January 29, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 14 shot, 2 fatally in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police/14366972/

FOX32
— Illinois election officials to weigh recommendation to remove Trump’s name from March primary ballot – AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-officials-to-weigh-recommendation-to-remove-trumps-name-from-march-primary-ballot
— Pro-Palestine protest held in downtown Chicago calls for ceasefire
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1402168

WBEZ
— Trump’s candidacy on the Illinois ballot should be decided by the courts, an elections board hearing officer says. The hearing officer, a retired Republican judge, wrote a scathing assessment of Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection, but said the courts ultimately should decide. The full elections board will consider the matter Tuesday. – Dave McKinney
https://www.wbez.org/stories/trumps-candidacy-on-the-illinois-ballot-should-be-decided-by-the-courts-hearing-officer-says/e9af3a79-7e96-4429-8bf0-282833888bb2

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Advocates champion job permits for immigrant workers who report labor abuse but worry about program’s future. – Laura Rodríguez Presa (COMMENT: Employers want illegals because employers want cheap labor.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-federal-dale-work-permits-undocumented-20240129-376spq237naxjo6nx52uevmwqe-story.html
— Illinois election officials to weigh recommendation to remove Trump from March primary ballot – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-aud-nw-election-2024-illinois-trump-20240128-ttqmvyygibeathbi3ymskufsny-story.html
— Reap the benefits of going dry during January (or any time of year) – Laura Washington (COMMENT: Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are/were big drinkers. I should write a book about them.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-column-dry-january-movement-washington-20240129-prro5e5lwbdsrbytg4xudenyja-story.html
— International Holocaust Remembrance Day (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always stressed to my many Jewish Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, 100% German American, Crete resident 1948-1972, and Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed 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://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-white-supremacism-holocaust-rememberance-day-skokie-20240129-pyhomvx7rzdsrpofshloww3jdy-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump’s candidacy on the Illinois ballot should be decided by the courts, an elections board hearing officer says. The hearing officer, a retired Republican judge, wrote a scathing assessment of Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection but said the courts ultimately should decide. The full elections board will consider the matter Tuesday. – Dave McKinney
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/1/28/24053465/trump-candidacy-illinois-ballot-elections-board-hearing-officer
— Students supporting Palestinian rights say they lost out on jobs, were targeted online for their activism. – Mary Norkol
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/28/24011297/students-palestinian-careers-activism-jobs-israel-hamas-war-loyola-depaul

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/cannabis-companies-partner-chicago-restaurants-food-brands

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Election season is here: Races to watch in Kane and DuPage counties
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2024/01/29/election-season-is-here-races-to-watch-in-kane-and-dupage-counties/

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Migrant population swells to 34,000 as mayor seeks new strategy – Erick Johnson (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Chicago Democrats will ever-increasingly send their illegals to your county, to your township, to your municipality, and to your school district.)
https://chicagocrusader.com/migrant-population-swells-to-34000-as-mayor-seeks-new-strategy/

CITIZEN
— Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://auburnpub.com/partners/cnn/for-migrants-in-chicago-who-want-to-legally-stay-and-work-a-complicated-legal-process/video_3798e2b3-4425-55ea-a44b-17af8e74e1e2.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Oklahoma Republicans censure James Lankford over effort to push bipartisan border deal – JACKSON SINNENBERG
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/oklahoma-republicans-censure-james-lankford-over-effort-to-push-bipartisan-border-deal-gop-ukraine-israel-national-security-emergency-powers-asylum-parole-illegal-crossing-homeland-security-president-joe-biden-donald-trump

WREX
— Rockford for Palestine demonstration at Chicago Rockford International Airport
https://www.wrex.com/video/rockford-for-palestine-demonstration-at-chicago-rockford-international-airport/video_4c7e6110-ca47-5b54-882d-1c0b5a1fcd11.html

WFIN
— Biden only cares about border because it has now become a ‘political liability’: Rep Tom Emmer
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/biden-only-cares-about-border-because-it-has-now-become-a-political-liability-rep-tom-emmer/

CENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICS
— TRUMP INFLUENCE LOOMS LARGE IN ILLINOIS GOP PRIMARY – Derrick Blakley
https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/trump-influence-looms-large-in-illinois-gop-primary

