November 9, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Streeterville hotel to become homeless shelter as workers protest layoffs – Nell Salzman and Jake Sheridan (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-selina-hotel-workers-protest-shelter-20231109-6znbh4tkarhp5dnatnl4c4a3ca-story.html
— Pritzker should use executive powers to take action on migrant crisis – Paul Vallas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-jb-pritzker-executive-orders-migrant-crisis-illinois-chicago-20231109-rt625k63z5ekff6bvp7cwedcym-story.html
— Calls for Joe Biden not to run raise an age-old question we all face eventually – Clarence Page (COMMENT: How old were you when you got your last promotion? For me, it was late 1986, when I was 38 years old. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that I applied for that promotion to GS-13, currently $109,732/year, and they were more furious with the GAO manager who promoted me. He had arranged my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and he had gotten me assigned to audits of IRS in early 1986. They were so furious that they forced him to retire in 1987. They threatened to punish me severely if I ever applied for a promotion again. That prompted me to become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in late 1988. Because of that, they threw me off audits of IRS and gave me a very bad job assignment, unfair performance expectations, and an unfair performance appraisal in 1989. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/clarence-page/ct-column-joe-biden-ap-norc-david-axelrod-page-20231109-agasbjub5zg25cqholymtsvbyq-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Streeterville boutique hotel becoming homeless shelter, prompting staff layoffs. The move to open the shelter is part of a city plan to provide emergency beds for the winter. It comes amid squabbles over what’s going to migrants and what’s going to unhoused Chicagoans. – Michael Loria (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/8/23952653/streeterville-boutique-hotel-becoming-homeless-shelter-prompting-staff-layoffs
— In some Black and Latino neighborhoods, gun violence hits over and over ‘with no mercy’ Recent mass shootings in Chicago did not receive the same level of news media coverage as the mass shooting in Maine, but they underscore the relentless nature of violence in communities of color. – Yolanda Androzzo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/8/23949654/mass-shootings-black-latino-communities-gun-violence-disparity-coverage-yolanda-androzzo-one-aim
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/11/8/23952557/ohio-abortion-rights-republicans-voters-elections-dobbs-jackson-roe-wade-cupp
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all threats and for all hatred.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2023/11/8/23950883/suburban-chicago-islamic-school-copes-with-fear-sadness-after-threat

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Hotel near Mag Mile set to become a temporary homeless shelter – Danny Ecker (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/selina-hotel-near-magnificent-mile-becoming-homeless-shelter
— Restaurateurs are outraged by City Hall’s PTO push. Workers? That’s a different story. – Ally Marotti (COMMENT: I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. Since 1966 when I was 18 years old and started working part-time for the Park Forest Post Office, my critics/opponents have been furious that I benefitted from the federal government’s more generous leave policies.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/paid-leave-policy-outrages-chicago-restaurants

ABC7
— Workers say Gold Coast hotel is laying them off before shift to homeless shelter – Jessica D’Onofrio and Michelle Gallardo (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-hotels-selina-hotel-homeless-shelter/14029606/
— Victims speak out after armed carjacking outside Beverly home: ‘I don’t want to go outside’ – Christian Piekos (COMMENT: Criminals ever-increasingly do not care about being caught on camera.)
https://abc7chicago.com/beverly-carjacking-armed-chicago-crime-surveillance-video/14028936/
— City council disruptions from gallery prompt call for changes for workplace safety – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-city-council-meeting-chaos-disruptions/14029463/
— Student’s ‘joke’ about having gun prompts Crete-Monee High School lockdown: police – Evelyn Holmes
https://abc7chicago.com/crete-monee-high-school-il-news/14028033/
— GOP candidates hit Trump and back Israel. Here are highlights from the Republican debate – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/republican-debate-gop-presidential-2023/14032474/

