— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use Asian-Americans to promote hatred against Trump. https://abc7chicago.com/politics/senate-passes-asian-american-hate-crime-bill-94-1/10537838/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: “These unprovoked, random attacks and incidents are happening in supermarkets, on our streets, in takeout restaurants — basically, wherever we are,” said Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, the legislation’s lead sponsor. She said the attacks are “a predictable and foreseeable consequence” of racist and inflammatory language that has been used against Asians during the pandemic, including slurs used by former President Donald Trump.)
BLAZE — Biden used ‘cheat sheet’ during first press conference; Fox News host Chris Wallace knocks president for ‘reading talking points’ ‘Biden appears to be calling on reporters from a prepared list,’ one White House reporter said – PAUL SACCA https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-press-conference-cheat-sheet
DAILY SIGNAL — Violence Is Out of Control in Portland. Maybe Defunding Police Wasn’t Such a Great Idea. – Jarrett Stepman (DIERSEN: If/when rioters attack your municipality this summer, which buildings, neighborhoods, precincts, etc. will they take over and destroy?) https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/03/17/violence-is-out-of-control-in-portland-maybe-defunding-police-wasnt-such-a-great-idea/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: The city of Portland, Oregon, is a mess. This week, the city witnessed a telling, if predictable, incident. Police had removed a fence erected around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse because it became a “symbol of divide” between law enforcement and the community, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Rioters then descended on the federal courthouse and vandalized it.)
CAPITOL FAX — Kinzinger’s “show of political strength” knocked by Democrats https://capitolfax.com/2021/03/22/kinzingers-show-of-political-strength-knocked-by-democrats/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: From Kristina Zahorik, President of the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association…“Let us not forget that Adam Kinzinger is a tried and true Republican who voted with Donald Trump more than 90% of the time and repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. And now, Adam Kinzinger is teaming up with Karl Rove, one of the architects of the war in Iraq, who helped elect George W. Bush — someone who, after Trump, is one of the worst Presidents in modern history — and to this day still defends the Bush administration’s use of torture.” “Adam Kinzinger is attempting to rebrand his image so people will forget how extreme his voting record is. But even while Adam Kinzinger is now throwing Donald Trump under the bus, he continues to align him himself with some of the worst members of his party. We can acknowledge Kinzinger for standing up and impeaching Trump, but we can’t forget who he has always been — an extreme Republican.” Karl Rove has a history of incorrigible behavior and practices, including just last year his use of racially loaded language when he attacked President Obama for speaking at a historically black college and, in Rove’s words, committing a “political drive-by shooting.”) — 1,220 new confirmed and probable cases; 22 additional deaths; 1,182 hospitalized; 233 in ICU; 2.6 percent average case positivity rate; 2.9 percent average test positivity rate; 92,148 average daily doses https://capitolfax.com/2021/03/22/1220-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-22-additional-deaths-1182-hospitalized-233-in-icu-26-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-29-percent-average-test-positivity-rate-92148-average-daily-doses/
ABC7 — Former House Speaker Madigan cannot be penalized for employing ‘shady strategy that voters tolerate,’ court says. Jason Gonzales contended in a lawsuit that Madigan planted sham candidates on the ballot to ensure he would defeat Gonzales’ challenge in the 2016 Democratic primary. – AP (DIERSEN: I should write a book about Republican primaries in Illinois since 2000 in which the non-conservative candidate won because candidates who claimed to be conservative split the conservative vote.) https://abc7chicago.com/politics/madigan-cannot-be-penalized-for-employing-shady-strategy-that-voters-tolerate-court/10399603/
WASHINGTON TIMES — Trump’s pitch for campaign donors sparks wariness among GOP officials – Dave Boyer (DIERSEN: I should write a book about major donors who have given money to Republican and conservative organizations and candidates in Illinois since 2000. I would focus on those who seem to have demanded that the organizations and candidates a) stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) stop everyone from reading those newsletters.) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/9/trumps-pitch-campaign-donors-sparks-wariness-among/ — Biden’s America back open for lawlessness on the border Children! Women! Families! Step right up and meet your local coyote – Charles Hurt https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/8/joe-bidens-america-back-open-for-lawlessness-on-th/
