April 12, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrats say “2024 Democratic National Convention to be held at United Center, McCormick Place.”
https://abc7chicago.com/dnc-chicago-democratic-national-convention-2024-presidential-election/13113049/

WGN9
–Democrats say “Chicago selected to host 2024 Democratic National Convention.”
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/sources-chicago-selected-to-host-2024-democratic-national-convention/
— Democrats say “DeSantis returning to Illinois in May.” Who did/will speak at your county’s Lincoln Day Dinner?
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/florida-gov-ron-desantis-returning-to-illinois-in-may/
— Democrats seek library pledge against ‘banning’ books.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-seeks-library-pledge-against-banning-books/
— Democrats acknowledge “String of mail carriers robbed at gunpoint in Chicago continues.”
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/string-of-mail-carriers-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-chicago-continues/

WGN RADIO
— Democrats acknowledge that “The US surpasses 140 mass shootings in 2023.” Ever-increasingly, who those are in America are products of Democrat teachers.
https://wgnradio.com/news/the-us-surpasses-140-mass-shootings-in-2023-heres-every-event-mapped/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats ever-increasingly push for more minority teachers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-schools-teachers-representation-minorities-state-funding-20230411-2m4pet3vnvadrdaglgsvpjrfpi-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Think your marijuana case has been wiped off your record? You might want to check— and get some help.” I am 74. I have never used pot and I never will.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/4/11/23679380/think-your-marijuana-case-has-been-wiped-off-your-record-you-might-want-to-check-and-get-some-help
— Democrats ask “Will your next car be electric?” and say “New poll has mixed results.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230411/will-your-next-car-be-electric-new-poll-has-mixed-results
— Democrats say “Pritzker tells Biden: Democratic convention in Chicago will be huge party.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/4/11/23678971/democratic-national-convention-2024-chicago-governor-pritzker-reaction-crime-republican-response

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats push pot in Mundelein.
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20230411/outdoor-concert-with-marijuana-mundelein-weighs-dispensarys-proposal-to-hold-at-least-one
— Democrats push LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230411/buffalo-grove-pride-parade-and-picnic-set-for-june-4-accepting-applications

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats say “Abortion pill still on market despite judge’s ruling to pull it.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/abortion-pill-still-market-despite-judges-ruling
— Democrats say “Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-host-2024-democratic-national-convention-report
— Democrats say “How Chicago won the Democratic National Convention.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/how-chicago-won-democratic-national-convention

SOUTHERN JOURNAL
— ILGOP Statement on DNC Convention in Chicago – Don Tracy
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/ilgop-statement-on-dnc-convention-in-chicago/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrats say “Illinois commission seeks public input on potential statewide reparations program.” Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are reparations. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have not paid the price of AA and DEI like I have.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/04/11/lateststories/illinois-commission-seeks-public-input-on-potential-statewide-reparations-program/

STATELINE
— Democrats say “Illinois attorneys working to expunge old marijuana convictions.” I have never used pot and I never will.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-attorneys-working-to-expunge-old-marijuana-convictions/
— Democrats say “DeSantis to be keynote speaker at Illinois event.” Who did/will speak at your county’s Lincoln Day Dinner?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/florida-gov-desantis-to-be-keynote-speaker-at-illinois-event/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrats say “Lawmakers want review of teacher licensing standards.” (COMMENT: I became a licensed CPA in 1981 when I was 32 years old. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had worked for IRS for more than 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $92,279-$104,583/yr. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had worked for GAO for 1 year. And I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious. None of my Democrat coworkers who were minority, female, and/or younger who they wanted to promote over me had anywhere near as many qualifications. So, to justify their not promoting me, a) they kept me off audits of IRS, b) they gave me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, c) they turned my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me, d) they assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees, and e) they wasted, ignored, dismissed, belittled, demonized, denigrated, and condemned what I had learned earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination, working for IRS, earning a master’s degree in accounting, working for GAO, and passing the CIA examination. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/illinois-bill-calls-review-teacher-licensing-17891623.php
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The test is known as the Teacher Performance Assessment, or “edTPA,” and it is intended to determine whether a prospective teacher has the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective in the classroom. It has been a requirement for teacher licensing in Illinois since 2015.)

