July 29 Evening Edition

ABC7
— CDC COVID risk map shows Cook among Chicago area counties with ‘substantial’ COVID-19 transmission – Cate Cauguiran
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-mask-dupage-county-requirement-will/10916408/

FOX32
— Kinzinger commits to remaining in GOP: ‘I’m a Republican at heart’ – Brandon Gillespie
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-rep-adam-kinzinger-commits-to-remaining-in-gop-im-a-republican-at-heart

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Dig out the masks: Indoor face coverings now recommended in Cook County as COVID-19 cases keep rising. The CDC is now recommending masks to be worn indoors in 84 of the state’s 102 counties — including Cook, DuPage, McHenry and Will. – Mitchell Armentrou
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2021/7/29/22600522/cook-county-mask-mandate-covid-19-cdc-substantial-transmission
— 53 pot shop lottery winners announced, including some new players, some with deep ties to existing industry – Tom Schuba
(DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2021/7/29/22600767/lottery-cannabis-dispensary-illinois-pot-shop-social-equity

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Conservatives want to boot Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from House GOP – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-cheney-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-20210729-a6garjmulnbxtlyoj56gvtn66e-story.html
— Biden says federal workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face mandatory masking, weekly testing – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-biden-federal-workers-covid-20210729-a3h5im3xujgwncdvip23vzx3pe-story.html
— Chicago will get elected school board after Illinois governor signs long-sought measure into law over opposition from Mayor Lori Lightfoot – DAN PETRELLA and GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-elected-school-board-20210729-mmlh3r4zzbcq3mksuw2gregh7a-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Lawsuit over redistricting amended – PETER HANCOCK
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210729/lawsuit-over-redistricting-amended
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Des Plaines to promote cross-dressing.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210729/a-relic-des-plaines-to-repeal-opposite-sex-clothing-ban

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DISGUISING, OUTRAGEOUS, TRAGIC: Illinois issues first round of new pot shop licenses. – JOHN PLETZ
(DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marijuanacannabis/illinois-issues-first-round-new-pot-shop-licenses

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Watch now: New Illinois law to expand affordable housing through $75M investment, tax credits – JERRY NOWICKI
(DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, those who need affordable housing vote for Democrats.)
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/watch-now-new-illinois-law-to-expand-affordable-housing-through-75m-investment-tax-credits/article_ab99eb74-46b6-5486-b2ca-8c5268b4c7e4.html

WREX
— Illinois GOP seeks review of potentially fraudulent jobless payouts – AP
https://wrex.com/2021/07/29/illinois-gop-seeks-review-of-potentially-fraudulent-jobless-payouts/

NORTH SHORE RECORD
— In contested vote, Wilmette trustees move toward allowing recreational cannabis sales – Martin Carlino
https://www.therecordnorthshore.org/2021/07/28/in-contested-vote-wilmette-trustees-move-toward-allowing-recreational-cannabis-sales/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Dead found voting in DuPage – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/606115485-dead-found-voting-in-dupage
— D41 parent: ‘People should be outraged’ regarding ‘diversity’ program
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/606116744-d41-parent-people-should-be-outraged-regarding-diversity-program

WASHINGTON TIMES

— Biden backs adding amnesty into Democrats’ budget bill – Stephen Dinan

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/29/joe-biden-backs-adding-amnesty-democrats-budget-bi/

FOX NEWS
— Texas parents push back on school district for spending $2M on ‘equity consultants’ as academics lag. Fort Worth parents object to using money for critical race theory over reading and math help. – Joshua Q. Nelson
https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-school-district-spending-equity-consultants-critical-race-theory

GOPUSA
— How The Left Has Used COVID-19 To Bankrupt The United States – Stephen Moore
https://www.gopusa.com/how-the-left-has-used-covid-19-to-bankrupt-the-united-states/

ACCURACY IN ACADEMIA
— 1619 Project founder praised Cuban socialism – Spencer Irvine
https://www.academia.org/1619-project-founder-praised-cuban-socialism/

BREITBART
— Dr. James Lindsay: Goal of CRT Is to Set Up ‘Dictatorship of the Anti-Racists’ – ALANA MASTRANGELO
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/29/exclusive-dr-james-lindsay-goal-crt-set-up-dictatorship-anti-racists/

