WGN TV
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://wgntv.com/2018/03/24/1211122/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The GOP platform’s ruling plan, Trumpism, casts aside previously understood values – Ashley Parker (DIERSEN: Republicans voted for Trump in 2016 because he promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republicans voted for Rauner in 2014 because he promised to have no social agenda.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-gop-platform-trumpism-20180324-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Over just a few days last week, the essence of Trumpism was on global display: The president ignored his advisers by congratulating Vladimir Putin, took the first steps toward imposing tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese goods and signed a huge $1.3 trillion spending bill that will balloon the federal deficit. In each case, President Donald Trump cast aside years of Republican orthodoxy – and most of the party followed right along. The raw, undefined brand of populism that Trump rode into office is now hardening into a clearer set of policies in his second year, remaking the Republican Party and the country on issues ranging from trade and immigration to spending and entitlement programs.)
— Man busted with loaded gun, body armor at Union Station – William Lee
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-man-arrested-with-body-armor-20180324-story.html
— New study proves old truth: Lies travel faster than facts – Jerry Davich (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, everything is a lie except for what they say or bless.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-ptb-davich-twitter-false-info-study-st-0321-20180318-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— District 128 board member facing perjury charges resigns – Russell Lissau
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180323/district-128-board-member-facing-perjury-charges-resigns
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rauner says he remembers, but won’t yet name, computerless office – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180324/bernard-schoenburg-rauner-says-he-remembers-but-wont-yet-name-computerless-office
— GOP competition – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180324/bernard-schoenburg-rauner-says-he-remembers-but-wont-yet-name-computerless-office
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While Democrats elected members of their state central committee in the primary, members of the GOP’s state committee will be elected by precinct committeemen at county conventions on April 18. And a race is shaping up in the 13th Congressional District. DUSTIN PETERSON, 37, of Clinton, an independent insurance agent who has been DeWitt County GOP chairman since 2014, is taking on incumbent member FRED FLORETH of Springfield, a lawyer finishing his first four-year term in the party post. “I’m not running against Fred, I’m running more just to try to expand my role with the Republican Party, and try to learn more and be more involved and try to, for lack of a better word … get a little more of a youth movement in there,” Peterson said. Peterson said he was neutral in the governor’s primary, has supported Rauner in the past and supports him in the general election. “Hopefully we can all come together as a party,” he said. Floreth, who turns 62 this weekend, put on an impressive campaign back in 2014 when he defeated an incumbent on the central committee, JERRY CLARKE. The 13th includes all or parts of 14 counties. Floreth, who supported Rauner in the primary, also says the party must come together after last week’s primary. He said he knows there some profound disagreements in the party, as illustrated by the showing of Rauner’s primary opponent, state Rep. JEANNE IVES. But he said all in the party “would have to conclude Governor Rauner is by far the better option” to run the state than Democratic candidate J.B. PRITZKER. Floreth says he thinks he has accomplished goals he set when he ran four years ago, including improving the experience of precinct committeemen at the state convention through allowing more say in policy and helping keep information flowing between the central committee and local party officials. He noted that he sends out a newsletter at least every other week, and helped improve training for precinct committeemen.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180324/march-for-our-lives-springfield-draws-hundreds
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— The choice What’s it going to be in November — a do-over for Republican Bruce Rauner or a return to one-party rule under Democrat J.B. Pritzker? – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-03-25/editorial-the-choice.html
— Confident Pritzker has ambitious spending plans – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2018-03-25/jim-dey-confident-pritzker-has-ambitious-spending-plans.html
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Informed voters can withstand negative ads – Editorial (DIERSEN: Who wants you to be informed? My critics/opponents do NOT want you to be informed; they want you to know only what they tell you. That is why they viciously demonize, viciously denigrate, and viciously condemn me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Do you side with my critics/opponents, or do you side with me and the First Amendment?)
