May 3 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Wheaton Mayor Mike Gresk and Acting DuPage County Republican Central Committee Chairman Marty Keller spoke very highly of 6th Congressional District Candidate Evelyn Sanguinetti at her outstanding fundraiser at Arrowhead Golf Club in Wheaton Thursday evening, May 2, 2019. The 75+ attendees included Colgan, Eckhoff, Falbo, Fitzpatrick, Hartwell, Henry, Jacobsen, Jani, Khouri, Kordik, Kubinski, L. Lewis, S. Lewis, Minor, Nathwani, Pineda, Prater, Rathje, Rutledge, Saake, Veenstra, and D. Wagner. – Dave Diersen 
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  Justice Joe Birkett spoke very highly of Judge Ann Celine Walsh at her outstanding fundraiser at Danada House in Wheaton Thursday evening, May 2, 2019.  The 200+ attendees included Anderson, Anthanikar, Bakalis, Berlin, Brenan, Cody, Dabrowski, Dunsing, Fleming, Ford, Fullerton, Gibson, Grogan, Hayes, Hovde, Jacobs, Kachiroubas, Kinsella, Marquardt, McGimpsey, McCluskey, McJoynt, Orel, Prater, Puchalski, Rohm, Ruhl, Russo, Schwartz, Skarin, Sutter, Telander, Thomas, Wilson, and Zay. The 54+ event sponsors included J. Anderson, Brenan, Creswell, Ice Miller, and Tornatore. – Dave Diersen 
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin spoke very highly of DuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick at his outstanding fundraiser at Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse in Oak Brook Thursday evening, May 2, 2019. According to a report, the 200+ attendees included Bristol, Corneils, Dabrowski, Holder, Krajewski, Kubinski, McGowen, Minor, Monino, Noonan, Ozog, Pineda, Puchalski, Prater, Ruhl, Tornatore, Valle, Wilkins, and Zay. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— When taxpayers trust Springfield … Part 2: ‘Give us the tax hike, we’ll fix Illinois!’ – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-tax-cullerton-20190503-story.html#new_tab

WGN RADIO
— DuPage County Stormwater Management Chairman Jim Zay on flooding season
https://wgnradio.com/2019/05/02/dupage-county-stormwater-management-chairman-jim-zay-on-flooding-season/

WBEZ
— Study: 45% Of Young Black Men In Chicago Out Of School, Out Of Work – Sarah Karp
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/study-45-of-young-black-men-in-chicago-out-of-school-out-of-work/accdb508-24ab-4000-a98a-a29281140914
— Tie Legalized Sports Betting To Chicago Casino, City Says – Tony Arnold
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/tie-legalized-sports-betting-to-chicago-casino-city-says/a38a5cf1-f9aa-48f8-bce0-7f7742832330
— Chicago’s Section 8 Vouchers Increasing In Black Communities, Declining In White Neighborhoods – Natalie Moore
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/more-section-8-vouchers-in-chicagos-black-neighborhoods-than-a-decade-ago/e461cdf4-22d1-45bd-9522-e0983c2d1c08

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Chips back on table for gambling advocates – Grant Morgan (DIERSEN: Gambling is a vice.)
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190502/chips-back-on-table-for-gambling-advocates
— State Rep. Reick charged with DUI – Bernard Schoenburg (DIERSEN: Booze is a vice.)
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190502/state-rep-reick-charged-with-dui
— State worker, teacher pension buyouts have mixed results – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, GAO offered all its employees who had 25 or more years of federal service, including me, $25,000 to take early retirement.) 
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190502/state-worker-teacher-pension-buyouts-have-mixed-results

MDJ ONLINE
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: Illinois’ GDP growth lags behind national economic expansion – Greg Bishop
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/illinois-gdp-growth-lags-behind-national-economic-expansion/article_2526fc36-3f1a-5f30-a09e-cf6aa706d821.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Colleges face a conundrum when student athletes are invited to the White House – MARIANA BARILLAS
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/colleges-face-a-conundrum-when-student-athletes-are-invited-to-the-white-house

