October 13, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Harris’ doctor reports VP in ‘excellent health.’ Her campaign wants to draw contrast with Trump
https://abc7chicago.com/post/harris-doctor-reports-vice-president-excellent-health-campaign-wants-draw-contrast-trump/15420645/

NBC5
— Illegals are taking jobs held by minorities. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/opponents have always accused me of taking jobs and getting promotions that should have been given to minorities. They were especially furious when IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and when GAO promoted me in 1986. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate in 1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-black-jobs-hispanic-jobs-data/3572014/

WGN9
— Democrats run America. According to them, everything that they say is true and everything that Republicans say is false.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/how-schools-are-tackling-misinformation-as-false-claims-about-hurricanes-election-run-wild/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/12/letters-101224-climate-change/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/13/column-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-hurricane-helene-milton-page/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/13/amid-false-claims-illinois-elections-officials-push-integrity-transparency-and-maybe-body-armor/
— Bossing the ballot. Illinois’ arcane election rules turn politics into a blood sport where only the most powerful and savvy survive.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/13/illinois-ballot-challenges/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— According to hate-filled Trump and Vance haters, everything that they say is a lie.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/10/11/trump-vances-lies-dividing-americans-walz-fibs-media-presidents-race-mona-charen

DAILY HERALD
— Endorsement: Reboletti for Illinois House District 45
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241013/endorsements/endorsement-reboletti-for-illinois-house-district-45/
— Voters consider Democrat ballot questions on reproductive health, tax reform, election interference
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241012/news/voters-consider-ballot-questions-on-reproductive-health-tax-reform-election-interference/
— Healthcare is the big issue neither candidate talks much about (COMMENT: Since I was 18 years old in 1966 and became a federal employee, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government a) paid 72% of my healthcare insurance while I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and b) continues to pay 72% of my healthcare insurance while I have been a federal retiree for 27 years. Further, since my wife and I got married in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that the federal government has paid 72% of her healthcare insurance.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241012/syndicated-columnists/the-big-issue-neither-candidate-talks-much-about-health-care/
— Metra budget forecast shows $221 million fiscal cliff coming in 2026
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241011/transportation/metra-budget-forecast-shows-221-million-fiscal-cliff-coming-in-2026/

SOUTHERN
— My critics/opponents promote age discrimination. I fight age discrimination.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/10/12/harris-releases-her-medical-report-to-give-trumps-health-and-advanced-age-new-scrutiny/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Because Democrats use government to give Black men tremendous preference, Democrats expect/demand Black men to vote for Democrat candidates.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/obama-s-callout-to-black-men-touches-a-nerve-among-democrats-is-election-year-misogyny/article_81d6434a-3860-5bea-ad50-40c76048066b.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— The League of Women Voters of Glen Ellyn and Wheaton will hold a community meeting on Mis/Disinformation Awareness from 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Glen Ellyn Civic Center’s Clayton Room, 535 Duane St., Glen Ellyn. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all information is mis/disinformation except for the information that they put out or bless.)
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2024/10/13/league-of-women-voters-to-hold-meeting-on-misdisinformation-awareness/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Unlike Democrats, Trump opposes illegal immigration.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-10-11/trump-rallies-in-aurora-a-city-he-has-demonized-as-overrun-by-migrant-crime
— Because Democrat elected officials use government to give illegals free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free education, free transportation, and free everything else, anticipate/expect that illegals use their false identifications to vote for Democrat candidates.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-10-12/6-facts-about-false-noncitizen-voting-claims-and-the-election
— Democrats ever-increasingly oppose efforts to reduce/stop voter fraud. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-10-13/the-stark-divide-between-harris-and-trump-on-voting-rights

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-hears-at-a-latino-campaign-event-from-someone-who-lived-in-the-us-illegally/

WGLT
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly promise to use government to give Blacks more preference.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-10-12/what-the-harris-campaign-is-doing-to-try-to-win-over-more-black-men

CITIES 92.9
— My critics/opponents promote age discrimination. I fight age discrimination.
https://www.cities929.com/2024/10/11/discussions-underway-to-help-shape-policymaking-for-illinois-senior-citizens/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The real reason why those who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican blame Trump for their problems and are going to vote for Harris/Walz is that they reject planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the aforesaid planks. I should write about my critics/opponents.  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the more that they use DEI to get rid of you: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about RINO leaders of the following who ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of those who are the aforesaid: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What distinguishes Democrat elected officials and party leaders from Republican elected officials and party leaders? Democrat elected officials and party leaders aggressively defend/advance the Democrat Party platform. Republican elected officials and party leaders fail/refuse to defend/advance the Republican Party platform. Republican elected officials and party leaders ever-increasingly paint themselves as being Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What harmed your relationships with your superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates? My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran cut deals under the table with my Democrat GAO superiors to survive Affirmative Action, DEI, and Republican-led budget cuts. They agreed to not only waste my career, but to take many big adverse actions against me. They forced me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals. They assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees. They delayed my promotions, did not promote me to GS-13 until 1986, and never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JOHN KASS
— Is 2024 the Year of the Deep State? (COMMENT: Virtually all government employees are Democrats. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.  In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans IRS hired. In 1966, I was one of the last Republicans the Post Office hired.)
https://johnkassnews.com/2024-is-1984-for-media-and-kamala-harris/