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/01/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-221/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— CTU Calls for Federal Funding for More Bilingual Teachers, Services for Migrant Students
https://wirepoints.org/ctu-calls-for-federal-funding-for-more-bilingual-teachers-services-for-migrant-students-wttw-chicago/

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Who made the biggest political contributions in Illinois during week ending Dec. 16?
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/653905170-who-made-the-biggest-political-contributions-in-illinois-during-week-ending-dec-16

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Illinois 11 Congressional Candidate Susan Hathaway-Altman Wins McHenry County GOPAC Straw Poll (COMMENT: I should write a book about the many straw polls that I conducted at Milton Township Republican Organization and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois fundraisers. I would focus on those candidates who lost those straw polls. I would focus on those losing candidates who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their losses. I would focus on those losing candidates who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/illinois-11-congressional-candidate-susan-hathaway-altman-wins-mchenry-county-gopac-straw-poll/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Nikki Haley: RNC ‘clearly not’ honest broker in primary amid pressure to drop out – Ramsey Touchberry (COMMENT: At least since 2000, the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have not been honest brokers in many primaries. I should write a book about that. I would focus on those elections in which their preferred candidates won primaries but lost general elections and then blamed their losses on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on the 2002 gubernatorial election.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/28/nikki-haley-rnc-clearly-not-honest-broker-in-prima/
— Mayorkas impeachment: GOP unveils articles accusing DHS secretary of lying, undermining laws. Republicans say Supreme Court has given green light for Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment. – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/28/mayorkas-impeachment-gop-unveils-articles-accusing/
— Sen. James Lankford, lead Republican negotiator on border deal, censured by home state GOP – Ramsey Touchberry
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/28/sen-james-lankford-lead-republican-negotiator-on-b/
— Antisemitism and Anti-Westernism: It’s all the same thing. Some were taught to hate Israel and loathe the West. – Everett Piper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/28/antisemitism-and-anti-westernism-its-all-same-thin/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker the pot pusher – Editorial
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2816143/pritzker-the-pot-pusher/
— House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on two articles – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2820710/house-republicans-to-impeach-homeland-security-secretary-mayorkas-on-two-articles/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Lankford.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2822779/sen-lankford-hits-back-at-republicans-over-border-deal-criticism/
— Iowa school starts arming its employees to deter school shootings – Christopher Tremoglie
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2822819/iowa-school-starts-arming-its-employees-to-deter-school-shootings/

NEW YORK POST
— Biden now doing what he does best — weaseling out of the blame for US border crisis – Miranda Devine
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/opinion/joe-biden-now-doing-what-he-does-best-weaseling-out-of-the-blame-for-us-border-crisis/
— Biden’s war with Abbott threatens a constitutional crisis — but Abbott holds the high ground – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/opinion/joe-bidens-war-with-texas-greg-abbott-threatens-a-constitutional-crisis/
— Reparations are the new affirmative action — and even more racist and divisive – Wai Wah Chin (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have used Affirmative Action and DEI against me the most.)
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/opinion/reparations-are-the-new-affirmative-action-and-even-more-racist-and-divisive/
— House unveils articles of impeachment against DHS chief Mayorkas as migrant surge rages on: ‘Utterly unfit’ – Steven Nelson and Ryan King
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/news/house-unveils-articles-of-impeachment-against-mayorkas/

AMAC
— Biden Is Losing—Will The GOP Have The Courage To Win? – David P. Deavel
https://amac.us/newsline/society/biden-is-losing-will-the-gop-have-the-courage-to-win/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Will Win. The fundamentals simply do not favor Biden. – Peter Van Buren
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-will-win/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DeSantis exposes Senate border deal as a ‘farce,’ says Biden ‘wants to let people in’ – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/01/28/desantis-exposes-senate-border-deal-as-a-farce-says-biden-wants-to-let-people-in-1431709/
— Biden gets hard checked by Elon Musk after blaming border crisis on Congress – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/01/28/biden-gets-hard-checked-by-elon-musk-after-blaming-border-crisis-on-congress-1431692/
— American Airlines ‘hard landing’ sends 6 to hospital, social media points to ’embedded’ DEI policy. – Vivek Saxena (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats DEI hires who had a) less work experience than I had, b) less education than I had, c) fewer or no professional certifications than I had, and/or d) no professional license. Virtually all of them were minorities and/or females. It is called patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/01/28/american-airlines-hard-landing-sends-6-to-hospital-social-media-points-to-embedded-dei-policy-1431747/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a tweet posted recently, she claimed the pilot was a DEI hire who’d “failed multiple trainings” but been hired anyway because he or she had checked the right identity boxes. “Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?” St. Clair wrote in her tweets. “Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training? Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?” she added.