SHAW LOCAL
— U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood to host Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis at Lincoln Day Dinner. DeSantis will ‘share his Florida Blueprint,’ LaHood says. – Emily K. Coleman (COMMENT: Who did/will speak at your county’s Lincoln Day Dinner?)
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2023/04/11/us-rep-darin-lahood-to-host-florida-republican-gov-ron-desantis-at-lincoln-day-dinner/

WAND TV
— Democrats say “Illinois among 24 states fighting against Texas mifepristone decision. Democrats ever-increasingly promote abortion.” Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.wandtv.com/community/illinois-among-24-states-fighting-against-texas-mifepristone-decision/article_a947a438-d8b5-11ed-a210-2ff8b0d768d6.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to speak in Peoria in May.” Who did/will speak at your county’s Lincoln Day Dinner?
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/florida-gov-ron-desantis-to-speak-in-peoria-in-may

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote blowback against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-04-11/will-republicans-see-blowback-from-abortion-ruling-expulsion-of-tennessee-lawmakers

WCBU
— Democrats say “DeSantis to speak in Peoria in May.” Who did/will speak at your county’s Lincoln Day Dinner?
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2023-04-11/florida-gov-ron-desantis-to-speak-in-peoria-in-may

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats say “Trump widens lead over DeSantis to 33 points in new survey.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-widens-lead-over-desantis-to-33-points-in-new-survey/

CITIES 92.9
— The Chicago Teachers Union now runs the mayor’s office – Matt Paprocki
https://www.cities929.com/2023/04/11/op-ed-the-chicago-teachers-union-now-runs-the-mayors-office/

DUPAGE COUNTY
— Democrats say “DuPage County Seeks Resident Input on Proposed Precinct Maps.” How do these proposed changes impact your Republican Precinct Committeeman? I have been the Republican Milton Township Precinct 9 Committeeman since 1999. The new proposed precinct map puts me into a new Precinct 19. It has 1,033 registered voters while my current Precinct 9 has 497. The new eastern borders are Warrenville Road, Plamondon Road, and the Chicago Golf Club. The northern border remains Roosevelt Road. The new western borders are Crest Street, Aurora Way, Foothill Drive, and Orchard Road. The new southern borders are Weisbrook Road and Flint Creek Road. The new Precinct 19 a) takes away my voters east of Warrenville Road who were added to my Precinct 9 in 2015, b) gives back the voters west of the Prairie Path who were taken away in 2015, and c) adds voters from the current Precincts 85 (Sarah Stark) and 130 (Elizabeth Tatro). In 2015, I lost the relationships that I had built since 1999 with about 250 voters west of the Prairie Path. With this proposal, I would lose the relationships that I had built since 2015 with about 250 voters east of Warrenville Road.
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/news_detail_T2_R776.php

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s corporate elite have never been willing to take on the system, all they’ve ever done is appease.
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-corporate-elite-have-never-been-willing-to-take-on-the-system-all-theyve-ever-done-is-appease-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Illinois state representative on new marijuana-related bill: ‘I think these searches should be allowed’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/641401250-illinois-state-representative-on-new-marijuana-related-bill-i-think-these-searches-should-be-allowed

KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) on new marijuana-related bill: ‘I have some serious concerns about this’
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/641401748-illinois-state-representative-on-new-marijuana-related-bill-i-have-some-serious-concerns-about-this
— Marter says House Democrats’ bill to prevent banning of books makes Illinois ‘a laughing stock’ – Sam Jackson
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/640473209-marter-says-house-democrats-bill-to-prevent-banning-of-books-makes-illinois-a-laughing-stock

