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“It’s rich that the Governor now claims to support playing by the rules — after he enthusiastically signed into law the most gerrymandered maps in the nation,” House Republican Leader Tony McCombie said in a statement. “When it was convenient, he promised to reject partisan maps in favor of fair representation.” Illinois’ current congressional map earned an F grade from the independent Princeton Gerrymandering Project, finding the map fails in every category on political fairness and competition and geographic compactness.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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An Illinois governor complaining about another state’s gerrymandering? If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.
Because zero Republican Senators is too many
Pritzker promised fair congressional maps, but instead gerrymandered IL districts to remove republican representation. Voters should sue and go to the US Supreme Court, since IL Supreme Court is owned by Democrats.
The most ignorant, arrogant, lying two faced person in Springfield
What does JB have to say about his fellow Liberal Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent comment about having an Emergency Meeting looking to redraw the Congressional Maps in CA in an attempt to push out the few remaining Republican Congressmen that are there?
It’s OK when Democrat/Communists do it. Glad some states take a stand against demorats.
JB The Hutt is the worst kind of liar and hypocrite.
IL Democrats are the worst offenders in America when it comes to gerrymandering.
Not only did they rig all these new districts, they rigged all future court challenges to those districts, by forcing plaintiffs to bring suit in crooked Democrat-controlled courts in Chicago and Springfield.
Just another log on the pile of lies by Pritzker who has never been held accountable for his lying. The standard bearer for obscene gerrymandering is the IL 17th district – no way on God’s green earth should a Leftist moron like Eric Sorenson be in Congress. TX should double-down on what Pritzker and IL Democrats did with districts and gerrymandering.