July 2, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 53 arrested, including 9 juveniles, in Lakeview hours after Pride celebrations. – Jessica D’Onofrio and Jasmine Mino
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-mass-arrest-conducted-lakeview-chicago-pride/15015187/

NBC5
— 53 people arrested during overnight chaos in Lakeview. – Jenn Schanz
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dozens-arrested-at-post-pride-parade-celebrations-in-lakeview-chicago-police/3478631/
— Alderman pushes for earlier curfew at Chicago 31st Street Beach after violent month. Ald. Lamont Robinson has called for a 9 p.m. curfew after several people were shot in and around 31st Street in June
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/alderman-pushes-for-earlier-curfew-at-chicago-31st-street-beach-after-violent-month/3478572/

CBS2
— Trump seeks to overturn criminal conviction, citing Supreme Court immunity decision. – Graham Kates
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-seeks-overturn-new-york-conviction-citing-supreme-court-immunity/
— Biden condemns Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump immunity case. – Caitlin Yilek
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-supreme-court-trump-immunity-decision/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/undocumented-immigrants-standard-illinois-drivers-licenses/

WGN9
— Rubio, Tim Scott would give Trump biggest boost as vice president: Poll – Caroline Vakil
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/rubio-scott-would-give-trump-biggest-boost-as-vp-poll/
— 7 Democrats being floated as potential Biden replacements. – Jared Gans
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/7-democrats-being-floated-as-potential-biden-replacements/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/new-illinois-laws-go-into-effect-on-july-1-2024-drivers-licenses-noncitizens/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/01/noncitizen-illinois-residents-can-now-get-standard-driver-s-license-here-s-what-you-need

WLS AM
— Pritzker replacing Biden could give Illinois a Republican governor
https://www.wlsam.com/2024/07/02/pritzker-replacing-biden-could-give-illinois-a-republican-governor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Member of House of Representatives Jeanne M. Ives joins Ray and Nick to discuss the possibility of J.B. Pritzker replacing Biden as the Democratic candidate and how it might be the best option to benefit Illinois.  There will be lots of commotion no matter what decision the Biden family makes but it seems they want to hold onto power.  How does voting change in a state that normally votes the same election after election, it begins at the local level.  Who will replace Pritzker if he leaves his position as governor of Illinois and could it be a Republican?)

WBEZ
— Biden’s debate debacle adds wild card uncertainty to Chicago’s Democratic National Convention. If the president stays in the race, as it seems he will, the question will be which Joe Biden will show up in Chicago to accept his nomination — the faltering debater or a president fit to serve? – Lynn Sweet
https://www.wbez.org/columnists/2024/07/01/president-biden-debate-debacle-democratic-national-convention-chicago-polls
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/pride/2024/07/01/53rd-annual-chicago-pride-parade-lgbtq-lake-view-celebration-summer-diversity

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Walgreens could join other major retailers fleeing high-crime parts of Chicago. In many areas, Walgreens is the last major store remaining. The city must respond. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/editorial-walgreens-south-west-side-retail-target-walmart/
— Why not vote for issues first, then candidates next? – Jack Modzelewski (COMMENT: To vote for Democrats is to vote for more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and even worse things.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/opinion-elections-issues-voting/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURES: Democrats ever-increasingly push minorities and LGBTQers to be pot pushers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/02/black-and-gay-owned-cannabis-businesses-opening-and-expanding-in-illinois/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump immunity case makes a president king above the law. The ruling delays the election interference case against Donald Trump. But the biggest casualty with the court’s latest ruling is to our democracy.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/07/01/supreme-court-ruling-trump-immunity-aziz-huq-roberts-sotomayor-editorial-democracy-solutions-project
— Police order ‘mass arrest’ in Lake View hours after Pride Parade. Fifty-three people, including nine juveniles, were arrested early Monday in the 3000 block of North Clark Street. A 15-year-old was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and was cited for having a firearm silencer. – Sophie Sherry and Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/07/01/mass-arrest-police-clark-street-pride-parade-lake-view
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicago restaurants are being burglarized in record numbers: ‘I’m just beyond outraged’  There were 635 burglaries reported at restaurants last year, the most since at least 2001, and the city is on pace to surpass that number this year. – Ambar Colón, Mohammad Samra and Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/07/02/chicago-restaurants-are-being-burglarized-in-record-numbers-im-just-beyond-outraged