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The One Issue that Cannot Even Be Discussed – John F. Di Leo (COMMENT: How many millions of the many millions in America illegally use their false identifications to vote for Democrats?)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2023/04/opinion-the-one-issue-that-cannot-even-be-discussed.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For it to have been an honest election – for Joe Biden to have really beaten Donald Trump 81 million to 74 million – the national participation number would have had to increase by over 22 million legitimate voters between 2016 and 2020. That’s their claim – that about 158.5 million people voted for president in 2020, even though only about 136.6 million are recorded as having voted in 2016, and 2016 was already a high. There is always a sway of a few million in the total from cycle to cycle. Sometimes it goes down a bit, sometimes it goes up a bit. The prior four presidential elections had seen 122 million, 131 million, 129 million, and then 136 million in 2016. But the total participation necessary for Joe Biden to have gotten 81 million votes in 2020 (when Donald Trump got 74 million) is 158.5 million (once you count the many votes for third parties and write-ins). And that is absolutely, statistically impossible.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden proposes toughest-ever vehicle emissions standards to phase out gas-powered cars, boost EVs – Ramsey Touchberry https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/12/joe-biden-proposes-toughest-ever-vehicle-emissions/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— 9 Reasons Chicago Is the Perfect Site for the 2024 Democratic Convention – Andrew Stiles
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/9-reasons-chicago-is-the-perfect-site-for-the-2024-democratic-convention/
— Democrats To Host Convention in Crime-Ridden Chicago – Ben Wilson
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/democrats-to-host-convention-in-crime-ridden-chicago/
— DeSantis Poised To Pass ‘Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation’ – Claire Sprang (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes either have not personally suffered adverse impacts from illegal immigration or have benefited from cheap labor.)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/desantis-poised-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigration-in-florida/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats pick Chicago over NYC to host 2024 convention. – Samuel Chamberlain
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/chicago-to-host-2024-democratic-national-convention/

AMAC
— We’re Failing Our Boys and Young Men – Jeff Szymanski (COMMENT: In your school district, how far are boys behind girls at each grade level? Why is that? I was born in 1948. If I had been born later, because of my terrible demographics (White, male, Protestant, 100% German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844), and because of Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, that is, because of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, I doubt that would have found the motivation to take college preparatory courses in high school, pass the postal employment examination, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, get an ACT score of 24, work my way through college, pass the Federal Service Entrance examination, earn an MBA, pass the CPA examination, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination, become a licensed CPA, etc.)
https://amac.us/were-failing-our-boys-and-young-men/
(FROM THE ARTICE: Facts. Girls are half a grade level or better above boys in all 50 states. Seven in 10 high school valedictorians are girls. College graduates are soon to be 2:1 women to men. Women with a college degree do not like to marry men without one. Single women are far more likely to own their own home, and they are far less likely to commit suicide. If you’re a young male in America today, particularly one without any higher education or job training, the statistics are increasingly grim. I reside in Central Florida. Retirement communities are numerous but no major colleges within an hour’s drive. Low wage service sector work, construction, and landscaping are the primary options for young men. COVID lockdowns and paying people not to work encouraged sloth nationwide. Some men never went back to gainful employment. There’s a growing population “unemployable” to a company and “unviable” to a partner. An arrest record. Tattoos on the face. A lack of meaningful work history. Too many young men are permanently closing doors to success. Small wonder that crime and drugs fill the void. There’s scarcely a traffic stop in the area where methamphetamine is not found in the vehicle. And the triple homicide by three male teenagers that made headlines last week took place just miles from here. But we’ve heard for decades and continue hearing that men have all the advantages. Who would dare utter that young men are in crisis? Who would further dare take up the cause to do something about it given how The Left might react?)

BREITBART
— Democrats Choose Chicago, America’s Murder Capital, for 2024 Convention – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/11/democrats-choose-chicago-americas-murder-capital-for-2024-convention/
— Biden’s Countdown to End Title 42: Nearly 400K Migrants May Arrive at Southern Border Every Month – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/11/bidens-countdown-to-end-title-42-nearly-400k-migrants-may-arrive-at-southern-border-every-month/

DAILY CALLER
— School District Donated To Gender Clinic That Gives Kids Puberty Blockers, Refers Them For Trans Surgeries – REAGAN REESE AND MEGAN BROCK (COMMENT: How strongly does your school district promote LGBTQ?)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/11/pennsylvania-school-gender-clinic-professional-development/

DAILY WIRE
— 19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It. Will a “Ron Revolution” come to the 19 states that have greater Republican control than Florida? – Luke Rosiak
https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it

FOX NEWS
— Maryland school district rescinds opt-out policy for parents, pushes LGBTQ books as required reading. – Lindsay Kornick (COMMENT: How strongly does your school district promote LGBTQ?)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/maryland-school-district-rescinds-opt-out-policy-parents-pushes-lgbtq-books-required-reading
— California mom confronts school district after 11-year-old changed genders without her knowledge. – Taylor Penley (COMMENT: How strongly does your school district promote LGBTQ?)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-mom-confronts-school-district-11-year-old-changed-genders-knowledge
— What Gavin Newsom’s ‘Make America California’ tour conveniently ignored. California is not the moral compass for the rest of the nation. – Jessica Patterson
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gavin-newsom-make-america-california-tour-conveniently-ignored

