The King of Illinois, About to Be Dethroned?

 With all the bad news circulating throughout the United States, I received this email from the Illinois Republican Party:

Arthur, 

 

We finally have Madigan where we want him. That’s right, Speaker Mike Madigan’s time may be coming to an end at the hands of voters and patriots like you.

 

How can that be?

 

It was just announced yesterday that Madigan is suspending his campaign for Speaker of the Illinois House because he cannot get to the 60 vote threshold he needs to retain his position of power. 

 

After Illinois Republicans flipped four seats in the House, defeated the progressive income tax, defended Congressman Rodney Davis, and defeated a Madigan lackey on the Illinois Supreme Court for the first time in state history - House Democrats are finally beginning to realize that Madigan must go.

 

Our electoral victories in 2020 - powered by YOU - are forcing Madigan’s hand. 

 

But, WE CANNOT LET UP!

 

Madigan has suspended his campaign but he is still in the running for Speaker. He is simply waiting until other candidates cannot get to 60 votes and then will resume his quest to retain power. We must keep the pressure up. Will you help us do that? 

 

We need your help to defeat Madigan once and for all. 

DONATE NOW >>

 

Any amount helps - $5, $20, $50 or even $500 - it all adds up. Thank you for joining us in this fight to save Illinois!

 

Derek Murphy,

ILGOP Executive Director

Michael Madigan has been "The King of Illinois" for decades.

He is the chairman of the state Democratic Party. He calls the shots in both legislative chambers and across the aisle. He withstood numerous attempts by the previous Republican Governor to reform Illinois--and of course, that RINO ended up caving on every issue that mattered.

The state of Illinois is in worse straits than even California. Their bonds, their debt is in such disarray, one has to wonder if they have any chance of surviving. Every public sector union imaginable holds all the cards and all the power in the state, and they have more power than the state government itself.

The mechanics of governing have become so corrupted, so bankrupted, that people are fleeing the state of Illinois in massive droves. I wouldn't be surprised if towns in Tennessee, for example, have more residents from Illinois than natives from Tennessee at this point.

It's getting really sad in that state. They can't continue to tax and oppress people forever. At some people, the people push back and shout "ENOUGH!"

Now, who knows what will happen next. Will Madigan still be able to peel off enough support if more candidates jump into the fray to run for Speaker of the State Assembly?

Who knows. I find it particularly interesting, certainly, that Republicans in Illinois were able to sweep up four seats in the state Assembly, and they were able to push back on Madigan puppets on the state Supreme Court. As the post above suggests, Democrats in Springfield are starting to realize that they can't hope to hold onto power much longer with Madigan at the helm. For perspective, Madigan has been the Speaker of the Illinois State Assembly since 1983! He was out of power only two years since then. The state of Illinois has continued to go to hell since then.

Will this be the end of the King of Illinois? Will he finally be dethroned, with hope down the line for more responsive government to come?

Women's March Stumbles Further: Eureka, CA Chapter Closes Down

The Women's March is crashing and burning all over the country.

The Washington State Chapter disbanded because members of that group refused to go along with any organization which refused to call out and disavow Louis Farrakhan, Linda Sarsour, and their perverse anti-Semitism.

Then the Chicago Women's March collapsed since no one wanted to get involved with this bigoted group. The infighting was too great to overcome, too.

And now in California, Women's March Eureka is gone.

But for entirely different reasons:

Organizers cancel Women's March Jan. 19 due to 'overwhelmingly white'participants

Women's March So White? So that's the reason.

OK ...

EUREKA, Calif. — The organizers of the annual Women's March have decided not to hold a rally in Eureka on Jan. 19, as previously planned, because they say participants do not represent the diversity of the area.

I disagree. The diverse groups in the area doesn't want to be represented by a bunch of self-righteous, self-loathing, marijuana-addled white liberals who virtue-signal their support for minorities while disparaging them behind closed doors.

"This decision was made after many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march," organizers said in a press release.

I doubt much of this. I would not be surprised of lots of people in the area did not want to be associated with a bunch of anti-Semitic, pro-Sharia bigots, just like the volunteers in Washington State and Chicago.

They said organizers will continue to meet and discuss how to broaden representation to create an event that represents Humboldt County.

How about not taxing people to death? How about really listening to the concerns of women, and not just left-wing activists?

"Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community," the press release went on to say. "Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take time for more outreach. Our goal is that planning will continue and we will be successful in creating an event that will build power and community engagement through connection between women that seek to improve the lives of all in our community."

This is a bunch of flimsy mumbo-jumbo for "no one wants to be associated with us anymore."

