March 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tesla-takedown-protestors-rally-elon-musk-downtown-chicago-dealership-north-rush-street-side/16103560/
— 15-year-old boy shot as large crowd of teens gather in Streeterville. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-injures-boy-large-crowd-teens-seen-north-city-front-plaza-drive-streeterville-cpd/16102153/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/3709285/
— Brandon Johnson, other officials react to massive Streeterville teen gatherings. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/brandon-johnson-other-officials-react-to-massive-streeterville-teen-gatherings/3709275/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-protesters-rally-at-tesla-showrooms/
— Trump says he’s considering all options to obtain Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc6S_8tjTw

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1616579

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against large corporations to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/26/some-consumers-are-boycotting-large-corporations-over-dei-rollbacks-here-s-what-know
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/28/illinois-intellectual-and-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/hundreds-gather-at-gold-coast-tesla-dealership-as-part-of-national-protests-against-doge/
— Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/student-protester-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/trump-election-order-confusion/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime and criminals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-second-chance-month-reentry-incarceration/
— More Black families are choosing to homeschool. A new bill undermines their choices.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-homeschool-regulation-illinois-black-families/
— Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get Illinoisans back to work
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/jobs-economy-licensing-springfield/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing unite those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/03/29/black-brown-community-migrants-federal-cuts-democrats-trump-musk-durbin-music-editorials
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/28/veterans-affairs-nurse-va-jesse-brown-protest

DAILY HERALD
— The hottest mayor’s races to watch in DuPage, Kane counties. What about the hottest township supervisor races?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/news/the-hottest-mayors-races-to-watch-in-dupage-kane-counties/
— Partisan politics creeping into local races
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/local-politics/unnecessary-angst-partisan-politics-creeping-into-local-races/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois is a state where effective government ideas go to die
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-illinois-is-a-state-where-effective-government-ideas-go-to-die/article_d3275911-c755-4a55-903c-d95ffa057b99.html

JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/farmers-trump-tariffs-impact-20200091.php

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Trump’s election order creates much confusion before the next federal election in 2026. President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to change how elections are run in the U.S. is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_11d9359e-f855-5a37-8e45-fb582a081a2e.html

HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/03/28/joliet-activists-to-join-nationwide-protest-against-trump-musk-on-april-5/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly argue/shout against deporting their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/southwest-border-mission-has-cost-330m-so-far-with-over-40m-for-guantanamo-bay-alone-sources/
— Dozens of emotional Department of Education employees took part in a final “clap-out” in Washington, D.C., after losing jobs amid the Trump administration’s agency restructuring. Needless-to-say, I got no clap out from my Democrat GAO coworkers on my last day September 30, 1997. They were furious about Gingrich’s gutting of the agency. They took their anger against Gingrich out on me.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/emotional-education-department-clap-outs-celebrate-departed-federal-employees/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-transgender-people-are-about-1-of-the-us-population-yet-theyre-a-political-lightning-rod/ .
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-juggling-advocacy-with-schoolwork-2-new-hampshire-transgender-girls-fight-to-play-team-sports/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/

WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/29/intellectual-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid-cuts/

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois’ rainy-day fund, emergency reserves lowest in country
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/29/illinois-rainy-day-fund-emergency-reserves-lowest-in-country/

CWB CHICAGO
— Street takeovers clog North Side streets again as CPD tries to beef up its response
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/street-takeovers-clog-north-side-streets-again-as-cpd-tries-to-beef-up-its-response.html
— 1 shot, 1 stabbed, at least 15 arrested as teen mob swarms downtown Chicago again
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/1-shot-1-stabbed-at-least-15-arrested-as-teen-mob-swarms-downtown-chicago-again.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?
https://johnkassnews.com/are-democrats-whitewashing-hitler-with-lame-attacks-on-trump/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump administration returns immigration authority to the states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3363012/trump-administration-returns-immigration-authority-to-the-states/
— AOC and Bernie Sanders fill the Democratic Party leadership vacuum. Pritzker wants to fill that vacuum.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3363162/progressives-leadership-vacuum-biden-2024-loss/#google_vignette

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Inconvenient Truth about H-1B Visas. Americans are told that mass immigration will bring the world’s geniuses to our country. The numbers tell a different story.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-h-1b-visas/

