November 24 Morning Edition

ABC7
— NAPERVILLE POLICE INCREASE PRESENCE ON ‘BLACK WEDNESDAY’ – Stacey Baca
http://abc7chicago.com/news/police-increase-presence-on-black-wednesday/1623259/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump protest sparks group to challenge Claar, allies in Bolingbrook election – Alicia Fabbre  (DIERSEN: The more that you do to promote Trump, the more that anti-Trumps punish you. Anti-Trumps are very proud that they got 211 in my precinct to vote for Clinton to punish me and to punish all Republicans.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/will-county/news/ct-bolingbrook-slate-opposing-claar-20161122-story.html
— Justice Department files discrimination lawsuit against Tinley Park – Gregory Pratt and Mike Nolan
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-tinley-park-buckeye-discrimination-st-1124-20161123-story.html
— Hinsdale’s HCS opens food pantry in Willowbrook school – Kimberly Fornek
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/western-springs/news/ct-dbr-anne-jeans-food-pantry-tl-1201-20161123-story.html
— Food pantry 2nd to open in DuPage County schools – Erin Gallagher
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20161124/281621009936268
— A columnist’s thanks at Thanksgiving – Rex Huppke (DIERSEN: How thankful are you for what you have?  I should write a book about my envy-filled/nasty/troubled/failed/vicious critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  They have always viciously demonized me, viciously denigrated me, and viciously condemned me for my not being thankful enough. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, that I have always been privileged, that I never really earned what I have, that everything that I have was given to me on a silver platter, and that I certainly do not disserve what I have. They stress my demographics and they stress that I avoided the draft, that I worked for the federal government, that I am not a member of a church, that I do not attend church services, that I do not give money to a church, that I do not give money to their favorite charities, that my wife and I gave up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, that we did not become foster parents, that etc.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-thanksgiving-gratitude-huppke-20161123-story.html
— Would a Clinton voter date a Trump supporter? Actually, the outlook is good – Lisa Bonos  (DIERSEN: My outstanding wife helped elect Jim Thompson Governor.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-could-clinton-and-trump-supporters-date-20161123-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Thankful for our pets – Mona Charen  (DIERSEN: Dog ownership is extremely time-consuming and expensive.  One reason why I can afford to spend 10+ hours each and every day to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and to send them out each and every day is that I have never owned a dog.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/mona-charen-thankful-for-our-pets/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans spent $15.4 billion on veterinary care in 2015 (only half of it by my family). The average American spends more on pets annually than on alcohol, landline phones or men’s and boys’ clothing. We spend more on veterinary care for our dogs than the average person spends for his own medical care in the Dominican Republic, Egypt, India and many other countries. Even knowing that we’re a devoted nation of pet lovers, it’s still surreal to visit the specialists’ office and see the range of possibilities on the office wall — cardiology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, etc, etc. We’ll need the oncologist soon.)
— On this Thanksgiving, let’s give each other a break – Editorial  (DIERSEN: Who gives you a break?  My critics/opponents would say that they are giving me a break by letting me continue on as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor and as a Republican Precinct Committeeman.  However, they hint/imply/argue/shout that they have more than enough religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage Country, and in Illinois that they could end my aforesaid positions overnight.  They stress that my supporters did little or nothing to help me keep my positions as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, a GAO employee, etc.  My critics/opponents crow that they can, that they have, and that they will viciously destroy anyone who supports me.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-thanksgiving-give-each-other-break/

 

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURES: People To Be Thankful For 2016: Four stories of kindness in the suburbs
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161124/news/161129413/
— FRONT PAGE: Home for pregnant women in crisis could open in Wheaton – Jessica Cilella  (DIERSEN: There are 26 in my precinct who own property within 250 feet of this building.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161124/news/161129418/
— Our brief 2016 list of Thanksgiving – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161124/discuss/161129525/
— Every day brings some news to soften the hardest heart – Jim Slusher
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161124/discuss/161129504/

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— New life for gerrymandering fight – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-11-24/dey-new-life-gerrymandering-fight.html

