GOPUSA ILLINOIS
March 20, 2011
Fellow Republicans:
News clips and upcoming event information:
NBC5
CBS2
FOX NEWS CHICAGO
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
- Kinzinger takes Tea Party heat for vote to extend budget talks – Alan Gomez
- Judge blocks contentious Wisconsin union law – Scott Bauer and Jason Smathers
- Anti-TIF marchers demand $4M from N. Side auto dealer – Abdon M. Pallasch
DAILY HERALD
- Dold, Walsh: Federal budget battle brewing – Marie Wilson
- Slots at tracks gain support – Jeff Engelhardt
- Nuclear power needed for the future – Nancy J. Thorner, Lake Bluff
- Labor in full roar again, but it’s not the same – AP
- Communities need federal workers – Charlie Turek, President, NTEU Chapter 10, Chicago
(DIERSEN: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years – 3 for the Post Office 1966-1969, 9 for IRS 1971-1980, and 18 for GAO 1980-1997. I was a NTEU member while I worked for IRS. Most people, organizations, and companies despise if not hate federal workers. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats – I was one of the last Republicans that the federal government hired. My liberal Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates despised if not hated conservatives like me. They wasted my career and forced me to retire at age 49 in 1997. What is your attitude toward federal workers and what do you base your attitude on? What is your attitude toward federal retirees and what do you base your attitude on?)
(FROM THE LETTER: In recent months, a great deal of misinformation has been circulating in the media and elsewhere – much of it driven by elected officials – that somehow the government can continue to provide the services the American people want and need while slashing federal budgets. As a chapter president of the National Treasury Employees Union, I want to set the record straight. In our community, NTEU represents thousands of men and women serving the public. Federal employees ensure we have safe food and medicines, process Social Security and veterans’ benefits payments, protect our borders, see to it we have clean air and water, and do so much more of importance to the quality of life in our country. What’s more, federal employees – including those who work in our area – are an integral part of our community. We pay taxes, shop locally, send our children to school with the children of our neighbors. Federal employees did not cause the current financial crisis impacting our country, and cutting their jobs will hurt our fragile recovery. Our citizens require the services our agencies provide. That is why Congress should not make enormous cuts to the federal budget.)
DAILY KOS
SOUTHTOWN STAR
NORTHWEST HERALD
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
- Disproportionate share of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s employees live in the 19th Ward – Greg Hinz
(DIERSEN: Where you live says more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. With rare exception, the more Republicans that live in a state, county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct, the more prosperity and safety there is. With rare exception, the more Democrats that live in a state, county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct, the more poverty and crime there is. I have lived in Wheaton since 1978. Wheaton has a strong international reputation for being protestant, conservative, and Republican. Needless-to-say, my liberal Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates despised if not hated Wheaton and its residents. I lived in Crete 1948-1972. In the 1960s, Crete had a strong reputation for being German, protestant, conservative, and Republican. My supervisor, while I worked for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969, despised such demographics.)
SOUTHTOWN STAR
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
- Statehouse Insider: Senate GOP offers cut list – Doug Finke
- State managers targeted in collective bargaining bill – Andy Brownfield
- Capital Township supervisor lives elsewhere – Bernard Schoenburg
(DIERSEN: Back in 2005, Milton Township RINOs and Democrat plants “punished” me because I would not join them in covering up the fact that Milton Township trustee candidate Leonard Sanchez had moved out of the township – SEE http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-131797696.html. I have lived in Milton Township since 1978 and in its Precinct 9 since 1984.)
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When recently in Springfield to address the Citizens Club of Springfield, U.S. Rep. AARON SCHOCK, R-Peoria, said he had argued to fellow House Republicans against a cut of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He noted at the time that National Public Radio got something like $20 million annually from that source, and he thought “rather than excite a lot of people who enjoy these things, it’d be better to keep them with us on the overall big cuts that we’re gong to need down the road.” But Schock was among House members voting to end funding for NPR in a 228-192 tally last week. STEVE DUTTON, spokesman for Schock, said reasons include a recent comment by an NPR official that the network would be better off without federal funding, and that NPR’s CEO makes $1.2 million a year “which is. . .an unreasonable amount of money for a salary if taxpayer dollars are involved.” Meanwhile, LORI YATES, a former executive assistant to then-Attorney General JIM RYAN in Springfield who went on to work in some high-level government and political jobs nationally, is back in central Illinois and working for Schock. Yates, 43, left a job with the National Zoo to move to Peoria to be closer to family. Originally from Metamora, she had been a full-time lead advance person for then-first lady LAURA BUSH during President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004. She met Schock while staffing a Laura Bush visit to Peoria last fall. “We just got to know one another and talk about how I could help in the district,” Yates said. “I’m handling events, all the scheduling, this type of stuff.” Her job as special assistant to the congressman pays about $80,000 annually.)
