Must Rethink Their Socialism Strategy Before It’s Too Late. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/10/03/republicans-must-rethink-their-socialism-strategy-before-its-too-late-n4957932
— How Socialism Kills American Homebuying Dream. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism. One could argue that working for Democrats is like working for socialists. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. Democrats could argue that my working for those Democrats enabled me to buy new cars when I was 19 in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc., buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972, buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, get married and buy a home in Wheaton in 1978, etc. But to do the aforesaid, I worked private sector jobs 1964-1966 and 1970-1972, I earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970, I earned an MBA in 1976, etc.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/10/03/scott-turner-gives-the-data-on-how-socialism-kills-american-homebuying-dream-n4957928

TOWNHALL
— Liberal reporters don’t get it and never will: if you’re here illegally, you go. You’re subject to deportation, and that’s what we voted for in 2024. There was an election, you guys. Your side lost; we won. Deal with it.
https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/10/03/watch-tom-homan-schooled-a-cbs-news-reporter-on-immigration-enforcement-with-another-killer-line-n2684059

WESTERN JOURNAL
— There Are No Socialists, Just DSA Communists Who Won’t Say the Word.
https://www.westernjournal.com/no-socialists-just-dsa-communists-wont-say-word/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— The GOP’s Dry Spell. Young Repub­lic­ans are giv­ing up alco­hol at twice the national rate—the shift could reshape the party’s future. DD: Virtually all my old White male Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors were big drinkers. They had no use for me because I have never been a drinker. Further, they were big on spectator sports and gambling which I never have been.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/newsweek/20260828/281522232923803

CBS NEWS
— Judge says federal law banning noncitizen voting is unconstitutional. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-federal-law-banning-noncitizen-voting-unconstitutional/
— Judge blocks Trump’s firing of top federal prosecutor in Seattle and restores him as U.S. attorney. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, federal courts ruled that my GAO superiors could fire me, that is, they could force me to retire, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-trump-firing-top-federal-prosecutor-seattle-roger-rogoff/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in isolating Chief Justice Roberts. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that Republicans will be ever-increasingly isolated, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/politics/supreme-court-roberts-maine.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/opinion/sittenfeld-marriage-nyt-175.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/opinion/zohran-mamdani-united-nations.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Chronic absenteeism plagues our schools and society.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/09/01/chronic-absenteeism-crisis-solutions/

BOSTON HERALD
— White House launches website on the real cost of socialism. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/10/04/pols-politics-white-house-launches-website-on-the-real-cost-of-socialism/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— When Blue States Chase Away Their Billionaires. Don’t politicians understand that the money leaves, too?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/when-blue-states-chase-away-their-billionaires-d7a65d7b

BARRON’S
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the more money that you have, the more that you unfairly benefitted from capitalism.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/capitalism-is-out-of-style-both-parties-are-to-blame-6fae44d3

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
— 5 Reasons Why You Need a College Degree for Career Advancement. DD: My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msudenver.edu/do-you-need-a-college-degree-for-career-advancement-here-are-5-reasons-you-do/

POLITICO
— DD: For Democrats and RINOs, Trump and Bailey are the November 3, 2026 boogeymen.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/03/gop-midterm-boogeyman-biden-democratic-socialism-01105904

SHRM
— College Degree Requirements Hinder Black Workers’ Earnings, Career Advancement. Qualified Black job-seekers less likely than white applicants to have degrees. DD: My Democrat GAO superior during my last 8 years at GAO 1990-1997 wanted/demanded that her subordinates have a master’s degree in finance. Because of that, I started taking one graduate evening finance course at a time at IIT and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. But in 1997, she flushed me down her toilet. She forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had no degree in finance, who had one job-related professional certification while I had six, had no job-related professional license like the one I had, and had far less work experience than I had. She would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/benefits-compensation/college-degree-requirements-hinder-black-workers-earnings-career-advancement

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SPECTATOR
— Get ready to flee socialist America. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://spectator.com/article/get-ready-flee-socialist-america-peter-thiel/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thiel, who is a friend of mine, foresees parallels between the dynamics of right-wing populism and left-wing socialism. Just as Trump unseated the Bush family establishment in the Republican party in 2016, so too Zohran Mamdani and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez might evict the Clinton-Obama center left in 2028.)

EDUCATION NEWS
— Merit or seniority? Teachers question TSC promotion scoring. DD: All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://educationnews.co.ke/merit-or-seniority-teachers-question-tsc-promotion-scoring/