Column: Critics propose alternatives to Pritzker’s redistricting map – Champaign News-Gazette*

“As is often the case in race-motivated litigation, critics charged the map-drawers with intentional discrimination.” Everything I disagree with is racism! “The Mexican American group contends that Hispanics represent 11.2 percent of the state’s voting population, but Hispanic districts make up “3.3 percent of the House plan, 3.3 percent of the Senate plan and 3.3 percent of the Assembly as a whole.” What right do Mexican Americans have to advocate for Central American or South American Hispanics? Who put them in charge? And also, so what if the state’s voting population is 11.2% hispanic, what percentage is here legally, with… Read more »