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— Nearly 700 area business leaders attend 10th Annual DuPage County Regional Outlook event (DIERSEN: My wife and I have lived in DuPage County since 1978. People are attracted to DuPage County because of its prosperity and safety. Republicans created that prosperity and safety. But ever-increasingly and tragically, that prosperity and safety attracts people who are and/or pander to those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) 
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2019/05/02/nearly-700-area-business-leaders-attend-10th-annual-dupage-county-regional-outlook-event/99945

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Rep. Steve Reick Arrested for DUI in Springfield
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/05/02/state-rep-steve-reick-arrested-for-dui-in-springfield/

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Sponsor of recreational cannabis bill tries to calm concerns from critics – Greg Bishop
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/sponsor-of-recreational-cannabis-bill-tries-to-calm-concerns-from/article_3a36fa86-6d15-11e9-9254-a74b88301940.html

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— BORDER PATROL SAYS APPREHENSIONS IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY HAVE ALREADY SURPASSED ALL OF 2018
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/05/border-patrol-says-apprehensions-in-the-rio-grande-valley-have-already-surpassed-all-of-2018.html

DAILY CALLER
— POYNTER INSTITUTE SHELVES ENTIRE BLACKLIST OF ‘UNRELIABLE’ NEWS OUTLETS FOLLOWING BACKLASH – Mike Brest (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, www.gopillinois.com and GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are unreliable. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. Better yet, I should sue them.) 
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/poynter-shelves-entire-unreliable-news-outlets-list-following-backlash/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Poynter Institute, a journalism nonprofit organization, has completely disabled a list of what they labeled as an extensive list of “unreliable” news websites on Thursday night after facing scrutiny in the days since its publication. A litany of conservative publications, including The Washington Free Beacon and The Washington Examiner, were lumped into the list of “unreliable” publications and it received nearly instantaneous condemnation from them. “Soon after we published, we received complaints from those on the list and readers who objected to the inclusion of certain sites, and the exclusion of others. We began an audit to test the accuracy and veracity of the list, and while we feel that many of the sites did have a track record of publishing unreliable information, our review found weaknesses in the methodology,” Poynter’s managing editor Barbara Allen said in a statement on their website. “We detected inconsistencies between the findings of the original databases that were the sources for the list and our own rendering of the final report.” She went on, “We are removing this unreliable sites list until we are able to provide our audience a more consistent and rigorous set of criteria.” Aside from the list of “unreliable” news outlets, the initial publication included an accompanying article that called for advertisers to use the list in an effort to “blacklist” these websites. That language was deleted from the story and an update went along with it. Baybars Orsek, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network, told the Washington Examiner that they would be “evaluating all removal requests on a case by case basis,” and adding that “the total number of complaints is less than 2% of the whole database.”)
— ‘DAY OF THE LONG KNIVES:’ CONSERVATIVES, FREE SPEECH ADVOCATES CONDEMN LATEST FACEBOOK BANS – Scott Morefield
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/free-speech-advocates-condemn-facebook-bans/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Americans back the census citizenship question – Jennifer Harper 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/2/inside-the-beltway-americans-back-the-census-citiz/

GOPUSA
— Joe Biden says ‘Make America Moral Again’ but he belongs to the ‘party of infanticide’
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=68963

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Jeb Goes Full Bush On Sanctuary Cities – George Rasley
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/30178

FEDERALIST
— Why Affirmative Action Is Racist And Un-American Affirmative action creates a fixed mindset that because one is born into a specific racial or ethnic group, one is entitled to certain privileges such as lowered criteria. – Berlin Fang (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, up-or-out, and budget cuts a) to not hire, b) to not retain, and c) to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/affirmative-action-racist-un-american/
— Why Christian Children Don’t Belong In Public Schools Public education neither teaches nor believes in the transcendentals of truth, goodness, and beauty, the very pillars of the education that built the western world and flow from Christianity itself. – Aaron Ames (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned a) my being baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, b) my attending Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, c) my attending Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and d) my being confirmed as a MSL in 1962.)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/christian-children-dont-belong-public-schools/
— What Tainted Companies Should Do Instead Of Holocaust Reparations To rectify its connections to Nazism and the Holocaust, the Reimann family will donate approximately $11.2 million to ‘an organization that helps former slave laborers.’ – Beth Bailey (DIERSEN: How tainted are the employers that you worked for? My employers were the federal government, Firestone Stores, University Plaza Dormitory, Chrysler, John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, Flossmoor Country Club, and S.S. Kresges.) 
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/03/tainted-companies-instead-holocaust-reparations/