http://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-informed-voters-can-withstand-negative-ads/article_3ca08663-23c0-5218-ad52-9fac420af7b3.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/hundreds-gather-for-gun-reform-in-bloomington/article_b5ab329d-406d-54df-9b9a-9feee816582c.html
NORTHWEST HERALD
— State Rep. Steve Reick blasts Gov. Bruce Rauner in blog post
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/03/23/state-rep-steve-reick-blasts-gov-bruce-rauner-in-blog-post/akx99lj/
HERALD & REVIEW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
https://herald-review.com/news/local/desperate-to-do-something-decatur-anti-violence-march-proceeds-despite/article_21e61a90-1c2c-58e2-a497-cb67f83dd7bd.html
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://jg-tc.com/news/march-for-our-lives-nd-amendment-support-rallies-held/article_706b07b6-e578-59eb-b369-01de40bb0f57.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/ofallon-progress/article206442614.html
ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Rauner Still Claims No Social Agenda – Greg Bishop (DIERSEN: If that is true, than Rauner should happily sign a “Contract with Illinois Republicans” in which he would agree to take no actions against the traditional family, right to life, immigration, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform.)
http://altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=262334#.WrdmJcuKSM8
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In starting his post-primary re-election campaign, Gov. Bruce Rauner said Thursday he still doesn’t have a social agenda, but critics disagree. During a campaign stop in Springfield two days after narrowly winning the Republican nomination, Rauner said he has no social agenda, something the wealthy political newcomer maintained before being elected as a Republican in 2014. “You’ve never ever seen me or heard me or watched me advocate on social issues. I’ve never done it,” Rauner said. “I advocate on lower taxes, more jobs and ending corruption.” State Rep. David McSweeney, who has called Rauner a failed governor, said Rauner approved more abortions to be paid for by taxpayers and a measure that prohibits law enforcement from detaining someone based solely on that person’s immigration status. “He does have a social agenda,” McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, said. “He signed [House Bill] 40. He signed [Senate Bill] 31, which definitely is a sanctuary state bill.” McSweeney said SB31, also known as the TRUST Act, prohibits law enforcement from detaining someone based solely on that person’s immigration status. “It’s been a very big issue up in my area, in Lake County and McHenry County, where there are real examples of people who are being let out of jail even though the federal government wants them detained,” he said.)
QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— Each Rauner vote worth $215 – SARAH HAYDEN (DIERSEN: 41 voted for Rauner in my precinct. 41 X $215 is $8,815. 64 voted for Ives in my precinct. 64 X $12 is $768.)
http://qconline.com/news/local/each-rauner-vote-worth/article_d45919eb-7c42-5807-a671-c1f699442e41.html
— Raise your hand if you voted for neo-Nazi (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain? How many voters in your precinct asked you about the candidates on the March 20, 2018 Republican ballot in your precinct? None of the 504 registered voters in my precinct asked me about the candidates on the March 20, 2018 Republican ballot in my precinct. Sadly, disgustingly, and outrageously, that is not surprising. Since 1999, those who dominate the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, the DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and the Illinois Republican Party have done everything that they can to discredit me with the voters in my precinct. Officially, they hint/imply/argue/shout that I am “too conservative,” and because of that, candidates that I might promote in primaries are “too conservative” to win general elections. But from what I see, having lived in my precinct since 1984, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout behind my back, under the table, and below the belt at the voters in my precinct and at everyone else that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. Maybe I should sue them.)
http://qconline.com/opinion/editorial/raise-your-hand-if-you-voted-for-neo-nazi/article_e2c4d73e-6884-5df2-b165-711325137bd1.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It wasn’t democracy’s finest hour. On Election Day, the sole Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District was a Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi. And he got more than 20,000 votes. Ugh. Ideally, Arthur Jones would have received no votes because he deserves no support. But even one vote – his own – would have been enough to win Tuesday’s primary because he ran unopposed. Instead he got 20,458. The Cook County Clerk’s Office reports that 70 percent of suburban voters in the district pulling a Republican ballot checked his name. We blame a lack of situational awareness. Republicans didn’t bother to recruit a legitimate candidate because the district is gerrymandered to elect a Democrat. So Jones waltzed in and now is set to run on their ticket in November against incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski. This embarrassment is on Republicans. Let both parties stay awake during future filing periods to prevent unsavory characters from hijacking their good names. Most voters didn’t intend to support Jones, we’re certain. They voted the party line and automatically filled in the box next to his name. Why research an unopposed candidate? We wish they had paid more attention to news reports. If they feel a little chagrined, they ought to. The lesson here is democracy is imperfect. But it’s also self-correcting, 3rd District residents. This November: Vote Lipinski. All of you.)