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— 2023: Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U administrators rank fourth lowest in state for average salary
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/664418625-2023-crete-monee-community-unit-school-district-201-u-administrators-rank-fourth-lowest-in-state-for-average-salary

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Millions of church-going Christians expected to skip voting in November (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. To not vote for Republican candidates is to promote the Democrat Party platform.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/11/millions-of-church-going-christians-expected-to-sk/
— Helene and Milton bring out climate change charlatans
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/11/editorial-helene-and-milton-bring-out-climate-chan/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats are hinting they’ll object to a Trump victory
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3186073/democrats-hinting-object-trump-victory/
— Obama shames black men over Harris’s polling panic
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3186329/obama-shames-black-men-over-harris-polling-panic/
— Questioning election results is the new normal
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3184810/questioning-election-results-is-the-new-normal/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump keeps winning over Hispanic voters — and it could be decisive for November
https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/us-news/trump-keeps-winning-over-hispanic-voters-and-it-could-be-decisive-for-november/
— Why quotas are bad for the Secret Service (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. GAO is less than a shell of what it once was because those Democrats used Affirmative Action, DEI, and Republican-led budget cuts to destroy GAO.)
https://nypost.com/2024/10/12/opinion/quotas-are-bad-for-the-secret-service/
— Trump’s secret fanbase: NY Democrats crave his win to take heat off their failures (COMMENT: What do you say to Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who blame Trump for their failures?)
https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/opinion/trumps-secret-fanbase-ny-dems-distracting-from-failure/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Why are Democrats so determined to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls? (COMMENT: Because Democrat elected officials use government to give illegals free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free education, free transportation, and free everything else, anticipate/expect that illegals use their false identifications to vote for Democrat candidates.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/why_are_democrats_so_determined_to_keep_non_citizens_on_the_voter_rolls.html
— DOJ sues Virginia to force the state to maintain non-citizens on the voting rolls
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/the_doj_sues_virginia_to_force_the_state_to_maintain_non_citizens_on_the_voting_rolls.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump pledges crackdown on illegal alien gangs at Aurora, CO rally
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/10/12/trump-pledges-crackdown-on-illegal-alien-gangs-at-aurora-co-rally-1494271/
— DOJ sues battleground state over removal of non-citizens from voter rolls
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/10/12/in-mind-boggling-move-doj-sues-battleground-state-over-removal-of-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls-1494278/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Rice University recently held a half-day anti-Semitism training for faculty and staff members, prompting the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to publish an Instagram post criticizing the training. (COMMENT: I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were the most antisemitic.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/rice-sjp-condemns-anti-semitism-training-propaganda/26516
— UC Santa Cruz is giving out thousands in DEI grants
https://www.campusreform.org/article/uc-santa-cruz-giving-thousands-dei-grants/26517

CHRISTIAN POST
— Obama blasts Trump Bible (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly use religion to destroy America.)
https://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-blasts-trump-bible-got-his-name-next-to-matthew-luke.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Harris’s Medical Report Released
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/harris-in-excellent-health-has-allergies-doctor-5740330

FOX NEWS
— Mob of up to 30 looters, some armed, ransack freight train in Chicago. Six people were arrested after suspects loaded vehicles with the stolen goods as the train awaited an interchange.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mob-up-30-looters-some-armed-ransack-freight-train-chicago
— Anticipate/expect that all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will vote for Harris/Walz. What does that say about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/traitor-liz-cheney-walloped-wyoming-voters-harris-endorsement-break-gop

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Home Grown Terrorism on Campus Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/home-grown-terrorism-on-campus-week-in-education/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Hurricane Misinformation the Media Love
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/the-hurricane-misinformation-the-media-love/

PJ MEDIA
— NYC Wants 14,000 Hotel Rooms for Illegals as Taxpayers Pay the Price
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/12/nyc-wants-14k-hotel-rooms-for-illegals-as-taxpayers-pay-the-price-n4933276

