February 14 Evening Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— More choices for U.S. House: Ives, Bansal, Rezin, Miller
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-us-house2-quigley-ives-davis-londrigan-rezin-20200214-hssynnayavdw7k3m3jfhblk6um-story.html
— OUTSTANDING: Trump administration to deploy elite Border Patrol agents to sanctuary cities, including Chicago and New York – CAITLIN DICKERSON AND ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-elite-border-patrol-agents-sanctuary-cities-20200214-6ky533y57rd4lojo73p725i6me-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Disgusting, Tragic: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-biz-legal-weed-addison-rolling-meadows-20200214-esbbzitaize2xoufaz4hvtqyza-story.html
— Attorney General William Barr’s declaration of independence from Trump – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-barr-trump-stone-mccabe-20200214-xwazrnlup5bzln4kiu2ymonv5q-story.html
— A man with a revoked gun license killed his 18-month-old son in Joliet. Here’s how he and thousands of others slipped through the system. – STACY ST. CLAIR, CECILIA REYES, ANNIE SWEENEY and SARAH FREISHTAT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-foid-revocations-henry-pratt-shooting-illinois-gun-laws-20200213-scqbb6tlencwdkv3r4p2ygrxde-story.html
— Amazon plan for Old Chicago site uncertain after longtime Bolingbrook mayor objects. Will e-commerce giant wait him out? – Ryan Ori
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ryan-ori/ct-biz-amazon-warehouse-bolingbrook-mayor-ryan-ori-20200214-gs46mw4qkzhizjzojtz7xu77di-story.html
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls on well-heeled City Club of Chicago audience to help fight poverty: ‘We the people must solve it’ – Gregory Pratt (DIERSEN: The Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms promote poverty and crime.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-chicago-poverty-city-club-20200215-wttabmphffhcjcpk24ezlvvada-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Running for Cook County judge (but not so anyone would know it) The practice of putting up sham candidates, running not to win but to confuse voters to benefit the Democratic Party’s pick, goes back decades in Cook County politics. – John Seasly
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/14/21137832/maureen-oleary-bonnie-mcgrath-cook-county-judge-democratic-party
— Madigan, Pritzker, Burke spent over $3M in campaign money on lawyers last year, and they’re not alone Illinois politicians paid $5.3 million in legal fees out of their political funds in 2019 for reasons including criminal investigations and litigation, records show. – Robert Herguth, Tim Novak, and Lauren FitzPatrick
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/14/21136609/madigan-pritzker-burke-campaign-funds-legal-bills
— ENDORSEMENT: Pat O’Brien for state’s attorney in Cook County Republican primary O’Brien’s long resume and insider’s understanding of the office would make him a credible challenger to Kim Foxx even if Jussie Smollett had never set foot in our town.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/14/21128477/endorsement-patrick-obrien-cook-county-states-attorney-2020-republican-primary-election

DAILY HERALD
— McHenry Township votes to become a gun sanctuary – Nabiha Asim
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200214/mchenry-township-votes-to-become-a-gun-sanctuary
— Jeffrey Mack: Candidate profile
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200214/jeffrey-mack-candidate-profile
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Disgusting, Tragic: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200214/recreational-pot-licenses-granted-to-addison-rolling-meadows-shops
— Democratic candidates say they will work with others on DuPage County Board – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200214/democratic-candidates-say-they-will-work-with-others-on-county-board-
— Kane County candidates differ on bridge toll plan, future pot dispensaries – Harry Hitzeman
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200214/kane-county-candidates-differ-on-bridge-toll-plan-future-pot-dispensaries

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— New IRS migration numbers confirm flight of Illinois’ wealthy The governor says his “fair tax” is getting a great reception. Tell that to the Illinoisans leaving for Florida, Indiana, Texas and Wisconsin. – MARK GLENNON
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/new-irs-migration-numbers-confirm-flight-illinois-wealthy

ABC7
— Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot looks to housing programs in effort to wipe out poverty – Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/mayor-lightfoot-lays-out-plan-to-end-poverty-in-chicago/5932199/

CBS2
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Disgusting, Tragic: Pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/02/14/two-more-same-site-dispensaries-approved-for-chicago-suburbs/

WTTW
— 2020 Voter Guide to the Primary Election
https://news.wttw.com/elections/voters-guide/2020

CENTER SQUARE
— Analysis details how Illinois Republicans lost ground in Illinois – Cole Lauterbach (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. Ever-increasingly, Illinois Republican Party (IRP) leaders fail/refuse to defend/advance the IRP platform and the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they fail/refuse to defend/advance the traditional family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Most commonly, they fail/refuse to oppose the promotion of LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun control, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for complaining about the aforesaid. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/analysis-details-how-illinois-republicans-lost-ground-in-illinois/article_eb389b50-4e83-11ea-919c-235ecf9c7ef7.html

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— New filing: Assertion that Pritzker was never told of racial discrimination in his campaign organization ‘provably false’ – Scott Holland
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/525075415-new-filing-assertion-that-pritzker-was-never-told-of-racial-discrimination-in-his-campaign-organization-provably-false

GLEN ELLYN LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
— Candidate Forum: Republican Candidates for Illinois 6th Congressional District
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wrh10qIw6w&feature=youtu.be

CAPITOL FAX
— Despite ISP’s post-Aurora shooting efforts, “revoked FOID cardholders who have not accounted for their guns rose 14 percent”
https://capitolfax.com/2020/02/14/despite-isps-post-aurora-shooting-efforts-revoked-foid-cardholders-who-have-not-accounted-for-their-guns-rose-14-percent/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How would you react to paid political advertisements on GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and on www.gopillinois.com ?
https://capitolfax.com/2020/02/14/mike-invests-in-black-american-futures/

