May 8, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How Illinois is being held hostage by abortion rights extremists. Our state’s leaders are out of touch with the majority of voters. They have moved away from abortion being “safe, legal and rare” to embracing an agenda that suppresses real choice. – State Rep. Bill Hauter
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/8/23713044/illinois-abortion-pro-choice-pro-life-springfield-pregnancy-care-centers-bill-hauter-op-ed

DAILY HERALD
— Democrats crow about their success in replacing Christian Americans with Muslim Americans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230508/suburban-mosaic-leaders-say-muslim-americans-are-gaining-political-clout

ABC7
— Democrats crow that “California reparations task force OKs state apology, payments.” Who do you believe should pay reparations and why? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, gun-owner, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://abc7chicago.com/reparations-california-task-force-black-ca/13220460/

FOX32
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1217413

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote abortion and outlaw efforts to discourage abortion.
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/bill-to-stop-workers-from-influencing-abortion-decisions

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats crow that “California panel calls for billions in reparations for descendants of slaves.” Who do you believe should pay reparations and why? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, gun-owner, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-05-08/california-panel-calls-for-billions-in-reparations-for-descendants-of-slaves

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illegal Immigration Is Now Another Calamity For Chicago, With Worse To Come – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/illegal-immigration-is-now-another-calamity-for-chicago-with-worse-to-come-wirepoints/
— Durbin, Duckwoth among Democratic senators urging Biden to allow states to sponsor noncitizens to expand workforce (COMMENT: The more noncitizens, the lower the wages paid for bad jobs. When I was young, if there had been as many noncitizens as there are now, they would have gotten the bad jobs that I got. The jobs that I got were bad, but they paid enough wages that I could a) buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 when I was 16 years old, b) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) pay for my UIC expenses 1966-1968, d) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, f) pay for my NIU expenses 1969-1970, and g) graduate from NIU debt-free in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management and owning that Charger.)
https://wirepoints.org/durbin-duckwoth-among-democratic-senators-urging-biden-to-allow-states-to-sponsor-noncitizens-to-expand-workforce-the-hill/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives: ‘It’s time to tell the whole story about the Fentanyl crisis and the lack of response from Democrats’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/642006891-ives-it-s-time-to-tell-the-whole-story-about-the-fentanyl-crisis-and-the-lack-of-response-from-democrats

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden again demands ‘assault weapons’ ban after Texas mall shooting leaves 8 people dead, 7 wounded. – S.A. Miller https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/7/joe-biden-again-demands-assault-weapons-ban-after-/
— 2024 presidential race seems like the old times of 2016 – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/7/inside-beltway-2024-presidential-race-seems-old-ti/
— Illegal immigration already surging even before end of Title 42 – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/7/alejandro-mayorkas-defends-border-preparations-mig/
— Today’s America resembles Roman republic when it fell into decadence – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/7/todays-america-resembles-roman-republic-when-it-fe/

NEW YORK POST
— Most Americans don’t think Biden’s mentally sharp enough to serve second term – David Propper
https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/most-americans-dont-think-bidens-mentally-sharp-enough-to-serve-second-term-new-poll/
— Rockland County exec warns cops are ‘deployed’ if NYC tries to bus migrants there. – Jesse O’Neill and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/rockland-county-exec-warns-cops-are-deployed-if-nyc-tries-to-bus-migrants-there/
— California’s ‘most charming town’ reluctantly dragged into culture war over LGBTQ pride flags – Marjorie Hernandez
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/californias-most-charming-town-solvang-reluctantly-dragged-into-culture-war-over-lgbtq-pride-flags/
— DeSantis needs to start figuring out how to sweep Republicans off their feet – Daniel McCarthy
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/desantis-needs-to-start-figuring-out-how-to-sweep-republicans-off-their-feet/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/feds-probing-whether-texas-mall-gunman-held-neo-nazi-views/

AMERICAN THINKER
— All proposed reparations plans are based on simplistic history – Helen Louise Herndon
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/all_proposed_reparations_plans_are_based_on_simplistic_history.html
— States Fight Back against the Trans Conspiracy to Erase Women – Janet Levy
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/states_fight_back_against_the_trans_conspiracy_to_erase_women.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Texas mall shooter lived with parents, translator requested as police search home – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/07/texas-mall-shooter-lived-with-parents-translator-requested-as-police-search-home-1356899/
— A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says White people have “never atoned for our original sins” and “GOP wants ‘to erase them entirely.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/07/mary-trump-white-people-have-never-atoned-for-our-original-sins-gop-wants-to-erase-them-entirely-1356861/
— Greedy activists demand $200 million PER PERSON in Calif. reparations payments – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/07/greedy-activists-demand-200-million-per-person-in-calif-reparations-payments-1356891/

