Editorial: Get fired up, Illinois. Redistricting is underway. Your future depends on it. – Chicago Tribune*

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debtsor
5 years ago

“And for the General Assembly, Democrats who controlled the process chopped and sliced up Republican-leaning communities, block by block, to weaken the chances of a Republican getting elected. The suburbs’ migration to Democratic members of the House and Senate, increasing that party’s majority and advancing its agenda in Springfield for the past two decades, is a direct result of gerrymandered map-drawing.” No wait, some posters here say that Jan S. and Mike ‘Q’uigly have their seats because they are very popular candidates with broad support in their districts. It has nothing to do with gerrymandering, and splitting up republican strongholds,… Read more »

anonymous
5 years ago

An editorial coming from the LEFT leaning Trib.

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