BLAZE
— House Republicans unveil articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: ‘Threatens our national security’ – PAUL SACCA
https://www.theblaze.com/news/articles-impeachment-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas

BREITBART
— At Least 14 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/01/28/at-least-14-shot-friday-into-sunday-morning-in-mayor-brandon-johnsons-chicago/
— Oklahoma Republican Party Ends ‘All Support’ for Sen. James Lankford over Senate Deal to Expand Immigration – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/28/oklahoma-republican-party-ends-all-support-sen-james-lankford-senate-deal-expand-immigration/

DAILY CALLER
— VA Hospital To Ramp Up Sex Change Surgeries, Double Down On Gender Ideology – MICAELA BURROW AND MEGAN BROCK
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/28/exclusive-docs-reveal-va-hospitals-plan-ramp-up-sex-change-surgeries-double-down-gender-ideology/

DAILY WIRE
— Taylor Swift May Destroy President Trump – Michael Knowles
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1414-taylor-swift-may-destroy-president-trump
— House Panel Releases 2 Articles Of Impeachment Against Mayorkas – Daniel Chaitin
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-releases-2-articles-of-impeachment-against-mayorkas

FOX NEWS
— Chicago parks, schools and clinics being overrun by migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-uSh-JkuGU

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— UN handing out $1.6 BILLION through NGOs, helps give debit cards to illegal immigrants – Pat Droney
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/the-un-laundering-us-taxpayer-money-is-funding-our-demise-the-invasion-at-the-southern-border

NEWSMAX
— Borders ‘More Vulnerable’ Than Before 9/11 – Mark Morgan
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/mark-morgan-ronald-vitiello-border/2024/01/28/id/1151292/

POST MILLENNIAL
— House GOP file impeachment articles against Biden’s DHS sec over border invasion. More than 6 million illegal immigrants have invaded the United States since President Biden took over the White House. – Katie Daviscourt
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-house-gop-file-impeachment-articles-against-bidens-dhs-sec-over-border-invasion

TOWNHALL
— Woke Advertising: First Advertising Wanted to Sell, Then to Entertain, Now It Wants to Indoctrinate – Rainer Zitelmann (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, advertisers promote those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestor have not been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/rainerzitelmann/2024/01/29/woke-advertising-first-advertising-wanted-to-sell-then-to-entertain-now-it-wants-to-indoctrinate-n2634224

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Haley: Congress has become ‘most privileged nursing home’ in US – MIRANDA NAZZARO (COMMENT: What do Haley supporters think of you? What do they think of those who share your demographics?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4434722-haley-congress-has-become-most-privileged-nursing-home-in-us/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Republicans see an opportunity with Black voters, prompting mobilization in Biden campaign – Matt Brown (COMMENT: Ever since the Civil War, Democrats have always shouted at Blacks that Republicans caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.)
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-black-voters-election-trump-biden-5cdcb6cdf042ccf2b506becdaf2fc218

CBS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders are on the verge of striking a deal that would increase illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-deal-biden-senate-us-mexico-border-bill/