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Governor Rauner Softening Tone, Hoping For Compromise – JORDAN ABUDAYYEH
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/governor-rauner-softening-tone-hoping-for-compromise-11-24-2016

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— Davis ‘excited’ about Trump presidency – Kevin Barlow
http://herald-review.com/pantagraph/news/local/davis-excited-about-trump-presidency/article_4d1f6246-6bb0-5b62-a79e-b5ae94b3465d.html

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— “Joy” or “hope”? Holiday giving may depend on how you voted – AP
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/joy-or-hope-holiday-giving-may-depend-on-how-you/article_4691d10c-0b23-5377-9448-b89524265be2.html

 

WSIL TV
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps do not like “retired generals.”
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33787179/trumps-parade-of-retired-generals-raises-questions

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Jill Stein, liberals seek voting hack investigation  Michigan, Penn., Wisconsin totals are suspect – CNN  (DIERSEN: What makes vote totals suspect?  Would it include Trump getting far fewer votes in a precinct than the other Republican candidates got?  Would it include Clinton getting far more votes in a precinct than the other Democrat candidates got?)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/stein-liberals-seek-voting-hack-investigation

 

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Ruling in Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit could provide pathway for reform in Illinois – Taryn Phaneuf
http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/511048289-ruling-in-wisconsin-redistricting-lawsuit-could-provide-pathway-for-reform-in-illinois

 

RUSS STEWART
— CLINTON GOT 83.7% OF CHICAGO VOTE, BUT THERE WERE STILL 134,792 “DEPLORABLES” (DIERSEN: I am a deplorable, that is, I am a Republican. If I had more time, I would analyze the DuPage vote and the Milton Township vote to identify those precincts which have the most deplorabes in total and as a percentage of registered voters.)
http://www.russstewart.com/articles/2016/11-23-2016.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Mark Twain popularized the saying that there are “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” In Chicago, and by extrapolation Cook County and Illinois, there were truths, damn truths and stunning statistics on Nov. 8. The most fundamental truth is that when a candidate such as Hillary Clinton wins Chicago 907,920-134,792, a margin of 773,128 votes, Illinois is gone. There is no way for a Republican to counteract that vote margin in the Collar Counties and Downstate. Clinton won the state by 859,319 votes, with Chicago supplying 90 percent of that margin. Chicago may be a “sanctuary city,” but Republicans are vanishing quicker than illegal aliens. Wait a minute, are any “undocumenteds” vanishing? Mitt Romney got 148,181 votes in Chicago in 2012, while Donald Trump got 134,792 votes, a paltry 12.4 percent and a diminution of 13,389 votes, on Nov. 8. Trump won a majority in 25, or 1.2 percent, of Chicago’s 2,116 precincts, four in the 41st Ward and two in the 38th Ward on the Northwest Side and 13 in the 19th Ward, four in the 23rd Ward and two in the 13th Ward on the Southwest Side. Trump averaged an anemic 63 votes per precinct. Bruce Rauner averaged 64 votes in 2014, but Pat Quinn got 407,107 fewer votes than Clinton did. On that trajectory, by 2028 or soon thereafter, the Republican vote may fall under 5 percent countywide and Republicans would lose their ballot line. Clinton got 95.4 percent of the vote in Chicago’s 18 black-majority wards, 87.1 percent in the 11 Hispanic-majority wards and 84.6 percent in the seven affluent, mostly white, Lakefront wards. Chicago has become “Manhattan West,” or maybe “San Francisco East,” conspicuously, congenitally and compulsively liberal. As for Chicago’s black wards, they’re “Harlem West,” with Trump’s 13,286 votes here only slightly exceeding his total in New York’s predominantly black neighborhood. Trump got 3 percent or less of the vote in 11 of the 18 black-majority wards. He lost the 24th Ward 15,932-245. Trump averaged 738 votes in those 18 wards. The Republicans have ceased to be a nuisance, and they now are a nonentity. Truth number one is that, like the rest of the country, Clinton did not replicate Obama’s 2012 showing among black voters. Obama got 422,727 votes in the black-majority Chicago wards in 2012, while Clinton got 363,621 in this election, a falloff of 59,100 votes, as is shown in the attached chart. In Illinois that decline didn’t matter, as Clinton’s vote increased among Hispanics and white liberals. You can’t lose Illinois coming out of Chicago with a 907,920-134,792, 83.7 percent, majority, which is a margin of 773,128 votes. However, Clinton got 54,818 more votes in Chicago than Obama got in 2012. Clinton won Illinois by 859,319 votes, almost as good as Obama’s 884,296-vote margin in 2012. In other urbanized Great Lakes states, such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, a 10 to 15 percent decline in the black vote tipped those states to Trump. Truth number two is that, unlike the rest of the country, white male blue collar workers and those in law enforcement failed to defect to Trump in significant numbers. Only in the Far Northwest Side 41st Ward, which is chock full of cops and firefighters, did Trump even come close. The Clinton-Trump vote was 14,042-11,457, a 52.3 percent win and a margin of 2,585 votes, with Trump winning a majority in four of 47 precincts and getting 40 to 49 percent of the vote in another 28. Clinton actually did better there than Obama, who won 13,134-11,048. Clinton got 908 more votes than Obama got in 2012, while Trump, who got 42.6 percent of the vote in the ward, ran just 409 votes ahead of Romney, who got 44.9 percent. Given all the hysteria and the nasty $4 million Michael McAuliffe-Merry Marwig race for state representative, turnout in the 41st Ward increased from 24,634 in 2012 to 26,867 in this election. The 41st Ward encompasses Edison Park, Norwood Park and Oriole Park, and it is to Chicago what Staten Island is to New York, an enclave of conservativism. McAuliffe won the ward 11,050-7,783. Debatably, the Trump vote was more of a positive than a negative for McAuliffe. McAuliffe said that he had “a lot of Trump negativity” in the Park Ridge areas of the district, but that wasn’t the case in the 41st Ward, which has 34 precincts in the district. In fact, the Nov. 8 statistics are astounding. On the Northwest Side, except for the recalcitrant 41st Ward, the Clinton vote was 5 to 10 percent greater than the 2012 Obama vote.)