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: While Democratic congressional representatives from the Chicago area decried Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling giving presidents some immunity from criminal prosecution, some Republican candidates lauded the decision. – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240701/nation-and-world-politics/a-disastrous-decision-or-the-right-one-chicago-area-lawmakers-and-candidates-are-divided/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago pension debt rises to $37 billion – Shruti Date Singh
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-pension-debt-rises-city-hunts-cash

ROCK RIVER CURRENT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.rockrivercurrent.com/2024/07/01/northern-illinois-food-bank-to-help-provide-thousands-of-free-meals-to-youth-this-summer/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump seeks to set aside hush money verdict hours after immunity ruling. – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-seeks-to-set-aside-hush-money-verdict-hours-after-immunity-ruling/
— Trump golf courses’ liquor licenses not renewed after conviction. – Lauren Sforza
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-golf-courses-liquor-licenses-not-renewed-after-conviction/

WCIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wciu.com/cw26/stories/chicago-pride-parade-2024-check-out-our-pride

CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools announces safeguards for laid-off employees as teachers union decries staff cuts – Mila Koumpilova and Becky Vevea (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO U.S. Senators and Representatives cut GAO’s budge dramatically between 1980 and 1997. The Democrats who ran GAO used that to get rid of half of GAO’s employees. They did nothing to help the employees who they got rid of. The employees who they got rid of were overwhelmingly conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/06/28/chicago-public-schools-layoffs-paraprofessionals-protections/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The great exodus continues: Fresh IRS data shows Illinois loses residents to 40 other states – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/the-great-exodus-continues-fresh-irs-data-shows-illinois-loses-residents-to-40-other-states-wirepoints/
— Illinois losses to out-migration are mostly the wealthy; incoming are relatively poor
https://wirepoints.org/the-many-people-illinois-loses-to-out-migration-are-wealthy-the-few-people-we-gain-are-relatively-poor-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court rules presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, but not unofficial acts. – Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/1/supreme-court-rules-presidents-have-absolute-immun/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois is another failing Democratic state model. – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3066303/illinois-another-failing-democratic-state-model/
— California school district considers suing companies with ties to slavery to pay for reparations – Matt Lamb (COMMENT: What do Democrats and RINOs stress about you to tie you to slavery? They stress that my ancestors have been in America since 1844. My ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they were never in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3058894/california-school-district-considers-suing-companies-pay-reparations/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Nearly 90,000 People Fled J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois Between 2021 and 2022, Taking Billions in Income With Them. Democratic governor turns a blind eye to state’s population decline. – Jameson Mitrovich
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/nearly-90000-people-fled-j-b-pritzkers-illinois-between-2021-and-2022-taking-billions-in-income-with-them/
— Meet the Rich Kids, Professors, and Activists Arrested at Columbia in April. The Washington Free Beacon’s guide to occupying a Columbia campus building. – Jessica Costescu
https://freebeacon.com/campus/meet-the-rich-kids-professors-and-activists-arrested-at-columbia-in-april/

NEW YORK POST
— DEI efforts in US Armed Forces ineffective, run ‘opposite of the military ethos.’ – Cameron Arcand
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/dei-efforts-in-us-armed-forces-ineffective-run-opposite-of-the-military-ethos-study/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The VA Must Stop Working for Illegals. It is a national embarrassment that lawbreakers from abroad get better service than American veterans. – Greg Steube
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-va-must-stop-working-for-illegals/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— Farm supply chain plows under its woke corporate policies & activities. – Steve Jordahl
https://afn.net/business/2024/07/01/farm-supply-chain-plows-under-its-woke-corporate-policies-activities/

BLAZE
— Woke Churches Abandon Faith for ‘Pride’ in BLASPHEMOUS Display (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had making your church promote LGBTQ?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CABe6z3Yc

BREITBART
— A Wave of Migrant Crime Engulfing America. – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/01/a-wave-of-migrant-crime-engulfing-america/
— Joe Biden Makes Another Gaffe in White House Address, Reads ‘End of Quote’ from Teleprompter. – WENDELL HUSEBØ (COMMENT: Who writes what Biden reads?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/01/joe-biden-makes-another-gaffe-in-white-house-address-reads-end-of-quote-from-teleprompter/
— Nearly Half of Americans Believe Corporate Diversity Programs Discriminate Against White Men. – SEAN MORAN (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2024/07/01/poll-nearly-half-of-americans-believe-corporate-diversity-programs-discriminate-against-white-men/

