June 19 Morning Edition

DAILY HERALD
— OUTSTANDING: Communities should remain steadfast in resisting lures of retail pot – Editorial (DIERSEN: I urge everyone in Illinois to contact those who represent them in their municipalities and in their counties and urge them to a) call for a vote on the sale of pot ASAP and b) vote NO on the sale of pot. I urge Wheaton Mayor Phil Suess and Wheaton City Council members Michael Barbier, Erica Bray-Parker, Suzanne Fitch, John K. Rutledge, and Todd Scalzo and the new North District Council member to a) call for a vote on the sale of pot in Wheaton ASAP and b) vote NO on the sale of pot in Wheaton. I urge DuPage County Chairman Dan Cronin and DuPage County Board members Donald Puchalski, Ashley Selmon, Sam Tornatore, Elizabeth Chaplin, Peter “Pete” DiCianni, Sean Noonan, Greg Hart, Brian Krajewski, Julie Renehan, Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Mary FitzGerald Ozog, Sadia Covert, Dawn DeSart, James Healy, Robert Larsen, Sheila Rutledge, and James Zay to a) call for a vote on the sale of pot in unincorporated DuPage County ASAP and b) vote NO on the sale of pot in unincorporated DuPage County.) 
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190618/editorial-communities-should-remain-steadfast-in-resisting-lures-of-retail-pot
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: 13% think driving while high on pot isn’t risky, but AAA, police chiefs say otherwise – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: To use pot is to impair yourself. Those who impair themselves put everyone at risk.) 
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190619/13-think-driving-while-high-on-pot-isnt-risky-but-aaa-police-chiefs-say-otherwise

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump will do anything — unethical or even illegal — to win again in 2020.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/6/18/18683876/2020-presidential-election-donald-trump-democratic-leaders-foreign-government-campaign-nancy-pelosi

ABC7
— Drivers twice as likely to crash when ‘high’, AAA study says (DIERSEN: To use pot is to impair yourself. Those who impair themselves put everyone at risk.)
https://abc7chicago.com/society/aaa-study-dangers-of-driving-high-2x-likely-to-crash/5352913/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump threatens to deport ‘millions’ of undocumented immigrants – AP (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with foreign countries and with their citizens against America and against its citizens.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-trump-deportations-20190618-etk5skt4kfebtnot5vpubzxcfi-story.html

WTTW
— Illinois’ Gaming Expansion Could Be a Losing Bet for Problem Gamblers – Paul Caine

https://news.wttw.com/2019/06/18/illinois-gaming-expansion-could-be-losing-bet-problem-gamblers

WBEZ
— Top Illinois Republican Bill Brady Won’t Disclose Video Gambling Profits – Dan Mihalopoulos
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/top-illinois-republican-wont-disclose-video-gambling-profits/191a3e2e-320e-4ad7-841a-6409463f74e7

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— OUTSTANDING: Locals turn out to support Trump re-election bid – Steven Spearie
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190618/locals-turn-out-to-support-trump-re-election-bid

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois in for same long, strange trip as other states that legalized pot – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2019-06-19/jim-dey-illinois-same-long-strange-trip-other-states-legalized-pot.html

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— President’s threat to deport millions draws local and national reaction
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190618/presidents-threat-to-deport-millions-draws-local-and-national-reaction

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & FOX ILLINOIS
— BEYOND DISGUSTING, BEYOND TRAGIC: Marijuana use doubles in US pregnant women to 1 in 14 – AP (DIERSEN: If you want to destroy a nation, you get gets its pregnant women to be stoners.)
https://www.pjstar.com/zz/news/20190618/marijuana-use-rises-in-us-pregnant-women
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/marijuana-use-doubles-in-us-pregnant-women-to-1-in-14-06-19-2019

CHICAGO READER
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot. 
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/to-be-blunt-cannabis-supper-clubs/Content?oid=71090471

