July 9, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrats acknowledge that “At least 18 shot, 4 killed, in weekend gun violence across city.”
https://abc7chicago.com/shootings-in-chicago-this-weekend-breaking-news-violence-police/13481498/
— Democrats acknowledge that “Armed group threatens victims, then robs them, all while riding Divvy bikes.”
https://abc7chicago.com/armed-robbery-divvy-bikes-chicago-crime-loop/13480084/
— Democrats say “My Block, My Hood, My City creates fun day downtown for 1K young people from West, South sides.”
https://abc7chicago.com/my-block-hood-city-things-to-do-in-chicago-downtown-events/13479206/

NBC5
— Democrats acknowledge that “Armed suspects riding Divvy bikes wanted in Loop robberies.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/armed-suspects-riding-divvy-bikes-wanted-in-loop-robberies-chicago-police-say/3182556/
— Democrats acknowledge that “Mass shooting in Rogers Park leaves 5 wounded.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mass-shooting-in-rogers-park-leaves-5-wounded/3182479/
— Democrats acknowledge that “Neighbors unnerved after 5 injured in Rogers Park mass shooting.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/its-really-scary-neighbors-unnerved-after-5-injured-in-rogers-park-mass-shooting/3182615/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote Target.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/targets-back-to-school-deals-to-begin-in-july-details-on-offers-for-rewards-members-teachers-and-more/3182580/

CBS2
— Democrats say “1,000 teens explore downtown Chicago as part of first ever Downtown Day.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-downtown-day-teens/
— Democrats acknowledge that “5 hurt during mass shooting in Rogers Park.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/5-hurt-mass-shooting-rogers-park/
— Democrats acknowledge that “4 shot, 1 fatally at Up Top Lounge in Gary.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/4-shot-1-fatally-at-up-top-lounge-in-gary/

FOX32
— Democrats say “Thousands attend Chosen Few Picnic in Chicago’s Jackson Park.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1246130
— Democrats acknowledge that “Armed robbers on Divvy bikes targeting victims in the Loop.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-divvy-bike-robberies-loop
— Democrats acknowledge that “5 shot in Rogers Park on Chicago’s North Side.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1245960

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) discriminate against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/7/8/23787443/affirmative-action-doesnt-black-brown-students-accepted-supreme-court
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/7/23786146/pollution-air-climate-change-scott-collis-respiratory-health
— Democrats ask “Could housing migrants at 12th District police station lead to better community relations?” Democrats ever-increasingly promote illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/8/23786314/migrants-chicago-police-stations-welcoming-immigration-asylum-seekers-curtis-lawrence-op-ed
— Democrats say “House music fans celebrate the Chicago-born genre at the Chosen Few picnic.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/7/8/23788322/chosen-few-chicago-house-music-fest-chicago
— Democrats acknowledge that “5 shot in Rogers Park mass shooting.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/7/8/23787899/rogers-park-shooting-five-mass-howard
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ, b) destroy traditional marriage, and c) destroy the traditional family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/7/7/23775640/trans-chicagoans-families-transgender

DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “Collar county seniors are in line for a bigger property tax break, if not lower tax bills.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230708/collar-county-seniors-are-in-line-for-a-bigger-property-tax-break-if-not-lower-tax-bills
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote stories about minorities and about women who have benefitted from Affirmative Action (AA), that is, who have benefitted from reparations, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I challenge the Daily Herald to publish stories about those like me who have been forced to pay the price of AA by Democrats and by RINOs. I challenge the Daily Herald to publish my story. In 1971, when I was 22 years old, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Sadly, if not tragically for me, that directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. Especially after 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used AA to promote over me my coworkers who were minority, female, and/or veteran and a) who had less job-related work experience than I had, b) who had less job-related education than I had, and/or c) who had not taken the CPA examination, let alone passed it. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. In 1980, because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, veteran. and/or younger, GAO forced me to suffer a $21,863/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors gave me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and performance appraisals. They assigned me to supervised all their most problematic employees. The kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They used AA to promote over me my coworkers who were minority, female, and/or veteran and a) who had less job-related work experience than I had, b) who had less job-related education than I had, and/or c) who had not taken the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examinations, let alone passed them. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, I passed the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981, I became a licensed CPA in 1981, I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. The Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc. have all taken many big adverse actions against me that they would never had taken against me if I was a minority, female, veteran, and/or younger.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20230709/a-personal-reflection-on-affirmative-action

SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to offer free tuition to some students whose families make less than $80,000 a year.” My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2023/07/08/unc-to-offer-free-tuition-to-some-students-whose-families-make-less-than-80000-a-year/

