Diersen email January 26th edition; News, Clips and Upcoming Events

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
January 26, 2010

Fellow Republicans:

News clips and upcoming event information:

ABSENTEE AND EARLY VOTING HAVE ALREADY STARTED AND THE ELECTION IS ONLY 7 DAYS AWAY

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

• Tonight marks the last time to see the Republican governor candidates in a televised debate. It’ll air at 7 p.m. on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program. No live webcast, so Ch. 11 is the way to see this one. ¹
• Obama’s polarized rating: Widest divide – Mark Silva ²

(FROM THE ARTICLE: At his inaugural address a little over one year ago, President Barack Obama appealed to a sense of commonality in the challenges facing Americans. “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task,” Obama said then. “This is the price and the promise of citizenship.” One year later, the view of the president from street-level is more polarized, on average, than that of any president since the Gallup Poll started measuring such things in the 1950s. The 65 percentage-point gap between Democrats who said they approved of Obama’s performance during the first year (88 percent) and Republicans who said they approved (23 percent) is “the largest for any president in his first year in office,” Gallup reports today. Prior to Ronald Reagan’s term, Gallup reports, this gap had never been wider than 40 percentage points. Since then, only the divide over George W. Bush has averaged less than 50 percent during the first term.)

• Some governor candidates break with party line on social issues Republicans split on concealed-carry laws, death penalty – Rick Pearson ³
• Candidates talk jobs, budget in DuPage County District 3 race – Jim Jaworski ⁴
• Privatize Illinois’ tollways? Voters say no Voters of both parties overwhelmingly reject the idea, but some candidates back idea – Richard Wronski ⁵
• DIERSEN HEADLINE: Eric Zorn blasts Jason Plummer ⁶

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

• Axelrod in Chicago: Obama to help Dems keep his old Senate seat – Abdon Pallasch ⁷
• DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Daniel Lauber of River Forest demonizes and denigrates Republicans, big time ⁸

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER

• State GOP cites McKenna in ethics investigation – Bernard Schoenburg ⁹

DAILY HERALD

• The Republican candidates for governor are debating Tuesday night on Ch. 11 at 7 p.m. – Joseph Ryan ¹⁰
• Kane County: Anonymous robo calls irk candidates – James Fuller ¹¹
• Brad Webb a business-savvy candidate – Duane Luse, Glen Ellyn ¹²
• Checking the claims on House District 50 mailers – Susan Sarkauskas ¹³
• Moy v. Jorgensen: Former colleagues vie for 2nd District appellate seat – Christy Gutowski ¹⁴
• Sutter v. McKillip: A choice in DuPage’s GOP judicial race – Christy Gutowski ¹⁵
• Mayor: Not business-as-usual in Naperville – Melissa Jenco ¹⁶
• Re-elect Lauzen to state senate – Chuck Barr Jr., St. Charles ¹⁷
• Campaign cash disclosure lacking in Senate race – Joseph Ryan ¹⁸
• Hello, this is RoboCall, asking you to read this column – Burt Constable ¹⁹
• Ryan reported adding $26,000 to the bottom line Monday, but Dillard got more than $300,000 for a late game ad buy. The IEA teachers union chipped in $250,000 of that on Jan. 20. McKenna, meanwhile, picked up about another $100,000 in donations and plopped down another $400,000 of his own cash over the last few days — ratcheting up the total he is spending from his bank account on this race to about $2.2 million. State Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington reported bringing in another $50,000 recently. – Joseph Ryan ²⁰
• FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO IN DUPAGE EDITION: VERY SAD: Wheaton mom charged with criminal neglect of a disabled person and endangering the life of a child- Christy Gutowski ²¹

(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Wheaton mother faces criminal charges after police said they found her two children home alone in a roach-infested apartment without electricity. Arezou Khamissi, 28, who appeared Monday in bond court, is charged with criminal neglect of a disabled person and endangering the life of a child. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison. Khamissi also would be eligible for probation. Prosecutor Mary K. Cronin said two of Khamissi’s neighbors called police before 2 a.m. Sunday to the apartment complex on the 1300 block of North Main Street to check on a crying child.)

