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Redistricting: Dems GerryMander Illinois To New Levels

By: proudgop (Diary)  |  May 27th, 2011 at 12:25 PM  | 

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Dems just released new congressional maps and the points include it could be plus 5 seats for Dems if their gerrymandering sticks.  How bad is it?  They put Jess Jackson Jr in the same district as rural voters in Crete and Will county Congressman Adam Kinzinger?  Not only that they lumped together:  Schock/Schilling, Biggert/Roskam, Walsh/Hultgren, Dold/Schakowsky, Kinzinger/Jackson, Shimkus/Johnson.

The Dems control the process but when you start putting inner city voters with rural voters someone needs to stand up and fight the problem is the Republicans in Illinois will have no voice.  We need to make a lot noise though so people are aware of their inside machine politics at its worse

http://www.senatedem.ilga.gov./index.php/component/content/article/101-blog-posts/1996-illinois-congressional-district-proposal-released

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  • Gandalf

    The Party that rules by gerymandering will die by gerrymandering. I think it’s wrong for both parties, but selecting to be outraged over Illinois while ignoring Republicans doing the same thing in Missouri, Texas, and other States is beyond hypocritical.

    We need to re-vamp how ALL States are allowed to draw congressional districts. Get rid of the Voting Rights Act and enact a national law similar to Iowa’s law about redistricting. End gerrymandering for ALL States or stop complaining when the other Party does it.