NBC5
— Project allowing Chicago migrants to acquire work permits begins this week – Courtney Sisk (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. Because immigrants work for less money, they drive wages down. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not, the wages that I got would have been less. I was able to buy a new car in 1966 when I was 17 years old with the money that I earned washing dishes part-time. I was able to pay for my colleges expenses 1966-1970 and buy new cars in 1967 and 1968 with the money that I earned delivering mail part-time.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/process-to-acquire-work-permits-for-chicago-migrants-begins-this-week/3273352/
— Family shares horrifying ordeal after surveillance video captures robbery outside Chicago home. The Pettiford family said it all started as a routine Thursday, but things quickly changed as Michelle Pettiford and her 12-year-old daughter returned home from volleyball practice. – Sandra Torres and Alex Fisher (COMMENT: Criminals ever-increasingly do not care about being caught on camera.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/family-shares-horrifying-ordeal-after-surveillance-video-captures-robbery-outside-chicago-home/3272801/
— ‘Joke’ about gun leads to lockdown, large police presence at Crete-Monee High School – James Neveau
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/large-police-presence-street-closures-in-place-near-crete-monee-high-school/3272816/

CBS2
— Selina Chicago hotel in Gold Coast to be converted into temporary homeless shelter – TODD FEURER (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/selina-chicago-gold-coast-hotel-homeless-shelter/
— Chicago family carjacked at gunpoint in their own driveway – MARISSA PERLMAN, CHARLIE DE MAR (COMMENT: Criminals ever-increasingly do not care about being caught on camera.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/beverly-family-carjacked-driveway/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-church-helping-migrants-settled-new-home/
— Two charged after woman is shot, killed at ATM in Worth. – CHARLIE DE MAR, ANDREW RAMOS, SARA MACHI (COMMENT: Criminals ever-increasingly do not care about being caught on camera.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/two-held-after-woman-shot-killed-atm-southwest-chicago-suburb/

WGN9
— Illinois Senate approves plan to allow new nuclear reactors – AP
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-senate-approves-plan-to-allow-new-nuclear-reactors/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/veterans-voices/veteran-living-her-authentic-self-as-pastor-author-lgbtq-advocate/

FOX32
— Chicago hotel workers protest layoffs amidst transition to migrant housing. Workers at the Selina Hotel are protesting layoffs as the hotel prepares to become migrant housing. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1308457

WTTW
— Push for Reparations in Chicago Gets New Life as Johnson Earmarks $500K for New Panel – Heather Cherone
https://news.wttw.com/2023/11/09/push-reparations-chicago-gets-new-life-johnson-earmarks-500k-new-panel

WBEZ
— City of Chicago is turning hotel into a homeless shelter for up to 7 months. The Selina Hotel will be converted to use all 116 rooms in December. The population will not include migrant families. – Esther Yoon-Ji Kang (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-hotel-to-turn-into-homeless-shelter/602d0079-8a32-4886-a8cf-375e35e7b89f

KVAL
— Chicago residents grill city council over sanctuary status: ‘Do you want a race war?’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more illegal immigration.)
https://kval.com/news/nation-world/chicago-residents-grill-city-council-over-sanctuary-status-do-you-want-a-race-war-illinois-migrant-crisis-immigration

WIFR
— Democrat leaders push pot in Rockford.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2023/11/09/chicago-based-cannabis-company-opens-rockford-location/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— GOP candidates hit Trump and back Israel. Here are highlights from the Republican debate – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-gop-candidates-hit-trump-and-back-israel-here-are-highlights-from-the-republican-debate/
— Democrat leaders see abortion wins as a springboard for 2024 as GOP struggles to find a winning message – AP (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-democrats-see-abortion-wins-as-a-springboard-for-2024-as-gop-struggles-to-find-a-winning-message/

