June 8, 2024

Democrat and RINO leaders continue to have tremendous success flooding America with their illegals. Democrat leaders want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want illegals because RINO leaders want cheap labor.

NBC NEWS
— RNC hires a prominent ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to help craft its 2024 platform. – SAHIL KAPUR AND RYAN J. REILLY
https://www.aol.com/news/rnc-hires-prominent-stop-steal-110000594.html

HOUSTON KTRH
— Republican Party Of Texas Announces Their Legislative Priorities – B.D. Hobbs (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the Texas GOP with the Illinois GOP.)
https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/houston-texas-news/content/2024-06-07-the-republican-party-of-texas-announces-their-legislative-priorities/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Legislative Priorities for the Republican Party of Texas for 2024-2025 are:

1. Border Enforcement To repel invasion and deter illegal immigration: Creating a Texas Department of Homeland Security to prevent illegal entry and trafficking, and to deport illegal aliens to Mexico or to their nations of origin. Prohibiting, with mandatory fines and jail time, individuals, corporations, non-profits, governments, and social media entities from assisting or inciting illegal entry. Requiring the use of E-Verify by all employers in Texas with significant penalties for business owners who violate this requirement. Ending all subsidies and public services, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools, for illegal aliens, except for emergency medical care.

2. Secure Texas Elections Securing elections from each citizen’s registration to the final count of legal votes by: Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Requiring the Counties and the Secretary of State to update the voter rolls at least quarterly. Requiring a mandatory photo ID for every election, without exception. Restricting mail-in ballots to disabled, military, and eligible citizens who are out of their county for the entire voting period. Using only hand-marked, sequentially numbered paper ballots on anti-counterfeiting paper that are signed on the back by the election official at the voting location. Standardizing in-person voting, with early voting limited to a period of no longer than nine (9) days, no gap before Election Day, and assigned-precinct voting locations only. Counting ballots in precinct using a dumb-scanner method as soon as the ballot is returned by the voter and with publication of the results prior to submission to the County. Closing party primaries for only registered Republicans. Explicitly codifying the ability of the Attorney General to prosecute violations of the Election Code. Removing existing Secretary of State waivers to comply with current Election Code.

3. Stop Sexualizing Texas’ Kids Stopping the sexualization of minors, which leads to abuse, exploitation, and trafficking, by: Prohibiting taxpayer funding to any entities that permit or promote sexually inappropriate content to minors and legislatively banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology in schools and libraries. Repealing affirmative defenses in Texas Penal Code (43.24, 43.25) and redefining “harmful materials” to remove loopholes provided by the modified Miller Test. Establishing an independent Inspector General for Education to investigate fraud, waste, abuse, and criminal conduct within schools and refer findings to prosecutorial authorities. Compelling superintendents to report sex crimes within schools to outside law enforcement and removing immunity from civil liability for schools and their employees.

4. No Democrat Chairs The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature shall end the practice of awarding committee chairmanships to Democrats and require all committees to be majority Republican.

5. Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Prohibiting all forms of taxpayer-funded lobbying, including the use of tax dollars to hire lobbyists and payment of tax dollars to associations that lobby the Legislature.

6. Secure the Electric Grid Securing the integrity of Texas electricity production and delivery of abundant, reliable, and resilient energy, ensuring that the Texas grid can withstand any natural or manmade threat to include weather, cyber, physical, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and geomagnetic disturbances (GMD).

7. Texas is Not for Sale Banning the sale of real property in Texas, and discontinuing taxpayer funding and incentives, to governments, entities, and proxies of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, and to individuals from these nations who are not legal permanent residents or citizens of the United States.

8. End Federal Overreach Resisting unconstitutional federal acts and mandates that restrict transportation, including mandatory kill switches in vehicles, road diets, and restrictions on the owner’s right to repair vehicles and equipment. Ensuring that Texans have medical freedom and can give or withhold consent for any vaccine or medical treatment without coercion, are not discriminated against based on vaccine status, and are not faced with any vaccine or medical mandate by public or private entities.)