PALOS PATCH
WBEZ
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
ILLINOIS REVIEW
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
THE HILL
- RNC raises $5.2M but remains $21M in debt – Jordan Fabian
- RNC chairman condemns Biden rape comment – Jordan Fabian
WASHINGTON POST
- Quinn stands out for signing liberal laws as GOP surges elsewhere – AP
- Republican National Committee debt stands at $21 million – Chris Cillizza
LOS ANGLES TIMES
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
METRO WEEKLY
(DIERSEN: How soon will a Post-ABC poll show that everyone in America a) promotes homosexual activity, b) has committed a homosexual act, c) has found that committing homosexual acts are pleasurable, d) has found that homosexual sex is more pleasurable than heterosexual sex, e) commits homosexual acts frequently, f) wants to banish those who do not promote homosexual activity, and g) wants to terminate those who oppose promoting homosexual acts?)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
– Adamson, Gibson, and LaBarbera speak at TAPROOT breakfast meeting – Dave Diersen http://www.gopillinois.com
Wheaton City Council candidate Alberta Adamson, Judge Bob Gibson, and Peter LaBarbera spoke at the March 19, 2011 TAPROOT breakfast meeting at the Old County Buffet in Lombard. As usual, attendees had outstanding opportunities to ask questions of the speakers question and make comments. Attendees included James Armstrong, Doug Babizke, Elden Brauer, Wally Brown, Ruth Connell, Roger and Terry Jean Day, Frank and Marge Falesch, Larry Hill, George Kocan, Victor LaPorte, Preston Noell, Byrd Parmelee, Dave Peterson, Judith Ross, Dennis Ryan, Bob Schmidt, Tom Sleeter, Frank Trout, Gary Vician, Lee Walker, and Dick Walsh.
UPCOMING EVENTS: FOR EVENT DETAILS, VISIT THE EVENTS PAGES AT: http://www.illinoisreview.com, http://www.weareillinois.org, and/or http://www.dupagegop.com
3/20 Event: Winfield Township Brunch
3/21 Event: Lisle Township GOP meeting
3/21 Event: Mark Kirk to speak at City Club of Chicago Luncheon
3/21 Event: Hultgren fundraiser in Wheaton
3/22 Event: Shilling and Andrzejewski to speak at Bureau-LaSalle Tea Party event in Olgesby
3/22 Event: Bloomingdale GOP meeting
3/24 Event: Schilling to speak at Rock Island County Republican Dinner
3/24 Event: Radogno fundraiser in Lemont
3/24 Event: Legislative Forum on Autism in Wheaton
3/25 Event: ICRF convention in Champaign
3/25 Event: Burzynski, Johnson, and Radogno to speak at breakfast meeting in Sycamore
3/26 Event: RALC Reagan Day Dinner
3/26 Event: Naperville Township GOP meeting
3/27 Event: Addison Township Brunch
3/27 Event: Illinois Forum meeting in Brookfield
3/30 Event: Bucholz to speak at DuPage Young Republican event in Wheaton
4/2 Event: Andrzejewski to speak at Randolph County Lincoln Day Dinner
4/4 Event: Radogno to speak at City Club of Chicago luncheon
4/5 Event: Consolidated General Election
4/9 Event: Statewide Combined Armed Forces Military Ball at Cantigny Park in Wheaton
4/11 Event: Paul Ryan to speak at RJC event in Chicago
4/12 Event: Township Annual Meetings
4/13 Event: Milton Township GOP meeting
4/15 Event: March on the IL State capital hosted by the Springfield Tea Party and Alton Tea Party
4/20 Event: Priebus to speak at Northwest Suburban Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Schaumburg
5/6 Event: Monroe County GOP Dinner
6/29 Event: Rutherford to speak at City Club of Chicago Luncheon
7/4 Event: Wheaton Independence Day Parade
7/16 Event: Operation Support Our Troops concert at Cantigny Park in Wheaton
8/14 Event: TAPROOT picnic in Woodridge
8/18 Event: Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair
8/25 Event: “Tee it up fore women” golf outing at St. Andrews
8/28 Event: Naperville Area Republican Women’s Organization A Tribute To Great Women Leaders
10/7-9 Event: Values Voter Summit in DC
10/28 Event: Milton Township Republican Oktoberfest at the Carlisle
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Thanks,
Dave Diersen
Phone: 630-653-0462
Fax: 630-653-9665
