April 18 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— A 2-year, $35 million witch hunt ends
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/

ABC7
— Robert Mueller’s Russia report released: Key takeaways from redacted version – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/key-takeaways-from-robert-muellers-russia-report/5258519/
— Military academies begin to follow military transgender ban in 2020
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/military-academies-begin-to-follow-military-transgender-ban/5258423/

NBC5
— Trump Tried to Thwart Mueller Probe, Redacted Report Says Mueller reported that Trump had been agitated at the special counsel probe from its earliest days, reacting to Mueller’s appointment by saying it was the “end of his presidency”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Mueller-Report-Release-Justice-Department-508591271.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Mueller report confirms Russians ‘compromised’ Illinois State Board of Elections – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/mueller-report-special-counsel-russia-hacking-illinois-state-board-elections/
— By his own logic, Sanders should apologize for becoming a millionaire – Mona Charen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/mona-charen-bernie-sanders-millionaire-one-percent/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— President Trump tried to seize control of Russia probe, oust Mueller, report says – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-robert-mueller-report-redacted-russia-collusion-20190418-story.html
— Mueller report’s release brings clash of words among Dems, GOP – Mike Nolan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-southland-mueller-report-st-0419-story.html
— Suburban representatives: Mueller report won’t be brushed aside – Emily K. Coleman and Linda Girardi
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-suburban-congress-mueller-react-st-0419-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— New CEO slated for tollway Jose R. Alvarez comes from Chicago Housing Authority – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: What does Alvarez know about tollways? GAO audits IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, I brought with me almost 9 years of IRS Collection Division experience, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $82,579-$93,592/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors wasted that experience a) by never assigning me to audits of IRS’s Collection Division and b) by assigning me to audits of IRS for only 3 (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. During those almost 18 years, none of those who were assigned to audits had worked for IRS. Overwhelmingly, those assigned to audits of IRS were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Many, if not most of them did not want the assignments.) 
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190418/new-ceo-slated-for-tollway-comes-from-chicago-housing-authority
— McHenry County Board authorizes $15 million property tax rebate – Madhu Krishnamurthy
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190418/mchenry-county-board-authorizes-15-million-property-tax-rebate

WGN RADIO
— The John Williams NewsClick: The Illinois exodus, explained
https://wgnradio.com/2019/04/18/the-john-williams-newsclick-the-illinois-exodus-explained/

HERALD & REVIEW
— ‘Transparency?’ Depends on which Central Illinois lawmaker is talking about Mueller report – JOHN REIDY 
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/transparency-depends-on-which-central-illinois-lawmaker-is-talking-about/article_2a8e2407-4f38-5452-8b6b-0751f75ee108.html

CHICAGO READER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Disgusting pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/weed-whacked-decriminalization-cannabis-convictions/Content

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— Edgar County Watchdogs insist Bolingbrook Village Clerk hired herself as assistant – W.J. Kennedy 
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/512442373-edgar-county-watchdogs-insist-bolingbrook-village-clerk-hired-herself-as-assistant

COLLEGE OF DUPAGE COURIER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Someone who promotes LGBTQ activity and mass/illegal immigration blasts Ives.
https://codcourier.org/11379/opinion/what-does-cod-gain-from-jeanne-ives-divisive-discrimination/

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Can a governor legally campaign for a ballot initiative? – Cole Lauterbach 
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/can-a-governor-legally-campaign-for-a-ballot-initiative/article_491b25a6-6219-11e9-a65a-4bb1a10b468b.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 86 ILLINOIS COUNTIES SEE POPULATION LOSS IN 2018 – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/86-illinois-counties-see-population-loss-in-2018/

CAPITOL FAX
— Have you ever consumed cannabis? (DIERSEN: NO! I have never used an illegal drug and I never will. To use pot illegally is to shout your disrespect for the rule of law. Because pot harms your body, to use pot is to disrespect your body. To use pot is to put yourself on track to be a ward of the state.) 
https://capitolfax.com/2019/04/18/question-of-the-day-2861/
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://capitolfax.com/2019/04/18/step-one-is-ending-prohibition-undoing-the-harm-of-the-war-on-drugs-and-then-there-will-be-revenue/
— “Prosecutorial discretion”
https://capitolfax.com/2019/04/18/prosecutorial-discretion/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Mayor Pete and the Coming Apart of Christian America – PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/mayor-pete-and-the-coming-apart-of-christian-america/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait – Monica Showalter (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs will forever do everything that they can to put citizens of foreign countries ahead of citizens of America.) 
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/another_line_they_cut_into_illegals_get_free_public_housing_as_impoverished_americans_wait.html

