‘What more could the governor do?’: Illinois lawmakers doubt state’s districts could be more gerrymandered – Daily Herald*

While Gov. JB Pritzker last week repeatedly said he and his allies in the General Assembly might pursue gerrymandering Illinois’ congressional districts to benefit Democratic candidates even more than they already are, legislators on both sides of the aisle doubt it’ll happen. They don’t question Pritzker’s desire to wrest congressional power from Republicans to counter the GOP’s effort to build its House majority by redrawing district maps in Texas. They just don’t think it’s possible to widen the Democrat’s 14-3 majority in Illinois’ congressional delegation through mapmaking.
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Call my shrink
7 months ago

Lets see how him and the Democratic party would look if Madigan can’t work the strings and Illinois goes red. Of course we need voters to get off the dem bandwagon and see what’s going on here

Lurker
8 months ago

JB The Hutt keeps clowning himself on national TV — wagging all 5 of his chins at gerrymandering in Texas — after having signed off the nation’s worst example of gerrymandering in Illinois (in breach of his own campaign promise not to do so). No wonder he was kicked out of the family biz for being a useless load.

#SelfOwn

Don Diego de la Vega
8 months ago

Cheating, thumb in the scale, cemetery voters is the only thing that keep democrats in power. That’s their game, cheat, lie then deny. The democrats hate you and hate America

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