The group said it is exploring holding an event in March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Anyone interested in helping organize these events are welcome and encouraged to attend.

How about also celebrating Men's Day? Why is this a problem for so many people?!

The Eureka Women's March organizing committee encourages local supporters to attend the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in Eureka on Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Final Reflection

This is a stunning reversal. For decades, conservatives have signalled the need to win the culture, not just the political campaigns. The decline of the Women's March suggests that this shift in the culture is becoming a reality.

While the legacy media ignored the anti-Semitism and pro-Sharia sentiments of Sarsour and the rest, the country as a whole picked up on it, and they want no part of it.

How much longer will this Women's March fraud continue? I doubt it will last very long.

Breaking: Women's March Chicago Cancelled Due to Infighting (i.e. They Couldn't Defend the Anti-Semitism Anymore)

Here's another piece of good news.

One of the Women's Marches is not going to march.

Chicago, Illinois is the third largest city in the country, and in one of the bluest states in the nation.

Yet even there, the bigotry, the Jew Hatred, the liberal infighting and corruption have proved too much even for the most ardent, left-wing supporters to stomach.

The Chicago Women's March is cancelled!

Here's the report from Associated Press:

Organizers cancel Chicago Women's March citing logistics

CHICAGO (AP) - Organizers have canceled next month's Women's March in Chicago citing logistical issues, as accusations of anti-Semitism dog the national movement.

Accusations? More like affirmations. Louis Farrakhan is a rabid Jew baiting bigot, and he has never withheld his disgusting for any group of people, especially Jews.

The press will do everything they can to downplay this setback. I just wish that this fallout would come to Los Angeles, too. How can anyone stand with a movement so dedicated to those who hate women and minorities? (which includes white men at this point, when considering the state of California).

Local organizers blamed high costs and not enough volunteers as key reasons for abandoning the Jan. 19 rally. An estimated 250,000 people participated in the event in January 2017 , causing organizers to cancel the march through downtown Chicago due to security concerns.

This is liberal spin. The Jew Hatred of Linda Sarsour, coupled with her flagrant celebration of Sharia Law, doomed this program from its outset. High costs? Blame the liberals who have overrun and run Chicago to the ground. Would someone please tell me why anyone would promote this crappy movement?

Infighting across the Women's March movement arose after Louis Farrakhan praised Women's March Inc. co-president Tamika Mallory and declared Jews his enemy during an address in February. Chapter members criticized Women's March leadership for being slow to condemn the Nation of Islam leader's anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Slow to condemn? They didn't bother to condemn the bigotry at all. In fact, they have been looking the other way on this whole corrupt perverse reality for the last two years. How many times has Linda Sarsour and her Jew-hating self spoke out during this movements? How many times did she show up and pronounce her hatred of the President and his policies--all of which have actually helped advance the causes of women, especially in the private sector?

Final Reflection

Would someone please tell me why this news is getting such little coverage? Why is it that the mainstream media goes to great lengths to promote every liberal cause and overlook over negative thrend in any anti-Trump movement?

It's also worth pointing out that the city of Torrance promoted their own Women's March in October, and the event was a total dud. Very few people showed up, and some of the elected officials who were expected to speak did not bother coming.

The program was supposed to last from 10am to 2pm that day, and yet the staffers and organizers rolled everything up by 1:30pm!

The Women's March has had an incredibly difficult time holding together its conflicts of intersectionality. The women are not breaking down over race and religion. With Jews, it ends up with both, since there are Jews by faith, and yet many more who are Jews as a member of ethnicity and genetic background.

The fact that the movement would bring in Muslim leaders, those who advocate for Sharia law in all its aspects, descredited the whole movement at the outset. The cancellation of the Chicago Women's March is good, but the organizers in the other cities need to stand up the bigoted speakers and cowardly leaders. This Women's March is not about women, but about left-wing, anti-American ideology, nothing more.

And therefore, it should be nothing more.

WAT?! California Pro-Life Council's "Endorsement" for John Cox, Double Standard Against Travis Allen

Once again, I am spending some time looking into this pro-choice/pro-life debate or debacle between Travis Allen and John Cox.

The argument for the last five months has been that Travis Allen is a baby-killer, walking in lock-step with Planned Murderhood.

I did some basic research online to look over what is going on. That is not true. Here's the link for Allen's record from Planned Murderhood. Unlike three-time loser John Cox, Allen  has a legislative voting record.

Full disclosure: I am pro-life, and I believe that there should be very strict, limited exceptions for abortion:

a. Rape.

b. Incest.

c. Life of the mother.