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Chicago Announces Potential New ‘Pop-Up Street Crime Hotspot’ for August 2024 – JEFFREY BLEHAR
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chicago-announces-potential-new-pop-up-street-crime-hotspot-for-august-2024/

NTD
— Country Music Television and Budweiser: Forcing Wokeness on Consumers – Beau Davidson
https://www.ntd.com/cmt-and-budweiser-forcing-wokeness-on-consumers_912537.html

NRCC
— IRS ranks to swell by a staggering 45%. IRS says it is about to get a whole lot bigger. (COMMENT: Who do you know who has worked for IRS? I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $92,279-$104,583/year. Who do you know who has audited IRS? I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $109,732-$117,047/year.)
https://www.nrcc.org/2023/04/11/irs-ranks-to-swell-by-a-staggering-45-13/

PATRIOT POST
— Muslims Turning the Tide in the School Culture Wars. Republicans are gaining ground as more Muslims conclude the Democratic Party doesn’t show regard for Islamic values. – BETSY MCCAUGHEY
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/96438-muslims-turning-the-tide-in-the-school-culture-wars-2023-04-12

REASON
— Democrats Choose to Advertise Failures of Single-Party Democratic Rule by Holding the 2024 DNC in Chicago. After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents. – MATT WELCH
https://reason.com/2023/04/11/democrats-choose-to-advertise-failures-of-single-party-democratic-rule-by-holding-the-2024-dnc-in-chicago/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “A Proud City Staggered by the Pandemic Gets Its Chance to Shine. Republicans have cast Chicago as a metropolis of crime and dysfunction, but with the 2024 Democratic convention, Chicagoans are eager to prove them wrong.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/us/politics/chicago-democratic-convention.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Biden to remake U.S. auto industry with toughest emissions limits ever.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/12/biden-auto-emissions-rules-climate/
— How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo – George F. Will
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/12/republican-democrat-poisonous-partisanship/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Louisville, Ky., Gunman Bought AR-15 Rifle Legally Last Week, Police Say. Police chief declines to address possible motive behind shooting that left five dead and eight injured. – Jennifer Calfas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/louisville-ky-gunman-bought-ar-15-rifle-legally-last-week-police-say-11f3477
— A Little Work Never Hurt Anyone—Including Teenagers – Jason L. Riley
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-little-work-never-hurt-anyoneincluding-teenagers-9e8a32d

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrats say “Democrats choose Chicago, a target of years of GOP attacks about crime, for 2024 convention.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-convention-democrats-crime-republicans-2023-4

AUTO CHANNEL
— Top Jobs in the Automotive Industry (COMMENT: My efforts for a career in the automotive industry ended in 1971 when I was 22 years old when Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I accepted that offer. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from IRS.)
https://www.theautochannel.com/news/2022/11/15/1218858-top-jobs-automotive-industry.html

MOPAR INSIDERS
— Mustang Outsells Challenger During Q1 2023 Sales – Robert S. Miller (COMMENT: Yesterday, I traded in my red 2016 Mustang V-6 for a new red 2023 Mustang GT Premium.
https://moparinsiders.com/report-mustang-outsells-challenger-during-q1-2023-sales/

POLITICO
— Democrats say “Biden makes huge push for electric vehicles” and asks “Is America ready?”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/biden-ev-epa-proposal-00091543

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/2023/04/10/impact-college-diversity

EDUCATION WEEK
— Democrats say “Schools Are Confronting Centuries of Racial Injustice” and ask “Will They Offer Reparations?” Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are reparations. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have not paid the price of AA and DEI like I have.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/schools-are-confronting-centuries-of-racial-injustice-will-they-offer-reparations/2023/04

DAILY MAIL
— Walmart shuts four stores in Chicago – halving its footprint in crime-ridden Dem-led city – because they lose ‘tens of millions of dollars a year – and losses are now doubling’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11962047/Walmart-shuts-four-stores-Chicago-halving-footprint-Illinois-city.html

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.