DAILY CALLER
— Supreme Court Rules Trump Has ‘Absolute Immunity’ From Prosecution For Official Acts. – KATELYNN RICHARDSON
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/01/supreme-court-rules-trump-has-immunity-for-official-acts-in-appeal/

EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Some Immunity in Federal Election Case. Presidents enjoy immunity from prosecution for official acts, the majority ruled. – Sam Dorman
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-rules-trump-has-some-immunity-in-landmark-decision-5640112

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— 7.1 Million Visa Applicants Not Interviewed.
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/new-audit-finds-71-million-visa-applicants-not-interviewed

FOX NEWS
— Chicago pastor takes on Dem mayor’s push for reparations. Chicago Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks has some pointed questions for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson about his reparations task force. (COMMENT: What do Democrats and RINOs stress about you to tie you to slavery? They stress that my ancestors have been in America since 1844. My ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they were never in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6356175380112
— Mike Huckabee: There’s no one to blame but Joe Biden. ‘Hannity’ panelists Reince Priebus and Mike Huckabee discuss who the Biden family is blaming for the president’s performance at the CNN Presidential Debate.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6356236471112

PJ MEDIA
— Illegal Alien Crime Wave Sweeps America. – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/01/illegal-alien-crime-wave-sweeps-america-n4930322

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2024-07-01/ap-photos-parties-protests-and-parades-mark-a-vibrant-pride-around-the-world

MSNBC
— My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I took jobs that should have been given to Blacks. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire early and gave my job and gave my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. My critics/opponents who have never held jobs like the ones I did make it very clear that they would never stoop to take the jobs that I took.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-rubio-black-jobs-presidential-debate-rcna159765

MSN
— Medical schools promote segregated medicine, and here’s how it’s going to hurt patients. – Ian Kingsbury, Jay Greene (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be non-conservative, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/medical-schools-promote-segregated-medicine-and-heres-how-its-going-to-hurt-patients/ar-AA1n3PnD

ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7.com/post/watch-abc-news-live-pride-across-america-lgbtq-parades-marches/14914691/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id5luPi41_g

NEW YORK SUN
— Disney Exec’s Bombshell Claim That Company Doesn’t Want To Hire White Men Prompts Call for Civil Rights Probe. ‘Such clear evidence cannot be ignored,’ says conservative advocacy group America First Legal. – NOVI ZHUKOVSKY (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that soon, if not already, companies will officially stop hiring White men and officially get rid of their White male employees who are conservative, Republican, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nysun.com/article/disney-execs-bombshell-that-company-doesnt-want-to-hire-white-men-prompts-call-for-civil-rights-probe

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in making children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/29/lgbtq-youth-pride-activism/74232062007/

DAILY TEXAN
— Texas GOP releases official party platform before upcoming 89th Legislative Session – Riley Walsh
https://thedailytexan.com/2024/07/01/texas-gop-releases-official-party-platform-before-upcoming-89th-legislative-session/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Democrats Deserve Biden, Even if the Country Doesn’t. They’ve deceived and gaslit us for four years, all in the name of ‘democracy.’ That collapsed Thursday. – Gerard Baker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-deserve-biden-even-if-the-country-doesnt-2024-presidential-election-a86a9756
— Grief, Then Paperwork: The Messy, Thankless Job of an Estate Executor – Ashlea Ebeling  (COMMENT: I recently served as the executor for my aunt’s and for my brother’s estates.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/grief-then-paperwork-the-messy-thankless-job-of-an-estate-executor-6bb1e228
— The Inevitability of Biden’s Reckoning. Democrats are paying the price for overriding voter concerns about the president’s age. – Molly Ball (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/the-sad-inevitability-of-bidens-reckoning-464e4849

FORBES
— 5 Ways To Maximize Your Academic Summer Program For Ivy League Admissions – Christopher Rim (COMMENT: While you were in high school and college, what did you do with your summers? Because I had to work my way through college, I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2024/06/27/5-ways-to-maximize-your-academic-summer-program-for-ivy-league-admissions/

FED SCOOP
— GAO budget request puts premium on modernization efforts. – MATT BRACKEN (COMMENT: GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO U.S. Senators and Representatives cut GAO’s budge dramatically between 1980 and 1997. The Democrats who ran GAO used that to get rid of half of GAO’s employees. The employees who they got rid of were overwhelmingly conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://fedscoop.com/gao-budget-modernization-cloud-cybersecurity/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2024/07/02/tracking-effects-affirmative-actions-demise

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/new-anti-dei-legislation-goes-into-effect-in-4-states

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.