BREITBART
— ICE Has Nearly 50,000 Illegal Migrants in Detention
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/29/ice-has-nearly-50000-illegal-migrants-in-detention/

DAILY WIRE
— Homan Steps In After Officers In Sanctuary City Targeted For Helping ICE. “Help is coming!” Gingrich did not step up for Republican GAO employees like me who my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-steps-in-after-officers-in-sanctuary-city-targeted-for-helping-ice

EPOCH TIMES
— Nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ Demonstrations Bring Out Protesters, Counter-Protesters. Seeking a nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest, organizers published an online interactive map for hundreds of protests across the country on March 29. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nationwide-tesla-takedown-demonstrations-bring-out-protesters-counter-protesters-5833559
— Federal Judge Halts Shutdown of Voice of America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-halts-shutdown-of-voice-of-america-5833487

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708
— Trump administration is working to reinstate fired federal employees to comply with court orders. During the 1980s and 1990s, Republican Senators and Congressmen did not come to the defense of GAO’s Republican employees who the Democrats who ran GAO got rid of because of Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts.
https://www.aol.com/trump-administration-says-working-reinstate-164826963.html

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/worldwide-protests-at-tesla-dealerships-blast-trump-and-musk-for-u-s-government-purge/

CNBC
— In Trump era, companies are rebranding DEI efforts, not giving up
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/in-trump-era-companies-are-rebranding-dei-efforts-not-giving-up.html

AOL
— Melania Trump Reveals Barron Trump’s Living Situation For College. Like Barron, I lived with my parents while I attended college. I lived with them in Crete while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends while I attended NIU during the winter/spring of 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.aol.com/melania-trump-reveals-barron-trumps-120119348.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Melania Trump said her son Barron Trump is living at home while he attends New York University. “I could not say I’m an empty nester. I don’t feel that way,” the former first lady told Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired Thursday. “It was his decision to come here, that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home, and I respect that.” That would presumably mean that the new college man is living at the family’s longtime Trump Tower residence on Fifth Avenue and commuting a few miles south to the Greenwich Village campus. Barron Trump is former President Donald Trump’s youngest son and his only child with Melania Trump. He graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in May and began classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business in early September.)
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less that you belong in America: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/finance/merrill-lynch-wealth-adviser-lgbtq-212907655.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/democrats-strategy-2024.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Bernie Sanders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/bernie-sanders-rallies-anger.html
— They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the White House. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/business/economy/birthrate-politics-vance-musk.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s threat of towering tariffs on European booze is sobering. Wine and spirits can be markers of national and regional identity — which could make a coming trade fight between the U.S. and Europe much more emotional. The Democrat GAO Chicago office manager who led the Democrat effort to waste my career and to get rid of me was an extremely big drinker. If he had not had to go on extended sick leave in 1985 because of his big drinking, the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 would not have been able to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986 or to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/30/trump-tarrifs-alcohol-wine-spirits/
— Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of his tariffs. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and more especially muscle cars, and even more especially Corvettes. I have owned American nameplate cars since 1964, muscle cars since 1966, a 1972 Corvette since 1971, and a 2005 Corvette since 2005. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/29/trump-auto-tariffs-prices-rise/
— Trump seeks takeover of elections in a bid for more presidential power
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/30/trump-seeks-takeover-elections/

USA TODAY
— Republicans have turned on judges. Imagine who they would pick for SCOTUS. I should write about the judges and justices who have ruled against me. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) sided with GAO, that is, they sided with political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation. Their rulings tremendously discourage those who share my demographics from applying to work for GAO. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and I have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/28/trump-supreme-court-maga/82665953007/

KGW NEWS
— After more than 30 years as a social security worker, Laura Novakoski’s last day on April 7. She’s worried about how staff shortages will impact the agency. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would no need for DOGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0lDC12Nqw

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Taiwan Dares to Hope Trump Will Back It Against Beijing. White House push to confront China has reassured officials in Taipei, who watched Trump’s shift on Ukraine with alarm.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/trump-taiwan-support-china-8041630d

POLITICO
— White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-00259299

INDEPENDENT
— Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.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.