FOX 6 NOW
— ‘Manipulating and exploiting children:’ NRA responds as students ‘March for Our Lives’ – CNN
http://fox6now.com/2018/03/24/manipulating-and-exploiting-children-nra-responds-as-students-march-for-our-lives/
KTVS 12
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/37802103/hundreds-marched-in-carbondale-for-stricter-gun-laws
CAPITOL FAX
— Reader comments closed until April 2 (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. I have sent out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS email a) each and every morning since 2004 and b) also each and every evening since 2015. What do you say to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who dismiss, belittle, badmouth, demonize, denigrate, and/or condemn that?)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/03/23/reader-comments-closed-until-april-2/
NEWSMAX
— Trump Lawyer Confirms ‘Deep State’ Plots to Destroy President (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government treated me like I was part of a plot to stop patronage and to stop political affiliation discrimination, that is, that I was part of a plot to stop them from hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. They were fully aware of Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, and the Rutan decision. They knew that my wife had helped elect Thompson. SEE: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/13/us/seeking-return-to-ways-of-patronage-in-politics.html.)
https://w3.newsmax.com/General/NMM/Offers/Killing-the-Deep-State-PD
AMERICAN THINKER
— Mass hysteria and the anti-gun marches – Michael Filozof
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/mass_hysteria_and_the_antigun_marches.html
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Gun-Rights Groups Slam New YouTube Anti-Gun Policy ‘YouTube is now in the business of political posturing and censorship’ – Stephen Gutowski
http://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-rights-groups-slam-new-youtube-anti-gun-policy/
FOX NEWS
— Cry fowl! Media go hunting as Trump hires ‘hawk’ Bolton and other outlandish media bias – Dan Gainor (DIERSEN: Who cried fowl when you were hired? Democrats cried fowl a) when the Post Office hired me in 1966 and let me work there for almost 3 years, b) when IRS hired me in 1971, promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and let me work there for almost 9 years, and c) when GAO hired me in 1980, promoted me in 1986, and let me work there for almost 18 years.)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/24/cry-fowl-media-go-hunting-as-trump-hires-hawk-bolton-and-other-outlandish-media-bias.html
BLAZE
— Gun rights advocates blast new YouTube policy of censoring videos showing legal gun activity – Teri Webster (DIERSEN: What do you say to my critics/opponents who want to stop me from including links to articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails a) that promote the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, illegal drugs, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and the rest of the planks in the Republican Party platform and the Illinois Republican Party platform, b) that promote the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling, and c) that oppose promoting dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of Second Amendment rights, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation?)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/03/24/gun-rights-advocates-blast-new-youtube-policy-of-censoring-videos-showing-legal-gun-activity
THE HILL
— Unbound Trump breaks from restraints – NIALL STANAGE (DIERSEN: Republicans voted for Trump in 2016 because he promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republicans voted for Rauner in 2014 because he promised to have no social agenda.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/380075-the-memo-unbound-trump-breaks-from-restraints?userid=3526
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Republicans hint/imply/argue/shout that Republican candidates can win in Illinois if they dump the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/380114-illinois-election-shows-democrats-can-win-by-embracing-the-center
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/380143-seven-most-memorable-moments-from-march-for-our-lives
— Fox News hosts tear into Trump over spending bill – AVERY ANAPOL
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/380057-fox-news-hosts-tear-into-trump-over-spending-bill
NBC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/march-our-lives-draws-hundreds-thousands-washington-around-nation-n859716
NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/march-for-our-lives.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/politics/students-lead-huge-rallies-for-gun-control-across-the-us.html
— Stop Asking About My Kid’s College Plans – Elisabeth Egan (DIERSEN: Were you considered to be college material? While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I took college preparatory courses notwithstanding the fact that many, if not most, if not virtually everyone at the time viewed me as NOT being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the top 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, I was draft bait, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease). Further, my father had fought type 1 diabetes from age 14. I am sure that many thought that I would soon come down with type 1 diabetes too.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/stop-asking-about-my-kids-college-plans.html
— 2018: A Tough Year for First-Time Buyers Tax law changes, low inventory and tight credit may present extra hurdles this year for people buying their first homes. – Jen Miller (DIERSEN: Government should encourage marriage and homeownership. Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/realestate/2018-a-tough-year-for-first-time-buyers.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot promoters promote pot. If you promote pot, you promote destruction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/arkansas-marijuana-cotton-plant.html
WASHINGTON POST