Some pro-life advocates may consider my views too liberal. That's their decision. I am pro-life.

Also, I am not a single-issue voter. Illegal immigration, labor union corruption, school choice, tax and spending reductions are very important to me. First Amendment protections are essential, and I care about life as well as family.

The life issue is not the most pertinent issue for me in this gubernatorial election either. For me, the state of California has gone from first to worst in large part because of illegal immigration.

We need to combat this scourge, secure our borders, and put the safety and well-being of California citizens first.

Now ...

I have been seeing this snippet shared at great-length for a long time, which states that Travis Allen is a pro-choice Republican:

Where does this page come from?

The California Pro-Life Council.

Here's the specific page where this statement is listed:

This is what is listed at the top of the page:

The list that has Travis Allen listed as "pro-choice" comes from an endorsement list from 2016.

It's not from 2018.

I looked over the page, and I found no information about Election 2018.

What is going on?

Now, which candidates did California Pro-Life Council endorse?

I am going to select two other Republican assemblymembers:

Young Kim (R-Fullerton)

David Hadley (R-Torrance)

Now, what were the Planned Murderhood scores for the three candidates?

2015:

David Hadley: 17%

Young Kim: 17%

Travis Allen: 0%

2016?

David Hadley: 67%

Young Kim: 67%

Travis Allen: 67%

There were two other very sensitive pieces of legislation which pushed an aggressive, abusive pro-abortion agenda.

AB 775: This bill would have forced pregnancy centers to inform patients how to get an abortion, even if the center was committed to the pro-life agenda.

How did the three Assemblymembers vote on this legislation? All three of them voted NO!

What about assisted suicide, AB 15?

David Hadley: YES (This was a gut punch for me. I was really sad about it)

Young Kim: No

Travis Allen: No

Now, with part of the whole record presented to you, let's now consider the California Pro-Life Council endorsements for the different assemblymembers in their bid for office in 2016:

AD 65 Young Kim- although some of her votes have been disappointing, she is still a better candidate than the pro-abortion alternative

AD 66 David Hadley- is not a strong advocate for life, but better than the pro-abortion alternative

But Travis Allen is not acceptable because he is a "pro-choice Republican".

Huh? He got a lower score from Planned Murderhood and voted against AB 775 and AB 15.

What kind of standards is the California Pro-Life Council relying on, then, when it comes to life?

Hadley voted FOR Assisted Suicide, and yet still received more support than Travis.

Not only that, but there is nothing on the website to indicate that the group has endorsed anyone for Election 2018.

"You mean you're looking
up my endorsements?"

Yet ... Cox has listed them as one of his meager endorsements:

Here's the website link:

And here are the endorsements below:

Notice that it actually says "California Pro-Life PAC". More on this later.

Final Reflection

This is one of the most unsettling things that I have discovered yet in this campaign.

The California Pro-Life Council was more willing to support a candidate who had voted for assisted suicide, but then condemned a candidate who voted against assisted suicide, who received a 0% rating from Planned Murderhood three times?

I contacted another pro-life group in the state of California, and one of the people told me that they did not think that Travis Allen was enough of a vocal spokesman for life. 

What more do they want Allen to do? Burn down every Planned Parenthood clinic in the state of California?

The truth about John Cox (and it's not good)

By the way, I have never heard of the California Pro-Life Council until now.

What's more, I have found nothing, absolutely NOTHING on the website which lists an official endorsement for John Cox or any other candidate running for Governor in California.

What is going on?!

I contacted the California Pro-Life Council with the phone number listed on the website. Nothing came through.

Here's the phone number.  Give them a call yourself, see if you can get through to someone: (800) 924-2490

Why does John Cox and his supporters continue to claim that Cox is the candidate endorsed by the California Pro-Life Council, when there is no official endorsement available?

This smells fishy, corrupt, much like the same Chicago machine corruption that Barack Obama used to go from the state legislature to the United States Senate, and then the White House.

And who else comes from Chicago? Crappy John Cox!

Whatever endorsement process they have used in the past, it doesn't pass muster.

This whole fight over life is becoming more confusing and corrupt the more that I find out. 

First, John Cox lies about Travis Allen's record on life.

Now he is hyping an endorsement from a group with a very confusing, if not corrupt, endorsement process, if there is an endorsement at all.

What is going on?!

"UH OH! Better go back to Chicago!"

MAGA! Massive ICE Raid Deports Major Staffing at Chicago Bakery

This report is another stunning victory in the enforcement of our country's immigration laws and the reassertion of our national sovereignty.

And in Chicago of all places!

