November 2 Morning Edition

NBC5

— Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Vaccine Side Effects for Kids, Pritzker Booster Shot
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-coronavirus-updates-vaccine-side-effect-for-kids-pritzker-booster-shot/2667624/

WGN9
— Florida man faces daily fines for large ‘Trump Won’ and ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ banners outside his home – Jake Holter
https://wgntv.com/news/man-faces-daily-fines-for-large-trump-won-and-lets-go-brandon-banners-outside-his-home/

WGN RADIO
— Competitive Virginia governor’s race to test Biden’s appeal – AP
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/competitive-virginia-governors-race-to-test-bidens-appeal/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Allowing minors to get an abortion without parental notification doesn’t make any sense – Todd Gemelli, Hancock, Michigan
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abortion.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-110121-20211101-bt7dgudd5vc4xoclqcj6ile2hu-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIME
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly Democrats call for race based preference giving.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/1/22758249/its-time-for-biden-to-deliver-on-promises

DAILY HERALD
— Judge denies preliminary injunction in Naperville firefighter COVID-19 lawsuit – Kevin Schmit
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211101/judge-denies-preliminary-injunction-in-naperville-firefighter-covid-19-lawsuit#new_tab
— Lake Zurich trustees approve first marijuana dispensary where TGI Fridays was – Doug T. Graham
(COMMENT: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, and/or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, and/or country.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211101/lake-zurich-trustees-approve-first-marijuana-dispensary-where-tgi-fridays-was

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Public universities are trailing U of I in the vaccine race. And that gap may be tough to close: “The level of vehemence relating to objections to vaccine policies and vaccine mandates is really starting to escalate.” – ELYSSA CHERNEY
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-universities-enforce-covid-vaccine-mandate
— ILLINOIS’ HEALTHIEST EMPLOYERS 2021
(COMMENT: Many of my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government had health problems. They decried the fact that I had better health than they did. Many of my GAO superiors and supervisors were big drinkers and big smokers.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-content-studio/illinois-healthiest-employers-2021
— Workforce Health: A Business Imperative to Achieve Economic Prosperity – Brian Marsella
(COMMENT: Many of my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government had health problems. They decried the fact that I had better health than they did. Many of my GAO superiors and supervisors were big drinkers and big smokers.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-content-studio/workforce-health-business-imperative-achieve-economic-prosperity

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrats’ new congressional map shows no respect for voters – Tom Kacich
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/tom-kacich-democrats-new-congressional-map-shows-no-respect-for-voters/article_6e5aba56-abd8-5e71-94b8-e91a41d6a202.html

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— COMMENT: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters love Kinzinger.
https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/kinzinger-takes-aim-at-gop/article_9f8fdb82-3abd-11ec-9575-f31f9deeb9d6.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Will Downers Grove commissioners bet on video gaming? – Bob Rakow
(COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who push video gambling the most and the adverse actions that they have taken against me.)
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/government/2021/11/02/will-downers-grove-commissioners-bet-on-video-gaming/

KANE COUNTY CONNECTS
— COMMENT: Democrats use allegations of verbal harassment against LGBTQers to promote LGBTQ.
https://kanecountyconnects.com/2021/11/70-1-of-lgbtq-students-report-being-verbally-harassed/

TRI STATES PUBLIC RADIO
— LaHood blasts Illinois redistricting process, blames Biden for labor shortage and supply chain crisis – JOE DEACON
https://www.tspr.org/post/lahood-blasts-illinois-redistricting-process-blames-biden-labor-shortage-and-supply-chain-crisi

WGLT
— Rep. Brady backs electric vehicle supplier incentives but little else in the fall session – Eric Stock
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2021-11-01/rep-brady-backs-electric-vehicle-supplier-incentives-but-little-else-in-the-fall-session

NPR ILLINOIS
— LaHood blasts Illinois redistricting, blames Biden for labor shortage and supply chain crisis – Joe Deacon
https://www.nprillinois.org/2021-11-01/lahood-blasts-illinois-redistricting-blames-biden-for-labor-shortage-and-supply-chain-crisis
— Illinois will be first state to roll back a Parental Notification of Abortion law – Maureen Foertsch McKinney
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2021-11-01/illinois-will-be-first-state-to-roll-back-a-parental-notification-of-abortion-law
— COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say that Trump’s election claims are false.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2021-11-01/trumps-false-election-claims-at-center-of-virginia-tight-governors-race