BREITBART
— Joe Biden’s Migrant Flood Sparks Citizen Protests in Chicago – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/05/07/bidens-flood-causes-citizen-protests-in-chicago/
— Denver city councilwoman facing a runoff election in June said white-owned businesses should pay reparations for the sins of slavery. – ELAINE MALLON (COMMENT: Who do you believe should pay reparations and why? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, gun-owner, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/07/colorado-councilwoman-wants-tax-white-owned-businesses-atone-stolen-land/
— Activists Demand ‘$200 Million for Each and Every African American’ in California – ELAINE MALLON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/07/activists-demand-200-million-every-african-american-california/
— Panel in California, a Free State Since Birth, Recommends Reparations, Apology for Slavery – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/07/panel-in-california-a-free-state-birth-recommends-reparations-apology-for-slavery/

CENTER SQUARE NEW YORK
— As Title 42 comes to close, NYC documents diseases from foreign nationals bused from border – Bethany Blankley
https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d01b5eac-ecdc-11ed-a40f-63c87def74bb.html

DAILY CALLER
— California Reparations Task Force Approves $800 Billion Recommendations – GRETCHEN CLAYSON
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/07/california-reparations-task-force-approves-800-billion-recommendations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— What We Know About Unaccompanied Children Arriving at Southern Border – Virginia Allen
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/08/what-know-unaccompanied-migrant-children-arriving-southern-border/

DAILY WIRE
— Governor Abbott Shreds Biden Over Border Disaster: ‘Caused Solely By Policies Put Into Place By Joe Biden’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-abbott-shreds-biden-over-border-disaster-caused-solely-by-policies-put-into-place-by-joe-biden
— Eric Adams Sending Illegal Immigrants To Suburbs After Biden Admin Snubs NYC On Funding To Deal With Crisis – Zach Jewell (COMMENT: How soon, if not already, will Chicago Democrats send illegals to your county, to your township, and to your municipality?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-suburbs-after-biden-admin-snubs-nyc-on-funding-to-deal-with-crisis
— California Reparations Task Force Approves Plan Giving Up To $1.2 Million To Each Black Resident – Brandon Drey
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-reparations-task-force-approves-plan-giving-up-to-1-2-million-to-each-black-resident

EPOCH TIMES
— County Thousands of Miles from Southern Border Declares State of Emergency Over Illegal Immigration – Jack Phillips
https://www.theepochtimes.com/county-thousands-of-miles-from-southern-border-declares-state-of-emergency-over-illegal-immigration_5247906.html
— Morality, Politics, and Decline, Part 2: Freedom or Victimhood – JAMES SALE
https://www.theepochtimes.com/morality-politics-and-decline-part-2-freedom-or-victimhood_5236886.html

FEDERALIST
— Like Bud Light, The U.S. Navy Steps On A Rake With Drag Influencers – ELAINE DONNELLY
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/08/like-bud-light-the-u-s-navy-steps-on-a-rake-with-drag-influencers/

FOX NEWS
— At least 8 dead, 11 injured after driver plows into crowd near migrant shelter in Brownsville, Texas. Brownsville police have taken a Hispanic man into custody – Anders Hagstrom, Greg Wehner, Griff Jenkins
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dead-injured-after-driver-plows-into-crowd-near-migrant-shelter-brownsville-texas
— Massive border crisis means Dem-led ‘sanctuary cities’ are finally paying the price. In cities run by Democrats, lax immigration policies mean the chickens are coming home to roost. – Cal Thomas
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/massive-border-crisis-dem-led-sanctuary-cities-finally-paying-price
— Abbott: Biden sending 1,500 troops to border ‘to do paperwork,’ after putting out ‘welcome mat’ to the world. Abbott says Biden’s plan to move troops to southern border is ‘a day late and tens of thousands of soldiers too few’ – Stephen Sorace
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abbott-biden-sending-1500-troops-border-paperwork-putting-welcome-mat-world
— Biden admin sending troops to the border is ‘smoke and mirrors – Chad Wolf
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327000650112
— Without repercussions, migrants see the US border as a ‘speed bump’ – Rep. Henry Cuellar
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6326979237112
— ‘Full invasion’ of the US expected when Title 42 ends on May 11 – Julie Banderas
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6326945179112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— California Reparations Panel’s Recommendations Could Cost State More Than $500 Billion – BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/california-panels-reparations-recommendations-could-cost-state-more-than-500-billion/
— The Left-Wing Assault on the Supreme Court – Editorial
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/the-left-wing-assault-on-the-supreme-court/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote hatred against Tucker Carlson
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2023/05/07/abc-tucker-carlson-promoted-racist-views-voice-white-supremacy