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats Are Importing New Democrat Voters, We Should Deport All Of Them Just For The Sake Of Self-Preservation
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/12/ned_ryun_democrats_are_importing_new_voters_we_should_deport_all_of_them_just_for_the_sake_of_self-preservation.html
— Democrats Are The Ones Who Denied Election Results In 2000, 2004 & 2016
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/12/1776_projects_girdusky_to_cnn_panel_democrats_are_the_ones_who_denied_election_results_in_2000_2004_and_2016.html

TOWNHALL
— Walz Reveals the Harris Campaign’s Solution for the Illegal Immigration Crisis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/10/12/walz-amnesty-n2645999

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) blame Republicans for everything that is bad including bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LnKoOd9Co
— It is much easier to commit voter fraud using mail-in ballots.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/trump-mail-in-voting/index.html

THE HILL
— Trump hits Harris on immigration in her home state of California
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4930652-trump-harri-immigration-blue-state-california/

NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) destroy non-Democrats.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/totally-illegal-trump-escalates-rhetoric-outlawing-political-dissent-c-rcna174280

NEWSWEEK
— According to Democrats and to RINOs, if you support Trump, it is for bad reasons.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-joe-biden-tesla-spacex-1967931

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats run elections. Enough said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/opinion/election-2024-voter-suppression.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/trump-immigration-rhetoric-poisoning.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders viciously demonize, denigrate, and condemn minorities who support Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/upshot/trump-black-hispanic-voters-harris.html
— Harris Struggles to Win Over Latinos, While Trump Holds His Grip
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/us/politics/latinos-trump-harris-poll.html
— Anticipate/expect that all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will vote for Harris/Walz. What does that say about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/liz-cheney-kamala-harris.html
— These Americans Are Going Back to Mexico as Its Citizens. More than 25 years after Mexico began recognizing dual nationals, some U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants are claiming citizenship in the country that their parents once left. (COMMENT: All my ancestors immigrated legally during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. They never looked back. My grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans during WWI. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans during WWII. My father would have fought the Germans during WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/us/us-mexico-dual-citizenship.html
— To get more votes from Black men, Democrat candidates promise to use government to give them even more preference. Democrat candidates can stress to Black men that when I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to Black male subordinate. He was younger than I was. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had seven fewer professional certifications than I had. He had no professional license like the CPA license I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/democrats-black-male-voters.html
— Social Security: Why It Matters for Young People, Not Just Retirees (COMMENT: Even though I paid into Social Security for 10 years during the 1960s and 1970s, my Social Security is less than the Medicare premiums that I have to pay now. My Social Security is dramatically less because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/business/social-security-millennials-gen-z.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The more that Musk promotes Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html
— Democrat leaders manipulate polls
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/polls-harris-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Countries that want to exploit, invade, infest, overrun, conquer, if not destroy America want Harris/Walz to win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/13/europe-trump-harris-election-anxiety/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy California.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-12/2024-election-trump-rally-coachella

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/12/american-teenager-transgender-book-nico-lang-interview/

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders have slowed down their illegal immigration to elect Harris/Walz.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/13/mexico-blocks-migrants-us-election-nearing/74907663007/
— Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Harris/Walz, and especially in battleground/swing states.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/13/how-trump-may-fight-2024-election-result/75252952007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing use White supremacists to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/10/12/white-supremacist-slogan-waved-trump-campaign-event/75627814007/
— Harris riffs with Stern and cracks a beer with Colbert while Americans suffer
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/10/11/trump-polls-michigan-pennsylvania-harris-talk-shows/75584865007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In Arizona, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Battle for McCain Wing of GOP (COMMENT: How strong is the McCain Wing in your Republican county and township/ward party organizations? How strongly do the leaders of your Republican county and township/ward party organizations blame Trump for their problems, for your problems, and/or for everyone’s problems?)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/in-arizona-donald-trump-and-kamala-harris-battle-for-mccain-wing-of-gop-c7824840

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the more that they use DEI to get rid of you: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2024/10/12/the-new-college-president-what-can-diverse-leadership-teach-us/
— Trump Accuses ’60 Minutes’ Of Being ‘Crooked As Hell’ After Kamala Harris Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apk3FSJElTM

REASON
— Democrat leaders want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://reason.com/2024/10/12/how-did-border-politics-get-so-toxic/

POLITICO
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

GOVERNING
— My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran cut deals under the table with my Democrat GAO superiors to survive Affirmative Action, DEI, and Republican-led budget cuts. They agreed to not only waste my career, but to take many big adverse actions against me. They forced me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals. They assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees. They delayed my promotions, did not promote me to GS-13 until 1986, and never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.governing.com/archive/will-sec-ban-pension.html

DAILY MAIL
— For those seen as a soft touch, the demands for money will never stop
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13953739/MAIL-SUNDAY-COMMENT-soft-touch-demands-money-never-stop.html

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.