CHICAGO NOW
— Illinois joins Virginia Democrats, telling parents to take a flying leap. – Dennis Byrne
https://www.chicagonow.com/dennis-byrnes-barbershop/2021/10/illinois-joins-virginia-democrats-telling-parents-to-take-a-flying-leap/

WJBC
— LaHood: “Not the time or place” to pass Build Back Better agenda – Blake Haas
https://www.wjbc.com/2021/11/01/lahood-not-the-time-or-place-to-pass-build-back-better-agenda/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Minting illegals as millionaires Biden mulls rewarding the lawless while punishing the law-abiding – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/1/editorial-minting-illegals-as-millionaires/

FOX NEWS
— Dems’ ‘DACA-For-All’ amnesty plan must be stopped. These proposals, irresponsible in normal times, are insane under current circumstances. Sen. Tom Cotton
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dems-daca-for-all-amnesty-stop-sen-tom-cotton

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Wall Street Journal’s Shabby Rebuttal of Trump Settles Nothing. There has been an almost 100 percent media solidarity in declining to consider the obviously vivid possibility that the 2020 election result was false. – Conrad Black
https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/01/regarding-president-trumps-letter-to-the-wall-street-journal/

MRC TV
— CNN, MSNBC Downplay Illinois Democrats Gerrymandering Kinzinger – Brad Wilmouth
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-msnbc-downplay-illinois-democrats-gerrymandering-kinzinger

THE HILL
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs a) glorify and praise citizens of foreign countries and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/579507-recapturing-green-cards-immigration-is-american-advantage-over-china

HUFFINGTON POST
— Texas Gov. Decries ‘Pornography’ In School Libraries As GOP Targets LGBTQ Books. Gov. Greg Abbott’s letter railing against “pornographic or obscene material” in school libraries follows state lawmakers targeting books by LGBTQ authors. – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-governor-abbott-school-libraries-pornography-queer-books_n_61807898e4b06b9de8b9fc7f

CNBC
— Gender gap in pensions is real and needs to be fixed – Margaret Franklin
(COMMENT: My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less because a) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12 and got rid of my mentor in 1975; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/01/op-ed-gender-gap-in-pensions-is-real-and-needs-to-be-fixed.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— We Should All Know Less About Each Other – Michelle Goldberg
(COMMENT: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs use everything that they can against Republicans. They use the following against me: conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, old (born in 1948), heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, Crete resident 1948-1972, Wheaton resident since 1978, childless, non-dog owner, American nameplate vehicle owner, non-church member, federal employee for almost 30 years, federal retiree for more than 24 years, and the adverse actions that the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, those who I have sued, GAO, IRS, Post Office, etc. have taken against me, etc.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html

NEWSWEEK
— The Toll of Critical Race Theory on Our Children – ALVEDA KING
https://www.newsweek.com/toll-critical-race-theory-our-children-opinion-1643504

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— For Privileged Progressives, ‘We’ Means ‘You’ From climate motorcades to maskless public parties, they don’t follow the rules they impose on all of us. – Gerard Baker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/privileged-progressives-climate-change-glasgow-cop26-racism-woke-esg-energy-crisis-11635775857?mod=opinion_lead_pos8

FORBES
— $450k Settlements To Illegals Separated At Border May Be Tax Free – Robert W. Wood
(COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. What adverse actions have those Democrats taken against you? My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2021/11/01/450k-settlements-to-illegals-separated-at-border-may-be-tax-free/

WIKIPEDIA
— Demographics of the United States (COMMENT: How bad are your demographics? My demographics are very bad. The more bad demographics that you have, the more
reluctant that people are to defend/support you. My critics/opponents stress that virtually no one defends/supports me. If my demographics were not so very bad, my critics/opponents might not have been able to have their operatives and dupes a) stop me from raising funds from DuPage Republicans so that DuPage Republicans could help sponsor Wheaton’s 2021 Independence Day parade and fireworks, b) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, c) end my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, d) end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, e) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, f) attempt to get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, g) viciously end my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, h) end my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, i) end my GAO employment in 1997, j) etc. According to my critics/opponents, people do not defend/support me not because of my demographics, but because I and an EXTREMELY BAD PERSON. My critics/opponents give extreme preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, moderate, non-Missouri Synod Lutheran, non-German American, those ancestors have not been in America for a long time, those who glorify and praise them, those who pander to them, those who serve as their operatives or dupes, those who cover up their wrong doing, those who give them money, etc. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

AXIOS
— Texas Republican lawmakers equate LGBTQ+ books with porn – Asher Price
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2021/11/01/texas-republican-lawmakers-lgbtq-books-porn

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.