SAN ANTONIO WOAI
— New Chair Of Texas GOP Champions Conservative Platform (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the Texas GOP with the Illinois GOP.)
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2024-06-07-new-chair-of-texas-gop-champions-conservative-platform/

SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
— Texas GOP adds secession to party’s 2024 official platform. A new provision calls on the Texas Legislature to hold a referendum on the matter in the upcoming general election. – Michael Karlis (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the Texas GOP with the Illinois GOP.)
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-gop-adds-secession-to-partys-2024-official-platform-34749083
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Friday, the Republican Party of Texas unveiled its official party platform for the 2024 general election. The document includes two policy planks dealing with Texas’ possible secession from Union. The platform’s No. 20 plank includes language reasserting the Lone Star State’s rights to sovereignty, while No. 203 calls on the Texas Legislature to hold a referendum on the matter in the upcoming general election.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— State election law drama isn’t over. GOP candidate Jay Keeven, believed to be the target of the law essentially designed to prevent Republicans from putting candidates on the ballot after the March primary, could still be tossed off the ballot when the Illinois State Board of Elections meets next month. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/07/state-election-law-republicans-march-primary-j-b-pritzker-jay-keeven-sangamon-judge-rich-miller
— Thinking about retiring? Here’s what I know for sure. – Mary Mitchell (COMMENT: If you are forced to take early retirement, your critics/opponents will use that against you for the rest of your life. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have stressed the most that GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In my defense, I stress that forced retirement was political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation. I had been an active member since 1988 in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.).
https://chicago.suntimes.com/starting-over/2024/06/07/retirement-mary-mitchell-tips-depression-money
— Breaking down partisan talking points on the state budget. Democrat and Republican lawmakers mostly had opposing views of the fiscal year 2025 budget that Gov. Pritzker just signed. Meanwhile, the real problem with state finances is a structural deficit caused by tax policy that doesn’t fit a modern economy. – Ralph Martire
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/07/illinois-budget-2025-democrats-republicans-politics-deficit-tax-policy-ralph-martire-column
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Alderperson proposes 8 p.m. curfew for youths downtown. Ald. Brian Hopkins reignited the debate, proposing an 8 p.m. curfew downtown for unaccompanied minors, two hours earlier than the current curfew. But research already shows curfews are “ineffective at reducing crime and victimization.” – Sophie Sherry
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/06/07/downtown-curfew-teens-brian-hopkins

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Aurora.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/07/flag-raising-celebrates-pride-weekend-in-aurora/
— Oberweis $21 million sale to Winnetka private equity firm gets bankruptcy court approval – ROBERT CHANNICK (COMMENT: For general elections, I have always helped elect those candidates who won Republican primary elections. Many, most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents oppose Oberweis. I should write about them and the many big adverse actions they took against me because I helped elect Oberweis in general elections. I would focus on those who ran against Oberweis in Republican primaries and lost.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/06/oberweis-21-million-sale-to-winnetka-private-equity-firm-gets-bankruptcy-court-approval/
— Real-world mileage standard for new vehicles rising to 38 mpg in 2031 under new Biden administration rule. – MATTHEW DALY (COMMENT: I represent all Mustang owners in Illinois with 10R80 automatic transmissions in a class action lawsuit. What Ford did to make the transmission more fuel efficient harmed the transmission’s performance. SEE: https://lemonlawexperts.com/fords-new-transmission-proves-far-from-tough/ )
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/07/biden-mileage-standard/

DAILY HERALD
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Aurora.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240607/submitted-content/aurora-raises-pride-flag-celebrates-lgbtq-community-members/
— Will County Board OKs landfill consultant contract for ex-state tollway chairman Robert Schillerstrom – Bob Okon
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240607/news/will-county-board-oks-landfill-consultant-contract-for-ex-state-tollway-chairman/
— Examining ‘responsibility’ in the new Illinois state budget – Ralph Martire
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240607/columns/examining-responsibility-in-the-new-illinois-state-budget/

ABC7
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pride-month-2024-june-celebrations-begin-amid-backlash-anti-lgbtq-legislation/14899983/
— House Education Committee accuses Northwestern of obstructing antisemitism investigation – Eric Horng (COMMENT: I should write a book about my many antisemitic Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government. I would focus on my antisemitic Democrat superiors who forced my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/house-education-committee-accuses-northwestern-university-obstructing-antisemitism/14923388/