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Things Conservatives can be thankful for on Thanksgiving – Ed Straker  (DIERSEN: How thankful are you for what you have?  I should write a book about my envy-filled/nasty/troubled/failed/vicious critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  They have always viciously demonized me, viciously denigrated me, and viciously condemned me for my not being thankful enough. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, that I have always been privileged, that I never really earned what I have, that everything that I have was given to me on a silver platter, and that I certainly do not disserve what I have. They stress my demographics and they stress that I avoided the draft, that I worked for the federal government, that I am not a member of a church, that I do not attend church services, that I do not give money to a church, that I do not give money to their favorite charities, that my wife and I gave up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, that we did not become foster parents, that etc.)
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/things_conservatives_can_be_thankful_for_on_thanksgiving.html
— Giving Thanks: Donald Trump’s Top Ten – G. Murphy Donovan
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/giving_thanks_donald_trumps_top_ten_.html
— Facts Trump the Left’s National Tantrum – John Steinreich
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/facts_trump_the_lefts_national_tantrum.html
— What if the Hamilton Casting Trend Catches On? – Simon de Hundehutte
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/what_if_the_emhamiltonem_casting_trend_catches_on.html

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— BACKWARD-LOOKING ‘PROGRESSIVES’ – Thomas Sowell
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/backward-looking-progressives/
— TRUMP AND COLLEGE CHAOS – Walter E. Williams
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/trump-and-college-chaos/

 

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Former Sanders Spokeswoman: “We Don’t Need White People Leading The Democratic Party” – Ian Schwartz
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/23/cnns_symone_sanders_we_dont_need_white_people_leading_the_democratic_party_right_now.html

 

THE BLAZE
— Actor Robert De Niro bashed Trump before the election. Now he’s reversing course. – Chris Enloe
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/23/actor-robert-de-niro-bashed-trump-before-the-election-now-hes-reversing-course/

 

GOPUSA
— The Liberal Media Hacks Will Never Change
http://www.gopusa.com/the-liberal-media-hacks-will-never-change/

 