— How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party The president has used legislation and unilateral actions to push ahead with a vision often at odds with GOP orthodoxy. – Ashley Parker (DIERSEN: Republicans voted for Trump in 2016 because he promised to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republicans voted for Rauner in 2014 because he promised to have no social agenda.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/?utm_term=.79af6bb25ddd
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats blame Republicans for gun violence. Democrats crow over their success in getting people to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/march-for-our-lives-huge-crowds-gather-for-rally-against-gun-violence-in-nations-capital/2018/03/24/4121b100-2f7d-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/march-for-our-lives-in-photos/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/anti-gun-marches-planned-for-cities-throughout-the-us-world/2018/03/24/a7365514-2f59-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-message-at-anti-gun-violence-rallies-do-what-the-students-say/2018/03/24/1a9afbd6-2f87-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Health-Insurance Premiums Loom as Election Issue – Stephanie Armour (DIERSEN: How much do you pay in health insurance premiums? Because I am a federal retiree, my wife and I pay only $6,000/year for $24,000/year worth of health, dental, and vision insurance premiums – the federal government pays $18,000/year. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are beyond furious about that. Because we get that $18,000/year subsidy, they viciously demonize me, viciously denigrate me, and viciously condemn me. They hint/imply/argue/shout behind my back, under the table, and below the belt at the voters in my precinct and at everyone else that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. Maybe I should sue them.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-insurance-premiums-loom-as-election-issue-1521975600
FORBES
— Ten Things You Must Find Out — Before You Take The Job – Liz Ryan (DIERSEN: Have you accepted job offers for jobs that others would not seek and/or would not take? Reasons why I accepted the Post Office’s part-time job offer in 1966 included my needing money to pay for college expenses and for new cars. Reasons why I accepted IRS’s job offer in 1971 included my being unemployed and needing money to help support my mother and brother. Reasons why I accepted GAO’s job offer in 1980 included my being impressed with GAO’s mission and my hoping that GAO really was a non-partisan agency like it claimed it was.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2018/03/24/ten-things-you-must-find-out-before-you-take-the-job/#6e207e0e4913
CHEAT SHEET
— How Does the Broke Middle Class Really Afford Retirement? – Emma Bleznak (DIERSEN: In today’s dollars, my salary in 1997, when I was 49 years old, was $125,325. In today’s dollars, I should have had $626,625 saved when I was 50, $751,950 saved when I was 55, $877,275 saved when I was 60, and $1,002,600 saved when I was 65. I did not have the aforesaid saved because my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/broke-middle-class-really-afford-retirement.html/?a=viewall
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An alarming 70% of American adults have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts. Experts have crunched the numbers to identify how much you should have saved at each age milestone for a comfortable retirement. By age 30, aim to have the equivalent of your annual salary saved. Every five years, increase this in single increments: By 35, you should have twice your annual salary saved and by 40-years-old you should have three times. By 65-years-old this will leave you with a savings equivalent to eight times your annual salary.)
SAN FRANCISCO GATE
— ‘Let’s listen to them’: Calif. politicians tweet messages of support for March for Our Lives (DIERSEN: What do you say to Republican politicians who want Republican Precinct Committeemen to focus on listening to the voters in their precinct rather than advocating the Republican Party platform, the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform, and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) resolution against video gambling? Democrat and Democrat plant, Libertarian and Libertarian plant, Green and Green plant, and RINO politicians in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois a) want me to listen to the voters in my precinct who reject planks in the Republican Party platform and the IRP platform, b) want me to listen to voters who reject the MTRCC resolution against video gambling, and c) do not want me to advocate the aforesaid planks or resolution.)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/march-for-our-lives-california-politicians-difi-12778832.php
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Hiring John Bolton is Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous Decision – Ted Rall (DIERSEN: Who warns employers to NOT hire you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress that the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), the DuPage County Republican Central Committee, the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), etc. have NOT hired me to serve as a webmaster. Those who warn employers to NOT hire me a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the IRP platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the MTRCC resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid and/or are anti-Trump supporters, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-draft avoiders, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_ted_rall/hiring_john_bolton_is_donald_trump_s_most_dangerous_decision
WINDY CITY TIMES
— GOP aide fired after Grindr hookup – Matt Simonette
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Report-GOP-aide-fired-after-Grindr-hookup/62347.html
COLDWELL BANKER
— FOR SALE: 825 Warrenville Road, Wheaton – $335,000
https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/il/wheaton/825-warrenville-road/pid_23798545/