BLAZE
— Biden admin sends back 27 Cubans escaping oppressive regime while releasing 50K migrants from elsewhere into US without court dates – PHIL SHIVER
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-administration-returns-27-cuban-migrants
— 6 times the media credited masks with stopping a pandemic that then spread even more – DANIEL HOROWITZ
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-6-times-the-media-credited-masks-with-stopping-a-pandemic-that-then-spread-even-more
— ‘Come and get me’: Defiant Republicans react to ‘insane’ orders for Capitol Police to arrest House staff who refuse to comply with mask mandate – PAUL SACCA
https://www.theblaze.com/news/capitol-police-arrest-mask-mandate-reactions-republicans

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Christian designer to appeal after court says she must make pro-gay websites – Jennifer Lee
(DIERSEN: How soon will Democrats file a lawsuit to force me to use my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to promote LGBTQ, CRT, 1619, reparations, dependency on government, dependency on charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and the rest of the Democrat Party platform?)
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian.designer.to.appeal.after.court.says.she.must.make.pro.gay.websites/137175.htm

DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Are Promoting A Huge Lie About The Texas Anti-CRT Bill – VARUN HUKERI
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/29/democrats-texas-anti-crt-kkk-racism-bill/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump’s Budget Director Demands to Know Why Education Department Promoted Critical Race Theory – Kendall Tietz
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/29/trumps-budget-director-demands-to-know-why-education-department-promoted-critical-race-theory/

ONE NEWS NOW
— Federal workers under intense pressure to take vaccines – AP
https://onenewsnow.com/ap/politics/federal-workers-under-intense-pressure-to-take-vaccines
— CRT: After public backlash, ‘bold march forward’ continues behind the scenes – Bob Kellogg, Billy Davis
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2021/07/29/after-public-backlash-bold-march-forward-continues-behind-the-scenes

NEW AMERICAN
— COVID Killing the Classroom: The Virus Is Making Homeschooling Go Viral – Selwyn Duke
https://thenewamerican.com/covid-killing-the-classroom-the-virus-is-making-homeschooling-go-viral/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Super sensitive Rep Adam Kinzinger calls Laura Ingraham’s mockery a ‘cold-hearted thing’ – Jon Dougherty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/29/super-sensitive-rep-adam-kinzinger-calls-laura-ingrahams-mockery-a-cold-hearted-thing-1110339/

CAMPUS REVIEW
— MAP: Critical Race Theory bans by state – Ben Zeisloft
https://campusreform.org/article?id=17892

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Countering the Whitewash of Critical Race Theory – GEORGE LEEF
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/countering-the-whitewash-of-critical-race-theory/

THE HILL
— Capitol Police asked to arrest the maskless – MIKE LILLIS
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/565450-capitol-police-asked-to-arrest-the-maskless
— Biden calls on states to offer $100 vaccine incentives – MORGAN CHALFANT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/565492-biden-calls-on-states-to-offer-100-vaccine-incentives

SAGE JOURNALS
— OCTOBER 24, 2017 FLASHBACK: Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation – Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Samuel Negredo, Ike Picone, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
(DIERSEN: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters fill a tremendous void in Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township. It would be great if the Illinois Republican Party would regularly share far more government and political news and commentary articles that are of statewide interest. It would be great if the DuPage County Republican Central Committee would regularly share far more government and political news and commentary articles that are of countywide interest. It would be great if the Milton Township Republican Organization would regularly share far more government and political news and commentary articles that are of township-wide interest.)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117735754
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Based on data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, and controlling for a range of factors, we find that (1) people who use social media for news and a high number of different social media platforms are more likely to also engage more actively with news outside social media by commenting on news sites and sharing news via email, (2) political partisans on both sides are more likely to engage in sharing and commenting particularly on news stories in social media, and (3) people with high interest in hard news are more likely to comment on news on both news sites and social media and share stores via social media (and people with high interest in any kind of news [hard or soft] are more likely to share stories via email).)

ZILLOW
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https://www.zillow.com/wheaton-il/X1-SS1apc9gppw622z_3o1g1_sse/4448294_zpid/

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.