NPR — ‘No More Money For RINOS’: How Trump’s Fight With The GOP Is All About Control – Domenico Montanaro (DIERSEN: I should write a book about major donors who have given money to Republican and conservative organizations and candidates in Illinois since 2000. I would focus on those who seem to have demanded that the organizations and candidates a) stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) stop everyone from reading those newsletters.) https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975341543/no-more-money-for-rinos-how-trumps-fight-with-the-gop-is-all-about-control
LEGAL INSURRECTION — Coca-Cola Forcing Employees To Take Online Course To Learn “To Be Less White”(DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want those who are the following to hate themselves: law enforcement officers, veterans, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/02/report-coca-cola-forcing-employees-to-take-online-course-to-learn-to-be-less-white/ (FROM THE ARTICLE: Coca-Cola Company is barreling full-steam ahead in the hopes of being crowned the most wokest woke company of uber-woke 2021. Last month, Professor Jacobson wrote about “Coca-Cola Impos[ing] Racial Quotas On Outside Counsel Staffing. This month, we learn that Coca-Cola is forcing its employees to attend a divisive, destructive online course designed to make them hate themselves because of the color of their skin. Making white people hate themselves for the color of their skin is, of course, the goal of all this ridiculous, flagrantly racist ‘anti-racist’ training’ that has taken over our universities, our government, and our major (and not so major) businesses and corporations. And Coca-Cola is apparently fully onboard with dehumanizing their staff, with instilling in them a sense of self-hatred and a paranoid, judgmental loathing of their entire race. What says stellar employee more than a suicidal, soul-destroyed, self- and race-hater who is required to be “less white”? This is a monstrous evil inflicted on people who have done nothing wrong, who are good employees, and who have committed no crime . . . beyond the new ‘crime’ of being born white. Being white is bad, so be “less white,” goes the hate yourself racist orthodoxy, and implicit in this, is the unspoken, but deeply understood, threat: if you want to keep your job. This is a genuinely evil ideology, and people are outraged. . .Tearing people down, filling them with self-doubt and self-hate, is now how you build an “inclusive workplace,” according to Coca-Cola. Targeting white people for reeducation about their ‘whiteness’ is vile, racist, and unconscionable. That said, it is—objectively speaking—a great way to manufacture a compliant and complacent populace. If you hate yourself and your entire race, you are not going to fight back. Why would you? You have learned that you are evil because of your skin color, you have been taught to recognize your evil as manifested in your skin color, and you have been coerced into shouting your evil whiteness from the rooftops. You then feel that you deserve whatever horrors the left unleashes on you because, after all, you were born white. Who needs reeducation camps when the job is being done in our K-12 schools, universities, cultural output, government, and businesses? Reject it. Reject it because it flies in the face of your religious beliefs, because it does not comport with your understanding of America, because it does not make sense to hate yourself for something beyond your control, because it is unjust. Reject it because it is destructive, divisive, and at rock bottom, purely evil.)
WASHINGTON POST — Last year was good for LGBTQ rights. Congress can make this one even better. – Editorial (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the following officially get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ: a) your employer if you have a job, b) the organizations that you are a member of, c) the municipality that you live in, d) the township that you live in, e) the county that you live in, f) the state that you live in, g) the United States, and h) the world?) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pass-equality-act-2021-lgbtq-rights/2021/02/19/c35f9e9c-72f1-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html
BEIDELMAN KUNSCH — OBITUARY: Elizabeth Martinez https://www.beidelmankunschfh.com/obituaries/Elizabeth-Martinez?obId=19134535 (FROM THE OBITUARY: A visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 9, from 10 am until 12 pm at the Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory, 516 S. Washington St., Naperville. A graveside service will immediately follow at the Naperville Cemetery.)