— Leftists Use Coronation to Complain About Royal Family Being Too ‘White’- KURT ZINDULKA
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2023/05/07/abc-tucker-carlson-promoted-racist-views-voice-white-supremacy

NEWSMAX
— Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden Sending Too Few Soldiers, Too Late – Sandy Fitzgerald
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/greg-abbott-border-biden/2023/05/07/id/1118909/

TOWNHALL
— All This Failure is Deliberate – Mark Lewis (COMMENT: What have the leaders of the following done recently to defend and advance the Republican Party platform: a) Illinois Republican Party, b) your Republican county party organization, and c) your Republican township/ward party organization?)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2023/05/08/all-this-failure-is-deliberate-n2622942
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Biden is President, but he is far from in control. The Marxist, Leftist global movement, whatever groups are ultimately behind it, are using Biden and the Democratic Party as pawns in the supreme game of human domination. Biden does everything he is told to do. He is nothing but a puppet, a “useful idiot” as I explained recently—totally unable to think for himself. The Far Left, the Marxist Left, manipulates him and his ideological band. Biden doesn’t realize it, but some Democrats do.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats acknowledge that Abbott says “We don’t need 1,500 soldiers at the border, we need 15,000 or 150,000.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3992706-abbott-we-dont-need-1500-soldiers-at-the-border-we-need-15000-or-150000/
— Democrats acknowledge that Biden defends decision to send troops to the border by saying “They need more people to clear people.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3991312-biden-defends-decision-to-send-troops-to-the-border-they-need-more-people-to-clear-people/
— Democrats acknowledge that only “One-third in new survey say Biden has mental sharpness to be effective.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3992431-one-third-in-new-survey-say-biden-has-mental-sharpness-to-be-effective/
— Ever-increasingly, conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, that is, Republicans, are “political outsides” in the Republican Party. Ever-increasingly, anti-conservatives and conservative-haters run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO). Because I have always been a conservative, I have always been a “political outsider” in the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. I should write a book about that.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3992755-trump-ad-paints-former-president-as-political-outsider-amid-legal-woes-embrace-that-label/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3992653-christie-says-the-only-way-to-defeat-trump-is-head-on-theres-only-one-lane/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3992247-christie-warns-a-trump-biden-rematch-is-bad-for-the-republican-party/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3990804-barr-trump-will-deliver-chaos-and-horror-show/
— Democrats say that Trump is “pleased to see Ramaswamy doing so well in GOP primary poll.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3990853-trump-pleased-to-see-ramaswamy-doing-so-well-in-gop-primary-poll/

MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-check-allen-texas-mall-shooter-s-possible-links-to-white-supremacy/ar-AA1aS4uR
— While Trump was President, he did more to defend and advance the Republican Party platform than either Bush.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump-one-of-the-best-presidents-ever/ar-AA15Nkq2
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Christie to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-cannot-win-says-potential-presidential-candidate-he-s-running-to-try-to-make-himself-feel-better/ar-AA1aSuIz

CNBC
— Democrats say “As retirement age change sparks protests in France, here’s what could happen in the U.S.” The Democrats who run the federal government force federal employees to retire as soon as they are eligible if they did not make Senior Executive Service (currently $183,500/year) by age 40 and are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran. Extremely few federal employees make that promotion deadline.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/07/why-younger-generations-may-bear-brunt-of-social-security-reforms.html

ABC NEWS & MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of crimes against migrants to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/makeshift-alter-marks-brownsville-spot-migrants-struck-vehicle/story?id=99162180
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/makeshift-altar-marks-brownsville-spot-where-migrants-were-struck-by-vehicle/ar-AA1aT1r9

NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mauricio-garcia-allen-texas-mall-shooting-suspect-what-know-rcna83242
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/texas-mall-shooting-live-updates-rcna83240