CURBED
— Low-wage workers can’t afford two-bedroom rentals anywhere in Illinois, report says More than half of Chicago renters severely burdened by the cost of housing – Sara Freund 
https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/6/18/18683776/chicago-illinois-affordable-housing-rent-burden
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The average cost of utilities and rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Illinois is $1,084 per month (this number comes from HUD’s fair market rent figures). In order to afford that without rent burden would require earning at least $20.85 per hour (about $43,366 annually, assuming a 40-hour work week). In Illinois the minimum wage is set at $8.25, and at that rate workers would need to put in 101 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom. About 34 percent of people in the state rent and those that do have an average wage of $17.34 per hour.)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry Township Senior Bus Program Ending November 30th
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/06/18/mchenry-township-senior-bus-program-ending-november-30th/ 
— Trump Announcement Party at Huntley Bowl Sees Congressional Candidate Jim Marter Courting Voters
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/06/18/trump-announcement-party-at-huntley-bowl-sees-congressional-candidate-jim-marter-courting-voters/ 
— Return of the RTA Parking Tax
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/06/18/return-of-the-rta-parking-tax/ 
— Dems Pro-Teacher Legislation
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/06/18/dems-pro-teacher-legislation/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Rep. Grant ‘wholeheartedly’ supports free speech resolution in aftermath of U of I allegations – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/512632248-rep-grant-wholeheartedly-supports-free-speech-resolution-in-aftermath-of-u-of-i-allegations

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— CBD is the new snake oil – Robert L. DuPont 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/cbd-is-the-new-snake-oil

BREITBART
— IL Sen. Julie Morrison (D) Taunts Gun Owner: Forget the Fine, Maybe We’ll Just Take Your Firearms – Awr Hawkins
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/18/il-sen-taunts-gun-owner-forget-the-fine-maybe-well-just-take-your-firearms/
— Trump: Democrat Agenda of Open Borders Is ‘Greatest Betrayal of American Middle Class’ – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/19/watch-trump-democrat-agenda-of-open-borders-is-greatest-betrayal-of-american-middle-class/
— Illegal Aliens in U.S. Nearly a Quarter of Foreign-Born Population – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/18/pew-illegal-aliens-in-u-s-nearly-a-quarter-of-foreign-born-population/

DAILY CALLER
— ICE RELEASES LIST OF MURDERERS AND RAPISTS PROTECTED UNDER SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES – Jason Hopkins
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/18/ice-list-criminal-illegal-migrants/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Can Trump Really Deport Millions of Illegal Immigrants? What You Need to Know – Katrina Trinko 
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/19/can-trump-really-deport-millions-of-illegal-immigrants-what-you-need-to-know/

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AMERICAN THINKER
— The only way to counter Ocasio-Cortez’s use of ‘concentration camp’ to describe holding faculties for illegals – Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/the_only_way_to_counter_ocasiocortezs_use_of_concentration_camp_to_describe_holding_faculties_for_illegals_.html

FOX NEWS
— Reparations for slavery remains divisive issue for US, remarks by Booker, McConnell suggest – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cory-booker-to-testify-before-house-panel-on-reparations

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— REPARATIONS MADNESS What should be paid to the descendants of free blacks who owned black slaves? – Mary Grabar
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274057/reparations-madness-mary-grabar
— SLAVERY REPARATIONS FOR MILLIONAIRES Needy millionaires are standing by to take your paycheck. – Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274027/slavery-reparations-millionaires-daniel-greenfield

FEDERALIST
— Democrats’ Problem Is Not The 70-Somethings Leading The Party, It’s Their Socialist Young Their problem is activist types are trying to fill the vacuum created when their extremism decimated a generation of more mainstream Democratic politicians. – Warren Henry
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/19/democrats-problem-not-70-somethings-leading-party-socialist-young/

CNS NEWS
— Trump on The Democratic Party: ‘More Radical, More Dangerous, And More Unhinged’ – Patrick Goodenough
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-democratic-party-more-radical-more-dangerous-and-more-unhinged

PATRIOT POST
— Vote Buying Is Alive and Well in Democrat Campaign Positions – James Shott 
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/63728-vote-buying-is-alive-and-well-in-democrat-campaign-positions

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
— Thin Skin: CNN Cuts from Trump Rally After Crowd Chants ‘CNN Sucks’ – Nicholas Fondacaro
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/06/18/thin-skin-cnn-cuts-trump-rally-after-crowd-chants-cnn-sucks

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— At Dems’ Event on Poverty, No One Talked About Jobs – Betsy McCaughey (DIERSEN: What did you do to avoid poverty? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964; washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard 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. I saved for my retirement.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/19/dems_agenda_kill_jobs_pander_to_freeloaders__140592.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— McConnell rips apart reparations ahead of hearing: ‘No one currently alive was responsible for’ slavery – Zachary Leeman (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents hold you responsible for? My critics/opponents hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails responsible for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails responsible for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000, and especially the losses suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct.) 
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/06/18/mcconnell-rips-apart-reparations-ahead-of-hearing-no-one-currently-alive-was-responsible-for-slavery-766448