DAILY MAIL — Teachers in San Diego are forced to attend ‘white privilege’ training where they are told they’re racist and asked to commit to becoming ‘anti-racist’ activists. Training is mandatory for all teachers within San Diego Unified School District. The teachers are reportedly asked to discuss how they would feel if they are called racist and asked to acknowledge that they meet on land stolen. Teachers are also reportedly asked to commit to becoming ‘anti-racist’ activists. (DIERSEN: Are you White? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, you will be forced to attend “White Privilege” training. Will you attend? Will you accept being called a racist? Will you become an “anti-racist” activist and help White-haters get rid of Whites once and for all?) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9023881/Teachers-San-Diego-forced-attend-white-privilege-training.html
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS — Ex-ComEd CEO, Madigan associates indicted In addition to former utility chief Anne Pramaggiore, defendants in the federal bribery case include former ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain and former City Club President Jay Doherty. – STEVE DANIELS https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/ex-comed-ceo-madigan-associates-indicted
NEW YORK TIMES — New York City to Close Public Schools Again as Virus Cases Rise In a big setback for the city’s recovery, the schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, said the nation’s largest district would return to all-remote learning. – Eliza Shapiro https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/nyregion/nyc-schools-covid.html
DAILY HERALD — Officials: Vote-by-mail volumes could ‘significantly’ change results over next 2 weeks – Lauren Rohr https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201103/officials-vote-by-mail-volumes-could-significantly-change-results-over-next-2-weeks (FROM THE ARTICLE: Though it’s uncertain how many of those outstanding ballots will actually be cast, Elections Board officials say many will likely roll in over the next two weeks, potentially flipping the outcome of some tight races. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received by Nov. 17 to be counted in final tallies. Election officials reported 177,118 outstanding mail-in ballots in suburban Cook County, 50,504 in DuPage, 10,917 in Kane, 59,118 in Lake, 18,306 in McHenry and 22,229 in Will. Those numbers represent 10.8% of total registered voters in suburban Cook County, 7.9% in DuPage, 3.4% in Kane, 12.1% in Lake, 7.8% in McHenry and 4.8% in Will.) — Elections Board warns that races could be undecided for days – JERRY NOWICKI https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201103/elections-board-warns-that-races-could-be-undecided-for-days
CAPITOL FAX — *** LIVE *** Results and coverage open thread https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/03/reults-and-coverage-open-thread/ — FROM THE ARTICLE: This afternoon at a polling place in Wheaton, Sean Casten doubled down on his total disdain for anyone who disagrees with him. In a conversation with voters, Casten states, “If I win by less than ten, that says that 45% of the district is racist homophobes.” Listen to the audio here. Ives campaign spokeswoman, Kathleen Murphy: “Sean Casten doesn’t care to understand your disagreements with him. He just thinks you are a low-life if you don’t think like he does. “This isn’t how we come back together. It isn’t who the Sixth District is. But it is who Sean Casten is. And we are confident that voters are rejecting his toxic, divisive candidacy as we speak.” https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/03/election-day-oddities-and-ends/ — 6,516 new cases, 68 additional deaths, 3,594 hospitalized, 755 in ICU, 8.2 percent case positivity rate, 9.9 percent test positivity rate https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/03/6516-new-cases-68-additional-deaths-3594-hospitalized-755-in-icu-82-percent-case-positivity-rate-99-percent-test-positivity-rate/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — Trump At Last Targets The Google Whale Whatever happens on election day Tuesday, the announcement of U.S. v. Google last month might go down as the bigger moment in history. – CURT MILLS (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents are overjoyed that Google continues to refuse to treat www.gopillinois.com as being a news website.) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-at-last-targets-the-google-whale/ — Joe Biden Is Not The Candidate To Confront Economic Inequality – PETER VAN BUREN (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, if you are a Republican and you have more money, it is because you benefitted from your parents’, your grandparents’, your great grandparents’, and the rest of your ancestors’ discrimination against minorities and against females.) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/joe-biden-is-not-the-candidate-to-confront-economic-inequality/
FOX NEWS CHICAGO — Jeanne Ives talks 6th congressional district race one week out from the election Jeanne Ives, candidate for U.S. Representative 6th District, talks about how the race is going just days out from the election. https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/864608