NEW YORK TIMES
— As Buses of Migrants Arrive in Chicago Suburbs, Residents Debate the Role of Their Towns. In recent weeks, buses have been bypassing the city for its smaller outlying communities, where people are unaccustomed to the flow of newcomers. – Julie Bosman (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect ever-increasing pressure on suburbs from Democrat and RINO leaders to provide illegals with housing, food, clothing, medical care, transportation, education, etc.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/as-buses-of-migrants-arrive-in-chicago-suburbs-residents-debate-the-role-of-their-towns.html
— Haley’s Dilemma: How to Diminish Trump Without Alienating Republican Voters – Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine Ulloa (COMMENT: What do Haley supporters think of you? What do they think of those who share your demographics?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/politics/haley-trump-2024-interview-insecure.html
— The News About the News Business Is Getting Grimmer. Mass layoffs, closures and reader fatigue are afflicting news organizations as Americans prepare for a consequential election year. – Michael M. Grynbaum, John Koblin, Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson (COMMENT: I should write a book about how the following treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: Daily Herald, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain’s Chicago Business, Naperville Sun, Suburban Life, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, etc.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/media-industry-layoffs-decline.html
— Haley ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump. What do Haley supporters think of you? What do they think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/politics/haley-trump-meet-the-press.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Lankford.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/28/border-bill-trump-lankford/
— Efforts to memorialize lynching victims divide American communities – Rachel Hatzipanagos
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/29/lynching-memorials-victims-jason-aldean-courthouse/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/01/28/bad-faith-negotiations-no-immigration-restriction-is-enough-for-trump-gop/

USA TODAY
— While Trump was President, he did more to defend and advance the Republican Party platform than either Bush.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/01/29/trump-republican-party-conservative-2024-election/72351317007/
— A record number of Americans are choosing to work part time. Here’s why. – Paul Davidson (COMMENT: My working part-time pumping gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights 1971-1972 while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1971 and in Harvey in 1972 helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new town home in University Park in 1972.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/25/part-time-jobs-hit-record-high/72331112007/
— International Holocaust Remembrance Day (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always stressed to my many Jewish Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, 100% German American, Crete resident 1948-1972, and Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed 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://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/27/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-commemorated-across-nation/72378932007/

WALL STREET JOUNAL
— Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs ever-increasingly a) replace voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) use those voters to screw Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-our-democracy-became-undemocratic-trump-progressives-self-rule-technocracy-07962a1d
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push EVs on everyone.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-vehicle-chargers-subsidies-treasury-department-joe-manchin-5a7c1512
— In its February 1978 4-page article on me, Money Magazine hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I had money a) because IRS had grossly overpaid me, b) because I avoided the draft, and c) because I had benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/savings/loud-budgeting-2024-spending-b80632ba
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-negotiators-biden-push-for-border-deal-as-trump-takes-aim-ef1a7c27

FORBES
— Haley Rails Against ‘Political Establishment’ Supporting Trump (COMMENT: In Illinois the Republican establishment despises if not hates Trump and his supporters.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOs-bROWjw
— Nikki Haley Castigates Trump’s Behavior At South Carolina Campaign Rally (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Haley. In your precinct, in your municipality, in your township, and in your county, what precent will vote for Haley and what percent will vote for Trump?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYaS0-4GHow

NATION
— Trump says he feels mentally sharp after Haley attacks his age, gaffes
https://www.nation.com.pk/29-Jan-2024/trump-says-he-feels-mentally-sharp-after-haley-attacks-his-age-gaffes

CRIMSON
— Harvard Admissions Should Be More Meritocratic – Steven A. Pinker (COMMENT: Democrat leaders and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lower standards to advance more Democrats and more RINOs who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/

DAILY MAIL
— Ain’t got no diploma! Navy lowers education requirements for enlistment no longer requiring high school graduation as military struggles with recruiting amid woke policy push. The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. The US also entered 2024 with its smallest military in more than eight decades. – CLAUDIA AORAHA (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for those Democrats, they lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements so that they could hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered the following worthless: a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (NIU-management-1970), b) my three job-related master’s degrees (Loyola-business-1976, DePaul-accounting-1980, and IIT-finance-1997), c) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), and d) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981).)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13016717/Navy-lowers-education-requirements-enlistment.html
— Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick slams Biden for failing to stop ‘invasion’ of migrants and calls them a ‘cartel army’ – as he’s asked if WAR could break out between Texas National Guard and Border Patrol. Patrick warns the White House not to ‘confront’ National Guard. Maria Bartiromo also raised the prospect of ‘civil war’ if the stand-off escalates. – Dominic Yeatman
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-this-going-to-turn-into-a-civil-war-texas-lt-gov-slams-biden-for-failing-to-stop-invasion-of-migrants-and-calls-them-a-cartel-army-as-he-s-asked-if-war-could-break-out-between-texas-national-guard-and-border-patrol/ar-BB1hpLkK

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.