November 1 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage gears up for election – Gary Gibula
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wheaton/news/ct-nvs-early-voters-dupage-st-1102-20161101-story.html
— FRONT PAGE: State comptroller race proxy war for Rauner, Madigan – Monique Garcia and Hal Dardick
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-leslie-munger-susana-mendoza-comptroller-met-20161101-story.html
— Chicago City Council to vote on Trump street sign ban – Hal Dardick  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the Democrats who run Chicago proudly paint Chicago as being anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-non-veterans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-chicago-city-council-meeting-trump-sign-vote-20161031-story.html
— Seats open in 9 of 13 Will County districts – Susan DeMar Lafferty
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-will-board-election-st-1030-20161031-story.html
— Franklin Park to have 3 referendum questions on April ballot – Alex V. Hernandez
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/franklin-park/news/ct-fhj-franklinpark-meeting-tl-1103-20161031-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems put another $3 million into anti-Trump/Rauner push – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/illinois-dems-put-another-3-million-into-anti-trumprauner-push/
— Rauner gets passing grade on pot policies – Mick Dumke and Emily Gray Brosious  (DIERSEN: To promote pot in America is to promote the destruction of America.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rauner-gets-passing-grade-on-pot-policies/
— Comey will never recover from throwing fact-free bomb – Editorial
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-comey-will-never-recover-from-throwing-fact-free-bomb/
— Lawsuit argues Fire Dept. out of step on gender equality – Mark Brown (DIERSEN: What tests did you pass to get your jobs, to keep your jobs, and/or to get promoted? I passed all the tests needed to earn a high school diploma in 1966, a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997.  I passed the Post Office employment test in 1966, the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, the CPA examination in 1979, and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981.  Of course, obviously, needless-to-say, and without question, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that the aforesaid tests were biased in favor of White males like me.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/brown-lawsuit-argues-fire-dept-out-of-step-on-gender-equality/
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: America much better off after Obama’s 8 years – Jesse Jackson  (DIERSEN: Are you better off?  I am not. From what I see, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors are better off and the aforesaid looks to be even more better off under Clinton.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/jackson-obama-steadied-our-nation-in-interesting-times/

 

DAILY HERALD
— How the 14th Congressional District candidates plan to help veterans – James Fuller (DIERSEN: Government is nasty.  Politics is nasty.  Democrats are nasty.  What do Hultgren and Walz say to my Democrat critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) who have always stressed that I am not a veteran because I successfully sought and obtained student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971, b) who have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because of the aforesaid, I am a patriotic hypocrite, a coward, and even worse things, and c) who have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a veteran in 1966; that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job; that instead of me, IRS should have hired a veteran in 1971; that instead of me, IRS should have promoted veterans in 1972, 1973, and 1974; that instead of me, GAO should have hired a  veteran in 1980; that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a veteran in 1986; and that GAO should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job and my preferred corner office?)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161101/news/161109980/

 

QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— Rock Island County Clerk fears other unfilled ballot requests – Stephen Elliott
http://www.qconline.com/news/local/ri-county-clerk-fears-other-unfilled-ballot-requests/article_67d8fec6-61ff-5b60-a906-581096bd7568.html

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Kasich votes McCain instead of Trump – CNN (DIERSEN: To not vote for Trump is to vote for Clinton.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/kasich-votes-mccain-instead-of-trump

 

SAUK VALLEY
— Shoot me now! Pols’ ads flood airwaves  Some spots ‘incredibly inefficient’ – Rich Miller
http://www.saukvalley.com/2016/10/31/rich-miller-shoot-me-now-pols-ads-flood-airwaves/cal70jj/

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— Illinois U.S. Senate candidates name top priorities – Associated Press
http://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-u-s-senate-candidates-name-top-priorities/article_646e7801-9161-574e-beaf-9077c3dd605e.html

 

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Control of DeKalb County Board on the line Nov. 8  Democrats want to maintain majority; GOP looks to take it back – BRETT ROWLAND
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2016/10/31/control-of-dekalb-county-board-on-the-line-nov-8/a5gxc0x/

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Getting to experience the U.S. Senate debate firsthand – Anna Gegen
http://www.sj-r.com/entertainmentlife/20161031/commentary-getting-to-experience-us-senate-debate-firsthand

 

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Karmeier sworn in as chief justice of Illinois Supreme Court – DAN PETRELLA
http://jg-tc.com/news/karmeier-sworn-in-as-chief-justice-of-illinois-supreme-court/article_215de914-1052-5698-9930-6df128382404.html
— Phillips hopes to work on education funding, structural reform – JARAD JARMON  (DIERSEN: What did you hope to work on?  GAO audits IRS.  After working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels (currently $77,899-$88,286), I transferred to GAO in 1980 when I was 30 years old, and I not only hoped, but I asked to be assigned to audits of IRS so that I could use my knowledge of IRS.  But my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, that is, for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997.  They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, younger, or a veteran.)
http://jg-tc.com/news/phillips-hopes-to-work-on-education-funding-structural-reform/article_7f084545-4603-51e7-9911-e76e3c8c2bd0.html