NEWSMAX
— Stephen Moore: Good Bye, Reagan GOP; Hello, Trump Populist Party – Cathy Burke
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/GOP-Reagan-Donald-Trump-populist/2016/11/23/id/760480/

 

TOWNHALL
— Remember When Chuck Schumer And These Top Democrats Voted To Build A Border Wall…In 2006? – Matt Vespa
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/11/23/remember-when-chuck-schumer-and-these-top-democrats-voted-to-build-a-border-wallin-2006-n2249715

 

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— Lessons from the ‘Hamilton’ controversy for Team Trump – Cal Thomas
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/24/cal-thomas-lessons-from-hamilton-controversy-for-team-trump.html

 

POLITICO
— Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts likely deputy Commerce secretary – ELIANA JOHNSON and MATTHEW NUSSBAUM
http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/todd-ricketts-deputy-commerce-secretary-trump-231827
— How Trump roasted Clinton in turkey country  Donald Trump won the nation’s top turkey-producing areas by a landslide. – STEVEN SHEPARD
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-turkey-thanksgiving-231666

 

AOL
— Sean Hannity rips basically every outlet other than Fox as ‘fake news’ – BRIAN FLOOD
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/11/23/sean-hannity-rips-basically-every-outlet-other-than-fox-as-fake/21613106/

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Amazon removes negative reviews of Megyn Kelly’s memoir
http://www.wkow.com/story/33779258/amazon-removes-negative-reviews-of-megyn-kellys-memoir
— CDC: US abortion rate falls to lowest level in decades
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/33782767/cdc-us-abortion-rate-falls-to-lowest-level-in-decades
— Clinton being pushed to seek vote recount in 3 states
http://www.fox8live.com/story/33787215/clinton-being-pushed-to-seek-vote-recount-in-3-states

 

ABC NEWS
— 9 Questions Democrats Want Answered About Donald Trump’s Transition Team – ALI ROGIN
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/questions-democrats-answered-donald-trumps-transition-team/story?id=43743375

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— No Experience, No Problem – Editorial (DIERSEN: If you wanted a job in the Trump Administration, what would you stress?  I would stress a) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels (currently $92,632-$120,427); b) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels (currently $77,899-$88,286); c) that I passed the CPA examination and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt; d) that I am a licensed CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Government Financial Manager, Certified Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant; e) that I have a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT; and f) that I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter for 13 years.  I would stress that I know a lot about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.  I would stress that I know a lot about those in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Glen Ellyn, and in Wheaton who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican. I would stress that I would be highly qualified to serve on a committee that would assess the qualifications of those from Illinois who seek positions in the Trump Administration.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/opinion/no-experience-no-problem.html?ref=opinion
— In Betsy DeVos for Education, Trump Taps Into Michigan Royalty – VANESSA FRIEDMAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ALAN RAPPEPORT
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html
— ‘Economic Tsunami’: Fearing Donald Trump, (ILLEGALS) in New York Spend Less – LIZ ROBBINS
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/nyregion/economic-tsunami-fearing-donald-trump-immigrants-in-new-york-spend-less.html
— The States That College Graduates Are Most Likely to Leave – Quoctrung Bui
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/upshot/the-states-that-college-graduates-are-most-likely-to-leave.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— After Trump’s election: ‘There are two Americas now.’ – William Wan, Tanya Sichynsky and Sandhya Somashekhar  (DIERSEN One America is anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors AND THE OTHER AMERICA IS Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-trumps-election-there-are-two-americas-now/2016/11/21/12fa26c8-acec-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html

 

PBS
— How will Trump affect intertwined lives of U.S. and Mexico?  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs put the interests of Mexico and its citizens ahead of the interests of America and its citizens.)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/will-trump-affect-intertwined-lives-u-s-mexico/

 

ATLANTIC
— Donald Trump’s Fragile Hold on America  In a future campaign, the president-elect would need to keep his supporters faithful, while not further alienating groups who opposed him this year. – RONALD BROWNSTEIN
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/trump-bannon-election/508688/

 

VANITY FAIR
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps provide “ALL THE LATEST DANGERS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, EXPLAINED  A seven-part guide to determining your respective freak-out level.” – T.A. FRANK
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/trump-presidency-fears-explained