NBC5

• Recent polls suggest that Illinois Republican Mark Kirk could pull an upset win over front-runner Alexi Giannoulias, who was also at the breakfast with Axelrod, and win the Illinois Senate seat for the GOP. Axelrod, says that Kirk will have a hard time pulling off a Scott Brown-like upset, however, because he’s been a congressman and a Washington insider for 10 years. – Mary Ann Ahern and Andrew Greiner ²²

SUBURBAN CHICAGO NEWS

• Hultgren ad rips Hastert on law’s firm affiliation – Andre Salles ²³
• Lauzen, Michels get personal – Matt Hanley ²⁴

SOUTHTOWN STAR

• Prison scandal puts Hynes back in race – Rich Miller ²⁵

LAKE COUNTY JOURNAL

• Arie Friedman is my choice – Nancy J. Thorner, Lake Bluff ²⁶

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH

• Governor candidates crisscross state as election nears – Kurt Erickson ²⁷
• Sarah Palin booked to speak in Washington, Illinois on April 17 ²⁸

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE

• Hultgren apologizes for ‘human trafficking’ mailer – Kate Schott ²⁹
• Foster leads in 4th quarter money race – Brenda Schory ³⁰

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS

• Ford adding 1,200 workers to build Explorers at Torrence Ave. – John Pletz ³¹

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

GOP governor candidates: No need to raise taxes – Doug Finke ³²

HOMER HORIZON

• Tea party alliance hosts gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft promotes platform at Gatto’s in New Lenox – Michelle Koler ³³

ILLINOIS REVIEW

• Birkett endorses Cole for Lt. Governor ³⁴
• Proft comments on all the polls ³⁵
• Plummer launches new ad featuring Peter Fitzgerald
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• Ryan continues attack on McKenna ³⁶
• Syverson, Winters endorse Dillard ³⁷
• SJ-R reports on McKenna ethics investigation ³⁸
• Edgar backs Coulson in new ad ³⁹
• Will IL GOP Legislators, candidates who want to borrow $20B step forward? – Greg Blankenship ⁴⁰
• VIDEO CLIP: Coladipietro endorses Ryan for Governor ⁴¹
• VIDEO CLIP: Andrzejewski video: There’s a tax for that ⁴²
• Plummer gets Naperville Township GOP endorsement ⁴³
• Ryan accuses “‘Me’Kenna” of ducking debates ⁴⁴
• Dillard receives $250,000 from Illinois Education Association ⁴⁵

CHAMPION NEWS

• Chris Lauzen versus the failure-ridden, big-spending, GOP blob – John Biver ⁴⁶
• Judging the judicial candidates – John Biver ⁴⁷
• SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 FLASHBACK: Champion Classics: Topinka Deals from Bottom of the Deck on Gambling Scheme ⁴⁸

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

• The 10th CD race: Could Coulson’s Sep. 14, 2000 failure to endorse Bush and Kirk on TV be the deciding factor? – Jeff Berkowitz ⁴⁹

REPUBLICANS FOR FAMILY VALUES

• Debra Olson, Candidate for DuPage County Board Chairman, Involved in Two Adulterous Affairs – Peter LaBarbera ⁵⁰

TRUTH ABOUT PROFT

• Investigative Reporter from Trib Pulls Back the Curtain on Proft – Jon Zahm ⁵¹

PUBLIUS FORUM

• D2s Prove Jim Dodge Dirty Tricks in IL Comptroller Race – Tom Mannis ⁵²
• Candidate Paul Mitchell Responds to Kelly’s Claims of ‘Dirty Tricks’ – Paul Mitchell ⁵³

NANCY J. THORNER

• Letter submitted to the Chicago Tribune: My disagreement is twofold (Responding to John Porter’s endorsement of Beth Coulson to replace Mark Kirk in the 10th Congressional District.). ⁵⁴
• Fox News with Bret Bairer presents a biased report about the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate race by shamelessly supporting Mark Kirk with no mention of Patrick Hughes as a viable challenger ⁵⁵

EVANSTON CONSERVATIVE

• Message to GOP – Don’t Fear the Queer – Gary Karlin ⁵⁶

(THE COMMENTARY: What is it with the Republican Party nationally and locally here in Illinois, where they are afraid of offending the homosexuals? Ooooh, they have a lot of money (true that they seldom have kids, except what a corrupt court of law would give guardianship to a homosexual before they would a hetrosexual couple). They can ruin a campaign or contribute to the Democrats. . .some RINOs say. I’ve got news for RINOs. 90% of all homosexual money is given to the Democrat Party, you only have a trickle of it. One thing is for certain, you are selling out and weakening the Republican Party for your own personal gain. Do us all a favor and stop making the Republican Party into Democrat-Lite. You can get 10 times the amount of contributions to become a Democrat, so, please leave our party. When you take a campaign contribution, you are beholden to that group if it is queers, abortionists, or illegal alien communist lovers! This is politics! Have a spine, just say no, and don’t fear the queer!)