TOWNHALL
— Trump Is Right. Babies Born Alive in Failed Abortions Are Executed. – Jill Stanek
https://townhall.com/columnists/jillstanek/2019/05/03/trump-was-right-in-description-of-abortion-n2545750
— Trump’s Tax Cuts Boosting Economic Growth to 3.2 Percent – Donald Lambro
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2019/05/03/trumps-tax-cuts-boosting-economic-growth-to-32-percent-n2545751

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump soars in the polls for his stellar economy – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/trump_soars_in_the_polls_for_his_stellar_economy.html

NEWSMAX
— Half of College Kids Didn’t Have Food Money Last Month – Solange Reyner (DIERSEN: My outstanding parents provided me with room and board in their home in Crete a) while I attended UIC 1966-1968, b) when I came home weekends for my part-time Park Forest Post job during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and c) the summer of 1969.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/food-hunger-poverty-college/2019/05/02/id/914355/

BREITBART
— Trump Administration Observes Holocaust Remembrance Day – JOEL B. POLLAK (DIERSEN: In 1990, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when I volunteered to work for a younger female Jewish supervisor. That frustrated their efforts to paint me as being anti-younger people, anti-female, and anti-Semite. I should write a book about my GAO coworkers and subordinates who refused to work for supervisors who were younger than they were, female, and/or Jewish.)
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/05/02/trump-administration-observes-holocaust-remembrance-day/
— Poll: Plurality of Minority Voters Say ‘Too Easy’ for Foreigners to Get Asylum – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/02/poll-plurality-of-minority-voters-say-too-easy-for-foreigners-to-get-asylum/
— College Lobby: Congress Should Help Illegals Get U.S. Graduates’ Jobs – NEIL MUNRO (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will U.S. employers brag that they have stopped hiring U.S. citizens? In 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.) 
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/02/college-lobby-congress-should-help-illegals-get-u-s-graduates-jobs/

FOX NEWS
— Obama took Trump’s win as a personal insult, book says – Brie Stimson 
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-took-trumps-win-as-a-personal-insult-book-says

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Trump issues religious-freedom protections for doctors, nurses forced to do abortions – Calvin Freiburger
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-issues-religious-freedom-protections-for-doctors-nurses-forced-to-do-abortions

ONE NEWS NOW
— Sexual liberty over religious liberty? That’s not ‘equality’ – Chris Woodward
https://onenewsnow.com/business/2019/05/03/sexual-liberty-over-religious-liberty-thats-not-equality

COLLEGE FIX
— Schools offering woman-only scholarships may be in violation of Title IX – DYLAN HARRINGTON (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the harder that Trump-haters work to get rid of you: Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/schools-offering-woman-only-scholarships-may-be-in-violation-of-title-ix/
— New law in Washington state will allow public universities to factor race, sex into admissions – DANIEL PAYNE (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, up-or-out, and budget cuts a) to not hire, b) to not retain, and c) to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-law-in-washington-state-will-allow-public-universities-to-factor-race-sex-into-admissions/

POLITICO
— Facebook wades deeper into censorship debate as it bans ‘dangerous’ accounts – CRISTIANO LIMA (DIERSEN: Who wants you to be banned and why? I should write a book about those who want me to be banned and why. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee 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.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/02/facebook-bans-far-right-alex-jones-1299247

CNN
— Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other ‘dangerous’ voices banned from Facebook and Instagram – Oliver Darcy (DIERSEN: Who wants you to be banned and why? I should write a book about those who want me to be banned and why. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee 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.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html