NPR ILLINOIS & WSIU
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to continue discriminating against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-07-09/after-the-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-are-college-dei-offices-in-danger
https://www.wsiu.org/2023-07-09/after-the-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-are-college-dei-offices-in-danger

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Going National on Gun Control
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/07/08/pritzker-going-national-on-gun-control/
— Ugaste Reminds Voters That House Democrats Voted to Legalize Fentanyl
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/07/08/ugaste-reminds-voters-that-house-democrats-voted-to-legalize-fentanyl/

WIREPOINTS
— States across the country are cutting taxes…but not Illinois. Not even with “highest on record” budget revenues. – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/states-across-the-country-are-cutting-taxesbut-not-illinois-not-even-with-highest-on-record-budget-revenues-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Casey DeSantis seeks to boost her husband to victory in 2024 – Julia Johnson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/the-mamas-majority-casey-desantis
— Make Gavin Newsom own his reparations committee report – Editorial
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/gavin-newsom-own-reparations-report

NEW YORK POST
— Biden’s Treasury Department slammed as ‘wasteful’ for woke equity expansion – Mary Kay Linge
https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/bidens-treasury-department-slammed-for-woke-equity-expansion/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Reparations Mock And Threaten America’s Greatest Achievement – Kathleen Brush (COMMENT: One could ask “From what country did your ancestors immigrate from, when did they immigrate, and how guilty are they of discriminating against others? My ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. They had no clout. They did not discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/reparations_mock_americas_greatest_achievement.html
— Biden’s border mayhem worsens – Brian Lonergan
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/bidens_border_mayhem_worsens_now_includes_hostage_videos.html
— Fake Media Promote the Bigotry of Low Expectations – Noel S. Williams
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/fake_media_promote_the_bigotry_of_low_expectations.html
— TEAM USA and diversity – Bruce Thompson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/team_usa_and_diversity.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As a longtime member of the National Governing Body of the Sport of Sailing, I just received a calendar and request for funding from Kristi Yamaguchi on behalf of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. It is titled “Unity in Diversity * Celebrating the Diversity of Team USA.” The calendar highlights “diversity” by assigning each month a highlight of an aspect of diversity. Starting in January, they are: World Braille Day, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Earth Day, Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Disability Pride Month, Women’s Equality Day, Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Native American Heritage Month and International Day of Persons with Disabilities. As a white American, straight male who is the direct descendant of nine male veterans of the American Revolution, we get no recognition. Not even Independence Day. Without them and their fellow soldiers, there would be no TEAM US (America).)
— Understanding Marxism Is Key To Understanding Today’s Leftists – Glenn Spitzer
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/understanding_marxism_is_key_to_understanding_todays_leftists.html

BREITBART
— Woke Hangover: Bud Light Knocked Out of Top Ten for America’s Most Popular Beers – ELAINE MALLON
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/07/08/woke-hangover-bud-light-knocked-out-of-top-ten-for-americas-most-popular-beers/
— Woke Christianity: Archbishop of York Brands Lord’s Prayer ‘Oppressively Patriarchal’ for Saying ‘Our Father’ – KURT ZINDULKA
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/08/woke-christianity-archbishop-of-york-brands-lords-prayer-oppressively-patriarchal/

DAILY WIRE
— Texas Begins Installing Barrier On Rio Grande River To Stop Illegals From Crossing – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-begins-installing-barrier-on-rio-grande-river-to-stop-illegals-from-crossing

FOX NEWS
— Ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants gains steam in GOP 2024 field. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump have backed the proposal. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ending-birthright-citizenship-children-illegal-immigrants-gains-steam-gop-2024-field
— Portland city govt tells staff to avoid mentioning ‘pregnant women’ and ‘citizens’ in woke language directive. Portland told staffers to completely remove the female aspect from pregnancy terms, breast feeding. – Aubrie Spady
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-city-govt-tells-staff-avoid-mentioning-pregnant-women-citizens-woke-language-directive

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Higher Education Fails to Honor Diversity of Opinion on Affirmative Action – AIDAN STRETCH
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/higher-education-fails-to-honor-diversity-of-opinion-on-affirmative-action/
— Appeals Court Rules University Can Punish Professor for Criticizing ‘Diversity’ Hiring – GEORGE LEEF (COMMENT: Anyone who reads the filings in Diersen v. GAOhttps://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) will conclude that the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ( https://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/ ) ruled that to achieve diversity, employers not only can, but should give preference to their employees who are liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, to achieve diversity, employers not only can, but should discriminate against their employees who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/appeals-court-rules-university-can-punish-professor-for-criticizing-diversity-hiring/