 

FORTUNE
— A Mexican Cement Maker Just Offered to Help Donald Trump Build that Wall – Reuters
http://fortune.com/2016/11/24/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall/

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— Talk About Money — NOT Politics — With Your Family This Thanksgiving  After a divisive election, money suddenly seems a safer topic for the dinner table—even for your drunk uncle. – Kerri Anne Renzulli  (DIERSEN: Democrats want those who have less money to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Republicans who have more money.)
http://time.com/money/4580804/thanksgiving-family-talk-money-politics/

 

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— Cummings, Warren ask for GAO study of ‘chaotic’ Trump transition – Nicole Ogrysko (DIERSEN: Democrats run GAO. I worked for those Democrats for almost 18 years. They wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.  They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, or a veteran.)
http://federalnewsradio.com/congress/2016/11/cummings-warren-ask-gao-study-chaotic-trump-transition/
— Federal employees to be thankful for – Mike Causey (DIERSEN: When you first learn that someone is a federal employee or a retired federal employee, what does that make you think of that person?  Ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries despise if not hate federal employees and federal retirees.  I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 19 years.)
http://federalnewsradio.com/federal-report/2016/11/feds-to-be-thankful-for/

 

WORKER’S WORLD
— Trump targets federal workers – Carl Lewis  (DIERSEN: When you first learn that someone is a federal employee or a retired federal employee, what does that make you think of that person?  Ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries despise if not hate federal employees and federal retirees.  I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 19 years.)
http://www.workers.org/2016/11/23/trump-targets-federal-workers/#.WDbIDhHxZZI
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There is evidence that the incoming Trump administration plans to target federal workers, including privatizing the Department of Veteran Affairs, to reduce the size of the federal workforce and substantially cut wages. Among the right-wing ideologues and advisors to Donald Trump on federal workers is Newt Gingrich, coauthor of the infamous “Contract with America” (more aptly called a “Contract ON ‘America’ “) released by the Republican Party in 1994. It outlined austerity plans to decimate the working class as a whole and to specifically target federal workers. Gingrich was asked how this change would be managed in an interview with Lisa Rein of the Washington Post. “So there are two groups in Washington on this issue who are initially opposed,” stated Gingrich. “First you have the hard-line federal employee unions. They’re like the teachers union in New York. They are parallels. They are the group, that no matter how sick it is, they have a vested interest in the old order.” (Oct. 19). These cryptic comments refer to limiting collective bargaining rights, removing due process rights and cutting wages. Gingrich holds up Scott Walker, the anti-union governor of Wisconsin who devastated public employee unions and employee pensions, as a model. Gingrich used the example of short-staffed VA workers in Texas who were forced by management, under penalty of being charged with “insubordination,” to make phony appointments for veterans and then list them as “no-shows.” Instead of placing the blame where it should be — on incompetent and corrupt management officials who received bonuses for the volume of calls received and answered — he blames the workers who are the victims. This scam was finally exposed by an employee whistleblower and led to a shakeup in the agency. Like sharks smelling blood and going into a feeding frenzy, the ruling class began to use this example to put federal workers further under the chopping block. Paul Ryan, current Speaker of the House, views federal workers as a “privileged class.” When Ryan sat on the House Ways and Means Committee, which determines budgets for federal agencies, he proposed freezing workers’ pay for five years; raising the bar on performance standards; increasing the workload on employees by not backfilling when workers retire, resign or are terminated; and decreasing employee leave time, among other measures. Ryan’s ideas were copied from the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s “Blueprint for Reform.” Jessica Klement, the legislative director for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, refuted the blueprint: “The report starts with the assumption that federal pay and benefits are overly generous, and not in line with the private sector, and therefore need to be decreased. This assumption is wholly inaccurate. Most federal jobs lag behind their private sector counterparts.” The Federal Salary Council says federal employees are underpaid by an average of 35 percent. (fedsmith.com, July 16) Trump, however, plans to increase pay and benefits as well as new hires for the National Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to carry out his racist and anti-immigrant plans.)

 

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they are anti-White, that is, that they are racists.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/24/donald-trump-white-latino-america

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.