So much for the "sanctuary city" designation imposed by Bully Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. This latest raid into a private firm should remind all illegal alien activists and their enablers that sanctuary cities and sanctuary state policies are doomed to fail. The federal government will enforce all immigration laws, with or without the support and assistance of local and state law enforcement.

What makes this latest raid and round-up significant, too, is that RINO Governor Bruce Rauner signed off on similar sanctuary state legislation, as though he could pander to the growing Hispanic vote in Chicago and throughout the state to shore up his 2018 re-election bid.

This is going to deal a major blow to the Illinois and Chicago Democratic Parties too, of course, since they just lost about 800 votes!

Chicago immigration raid leaves bakery scrambling to rehire after 800 workers lost

A Swiss maker of hamburger buns for McDonald’s Corp. said it’s struggling to run a Chicago bakery after it lost a third of its workers in a clampdown on 800 immigrants without sufficient documentation.

The McDonald's corporation is based in Illinois. Why they haven't left the state is anyone's guess, since Illinois is so hostile to business interests, homeowners, and taxpayers of all backgrounds. Almost every company with access to cheap, illegal alien labor will seek it out. It's time to remove these perverse incentives. First, crack down on illegal immigration by deporting the illegal aliens currently in the country. Second, impose stiff penalties, including incarceration, for business owners and CEOs who permit and pursue hiring illegal aliens.

About 35 percent of the workers at Cloverhill Bakery had to be replaced, according to Zurich-based Aryzta AG. The company, which makes baked goods for fast-food chains and supermarkets at a bakery in Chicago's Galewood neighborhood, said the employees were supplied by a job-placement agency that faced federal audits earlier this year. It also has a warehouse in Cicero.

So, one company wants to pass the buck onto the staffing agency. Well, let's see how long that game lasts. I worked at one of the dining commons at UC Irvine, and a number of illegal aliens were staffed there. As soon as ICE and a federal audit targeted the company (this was during the Clinton Administration, mind you), 9 employees were gone!

“It’s proceeding very, very slowly because it’s like having a brand new factory and a brand new workforce,” Chief Executive Officer Kevin Toland said on a call with analysts. “That’s presenting a lot of challenges, as you can imagine.”

Notice how the media reports want to show excessive compassion for the businesses as well as the illegal aliens. Where is the compassion for Americans pushed out of work, losing access to grants and other favors funded by taxpayer dollars? What about the Americans whose lives have been taken by illegal aliens? This business is at fault, not the fault of ICE or our President or the voters in the country. The men and women in Chicago have been looking for work, too. Why should they be punished because a handful of major companies want to undermine the sovereignty of the United States to rake in easy money?

The raid on workers at Cloverhill is one of the biggest U.S. employment headaches reported by a European company so far as President Donald Trump has made curbing undocumented immigration a centerpiece of his presidency. Aryzta said it faces challenges in retaining staff in the U.S. and pressure to raise wages.

TOUGH!

Notice the last legal and professional indiscretion of writing "undocumented immigration". What is that?! I have never heard of such politicized verbal niceties. What a joke! There is immigration, and there is invasion. The notion that a European staffing company would be so out of touch as to miss awareness of stateside companies hiring illegals--that is just too difficult to believe.

The company did not specify when the raid happened, but said in its annual report "following this disruption [Cloverhill] locations incurred €16.3m of losses during June and July 2017."

The Cloverhill issues led to a 7 percent decline in Aryzta’s sales from North America in the three months through October. The increase in employment costs — which is affecting retailers and restaurants nationwide — will eventually lead to higher consumer prices, Toland said.

So what?! I am willing to pay a little more for food and other basic products rather than suffer the massive costs to the public sector and on the taxpayer because of illegal immigration. Once again, notice the perverse lengths that the liberal media take to defend illegal immigration and cheap labor rather than report on the natural consequences of enforcing our laws vs. not enforcing our laws.

Aryzta wasn’t able to verify that the workers had the necessary documents to work because they were brought in by a staffing agency, interim Chief Financial Officer David Wilkinson said in September. He also said the board wasn’t aware of the extent of the risk that existed to the business. The company first reported the loss of 800 workers at that time.

The Swiss company didn’t name the staffing company.

Why didn't the Chicago Tribune investigate?

Because the paper, like the rest of the National Tribune Corp. declining empire, is pro-illegal, absorbed in this left-wing agenda for open borders, globalism, and radical equality at all costs. Thank God for President Trump and the acting Direct of ICE Thomas Homas. It's time that our national law enforcement retained and reasserted their power to enforce our immigration laws and put the safety and well-being of Americans FIRST!