CBS NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/texas-mall-shooting-suspect-may-have-expressed-interest-in-white-supremacy/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrats acknowledge that “Huge Majority of Voters Think Biden Too Old to Serve.” When did people start treating you like you were “too old?” My Democrat IRS superiors started treating me like I was “too old” in 1974 when I was 25 years old because they had not promoted me to GS-13, currently $109,732/year. GAO audits IRS. Things only got worse for me in 1980 when my Democrat GAO superiors not only did not offer me a promotion to GS-13 to transfer from IRS to GAO, but forced me to take a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5, currently $104,583/year, to GS-9 Step 10, currently $82,720/year, a $21,863/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. Constructively, they treated my 1976 Loyola MBA, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and my almost 9 years of IRS work experience as being worthless. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.newsweek.com/huge-majority-voters-think-biden-too-old-serve-poll-1798907

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— As Democrats take over states, counties, townships, and municipalities, poverty and crime increase. If you are considering moving to a state, county, township, or municipality to avoid poverty and crime, consider how fast that Democrats can invade, infiltrate, infest, take over, and destroy that state, county, township, and municipality. I should write a book about the success that Democrats have had since 1978 in invading, infiltrating, infesting, taking over, and destroying DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/10-safest-states-in-america

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats acknowledge that “Suburbs Are Furious at Adams’s Plan to Send Migrants to Their Hotels. The Rockland County executive declared a state of emergency in a move to block Mayor Eric Adams’s plan to move some asylum seekers to the suburbs.” How will your mayor react when Democrats send illegals into your municipality?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/nyregion/rockland-migrants-shelter-nyc.html
— A hate-filled Carson-hating Carson-hater says “Tucker Carlson’s Dark and Malign Influence Over the Christian Right.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/tucker-carlson-christian-right.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats acknowledge “A Refugee From Another Time Gets an Eviction Notice. A Ukrainian immigrant, 82, has lived in a Manhattan hotel for decades. Now the owners want him out — while earning millions from the city to house others.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/nyregion/stewart-hotel-long-term-resident-eviction.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/us/texas-allen-shooting-gun-control.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats promote mass/illegal immigration because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs promote mass/illegal immigration because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/08/title-42-immigration-asylum-border-migrants-biden/8316ba5a-ed83-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-mauricio-garcia-allen-texas-shooter-white-supremacy-right-wing-extremism-20230508-ll42kdpofzgxvehqbj25vc7oga-story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/07/allen-texas-mass-shooting-live-updates/70192152007/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of hate crimes against Asian Americans to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/05/04/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month-honor-heroes-stop-aapi-hate/70169888007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/04/asian-americans-dont-feel-safe-or-welcome-in-us-due-to-discrimination/70177197007/

WION
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wionews.com/world/who-was-mauricio-garcia-the-texas-shooting-suspect-with-neo-nazi-and-white-supremacist-beliefs-590109

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Officials Probe Texas Mall Shooter’s Possible Link to White Supremacy. Gunman used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting spree outside of Dallas. – Ginger Adams Otis, Dan Frosch, and Sadie Gurman (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-shooter-used-ar-15-style-rifle-in-attack-4ec74709
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Barr to promote hatred against Trump. While Trump was President, he did more to defend and advance the Republican Party platform than either Bush.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-barrs-warning-on-trump-re-election-fed-soc-immigration-democrats-b2ab8b26
— Democrats promote mass/illegal immigration because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs promote mass/illegal immigration because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-new-immigration-policy-cements-end-of-liberal-asylum-rules-5c4c70e2

FORBES
— Democrats promote mass/illegal immigration because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs promote mass/illegal immigration because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/05/08/the-right-way-to-reduce-illegal-immigration/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrats ever-increasingly use Christie to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/christie-trump-2024-presidential-campaign-vanity-exercise-biden-rematch-gop-2023-5

PBS
— Democrats ever-increasingly use reports of mass shootings to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/lives-immigrants-built-in-community-outside-houston-shattered-by-shooting

NPR
— Democrats ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to hate Republicans.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/07/1174631480/black-immigrants-reflect-on-navigating-their-identities-in-the-american-south

DAILY MAIL
— Nearly one-third more Americans think Trump, 76, is more physically fit to serve as president than gaffe-prone Biden, 80, in new poll showing both ex-president and DeSantis would BEAT him in 2024 match-up – KATELYN CARALLE,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12056621/Poll-Americans-think-Trump-76-fit-serve-president-gaffe-prone-Biden-80.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.