GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - April 8, 2008

CHAMPION NEWS
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Former Illinois Republican Party (IRP) General Council Doug Ibendahl suggests ways to make the June 6/7 IRP convention in Decatur more successful
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=909
-- The Best on Barack: Emotion and the culture of narcissism - John Biver
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=908

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
-- Pollard Re-Elected IL GOP County Chairman's Association President
http://www.weareillinois.org/connect/newsDetail.aspx?newsID=3398

DAILY HERALD
-- 8th Congressional District: Greenberg talks to high school classes - Russell Lissau
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168153
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: DuPage County Democrats file for District 1, 3, & 5 County Board seats
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168360&src=3
-- Lake County: 4 picked to challenge county board Republicans - Russell Lissau
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168351
-- 57th House District: Republican challenger James P. Tatooles enters state House race - Ames Boykin
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168381
-- Blagojevich signs bill to bypass Electoral College - AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168251&src=109
-- Citizens need this portal to accountability - Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168291&src=
-- Come November, Illinois voters could say, 'Yes, we con' - Burt Consstable
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=168210

NAPERVILLE SUN
-- DuPage Democrat ticket growing 10 more party members join in November races - Paige Winfield
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/882884,6_1_NA08_ELECTION_S1.article

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- The Jone$ solution "Democrats in the Illinois Senate have found their perfect solution to their governor's projected $750 million budget shortfall. They want to . . . spend an additional $678 million, give or take. - Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0407edit1apr07,0,1466213.story
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Liberals want Chicagoland employers to pay their employees, including their employees who have little no education or job skills, a minimum of $37,760 per year so that they can afford to pay $944 a month for rent. Or alternatively, liberals want taxpayers to provide housing for those who have little or no education or job skills for $390 a month.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-chicago-affordable-housing_0apr08,0,260237.story

SPINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- More stragglers than early birds in the Senate's morning - Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/28266.asp
-- Quinn backs vote to recall elected officials - AP
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/28280.asp
-- Obama does gun dance - Robert Novak
http://www.sj-r.com/Opinion/stories/28258.asp

QUAD CITY TIMES
-- VERY SAD: 17th Congressional District: GOP will not field challenger to Hare - Ed Tibbetts
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/04/08/news/local/doc47fb0023d707d345105277.txt

BEACON NEWS
-- 14th District spending spree Tab to fill Hastert’s term runs into millions - Dan Campana
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/882070,AU07_D14RACE_WEB.article
-- VERY SAD: $500,000 to fight Kane County child obesity - Christine Moyer
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/882771,2_1_AU08_OBESE_S1.article

CARMI TIMES
-- Senator Bill Brady: Tax cuts, not increases, needed in Illinois - Barry Cleveland
http://www.carmitimes.com/articles/2008/04/07/news/news2.txt

ILLINOIS ISSUES
-- Immigrant friendly On immigration, Illinois is at the forefront in bucking a national trend - Daniel C. Vock
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/features/2008apr/immigration.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If the pro-immigrant forces are modest at a statewide level, the anti-immigrant movement in Illinois is almost nonexistent. That’s a stark contrast to states in the Southwest and the South, where people calling for more curbs on illegal immigrants are vocal, organized and effective. Not everyone’s convinced, though, that the only way to win elections in immigrant-heavy areas is with lenient immigration policies. State Sen. Chris Lauzen, an Aurora Republican, lives in an area where the immigrant population is ballooning. Lauzen notes that Aurora is about 37 percent Hispanic and 11 percent black. But Lauzen says he still enjoys support from Aurora voters, including Republicans who backed him in his unsuccessful primary bid for a U.S. House seat in February. The people he talks to, he says, think there’s a “clear difference” between immigrants here legally and those here illegally. Lauzen cast the lone dissenting vote when the Senate agreed to let some undocumented college students get in-state tuition, and he disagreed with the E-Verify restrictions, too. “People say you have to pander to this demographic — this seismic change. I think that is inaccurate,” Lauzen says. In fact, Republicans chose a notoriously hard-line candidate on immigration over Lauzen in the primary to take the seat of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. But Democrat Bill Foster, a former Fermilab scientist, will replace Hastert for the rest of the year and will run for a full two-year term in November.)
-- Breaking the mold Aaron Schock is a fresh face, but is he the new face of the Illinois Republican Party? - Patrick O’Brien
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/features/2008apr/schock.html
-- The grim fact is this state is flat-out broke - Charles N. Wheeler III
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/politics/grim.html

ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- Let's take another look at HB 3680 - Rosanna Pulido
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/04/lets-take-anoth.html

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
-- Rep.Lang w/Berkowitz on Obama-Rezko, King Blagojevich and Tax Swaps
http://jeffberkowitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/better-than-kansas-v-memphis-state.html

DAN PROFT
-- How Charlton Heston Saved Academic Freedom at Northwestern University
http://www.wlsam.com/sectional.asp?id=17432

REPUBLICANS FOR FAIR MEDIA
-- Would President Barack Obama Support Reparations For African-Americans Due To Slavery? - Daniel T. Zanoza
http://rffm.typepad.com/republicans_for_fair_medi/2008/04/would-president.html

DILLARD, RADOGNO, & PETERSON
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Dillard sponsors and Radogno and Peterson co-sponsor Senate Resolution SR0084 that supports a program to "create work for Mexican citizens"
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=84&GAID=9&DocTypeID=SR&LegId=32705&SessionID=51&GA=95

ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION
-- Renegade Chicago Priest Michael Pfleger Set to Face Off With Legislators He Wants 'Snuffed'
http://www.isra.org/

AMERICAN SPECTATOR
-- Barack and Load - Robert VerBruggen
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13018

HUMAN EVENTS
-- Obama's Extreme Liberalism Still Under the Radar - Sean Trende
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25891

LOS ANGLES TIMES
-- Obama and Rezko, the early years - Andrew Malcolm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/obamarezko.html

ILLINOIS REASON
-- DuPage Democrats Get Rolling "Now if only they can get some donkeys for the Wheaton July 4th Parade and recruit a blue version of David John “Pooper Scooper” Diersen . . ." - Robnesvacil
http://illinoisreason.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/dupage-dems-get-rolling/