NBC5
— Will there be a curfew for kids in downtown Chicago? Mayor weighs in.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/will-there-be-a-curfew-for-kids-in-downtown-chicago-mayor-weighs-in/3458114/
— Pro-immigrant groups push for work permits for undocumented workers in Illinois. State lawmakers are limited in what they can do because work permits are, in essence, a federal issue. In the last week of the legislative session in Springfield, both chambers passed a resolution calling on President Joe Biden to issue work permits to long-term immigrants. (COMMENT: Will illegals take the bad jobs that I took? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs. 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. My critics/opponents have always made it very clear that they would never have stooped to take the bad jobs that I took.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pro-immigrant-groups-push-for-work-permits-for-undocumented-workers-in-illinois/3458294/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/nbc-5-telemundo-chicago-to-present-landmark-documentary-on-migrant-families-and-their-journeys/3458185/

CBS2
— Chicago activists push for immigrants to receive work permits – Sabrina Franza
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-activists-immigrants-work-permits/
— Chaos erupts at Chicago’s 31st Street Beach
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chaos-erupts-at-chicagos-31st-street-beach/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/people-seen-running-gunshots-chicago-31st-street-beach/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wok1NGNNfl8
— Democrat candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly use reparations to get more votes from Blacks and to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/chicago-suburb-sued-for-paying-reparations-to-black-residents/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQhshn_R3o

WTTW
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/07/pride-month-shines-chicago-latino-lgbtq-communities-spotlight-youth-services
— Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Tripled Amid Surge of Migrants, Survey Found – Heather Cherone (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the number of unhoused will ever-increasingly increase in your county, township, municipality, and school district.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/07/number-unhoused-chicagoans-tripled-amid-surge-migrants-survey-found

WBEZ
— Chicago’s homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants. The city’s annual point-in-time count showed nearly 19,000 people were unhoused on a single night in January. – Tessa Weinberg (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the number of homeless will ever-increasingly increase in your county, township, municipality, and school district.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2024/06/07/chicagos-homeless-population-increased-threefold-a-city-snapshot-shows-owing-largely-to-migrants
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2024/06/05/chicago-pride-month-2024-your-guide-to-50-events-in-june

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Congress threatens Northwestern University with subpoena in antisemitism dispute. – Brandon Dupré
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/congress-threatens-northwestern-university-subpoena

WGLT
— Trump moves many campaign responsibilities to Turning Point Action – Ximena Bustillo, Michel Martin, Lisa Hagen
https://www.wglt.org/2024-06-07/trump-moves-many-campaign-responsibilities-to-outside-group-turning-point-action

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he’ll vote against recreational pot after brother’s death – AP (COMMENT: As more and more and more succumb to Democrats and use pot, more and more and more will die from using pot.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-florida-sen-rick-scott-says-hell-vote-against-recreational-pot-after-brothers-death/

CITIES 92.9
— Bill allowing permanent nursing home mail-in voting awaits Pritzker’s signature – Catrina Petersen (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that more and more and more mail-n ballots will come from Democrat nursing home residents who are 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150+ years old.)
https://www.cities929.com/2024/06/07/bill-allowing-permanent-nursing-home-mail-in-voting-awaits-pritzkers-signature/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/06/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-101/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What distinguishes you from your critics/opponents? My critics/opponents a) oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members, b) reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform, c) destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operative or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, d) despise if not hate Trump and despise if not hate those who share Trump’s demographics, and/or e) have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Will the Republican Party die like the Whig Party did? The Whig Party died because it did not adopt, defend, and advance a strong anti-slavery plank in its platform. Will the Republican Party die because it fails/refuses to defend and advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— EDUCATION, FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT CAN OVERCOME POVERTY – Chris Coffey
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/research-shows-education-full-time-employment-can-overcome-poverty/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Nearly half of Americans believe young people are influenced by pop culture to identify as LGBTQ – Emily Crane
https://nypost.com/2024/06/07/us-news/nearly-half-of-americans-believe-young-people-are-influenced-by-pop-culture-to-identify-as-lgbtq-poll/

BREITBART
— Illegal Aliens March Through Times Square Chanting ‘Abolish ICE!’ – AMY FURR (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, if not already, illegals will march through your downtown.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/07/video-report-illegal-aliens-march-times-square-chanting-abolish-ice/
— Trump Floats Putting U.S. Tariffs on Countries Refusing to Take Back Their Illegal Aliens – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/07/trump-floats-putting-u-s-tariffs-on-countries-refusing-to-take-back-their-illegal-aliens/
— Mexico Funds Lawsuit for Illegal Migrants in Florida – ELIZABETH WEIBEL (COMMENT: Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America. Mexicans continue to be furious about the War of 1848.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/06/07/report-mexico-funds-lawsuit-illegal-migrants-florida/
— Biden Scores Migrants More Jobs While Americans Drop Out of Workforce – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/07/joe-biden-scores-migrants-more-jobs-while-americans-drop-out-workforce/