ABC NEWS
— After decades of delay inside GM, ‘mythic’ mid-engine Corvette is in production – MORGAN KORN
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/decades-delay-inside-gm-mythic-mid-engine-corvette/story?id=62789071

NEW YORK TIMES
— Tuition or Dinner? Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry Many routinely skip meals and take ‘poverty naps’ because they cannot afford groceries. Campus food pantries are helping, but are they enough? – Kaya Laterman (DIERSEN: My outstanding parents provided me with room and board in their home in Crete a) while I attended UIC 1966-1968, b) when I came home weekends for my part-time Park Forest Post Office job during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and c) the summer of 1969.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/nyregion/hunger-college-food-insecurity.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Google workers want to outlaw mandatory arbitration. Here’s why this matters. Corporations win in arbitration. Workers and consumers win in court. – Sarah Staszak (DIERSEN: I have been an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (https://www.finra.org/arbitration-and-mediation) since 1998. Do not enter into a contract that contains a mandatory arbitration clause. SEE: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1975935/diersen-v-joe-keim-builders-inc/) 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/03/google-workers-want-outlaw-mandatory-arbitration-heres-why-this-matters/
— His Instagram posts pledged to ‘execute’ Jews and Trump’s family. Authorities took six weeks to arrest him. – Isaac Stanley-Becker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/03/his-instagram-posts-pledged-kill-jews-trumps-family-authorities-took-six-weeks-arrest-him/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote Duckworth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-wounded-warrior-returns-to-iraq-as-a-us-senator–and-comes-back-with-a-warning/2019/05/02/9e64c126-6d08-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— My Brush With Personal Destruction What did my divorce and my humor writing have to do with my ability to make monetary policy? – Stephen Moore
https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-brush-with-personal-destruction-11556837664
— The Danger of Debating Reparations for Slavery It would push the country to angrier extremes on either side, stimulating fresh antagonisms. – Lance Morrow
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-danger-of-debating-reparations-for-slavery-11556837452
— Diversity of Mind at the Fed The left won’t forgive Steve Moore for being right about tax reform. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/diversity-of-mind-at-the-fed-11556838865

INC.
— Facebook Just Announced It’s Banning 7 of Its Most ‘Dangerous’ Accounts. Here’s the Full List and Why They Did It The official count is six human beings who are also brands, along with a media company run by one of them. – Bill Murphy Jr. (DIERSEN: Who wants you to be banned and why? I should write a book about those who want me to be banned and why. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee 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.)
https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/facebook-just-announced-its-banning-7-of-its-most-dangerous-accounts-heres-full-list-why-they-did-it.html

NPR 
— Facebook Bans Several Controversial Users From Its Platform (DIERSEN: Who wants you to be banned and why? I should write a book about those who want me to be banned and why. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee 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.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719897171/facebook-bans-several-controversial-users-from-its-platform

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Facebook Announced It’s Banning Far-Right Extremists But Forgot to Actually Ban Them – Madison Malone Kircher
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopolous.html

BEAST
— Tucker Carlson Tells Stephen Moore the White House Showed ‘Weakness’ by Giving Up on Him The Fox News star insists Moore’s withdrawal will lead to ‘more aggression.’ – Justin Baragona (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have given up on me and why they did that.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-tells-stephen-moore-the-white-house-showed-weakness-by-giving-up-on-him
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ activity, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs get rid of you.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scotus-will-rule-on-lgbtq-job-discrimination-heres-where-the-2020-candidates-stand

ROOT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “The Radicalization of White America: How Donald Trump Weaponized Whiteness.”
https://www.theroot.com/the-radicalization-of-white-america-how-donald-trump-w-1834444146

REASON
— All the Top Democrats Running for President Favor Legalizing Marijuana The one potential holdout? Joe “gateway drug” Biden. – MATT WELCH 
https://reason.com/2019/04/20/all-the-top-democrats-running-for-president-favor-legalizing-marijuana/

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.