 

WJBD RADIO
— Trump Pollster Expresses Confidence in Potential for Victory
http://www.wjbdradio.com/politics/2016/11/01/trump-pollster-expresses-confidence-in-potential-for-victory

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Glen Ellyn District 41 turns over teacher’s union emails  Resident Jeff Cooper blames superintendent for allowing political activity – ERIC SCHELKOPF
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2016/10/28/glen-ellyn-district-41-turns-over-teachers-union-emails/amr0rxj/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— TRUMP OUTLINES “NEW DEAL FOR BLACK AMERICA,” WHICH INCLUDES SCHOOL CHOICE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/trump-outlines-new-deal-for-black-america-which-includes-school-choice.html

 

GOPUSA
— Donna Brazile, CNN, give proof to Trump’s rigged claim
http://www.gopusa.com/donna-brazile-cnn-give-proof-to-trumps-rigged-claim/
— WikiLeaks Reveals Clinton Poll Oversampling Scheme
http://www.gopusa.com/wikileaks-reveals-clinton-poll-oversampling-scheme/
— Payback: Left Prepares Blacklist  (DIERSEN: Every individual, every organization, every company, every government, and every county should be required to publish their blacklists.  I am proud that I am on the blacklists of those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid and/or are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.gopusa.com/payback-left-prepares-blacklist/

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— NOW WE’RE ALL ACCOUNTABLE FOR AMERICA’S DESTINY – Ben Kinchlow
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/politics/now-were-all-accountable-for-americas-destiny/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Gun control advocates hope issue takes down Republican Senate candidates – David Sherfinski
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/31/gun-control-advocates-hope-issue-takes-down-republ/

 

NEWSMAX
— Sen. Jeff Sessions: Over 800,000 Illegal Border Crossings Last Year – Theodore Bunker
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Jeff-Sessions-Illegals-Border-Crossings/2016/10/31/id/756224/

 

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— HOW TRUMP HAPPENED  How the #NeverTrumpers sunk themselves. – Bruce Thornton
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264653/how-trump-happened-bruce-thornton

 

BREITBART
— Gangs of Teen Girls Attacking, Robbing Shoppers in Chicago’s Famed Loop – WARNER TODD HUSTON
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/30/chicago-teen-girls-robbing-shoppers/

 

THE BLAZE
— New poll shows America’s troops hold a stunningly low opinion of Hillary Clinton – Brandon Morse
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/10/31/new-poll-shows-americas-troops-hold-a-stunningly-low-opinion-of-hillary-clinton/
— Trump campaign table on campus walkway is about all one triggered college student can stomach – Dave Urbanski
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/10/31/trump-campaign-table-on-campus-walkway-is-about-all-that-one-triggered-college-student-can-stomach/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trouble didn’t take long to find University of Pittsburgh students who set up a campaign table for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on a campus walkway last week. It started harmlessly enough, depending on your definition, when passers-by yelled things such as, “F*** the white male patriarchy!” at those manning the table across from Hillman Library, the Pitt Maverick reported. Another “student came up to us and made a claim about how Trump wants to get rid of ‘his people,’” sophomore Kirk Breiner added to the Maverick. Then things escalated. A man declaring the table supported a “racist” candidate approached Breiner and another student volunteer Matt Kerlin, grabbed a stack of Trump door-hangers and nearly started a fight, the paper said. Later two students came over to the table, and one swept all the Trump literature to the sidewalk while the other flipped the table upside-down: The culprit then scurried away: “And we’re the violent ones,” one person, presumably a Trump supporter, was heard sarcastically noting on a video of the incident. Sophomore Steven Evanovich shot the clip and contacted campus police, who are investigating, the paper said. “It’s a shame that different opinions are met with such hostility at institutions of higher learning,” Evanovich told the Maverick. “Calling Trump’s rhetoric ‘hate speech’ actually reinforces and encourages the notion that violence against conservative or dissenting students is justified, and my own campus shouldn’t be a place where my friends or I are fearful for having opposing opinions.”)

 

DAILY CALLER
— Susan Rice Admitted Eight Years Of Smoking Weed In Her Background Check – Kathryn Watson
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/31/susan-rice-admitted-eight-years-of-smoking-weed-in-her-background-check/
— Hillary’s Two Official Favors To Morocco Resulted In $28 Million For Clinton Foundation – Richard Pollock
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/31/hillarys-two-official-favors-to-morocco-resulted-in-28-million-for-clinton-foundation/

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— GOP incumbent Kirk loses homosexual endorsement – AP
http://onenewsnow.com/ap/politics/gop-incumbent-kirk-loses-homosexual-endorsement