AXIOS
— Drama erupts at City Hall after alders try to censure Carlos Ramirez-Rosa – Justin Kaufmann and Monica Eng (COMMENT: My critics/opponents unsuccessfully had their operatives and their dupes try to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters at its annual convention in 2006 in Wheaton. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/11/07/carlos-ramirez-rosa-censure-vote-fails
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The council deadlocked, giving Mayor Brandon Johnson the deciding vote to deny the censure.)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Biden will toot his horn in Illinois – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: I worked in that Belvidere plant part-time in early 1970 until it shut down.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2023/11/09/biden-will-toot-his-horn-in-illinois-00126313

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2023/11/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-182/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2023/11/08/afternoon-roundup-184/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

EAST CENTRAL REPORTER
— Miller: ‘Biden’s HHS wants to mock Christians and force employees to engage in leftwing political speech’
https://eastcentralreporter.com/stories/651444858-miller-biden-s-hhs-wants-to-mock-christians-and-force-employees-to-engage-in-leftwing-political-speech

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— BLACK, BROWN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS ENDURE HIGHEST POVERTY RATES – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/black-brown-chicago-neighborhoods-endure-highest-poverty-rates/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pro-life warning: Democrat leaders will force the abortion issue, GOP must respond better (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/8/inside-beltway-pro-lifers-warn-gop-democrats-will-/
— Republicans burned by abortion restrictions at ballot box, can’t shake ‘ban’ rhetoric from Dems – Susan Ferrechio and Ramsey Touchberry (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/8/republicans-burned-abortion-restrictions-ballot-bo/
— Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt House hearing about antisemitic speech on college campuses – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/8/pro-palestinian-protesters-arrested-house-judiciar/
— GOP candidates back deporting pro-Hamas foreign students – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/8/gop-candidates-back-deporting-pro-hamas-foreign-st/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— GOP debates reach a dead end – Byron York
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/gop-debates-reach-a-dead-end
— Huge night for the party of abortion, marijuana, and pornography – Conn Carroll (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/huge-night-for-the-party-of-abortion-marijuana-and-pornography

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is just another progressive bully – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2023/11/08/opinion/chicago-alderman-carlos-ramirez-rosa-is-just-another-prog-bully/
— The Biden administration is hiding the real scale of the migrant crisis – Dave Seminara
https://nypost.com/2023/11/08/opinion/the-biden-administration-is-hiding-the-real-scale-of-the-migrant-crisis/
— GOP presidential candidates divided on federal government’s role in abortion limits – Victor Nava
https://nypost.com/2023/11/08/news/gop-candidates-divided-on-federal-governments-role-in-abortion-limits/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Housing illegal migrants in America’s airports? – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/housing_illegal_migrants_in_americas_airports.html
— Please, O woke masters, help us! – J.A. Frascino
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/please_o_woke_masters_help_us.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spiteful Romney rats out fellow GOP senators who didn’t back anti-gun bill – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/11/08/spiteful-romney-rats-out-fellow-gop-senators-who-didnt-back-anti-gun-bill-1410883/

BREITBART
— DeSantis Bashes Biden for Seeking Billions to Bus Illegal Aliens into U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/11/08/fact-check-ron-desantis-bashes-joe-biden-for-seeking-billions-to-bus-illegal-aliens-into-u-s/

CENTER SQUARE
— Trailing Trump, Republican candidates talk entitlement reform – Brett Rowland (COMMENT: Who do you know that gets a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes paint my CSRS pension as being an “entitlement.” In my defense, a) I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS and b) my CSRS pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in in 1972.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9298623a-7ea1-11ee-b2ee-4fdd112ce90c.html