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— REPARATIONS AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF SLAVERY A vile political stunt. – Bruce Thornton
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273445/reparations-and-weaponization-slavery-bruce-thornton

DAILY CALLER
— REPORTERS LASH OUT AFTER WHITE HOUSE PLAYS ‘EDELWEISS’ – Mary Margaret Olohan (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, to harm me, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate that I was 100% German national origin. In my defense, I stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, 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://dailycaller.com/2019/04/18/reporters-white-house-edelweiss/

NEWSMAX
— Pause All Immigration Into the US Until There’s Policy Reform – Michael Dorstewitz (DIERSEN: What percent of a) legal immigrants and b) illegal immigrants are White men? I expect the percentages are very small. Ever-increasingly, America shouts at foreign countries that America gives tremendous preference to those who are minority and/or female, that is, that it discriminates against those who are White and/or male.)
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/immigration-border-trump-policy/2019/04/18/id/912323/

GOPUSA
— Elizabeth Warren: ‘Fearless leader’ AOC, army of ‘millions’ are ‘just getting started’
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=68197

BREITBART
— Google Leftists Panic About Leaks, Threaten Employment of Colleagues – ALLUM BOKHARI (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs are nasty. I should write a book about my “colleagues” in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, GAO, IRS, Post Office, etc. who have worked the hardest against me.) 
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/18/exclusive-google-leftists-panic-about-leaks-threaten-employment-of-colleagues/

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Black immigrant punched in head in Maryland for wearing MAGA hat – Calvin Freiburger (DIERSEN: What would the Trump-haters in your neighborhood, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois do to you if you wore a MAGA hat? I suggest that anyone who wears a MAGA hat should also wear a body camera.) 
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/immigrant-assaulted-in-maryland-for-wearing-maga-hat

EPOCH TIMES
— Officials: Over 1,800 Illegal Aliens Arrested at El Paso Sector in One Day – JANITA KAN
https://www.theepochtimes.com/officials-over-1800-illegal-aliens-arrested-at-el-paso-sector-in-one-day_2885986.html

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Mexico’s migrant issues expose Trump’s faulty border logic.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/439379-mexicos-migrant-issues-expose-trumps-faulty-border-logic
— GAO: The talent management problem plaguing effective federal government management – JASON BRIEFEL
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/439505-the-talent-management-problem-plaguing-effective-government

NEW YORK TIMES
— Two New Tent Cities Will Be Built in Texas to Hold Migrants – Manny Fernandez
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/mcaleenan-migrants-border-texas.html
— ‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’ – Mallory Pickett (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors gave their employees who were Democrat, minority, and/or female tremendous preference in terms of job assignments, promotions, etc. even though none of their employees who were Democrat, minority, and/or female had complained about political affiliation discrimination, race discrimination, or gender discrimination.) 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/magazine/salk-institute-discrimination-science.html

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, ILLEGAL, UNACCEPTABLE: San Antonio City Council Stands By Decision To Keep Chick-Fil-A Out Of Airport The council voted to not bring up the issue again, thus the restaurant remains banned. – BRIAN KIRKPATRICK
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2019/04/18/329850/san-antonio-city-council-stands-by-decision-to-keep-chick-fil-a-out-of-airport/

MARKET WATCH
— FEBRUARY 23, 2019 FLASHBACK: Here’s one ranking of the 25 most overpaid CEOs in the S&P 500 – Chris Matthews (DIERSEN: Are/were you overpaid? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned me as being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-one-ranking-of-the-25-most-overpaid-ceos-in-the-sp-500-2019-02-22

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Many See 9/11 As A Fading Memory (DIERSEN: I have flown an American flag at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton each and every day since September 11, 2001 and I will do that for the rest of my life.) 
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2019/many_see_9_11_as_a_fading_memory
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasing, those who promote LGBTQ activity, their operatives, and their dupes discriminate against those who do not promote LGBTQ activity. 
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2019/most_would_vote_for_gay_president_not_so_sure_others_would

VANITY FAIR
— KIM JONG UN TO TRUMP: IF YOU WANT TO TALK, DITCH MIKE POMPEO – ERIC LUTZ (DIERSEN: Who wants those above you to ditch you? I should write a book about those who a) want the Milton Township Republican Central Committee officers to ditch me even further, b) wanted the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter officers and directors to ditch me, and c) wanted my GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors to ditch me. Those who want me to be ditched a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.) 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/kim-jong-un-to-trump-if-you-want-to-talk-ditch-mike-pompeo

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.