PJ MEDIA
— Social Justice Civil War: Dueling Pride Groups Battle in the Courts – BEN BARTEE
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/07/08/social-justice-civil-war-dueling-pride-groups-battle-in-the-courts-n1709142
— Ben & Jerry’s Gets Hoisted Upon Its Own Woke Petard – MATT MARGOLIS
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/07/08/ben-jerrys-gets-hoisted-upon-its-own-woke-petard-n1709105
— Woke Doctor Suggests Body Cams for Physicians Because of the Rampant Racism She Claims to See – CHRIS QUEEN
https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2023/07/08/woke-doctor-suggests-body-cams-for-physicians-because-of-the-rampant-racism-she-claims-to-see-n1709109

TOWNHALL
— Republicans Signal Support to End Birthright Citizenship For Children of Illegal Aliens – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/07/08/republicans-support-ending-birthright-citizenship-for-children-of-illegal-immigrants-n2625468
— Republicans Bash Biden’s Woke EV Rule As ‘Unlawful’ – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/07/08/republicans-bash-bidens-woke-ev-rule-as-unlawful-n2625464

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly do everything that they can to make everyone LGBTQers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4086798-appeals-court-allows-tennessee-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-to-take-effect/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrats say “Trump’s Five Biggest Cheers During Las Vegas Speech.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-las-vegas-speech-cheers-1811761

CNN & NBC NEWS & LOS ANGELES TIMES & MSN
— Should/will descendants of slaves sue those whose ancestors owned slaves and/or who fought for the Confederacy? In my defense, none of my ancestors owned slaves or fought for the Confederacy. While my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawsuit-seeking-reparations-tulsa-race-massacre-dismissed-rcna93257
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-final-reparations-plan-released-with-cash-payments-in-question/ar-AA1dBiyB

MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly do everything that they can to make everyone LGBTQers.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/celebrity/stranger-things-star-comes-out-the-biggest-lgbtq-moments-of-2023/ss-AA1dvRPU
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fleeing-the-land-of-the-free-transgender-people-are-relocating-to-europe-as-a-life-saving-measure/ss-AA1dAQsB
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote CRT to promote hatred against Republicans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scholars-discuss-the-meaning-of-critical-race-theory/vi-AA17Pg8N

MSNBC
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) use Affirmative Action to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.msnbc.com/symone/watch/the-supreme-court-vs-affirmative-action-equality-or-another-attack-on-black-vulnerable-communities-187257925918
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/editorial-higher-ed-must-keep-222200537.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Vivek Ramaswamy Leans Into His Hindu Faith to Court Christian Voters.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/vivek-ramaswamy-hindu-republican-christianj.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/americas/border-mexico-us-migrants.html
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to continue discriminating against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/05/opinion/affirmative-action-college-admissions.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats reject the Affirmative Action decision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/08/college-scholarships-financial-aid-affirmative-action/

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/08/supreme-court-lgbtq-business-ruling-goes-against-popular-opinion-in-us/70391376007/

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to continue discriminating against Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/corinnelestch/2023/07/09/how-the-end-of-affirmative-action-reroutes-the-talent-pipeline/

FAST COMPANY
— Democrats say “3 ways to become the dream employer new grads seek.” To attract, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time, my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted the careers of and got rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90915418/3-ways-to-become-the-dream-employer-new-grads-seek

DAILY KOS
— Democrats say “The Radical Right Rulings On Affirmative Action Are About Resurrecting The Confederacy.” Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly run America and paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/7/2179902/-The-Radical-Right-Rulings-On-Affirmative-Action-Are-About-Resurrecting-The-Confederacy
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote stories about minorities and about women who have benefitted from Affirmative Action (AA), that is, who have benefitted from reparations, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I challenge the Daily Kos to publish stories about those like me who have been forced to pay the price of AA by Democrats and by RINOs. I challenge the Daily Kos to publish my story. In 1971, when I was 22 years old, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Sadly, if not tragically for me, that directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. Especially after 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used AA to promote over me my coworkers who were minority, female, and/or veteran and a) who had less job-related work experience than I had, b) who had less job-related education than I had, and/or c) who had not taken the CPA examination, let alone passed it. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. In 1980, because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, veteran. and/or younger, GAO forced me to suffer a $21,863/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors gave me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and performance appraisals. They assigned me to supervised all their most problematic employees. The kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They used AA to promote over me my coworkers who were minority, female, and/or veteran and a) who had less job-related work experience than I had, b) who had less job-related education than I had, and/or c) who had not taken the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examinations, let alone passed them. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, I passed the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981, I became a licensed CPA in 1981, I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. The Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc. have all taken many big adverse actions against me that they would never had taken against me if I was a minority, female, veteran, and/or younger.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/8/2179995/-Why-Affirmative-Action-A-Personal-Story

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.