GOPUSA

• Will Tea Party Activists Bring an End to RINOs? – Bobby Eberle ⁵⁷
• Throwing off the Yoke of the Nanny State – Doug Patton ⁵⁸

NATIONAL JOURNAL

• DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Reid Wilson fails to acknowledge the tremendous amount of money and time that anti-conservatives have spent a) promoting Mark Kirk and b) demonizing and denigrating Kirk’s Republican primary opponents. ⁵⁹

NATIONAL REVIEW

• Is There a Real Fight in GOP’s Illinois Senate Primary? Eh, Not Quite Yet. ⁶⁰

AMERICAN THINKER

• Time to Take On the Unions – Ralph Alter ⁶¹

AMERICAN SPECTATOR

• Lech Walesa Will Campaign for Illinois Republican Andrzejewski – Robert Stacy McCain ⁶²

POLITICS DAILY

• 70 Percent Say Democrats’ Loss of Veto-Proof Majority Is ‘Good for the Country’ – Bruce Drake ⁶³

THE HILL

• In Illinois, Republicans fight election déjà vu – Sean J. Miller ⁶⁴

POLITICO

• Maloney, Clay, McHenry criticize RNC ‘census’ mailer – Ben Smith ⁶⁵

TOWNHALL

• GOP sends letter appearing to be census form – Steven Paulson ⁶⁶

BALTIMORE SUN

• Steele’s secure in his job, despite criticisms – Paul West ⁶⁷
• RNC Chairman Michael Steele Excited for Hawaii Winter Meeting – Jessica Gellert ⁶⁸

KITV

• RNC Holds Winter Meeting In Hawaii RNC Chairman Criticized For Holding Meeting In State ⁶⁹

FOX NEWS CHANNEL

• DIERSEN HEADLINE: Fox News Channel promotes Mark Kirk ⁷⁰

HAMPTON ROADS

• Evanston lawyer sentenced in Norfolk for role in immigration fraud ring – Tim McGlone ⁷¹

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

• Michael Steele flunks his own 12-step program – Marta Mossburg ⁷²

NEW YORK TIMES

• FRONT PAGE: Illinois G.O.P. Is Inspired by Massachusetts Senate Victory – Monica Davey ⁷³

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans in Illinois hold no statewide offices, carry minorities in both chambers of the State Legislature and struggle some years to recruit viable candidates even at the top of the ballot. But the election last week of a long-shot Republican, Scott Brown, to the Senate in Massachusetts, a similarly blue state, has breathed new life into Republicans here and suddenly turned next Tuesday’s statewide primaries – the first in the nation this year – into a pep rally for November and a possible window into what is to come nationally as the 2010 primary season unfolds.”Illinois is next,” Pat Brady, chairman of the state Republican Party, declared. “The political environment is worse here for Democrats than it was in Massachusetts.” Representative Mark Steven Kirk, the front-runner in the Republican primary for the Senate seat once held by President Obama, has even taken to talking like Mr. Brown. “No one should make the mistake by calling this the Obama seat,” he said in an interview. “This is the seat of the people of Illinois.” . . . Some argue that Mr. Kirk, as a five-term congressman and a moderate Republican with centrist-leaning views that have irked conservatives, may not benefit from voter unrest. (Democrats also have their eyes on his district in Chicago’s northern suburbs.) “In a key way, Illinois is Massachusetts in reverse,” said Kathleen Strand, a senior adviser to Illinois for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Here, the Republican candidate is the Washington insider that voters are angry at, not the Democrat.” In the view of some conservatives, Mr. Kirk, who supports abortions rights, fits right in with the Democratic candidates, and, they say that while he may gain unhappy Democratic voters and center-leaning independents, he will lose the votes of a different segment – some who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, anti-abortion advocates and others. Conservatives often cite Mr. Kirk’s vote in favor of cap-and-trade legislation intended to reduce carbon emissions; he has since reversed course, criticizing the legislation and saying he would vote against it as a senator. They also do not appreciate what they see as his effort to swerve to the right; some mocked his campaign for trying to win some supportive words from Sarah Palin when she was in recently Chicago. “Mark Kirk has absolutely no Tea Party support,” said Diane Benjamin, an organizer of a Tea Party group in McLean County, two hours southwest of Chicago. In the primary, there are several lesser known candidates, including Patrick Hughes, who has drawn support from some conservatives here and some Tea Party supporters (though not Ms. Benjamin), but most analysts say opposition to Mr. Kirk has not amounted to a movement unified and motivated enough to defeat him.)