DAILY CALLER
— Sen. Schmitt Introduces Bill To Abolish DEI Offices In Dozens Of Federal Government Agencies – HENRY RODGERS (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. They required all their employees to take lots of Affirmative Action and DEI training. All that training promoted lots of hatred against Republicans. I should write a book about that.)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/08/exclusive-sen-schmitt-dei-offices/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘End the Occupation!’ Chants Derail House Hearing on Antisemitism – Tyler O’Nei
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/08/free-palestine-protesters-disrupt-campus-antisemitism-hearing/
— The Ideas Behind the Surge of Antisemitism on America’s Campuses – Eric Schmitt
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/08/the-ideas-behind-surge-of-antisemitism-americas-campuses/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Wins Over DeSantis’ Biggest Donor, Who Says America Needs ‘Strongest Commander’ Back – Tom Ozimek
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-wins-over-desantis-biggest-donor-who-says-america-needs-strongest-commander-back-5525629

FOX NEWS
— DeSantis reflects on his debate performance, how he is different from Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340803006112
— Chaos erupts at Chicago City Council meeting over sanctuary city status. Chicago spending up to $40 million a month on migrant crisis, alderman says. – Stephen Sorace
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chaos-erupts-at-chicago-city-council-meeting-over-sanctuary-city-status
— Chicago residents explode with anger over migrants, sanctuary policies: ‘They are not listening’ Residents demand Democrat-run city abandon ‘sanctuary’ status. – Elizabeth Heckman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-residents-explode-anger-migrants-sanctuary-policies-listening
— GOP lawmaker sounds alarm on ‘dangerous’ threat to US coming from porous border, and it’s not from Mexico. Encounters at the northern border have increased significantly in recent months. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmaker-sounds-alarm-dangerous-threat-us-border-not-mexico

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illegal Chinese Marijuana Grown in Maine and Elsewhere – PETER KIRSANOW
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/illegal-chinese-marijuana-grown-in-maine-and-elsewhere/

NEWSMAX
— DeSantis, Nikki Haley Shine in 3rd GOP Debate – John Gizzi
https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/debate-haley-desantis/2023/11/09/id/1141625/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Biden DHS boss testifies that there is ‘no disaster’ at southern border. There were a record 2.4 million apprehensions at the US border in the 2023 fiscal year. – Katie Daviscourt
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-dhs-boss-testifies-that-there-is-no-disaster-at-southern-border

TOWNHALL
— New CNN Poll Admits There Is an ‘Enthusiasm Advantage’ for GOP Ahead of 2024 – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/08/new-cnn-poll-finds-enthusiasm-advantage-for-gop-ahead-of-2024-n2630956

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Americans are very well-schooled. Well-educated is another matter. – DAVID MASCI (COMMENT: The graduate accounting courses that I took at DePaul along with the Becker CPA Review that I took and my working for IRS for almost 8 years helped me pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. The aforesaid along with the undergraduate and graduate internal auditing courses that I took at Roosevelt and the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) review courses that I took and my working for GAO for a year helped me pass the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4297586-americans-are-very-well-schooled-well-educated-is-another-matter/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Caravan of 3,000 migrants blocks highway in southern Mexico – ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-caravan-tapachula-d14ac3ee080d57bba080c5a28276ae6f

NBC NEWS
— 2024 Primary Elections Calendar
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/calendar
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/vatican-says-transgender-people-can-baptized-rcna124280

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— What First Generation College Students Really Need – Alejandra Campoverdi (COMMENT: I was a first generation college student. My father was the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-08/what-first-generation-college-students-really-need

NEW YORK TIMES
— A New Answer for Migrants in Central America: Bus Them North. Costa Rica and Panama are busing people through their countries to ease the concentration of people along their borders, which Biden officials fear will encourage more people to travel to the U.S. border. – Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David Bolaños
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/americas/costa-rica-migrants-busing.html
— What Voters Want That Trump Seems to Have – MICHELLE COTTLE
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/opinion/biden-trump-poll.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/07/us/election-day-2023
— Vivek Ramaswamy says the celebration of diversity in America has come at the cost of national unity. – Amy Qin (COMMENT: While I am 100% German national origin, I have never celebrated my national origin. Because of WWI and WWII, I have stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/vivek-ramaswamy-debate-indian-american.html
— ‘She Certainly Beat All the Boys’: Winners and Losers of the Third G.O.P. Debate – Editorial
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/09/opinion/republican-debate-winners-losers.html
— Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War. Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it. – Ben Hubbard and Maria Abi-Habib
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-gaza-war.html

