Illinois Democrats want to paint new Congressional map blue

Illinois’ eight Democratic Congress members are being invited to Springfield on Saturday to hammer out a final version of a political map they hope will elect more Democrats next year.

When the music stops on Election Day, Illinois will have one less member of Congress.

Illinois Democrats hold all the cards as they finish re-drawing the new congressional districts this month, and they are determined to make sure only Republicans lose seats.

In the Republican tsunami that swept the country last year, four Illinois Democratic Congress members lost their seats.

State Democrats who control both state houses and the governor’s office are determined to reverse that trend, re-drawing the lines in hopes of reclaiming three or four of those seats. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is reportedly pushing Illinois Democrats hard to swing as many districts as possible.

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Chortle. Chortle. Good for us!

I wish I could get out of that stupid Manzullo's district. Maybe they will put me in the 17th. I was there before.

and get rid of some of the other R's the regular way, by making lots of D districts.

endorse a corrupt process, no reason to complain when it goes the way you don't like

so we might as well do what we can.

After all, it's OK when they do XXXXXX. (fill in the blank)



Problem is, pretty soon you can't tell the difference between yourself and the other side, having abandoned all principles in the name of "doing what we can".

...try to push the R's out of government any way we can. Those are the people who want to tell you what you can and can't do in the bedroom, give your job to some desperate, hungry foreigner, and send you off to kill and/or die for their cause. Screw them!