-- AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS AND ON AMERICA TIGHTENS: Naperville to raise motor fuel tax, garbage collection fees - Melissa Jenco
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=366269

-- Say no to amnesty - David White, President, Association for Legal Americans, Elgin
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=365998&src=

 

 

-- State has yet to seriously start cutting - Steve Huntley
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/2103956,CST-EDT-HUNT16.article
-- Owe tax? IRS gets more lenient  (DIERSEN: I worked for IRS 1971-1980.  When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, when I was 31 years old, I knew as much about IRS as anyone who worked for GAO.   I could have, would have, and wanted to use my knowledge of IRS to help GAO audit IRS.  However, my liberal Democrat GAO superiors wasted my knowledge of IRS and wasted my GAO career because Congress required them to give preference to minorities and to females.  At the time, audits of IRS were considered to be preferred assignments.  They knew that I could contribute more to GAO if I was assigned to audits of IRS, so they kept me off IRS audits 1980-1985 and 1989-1997.   Many, many, many times during the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO's Chicago office, GAO assigned staff to IRS audits who knew little or nothing about IRS and in some cases staff who did not event want to be assigned to IRS audits.  Virtually all the staff they assigned to audits of IRS were Democrats, minorities, females, and/or younger than me.)  
http://www.suntimes.com/business/currency/2104902,CST-NWS-MIRS16.article
-- How some handle having herpes  So common that it's rarely a deal breaker - Cheryl Lavin  (DIERSEN: All the religions of the world discourage promiscuity and discourage homosexual activity.  Sadly, the Democrat Party platform promotes promiscuity and it promotes homosexual activity.  Logically then, sadly, Democrats are more likely to be promiscuous, to engage in homosexual activity, and/or to have herpes.) 
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/2103845,CST-FTR-lavin16.article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- Will County GOP Chairman responds to critics
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2010/03/will-county-gop-chairman-responds-to-critics-1.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: IR ran into Kavanagh at the Bill Brady kickoff in Addison Sunday, so we asked him his thoughts about the brewing controversy.  "You're getting a lot of heat about what happened last Wednesday," we said. . ."I don't care," Kavanagh said.  Voting for non-represented precincts is in the IL GOP's rules, it's legal and Ms. Peterson was his choice over challenger Corey Singer, he said.  "And anyway, I announced my plans to vote those votes the month before, they knew what I planned to do ahead of time.  No one said a word about it until after it was over."  The rules have been in place for 35 years, he said, but perhaps there needed to be changes made, especially when the  congressional districts overlap into Cook County.  There IL GOP township committeemen vote for the precinct captains, he said.  Perhaps that should be addressed in the future.  "There's no regrets about what happened last Wednesday," Kavanagh said.)
-- Conservatives concerned about upcoming U.S. Census
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2010/03/conservatives-concerned-about-upcoming-us-census.html

 

 

TOM ROESER
-- You Weren’t For Brady Originally? Then Get Lost!  (DIERSEN: Sadly, Milton Township GOP RINOs, DuPage County GOP RINOs, and Illinois Republican Party RINOs work vehemently against any candidate that I might back in a primary.  Sadly, some who have Bill Brady's ear a) falsely blame me for his 2006 defeat and b) falsely characterize me as being an Oberweis operative.  In 2006, if Brady had been ahead of Oberweis in the polls, I would have called for Oberweis to withdraw.) 
http://blog.tomroeser.com/2010/03/personal-aside-you-werent-for-brady.html
(THE COMMENTARY: We Won - Now Get Lost!  Weeks after Bill Brady was certified as the Republican nominee for governor, most of his opponents and key Republican operatives who were for other candidates haven’t heard from him: no reaching out, no contact, no nothing.  I’m talking about my Dillard colleagues, my Proft colleagues, my Andrzejewski colleagues, McKenna colleagues, and some of my Jim Ryan colleagues (those, that is, who want a Republican in the governor’s office).   I’m talking about savvy campaign leaders who would be very useful to Brady to help him win.  “The ruling motive seems to be,” one longtime strategist said to me the other day, “we won - now screw you! Get lost!”  These weren’t exactly the terms they used but will have to suffice. “No, that’s not right; that’s not their attitude,” said another strategist who hasn’t been contacted either.  “You have to remember that this guy has never had a winning statewide campaign before. Just he and his brothers in McLean county. He doesn’t know that the pro-forma thing to do is for the winner to reach out.  Since he’s never been a statewide winner before, it’s all new.  Evidently nobody told him to do this.”  “I agree with both of you,” said a third.  “But I will add that these two polls that show him ahead of Quinn have made him complacent. Polls are ephemeral things.  Put what you two have said together. . .the ‘tough bananas’ part; You weren’t for me from the beginning”. . .the devastating shock that he won the nomination which he wasn’t prepared for. . .and the two polls showing him ahead certifies in the Brady people’s minds that they don’t need anybody else.”  If he can’t or won’t reach out, is he’s smart enough to win? Maybe this is the dawn of a new day in politics where the winner instead of being magnanimous sulks in his tent dissing those who hadn’t been with him on the first day. If so, this is a new day that hasn’t been seen before.  Not that I was planning to give bucks or handbill train stations for Bill - but I do have this blog, have something to say about The Chicago Daily Observer and host a program on WLS-AM. No sweat if I’m not welcome.  I’ve been on the wrong side of governors beginning with Big Jimbo and proceeding through Edgar, George Ryan, Blago and Pander Bear. . .but now that Republicans have a chance to win, I hate to see a campaign fizzle because of inexperience and non-adult attitudes. . .believing that the losers are expected to trot around the ring and spread rose petals before the reviewing stand of the garland-bedecked winner in humiliation ala the old Roman Games.)