• Boehner Hires ‘Contract’ Architect to Promote G.O.P. Platform – Carl Hulse ⁷⁴
• Tea Party Convention Loses Another Sponsor – Kate Zernike ⁷⁵

HUFFINGTON POST

• Axelrod: Obama Won’t Let Coakley Happen In Illinois ⁷⁶

DAILY KOS

• IL-Sen: Dueling Polls Paint Contrasting Primary Picture Is establishment Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk in any danger of being upset? It apparently depends on who is asking the questions. According to two media sources (PPP and the Chicago Tribune), Kirk has an enormous lead over teabagger insurgent candidate Patrick Hughes. PPP has Kirk staked to a 33-point lead (42-9), while the Trib has it even more lopsided (47-8). If you asked Hughes’ own pollsters, however, the gap is twenty points and closing (42-22). – Steve Singiser ⁷⁷

WRITERS

• DIERSEN HEADLINE: Xavier Onassis provides arguments for Democrats and RINOs to use to demonize and denigrate Republicans ⁷⁸

TEAM AMERICA 10TH DISTRICT BLOG

• Fox News: Mark Kirk is the Overwhelming Favorite (Includes video clip) ⁷⁹

GOPUSA ILLINOIS

– QUESTION: Sadly, what often happens when negative news comes out about a Republican candidate, elected official, party leader, contributor, endorser, advisor, staff member, volunteer, operative, etc.? – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

As everyone knows, Republicans are held to much higher standards than Democrats or RINOs are. QUESTION: Sadly, what often happens when negative news comes out about a Republican candidate, elected official, party leader, contributor, endorser, advisor, staff member, volunteer, operative, etc.? ANSWER: Sadly, they often act like Democrats and RINOs and do everything they can to suppress the news including threatening and bribing those who share information, including your GOPUSA Illinois Editor Dave Diersen. They argue that the negative news is false and malicious. They argue the negative news should be covered up. They argue that the negative news is not significant or relevant. They demonize and denigrate not only the source of the negative news but anyone who refuses to suppress it. Here is one example. When news came out that Sheila Dreisilker, who at the time was the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) Vice President West and in line to be MTRCC’s next Chairman, had moved out of her precinct, and therefore, was no longer eligible to hold her MTRCC position, nasty MTRCC RINOs did everything they could to suppress that negative news including threatening and bribing those who share information, including your GOPUSA Illinois Editor Dave Diersen. They argued that the negative news was false and malicious. They argued the negative news should be covered up. They argued that the negative news was not significant or relevant. They demonized and denigrated everyone who refused to cover up and suppress the negative news. They argued that Dreisilker should be allowed to break the rules because she “paid her dues.” They blamed me for all the problems Dreisilker had. What if those who knew about George Ryan’s criminal acts had not covered them up, but had instead, immediately reported them?

UPCOMING EVENTS: FOR EVENT DETAILS, VISIT THE EVENTS PAGES AT: www.illinoisreview.com, www.weareillinois.org, and/or www.dupagegop.com

1/26 Event: WTTW gubernatorial debate
1/26 Event: Candidate forum in Oglesby
1/26 Event: Coladipietro to speak at Larsen fundraiser in Winfield
1/27 Event: DuPage County Young Republicans meeting in Wheaton
1/27 Event: Edgar at Dillard rally in Oak Brook
1/28 Event: Early voting ends
1/28 Event: Cook County Assessor Debate
1/30 Event: Tea Party event in Geneseo
1/30 Event: Candidate Forum in Chicago
1/30-31 Event: SpeakOut 2010 in Oak Brook
1/31 Event: Kane County GOP Annual Brunch
1/31 Event: Kelly Rally in Chicago
1/31 Event: Dodge on Tom Roeser program
2/2 Event: Primary Election
2/3 Event: Haley Barbour to Speak at IRP Unity Breakfast at the Union League Club
2/6 Event: Kane County Unity Party
2/6 Event: Pat Brady to speak at Dundee Township GOP Dinner
2/18-20 Event: CPAC 2010
2/20 Event: TAPROOT breakfast meeting in Lombard
2/22 Event: Northwest Lincoln Day Dinner in Schaumburg
2/24 Event: Milton Township GOP monthly meeting
3/3 Events: County Party Conventions
3/8 Event: Republican State Senate Campaign Committee Reception in Springfield
3/14 Event: Addison Township GOP Annual Brunch
3/19 Event: Rove to speak at DuPage GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
11/2 Event: General election

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Thanks,
Dave Diersen
Phone: 630-653-0462
Fax: 630-653-9665

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