What else is new?
One side knows how to play hardball. Unfortunately, it is not our side.
It worked in California; “Reagan Country” became “the Left Coast.”
Manzullo has been a lackluster but consistently conservative back-bencher, and I think he will do the right thing. But there is a perfect idiot Democrat who would go for his seat.
Oh, we can definitely play that game too.
This is what is happening to all the Rats in the new Red States. Let the Rats have IL. I didn’t even know the state still had a GOP. Everyone is leaving anyway. Hence the need for all the Gerrymandering.
What shocks me is that Republicans hold almost half of the seats in a whacked out leftist state like Illinois.
Gerrymanders don’t always turn out the way the mapmakers think that it will.
My wife’s family lives in relatively conservative Kankakee County. If this gerrymander goes through, their new rep is going to be Jesse Jackson Jr.
Talk about hell on earth.
It was Chicago that lost +/-200,000 residents. People fled Chicago to other states or moved to RED Suburbs and/or Counties. As such, it should be Chicago that looses two Congressional Seats. Not any other County or District in IL. So if I was part of the IL GOP leadership I'd have filed a Federal Lawsuit against the IL Democratic Party (aka: Mike Madigan) the moment this new map was made public.
As it is per this new map, I now have NO Rep in the US Congress! So if this map doesn't violate my Constitutional rights, or the Voting Act of 1965, I'll eat my Stetson -- without salt.
This map is reverse Jim Crow and 'Disenfranchisement' x 106.
Why all the hand-wringing here? This is a GREAT outcome for the state of Illinois.
It is about to become Chicago-ized, writ large.
I can’t think of a better way to crash and trash the whole state than to put the Rats in charge from stem to stern.
Give the Dem voters there what they have voted for.
Check this out:
In Texas, the big Tea Party wave gave the GOP something like 2/3's of the Texas house of representatives. OK? That's a 2:1 majority.
But what has happened is that the Dems have formed a working alliance with a clutch of suburban RiNO's and the RiNO speaker of the house (he's a Jewish "moderate" Republican from the suburbs of Dallas), to vote out a reapportionment map that pits the eight most conservative Republican representatives against one another.
The RiNO speaker and his buds are working with the 'Rats to scrag conservative Republicans. It's a massacre, and the new map guarantees that there will never be as many Republican state representatives again. Eventually, uncontrolled Mexican immigration will flip the whole State of Texas Democratic and drive the GOP from statewide office.
Here you have a pluperfect example of the RiNO's doing whatever it takes to fight off challenges from conservatives, even though they are guaranteeing their own expungement from state office thereby.
What can we say: people in IL always make us ill.