DAILY CALLER
— American-Born Workers Are Getting Killed In Biden’s Economy – WILL KESSLER (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If there had been as many foreign-born workers when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/07/jobs-under-biden-going-foreign-born-workers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Native-born American workers are taking a beating in the job market from gains by foreign-born workers, according to the data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday. The number of foreign-born workers employed in the U.S. rose by 637,000 in the last year to nearly 30.9 million, while the number of employed native-born Americans has declined by 299,000, according to the BLS. As a consequence of foreign-born workers taking up job gains, the number of American-born workers with jobs is still below the number counted in July 2019.)

EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Amends Disclosure to Include Gift Trips. Justice Thomas had left out two trips in 2019. – Zachary Stieber
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-amends-disclosure-to-include-gift-trips-5664707

FEDERALIST
— Biden’s Border Order Does Nothing But Insult Americans’ Intelligence – HELEN RALEIGH
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/07/bidens-border-order-does-nothing-but-insult-americans-intelligence/
— Foreign-Born Workers Dominate U.S. Job Gains While Native-Born Americans Struggle – BRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/07/foreign-born-workers-dominate-u-s-job-gains-while-native-born-americans-struggle/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— More ‘Gotaways’ During the First Three Years of the Biden Administration Than in Previous Decade – Ira Mehlman
https://www.fairus.org/more-gotaways-during-first-three-years-biden-administration-previous-decade

FOX NEWS
— Illegal immigrants are offered an array of taxpayer funded benefits, enticing more to come: ‘Pull factor’ There have been more than 7 million migrant crossings during the Biden administration. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/explained-what-can-illegal-immigrants-get-free-united-states
— Dem in major Senate race accused of ‘pandering’ to Black voters by supporting reparations. The conservative Win it Back PAC is launching an ad targeting Hispanic voters, who largely oppose reparations. – Brandon Gillespie
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-major-senate-race-accused-pandering-black-voters-supporting-reparations

GOPUSA
— Feds Send Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To The Taliban
https://www.gopusa.com/feds-send-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-the-taliban/

NEWSMAX
— Kids Pushed to ID as LGBTQ – Solange Reyner (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-poll-trans/2024/06/07/id/1167928/

ONE NEWS PAGE
— ILLEGALS TAKE TIME SQUARE!
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20240607/16979888/ILLEGALS-TAKE-TIME-SQUARE!-LIVE-FROM-AMERICA.htm

TOWNHALL
— Voters in Arizona Will Decide If Police Can Arrest Illegal Aliens – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/06/07/arizona-ballot-measure-about-police-arresting-illegals-n2640109
— Number of Illegal Aliens From Far-Flung Nations Continues to Surge – Jamie Parsons
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jamie-parsons/2024/06/07/large-number-of-illegal-aliens-caught-at-southern-border-last-month-n2639918
— Tens of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Exempt From Biden’s ‘Tough’ Executive Order – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/06/07/new-report-reveals-tens-of-thousands-of-illegal-immigrants-exempt-from-bidens-tough-executive-order-n2640117
— The Trump Trial: Lawfare and Its Consequences
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2024/06/07/the-trump-trial:-lawfare-and-its-consequences

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Republicans who see Trump conviction as politically motivated vow to ‘indict the left’ Republicans who view Donald Trump’s felony conviction by a Manhattan jury as politically motivated are calling on GOP prosecutors to start charging Democrats with crimes. – AP (COMMENT: All the many adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me were politically motivated.)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republicans-trump-conviction-politically-motivated-vow-indict-left-110823249

MSN
— Kohl’s will not sponsor 2024 Republican National Convention events – Audrey Baker
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kohl-s-will-not-sponsor-2024-republican-national-convention-events/ar-BB1nPuGO
— Duckworth leading Democrats’ push to protect reproductive rights. – Carrie Shepherd (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. During the 1980s, my Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-sen-tammy-duckworth-leading-democrats-push-to-protect-reproductive-rights/ar-BB1nNVwL

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/biden-employment-immigrants/

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/08/migrants-face-tough-path-mexico-border/73818094007/

DENVER 7
— ‘First gens’ chase the American Dream through education (COMMENT: I was a first gen, and not only that, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4NA7ji2F5_c

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.