Remember Governor JB Pritzker’s promises to end gerrymandering in Illinois? Maybe you were among the nearly 600,000 people who signed the petition to end it. Polls have long showed overwhelming, bipartisan support.
Well, forget it.
The deadline for getting the Fair Maps amendment on the November ballot expired on May 3. Gerrymandering will continue. Some in the General Assembly are blaming the coronavirus for not meeting to take the necessary action. Think of that excuse as the latest installment of not letting the crisis go to waste. The United States Senate is meeting. Our General Assembly could have.
The Chicago Tribune has the answer in an editorial:
Even if the legislature were in session, even if a COVID-19 pandemic had not slowed government activity, even if hell froze over, House Speaker Michael Madigan and complacent Democrats would have blocked or stalled votes on fair maps, term limits and pension relief. Want proof? We have years of it….. Once again, Illinois voters lost out on a chance to be heard on issues important to them. Legislators have the coronavirus to shoulder-shrug this time. Next time? We’re confident they’ll come up with something.
– Mark Glennon
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Sorry, a lot of voters won’t like this but it is evident that Illinois is loaded with people who are too stupid, selfish, apathetic and lazy. How else can you explain a group of voters who election after election send politicians back to Springfield to screw us over again.
They only care about abortion. So they always vote blue no matter who. I’m convinced of this. And it makes them crazy because they know the politicians are corrupt, but they get their progressive ideology, and lots of abortion.
I had ten abortions in Illinois. I’m thankful for choice.
No argument here.
The lines should make normal, geometric shapes, without regards for any group. Then, whoever wins-wins❗☑️??
WHy would Madigan, JB, and the cabal want to lose its power ? Of course they let is expire ! serfs, peasants, get back in the food line !
Madigan paid $5 million for the last State Supreme Court judge…so there would be no independent maps..!
People have to leave Illinois as soon as they can – there is no other way.
Will any of you Democrat voters hold these people accountable?
Nope. Because you are all sell-outs for your one issue, whatever it is.
Admit it, Democrats.
That one issue – and the only issue – is infanticide. The Democrat party has been a death cult since the days of slavery, through the KKK and Jim Crow, and now with their proclivity for child sacrifice. That’s why there are so few pro-life Democrats and the few that were left were just unceremoniously primaried out of office by left wing loonbags. Abortion is a sacrament of the Democrats.
well that makes less of them then, they fail to breed…mother nature weeding them out.
Gun control is another Democratic issue, including Congresspeople Bradley Scott Schneider, Cherilyn Lea Bustos, Daniel [Jomo] Kenyatta Davis, Robert Lee Rush, Janice Danoff (ex-Schakowsky) Creamer, Maria Klàssen Newman and more. ?
Gun control is an issue, for sure, but its not the most important one. The difference in hysteria between gun issues and abortion is like night and day. The pink hat womens’ rallies weren’t about gun control, it was about womens’ rights, and the right that is paramount to all other rights is infanticide.
I guess, you’re correct. ?
Oops, I forgot LGBT, with more letters for gender, sexual identity and sexual preference definitions added almost daily. ?