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— Trump Raises Specter Of Crisis If Clinton Wins The White House  “Nothing’s going to get done.” – Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-raises-specter-of-crisis-if-clinton-wins-the-white-house_us_5817fb5de4b0990edc33370d
— Guy In Trump Hat and ‘Deplorables’ T-Shirt Arrested At Texas Polling Place  “He wanted to take a stand. Unfortunately, he was arrested and taken to jail.” – Ed Mazza
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-voter-arrested_us_58182babe4b064e1b4b4862d

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump is master of his domains, even ones that bash him – MICHAEL R. SISAK
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2c17b3bf329147a4bcf92ec6f3dfa2d7/trump-master-his-domains-even-ones-bash-him

 

ABC NEWS
— Trump Leads Clinton by 1 Point in New Poll as Enthusiasm Declines – GARY LANGER
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-leads-clinton-point-poll-enthusiasm-declines/story?id=43199459

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes – DAVID BARSTOW, MIKE McINTIRE, PATRICIA COHEN, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER (DIERSEN: What “dubious methods to avoid paying taxes” have your critics/opponents, their operatives, or their dupes accused you of taking?  Money Magazine and my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the graduate business courses that took at Loyola 1972-1976, the graduate accounting courses that I took at DePaul 1976-1980, and the graduate finance courses that I took at IIT 1992-1997 were NOT deductible because they a) were not job-related, b) did not help me carry out my job duties, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) were a distraction. To keep their jobs and to get promoted, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates focused on getting rid of federal employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html
— Pope Francis, in Sweden, Urges Catholic-Lutheran Reconciliation – CHRISTINA ANDERSON  (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty.  Democrats and Democrat plants are nasty. Libertarians and Libertarian plants are nasty.  Greens and Green plants are nasty.  RINOs are nasty.  The aforesaid have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at non-Missouri Synod Lutherans (MSL), and especially at Catholics, that I was baptized as a MSL in 1948, that I was raised as an MSL, and that I was confirmed as a MSL in 1962.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/world/europe/pope-francis-in-sweden-urges-catholic-lutheran-reconciliation.html
— The High Costs of Not Offering Paid Sick Leave – Austin Frakt (DIERSEN: Do/did you get paid sick leave?  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always been furious that I got paid sick leave while I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/upshot/the-high-costs-of-not-offering-paid-sick-leave.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/opinion/how-you-can-fight-donald-trump-right-now.html

 

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR GRAPHIC AND PHOTOS OF TRUMP AND CLINTON: IS IT OVER YET?
http://www.pressreader.com/usa/usa-today-us-edition/20161101/281479275969933
— What’s on your ballot? Facebook will show you – Jessica Guynn  (DIERSEN: What percent of Google employees are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors?)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/28/facebook-vote-planner-feature-ballot/92860704/
— Trade deals sell out workers  It’s no surprise Americans are angry at the prospect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. – Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/10/31/trade-trans-pacific-partnership-sherrod-brown-editorials-debates/93084432/

 

TRIBUNE REVIEW
— Vets & federal jobs: Intolerable treatment – Editorial  (DIERSEN: My Democrat critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a veteran in 1966, b) that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job, c) that instead of me, IRS should have hired a veteran in 1971, d) that instead of me, IRS should have promoted veterans in 1972, 1973, and 1974, e) that instead of me, GAO should have hired a  veteran in 1980, f) that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a veteran in 1986, and g) that GAO should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job and my preferred corner office.)
http://triblive.com/opinion/editorials/11371626-74/federal-veterans-hiring
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: The lip service that the Obama administration pays to veterans about their health care — given excessive waits at Veteran Affairs facilities and suicide hotline delays — extends to hiring them for federal jobs. By law, disabled veterans and those with active-duty service are supposed to get preference in federal hiring. But a government report shows that’s not always the case, specifically when political appointees are considered for plum jobs. “There is a clear bias against veterans,” Darin Selnick, a retired Air Force captain and former Veterans Affairs official, tells The Daily Signal. “They think veterans should start at the bottom like everyone else.” Of course, experience and qualifications are factored for federal job applicants; the law is supposed to prevent political favoritism. But in hiring a quarter of President Obama’s political appointees, federal agencies didn’t follow policies to avoid favoritism, according to the Government Accountability Office. The GAO report sampled 30 federal agencies from January 2010 to October 2015. Never mind proposed changes to hiring policies that would limit veterans’ job preference to a single use. For vets who have secured civilian government jobs, that would eliminate any preference consideration when they apply for higher positions. Our country owes its veterans a debt for their service. Playing fast and loose when it comes to federal job hiring is an intolerable disservice that deserves no place in any administration.)

 

GUARDIAN
— Republicans fear Trump’s parade of insults might help cost him the election  2016 could be a winnable election for the GOP, especially given Clinton’s continued email woes – yet all year Trump has lurched from one self-inflicted crisis to another – David Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/01/donald-trump-insults-us-election-result-republicans-gop
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The anti-Republican Guardian uses a GAO report to promote Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/01/us-citizens-vote-disabled-voters-democracy-election-polling

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.