GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - June 23, 2008

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: ENTIRE FRONT PAGE WITH 5X8-INCH COLOR PICTURE: VERY SAD: Democrats increase Illinois budget deficit and increase Illinois debt by signing up 1,217 more for taxpayer subsidized health care insurance. More and more parents who lack education and/or job skills and/or have severe health, financial, and/or other problems and/or have children with severe health problems are coming to Illinois because "All Kids provides health insurance coverage to uninsured kids at a reduced cost, regardless of income or immigration status."
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1019282,CST-NWS-kidhealth23.article
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Teresa Puente encourages citizens of Poland to immigrate illegally
http://www.suntimes.com/news/puente/1019500,CST-EDT-puente23.article

SOUTHTOWN STAR
-- Senator Sandoval plays hardball well with Obama, McCain - Rich Miller
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/miller/1018947,062308miller.article
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sandoval met privately with Republican presidential candidate John McCain last week, and he told The Associated Press the next day he was leaving open the possibility of endorsing the man. Sandoval told me last week the meeting went well and said McCain promised to be an advocate for Latino issues. McCain, Sandoval said, did not ask him for an endorsement, but did ask that they continue to meet, which Sandoval agreed to do. McCain also apparently was aware Sandoval was on the outs with many of his Senate Democratic colleagues because of the fight with Jones, and McCain used that division to his advantage during the meeting. Immigration reform has been a political problem for McCain. His push last year for a bipartisan solution to the situation earned him heaps of scorn from the right wing of his party and just about killed off his candidacy. He started to gain ground about the time he flipped a bit on the issue. McCain reminded Sandoval that the last president to do anything major about immigration reform was a Republican, Ronald Reagan. Sandoval claimed McCain told him that the immigration issue would be "one of the hallmarks of my presidency." Reagan's immigration policy included an amnesty program for those here illegally, but McCain never uttered the "A" word. "I'm a Democrat, but I'm not wedded to any political party," Sandoval told me. "You need to reach out to us, meet with us, make us part of the strategy. If that's not there, then I'm not with them," he said of Obama's campaign. Sandoval dismissed a recent poll of 800 Latino voters in 21 states that showed Obama with a huge 60-23 lead over McCain, claiming the numbers would be a lot closer once Latino voters were in the privacy of the voting booth.)

CAPITAL FAX
-- The Decline of Chicago: The City that Doesn't Work
http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2008/06/decline-of-chicago-city-that-doesnt.html

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Sweet — and sour — home Chicago City's political image a risk for Obama - Bob Secter and John McCormick
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-chicago_23jun23,0,4206167.story
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Chicago Tribune promotes homosexual activity, again
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0623edit1jun23,0,5332845.story

DAILY HERALD
-- A truth check on Stroger Do his promises match up with the math? - Rob Olmstead
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=211119
-- Algonquin Township GOP offers scholarships
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=210414
-- Pfleger's display sent wrong message - Lori Carlson, Glen Ellyn
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=210337&src=

ABC7
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Outrageously, Democrats constantly tell Blacks that Republicans are the cause of all their problems. Outrageously, ABC implies White racism because Republican McCain leads Democrat Obama 51 percent to 39 among White voters, but ABC fails to imply Black racism because Democrat Obama leads Republican McCain 90 percent to 7 among Black voters
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=6221621

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- How can budget mess be solved? Blagojevich’s options: Increase revenue; veto entire budget; slash state spending - Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/x1165650467/How-can-budget-mess-be-solved

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
-- State budget clock still ticking - Doug Finke
http://www.pjstar.com/news_state/x2113783050/State-budget-clock-still-ticking
-- LaHood near top of state's delegation in travel; says it's necessary to understand issues, aid local businesses - Dennis Conrad
http://www.pjstar.com/news_state/x1816436300/LaHoods-trips-cost-taxpayers
-- Illinois lawmakers feeling the pinch from gas prices - Karen McDonald
http://www.pjstar.com/news_columnists/x1816436290/Word-on-the-Street-Lawmakers-feeling-the-pinch-from-gas-prices

CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: The Illinois Democrat Party platform is liberal. Hinz complains that Illinois Democrat leaders are not doing enough to advance that platform.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=30155

BUSINESS LEDGER
-- The coming state and municipal financial crisis - David Nielson
http://www.thebusinessledger.com/Home/Archives/InTheNews/tabid/85/mid/393/newsid393/388/Default.aspx

WAND TV
-- Taxpayers pay $20,000 for Hastert travels
http://www.wandtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8537155&nav=menu589_1

ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- "So much corruption, so few prosecutors"- Cal Skinner
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/06/so-much-corrupt.html
-- Michelle woos radical feminists for husband's bid - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/06/michelle-woos-r.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
-- GOP courting blue-collar vote Traditionally Democratic bloc targeted - S.A. Miller
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/23/gop-courting-blue-collar-vote/

NEW YORK TIMES
-- Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol - Larry Rohter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/politics/23ethanol.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

SEATTLE TIME
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Article discusses what happens when politicians demonize whites
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008012020_obama23.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Democrats make it clear that you will be called a racist if you do not support Obama
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvsn4IB5VKfr3SPBo5mh10Z0GJLAD91FLJ7O0

AFP
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Because Obama is outrageously anti-conservative, anyone who says that they are conservative and that they support Obama either has severe mental problems or is being paid by the Obama campaign.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTmPa3TKWcnYhN5dNGmP7AWgtmIA
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Obama's strange appeal to high priests of US conservatism They're called the Obamacons -- the conservative thinkers who are disgusted with the Republicans and are rallying to Democrat Barack Obama as the nation's economic and diplomatic savior. They are joining younger evangelical leaders who see more to their religious mission than slavish devotion to Republican social mores, and fiscal conservatives who reject the war-fueled spending of President George W. Bush. "The Bush coalition is dissolving," pollster John Zogby told AFP. "We have polling showing one-fifth of conservatives supporting Obama," he said. It seems an unlikely alliance, as some of the star intellectual names who have long given philosophical sustenance to Republican rule clamber aboard Obama's bid for the White House.)
-- Tastes in sports, food divide McCain and Obama
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtCqUNMDNIjesis_5EJYWQXAAx8g

WALL STREET JOURNAL
-- FRONT PAGE: VERY SAD: Planned Parenthood Hits Suburbia Abortion Provider Goes Upscale - Stephanie Simon
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121417762585295459.html?mod=hps_us_at_glance_health

GEORGE KOCAN
-- GEORGE KOCAN LETTER SENT THE WSJ EDITOR: Why Sodomite Couplings Are Bad for America
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