Editorial: Public interest quashed by partisan players – Champaign News-Gazette*

"Politicians too often take the attitude that the office they hold is somehow a personal possession that they or their party is entitled to control in perpetuity. In fact, these power brokers are temporary occupants of an office that belongs to the public to serve its interest. Unfortunately, the public’s vital interest in who represents them in Springfield is not even an afterthought in the current debate on redistricting."