USA TODAY
— Lower-income workers face a big challenge for retirement. What’s keeping them from saving. – Susan Tompor (COMMENT: Who do you know that gets a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes paint my CSRS pension as being an “entitlement.” In my defense, a) I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS and b) my CSRS pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in in 1972.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/columnist/2023/11/08/low-income-baby-boomers-facing-a-stark-retirement-reaface-stark-retirement-dilemma-theyre-not-saving/71501392007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Illinois’s ‘Invest in Kids’ Hall of Shame. Democrats in Congress want to kill scholarships for low-income kids. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/illinois-invest-in-kids-program-jan-schakowsky-democrats-school-choice-645d0479
— Republicans Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Abortion. Tuesday’s resounding abortion-rights victories left GOP candidates grasping for a position they could sell to voters. – Molly Ball
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/on-debate-stage-and-campaign-trail-republicans-still-dont-know-how-to-talk-about-abortion-f70905e3
— Are Republicans Tired of All the Losing? Another lousy Election Day shows the GOP has a brand problem. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elections-virginia-kentucky-ohio-abortion-gop-glenn-youngkin-andy-beshear-daniel-cameron-9cf1f979
— Voters Want Anyone but Trump or Biden. Neither looks good in the latest polls. Both parties should consider alternatives for the 2024 presidential election. – Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/voters-want-anyone-but-trump-or-biden-presidential-election-campaign-voters-polls-d1610d69
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Abortion-Rights Supporters Rack Up Victories, Putting GOP in Bind for 2024. From red Ohio and Kentucky to purple Virginia and Pennsylvania, Tuesday’s results show issue’s continued potency. – Aaron Zitner and Laura Kusisto
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/abortion-rights-supporters-rack-up-victories-putting-gop-in-bind-for-2024-4bec7b38

POLITICO
— The Supreme Court dismantled Roe. States are restoring it one by one. Support for abortion cuts across party lines, performing significantly better at the ballot box than Biden and other Democrats. – ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN, MEGAN MESSERLY and JESSICA PIPER
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/09/abortion-rights-elections-red-states-00126225

RASMUSSENREPORTS
— U.S. Voters Back Netanyahu, Reject Calls for Gaza Ceasefire
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/u_s_voters_back_netanyahu_reject_calls_for_gaza_ceasefire

DAILY MAIL
— ‘You’re just a scum’: Nikki Haley tears into vindictive Vivek after he said her daughter has a TikTok account and called Zelensky a ‘Nazi’ – as the crowd BOOS and his rivals fume – EMILY GOODIN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12728139/Nikk-Haley-Vivek-scum-daughter-Zelensky-Nazi-debate.html
— Trump calls the Republican debate ‘unwatchable’ as he speaks to big rally crowd down the road in Florida – and rips into ‘stupid’ trial on the day daughter Ivanka testified – GEOFF EARLE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12727763/Trump-skips-Miami-GOP-debate-rally-supporters-nearby-Hialeah-saying-Republican-rivals-not-watchable-tears-stupid-trial-New-York-day-Ivanka-testified.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Questions to ask those who are running for offices on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.

Questions to ask those who are running for offices on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct:

What have you done and what will you do if elected to defend and advance the following planks in the Republican Party platform:

– Individual responsibility,
– Traditional marriage and family,
– Right to life,
– Immigration,
– Illegal drugs,
– Second Amendment, and
– equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving)?

What have you done and what will you do if elected to discourage the promotion of:

– Dependency on government and charity,
– LGBTQ,
– Abortion,
– Mass/illegal immigration,
– Booze, gambling, pot, and other vices,
– Diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and
– Patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination?

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.