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. 
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449179-house-hearing-marks-historic-moment-for-slavery-reparations-debate
— Trump invites Sarah Sanders onstage at rally after touting her as potential governor – JORDAN FABIAN 
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/449238-trump-invites-sarah-sanders-on-stage-at-rally-after-touting-her-as
— Democrats make U-turn on calling border a ‘manufactured crisis’ – ALEXANDER BOLTON (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come to America illegally and to illegally stay in America illegally.) 
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/449214-dems-make-u-turn-on-calling-border-a-manufactured-crisis

ROLL CALL
— Public to get rare look inside the Congressional Research Service, with attrition, morale points of contention Former employees knock management as stifling quality work, innovation – Chris Marquette (DIERSEN: What percent of federal employees who are a) Democrat, b) minority, c) female, d) younger, and/or e) veteran want the federal government to get rid of its employees who are a) Republican, b) White, c) male, d) older, and/or e) non-veteran?)
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/public-get-rare-look-inside-crs-work-culture-point-contention

POLITICO
— ‘Keep America Great’ makes the crowd go wild – MATTHEW CHOI
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/18/trump-campaign-florida-2020-1369875

MSNBC
— McConnell points to Obama’s election as a reason to reject reparations – Steve Benen (DIERSEN: One could also point to Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion.) 
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mcconnell-points-obamas-election-reason-reject-reparations/amp

NEW YORK TIMES
— As Trump Threatens Deportations, Immigrant Communities Brace for New Arrests – Miriam Jordan and Caitlin Dickerson (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with foreign countries and with their citizens against America and against its citizens.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/immigration-raids-fear-families.html

WASHINGTON POST
— For Democratic state leaders, taxing the rich carries risks for suburban strategy – Tim Craig
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-democratic-state-leaders-taxing-the-rich-carries-risks-for-suburban-strategy/2019/06/18/bac8f396-889c-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html
— Trump launches reelection bid with familiar themes, redoubling focus on his most avid backers – Toluse Olorunnipa, Chelsea Janes and
Anne Gearan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-reelection-campaign-launch-contrasts-white-house-drama-with-the-campaigns-message-of-success/2019/06/18/ee389c64-9200-11e9-b72d-d56510fa753e_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Signals Re-Election Bid Will Echo 2016 Themes Thousands pack Orlando arena as polls show president trailing potential Democratic foes – Michael C. Bender and Catherine Lucey
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-rally-in-orlando-sets-aside-challenges-facing-re-election-bid-11560895739
— Trump Administration’s Plan to Step Up Deportations Faces Obstacles Supporters and critics alike say president’s goal of removing hundreds of thousands of immigrants faces many hurdles – Louise Radnofsky
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administrations-plan-to-step-up-deportations-faces-obstacles-11560889871

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasing big business promotes LGBTQ activity. How soon, if not already, will big business dump all individuals, all organizations, all companies, all governments, and all countries that do not promote LGBTQ activity?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/the-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-has-a-coming-out-party
— Central America Encourages Migrants to Leave—And Then Rakes in U.S. Dollars – Ben Bartenstein and Michael McDonald
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/central-america-encourages-migrants-leave-090043764.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Every citizen of a foreign country that America educates is a citizen of America that America does not educate.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/u-s-colleges-worry-trade-war-imperils-flow-of-chinese-students

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with foreign countries and with their citizens against America and against its citizens.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/06/18/trumps-tweets-of-ice-raids-spark-fear-derided-as-re-election-politics/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illinois Restricts Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/illinois-and-city-chicago-poised-to-implement-new-laws-addressing-changes-workplace

NPR
— Sandy Hook Victim’s Father Wins Defamation Suit, Alex Jones Sanctioned – VANESSA ROMO (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have defamed and slandered me. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733880866/sandy-hook-victims-father-wins-defamation-suit-alex-jones-sanctioned

PEW TRUSTS
— Why Is Illinois Hemorrhaging Residents? – Matt Vasilogambros (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs focus on driving out of Illinois individuals, organizations, and companies that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about Democrats and RINOs in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who take the lead in driving the aforesaid out of Illinois.)
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/06/19/why-is-illinois-hemorrhaging-residents

WINDY CITY TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Aurora and Woodstock promote LGBTQ activity. To promote LGBTQ activity is to destroy traditional marriage and to destroy the traditional family.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Aurora-Woodstock-stage-Pride-Parades/66352.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To promote LGBTQ activity is to destroy traditional marriage and to destroy the traditional family. 
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Pres-candidates-pull-out-LGBT-plans-for-Pride-and-pre-debate/66341.html
— Reproductive Health Act is law, making Illinois a ‘beacon’
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Reproductive-Health-Act-is-law-making-Illinois-a-beacon/66353.html

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.