Due to the RATs gerrymandering my state to have a veto proof majority, a lot of the black neighborhoods in the Chicago have been gerrymandered into a white suburban district, thus resulting in a white RAT representing the district overall. The RATs basically exploit the heavily Democrat black voting strength to ensure a Dem wins regardless of how the suburbs vote, but the Madigan-picked white Dem that wins could care less about the 20% of the district in a poor urban neighborhood. The Dems control virtually every suburban seat in Crook County by snaking it into the city.
The GOP has recruited a number of well qualified conservative black candidates, but unfortunately the result is always the same...no matter how articulate and prominent they are in black neighborhoods, those regions continue to vote 95% RAT, and will automatically vote for a wealthy white RAT over the black Republican who lives in the community.
We actually have one such election coming up this November in the district next to mine. The RAT incumbent/Madigan puppet is Fran Hurley ( http://www.ilga.gov/house/rep.asp?MemberID=2044 ) , and her Republican challenger is Victor Horne, a well qualified black conservative ( http://www.championnews.net/?p=42478 )
The ideal election reform would be to eliminate the candidate's party affiliation being listed on the ballot. Horne could win by knocking on doors and swaying voters one-on-one to vote for him, but as long as Hurley has (D) next to her name on the ballot, she will automatically win huge in the city.
Yeah, well if counties voted instead of people we’d be in great shape here in IL. The map would make you think Brady and Kirk won big in 2010.
“The ideal election reform would be to eliminate the candidate’s party affiliation being listed on the ballot. “
They’d just blanket the area with placards letting everyone know that Hurley is the rat.