AMERICAN THINKER
— It was Obama, not Trump, who weaponized government against political opponents – Jack Hellner
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/it_was_obama_not_trump_who_weaponized_government_against_political_opponents.html

BREITBART
— Investors’ Report Admits Florida E-Verify Prods Employers to Raise Wages – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/02/14/investors-report-admits-florida-e-verify-prods-employers-to-raise-wages/

TOWNHALL
— The Coronavirus and Open Borders – John P. Warren
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnpwarren/2020/02/14/the-coronavirus-and-open-borders-n2561341

FEDERALIST
— Media Will Never Understand The Country So Long As They Keep Hating Trump Voters The mainstream media will spend a lot of effort this year reporting on Trump voters, but very little effort trying to understand or empathize with them. – John Daniel Davidson (DIERSEN: The mainstream media is overwhelmingly anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/14/media-will-never-understand-the-country-so-long-as-they-keep-hating-trump-voters/

PJ MEDIA
— Washington’s War on ‘Sanctuary States’ Intensifies – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/trending/washingtons-war-on-sanctuary-states-intensifies/
— Media Is Complicit in Leftist Violence Against Trump Supporters – STEPHEN KRUISER
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/the-morning-briefing-media-is-complicit-in-leftist-violence-against-trump-supporters/

CANADA FREE PRESS
— Trump Demands Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities – Matthew Vadum
https://canadafreepress.com/article/trump-demands-justice-for-victims-of-sanctuary-cities

HILLSDALE COLLEGIAN
— Disinviting Romney from CPAC sows division among Republicans, Conservatives – Quin Colhour
http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2020/02/disinviting-romney-from-cpac-sows-division-among-republicans-conservatives/

THE HILL
— Support for government accountability shouldn’t be a casualty of impeachment drama – NILMINI RUBIN AND ZACH GRAVES (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the Democrats who have run GAO since 1980. I would focus on how they wasted my GAO career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. I would focus on how they used Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, up-or-out, budgeting, work assignment policies, performance expectation setting policies, performance appraisal policies, promotion policies, etc. to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800) by age 40. Extremely few GAO employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/483147-support-for-government-accountability-shouldnt-be-a-casualty-of-impeachment
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) usually works hard to avoid political controversy. But the agency’s recent legal decision vaulted the nonpartisan agency into the center of impeachment politics. The GAO asserted that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated the law when it withheld millions in funding from the Department of Defense that Congress appropriated for security aid authorized by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). In the wake of the GAO’s legal decision, conservatives should resist the temptation to dismiss the GAO as another creature of the swamp. In fact, Congress’s watchdog is one of taxpayers’ best tools for holding a dysfunctional government accountable while addressing the nation’s long-term governance challenges.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities Agents from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers on the border are being sent to sanctuary cities across the country. – Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs (DIERSEN: Because of this, will the Democrats who run Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois officially declare war on America?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bucks Barr’s request to stop tweeting about Justice Dept., declaring a ‘legal right’ to seek intervention in criminal cases – Matt Zapotosky and John Wagner (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that if my claims had merit, Republicans George Bush, Dennis Hastert, Peter Fitzgerald, and Henry Hyde would have intervened in Diersen v. GAO. GAO works for Congress. The Democrats who ran GAO wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. My critics/opponents stress a) that Bush was President while my lawsuit against GAO was pending, b) that Fitzgerald, was my U.S. Senator while the lawsuit was pending, c) that Bush and Fitzgerald appointed the judge in the lawsuit and the attorney who represented GAO, d) that Hastert was the Speaker of the House while the lawsuit was pending, and e) that Hyde was my U.S. Representative while the lawsuit was pending. My critics/opponents ignore Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois and use the aforesaid to hint/imply/argue/shout that because Republican elected officials did not come to my defense, a) that my claims had no merit and b) that GAO wasted my career and got rid of me because I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. In my defense, I stress that Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde did little or nothing a) to defend or advance the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform or b) to show that they opposed patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, or retaliation.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-appears-to-escalate-standoff-with-attorney-general-and-justice-dept-declaring-on-twitter-a-legal-right-to-influence-criminal-cases/2020/02/14/8c152c36-4f2f-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html
— Roger Stone asks for new trial in sealed motion, one day after Trump accused jury forewoman of bias – Spencer S. Hsu and John Wagner (DIERSEN: What percent of the jury pool in Chicago is anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/roger-stone-asks-for-new-trial-in-sealed-motion-one-day-after-trump-accused-jury-forewoman-of-bias/2020/02/14/1e36e412-4f65-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Bloomberg Edges Ahead in Democratic Presidential Race
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/bloomberg_edges_ahead_in_democratic_presidential_race

WINDY CITY TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How soon, if not already, will your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, and America officially banish all residents, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that do not promote LGBTQ activity?
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/March-7-fundraiser-set-for-Elgins-first-Pride-Parade-and-Festival/67955.html

LGBTQ NATION
— Donald Trump says he’d vote for a gay candidate like Pete Buttigieg – Alex Bollinger (DIERSEN: Of course, those who promote LGBTQ activity in my precinct, in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, in Illinois, in America, and in the world are overjoyed about this. They will use this to get rid of once and for all those who do not promote LGBTQ activity in my precinct, in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, in Illinois, in America, and in the world.)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/02/donald-trump-says-hed-vote-gay-candidate-like-pete-buttigieg/

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. View all posts by David Diersen