Illinois Redistricting Megathread

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hideous looking map IL Dems

IL Dems: You don't even know what hideous means

https://twitter.com/allymutnick/status/1449731716910878730

Interestingly though this map is more waveproof than the proposed map lol. I have a feeling the proposed map will be tweaked to shore up at least IL-03 and IL-14 and hopefully IL-17 a little.

This. This is sexy

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Newman declares she will run for reelection in IL-6. I wonder how hard the IL machine will have its thumb on the scale for the Casten vs Newman primary battle, it could get ugly.

https://twitter.com/capitolfax/status/1454107770429448198

I find it kind of bizarre how they seems so strongly tied to Carsten even though he’s one term Newman’s seniors and both have been running for congress Ed’s just as long. Only because Newman took down Lipinski

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So I just happened to be in south Illinois and I took a closer look at the congressional districts cause why not and I noticed Miller’s hometown isn’t actually in the seat she represents. It looks specifically carved out to be in the 15th and not the 12th which took most of her old district.

We’re Illinois Dems trying to carve her out?

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So I just happened to be in south Illinois and I took a closer look at the congressional districts cause why not and I noticed Miller’s hometown isn’t actually in the seat she represents. It looks specifically carved out to be in the 15th and not the 12th which took most of her old district.

We’re Illinois Dems trying to carve her out?

I think you're getting your districts messed up cause Miller represents the 15th but Oakland is in the 12th.

Honestly, that does seem somewhat intentional since there's really no partisan reasons for that extra nub, but then again Dems had a ton of unnecessary chops of zig-zags in Chicagoland so it may just be incompetence who whoever was drawing the map.

And the nub was also in all maps from the 2nd one too which is notable (the first proposed map seemed to be a joke)

I probably did get the numbers confused but yea, do you have a link to where I can see the first proposed map?

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You all know it is not a legal requirement for CD seats to live in the district right? The only requirement is to live in the state.

Yea but usually around redistricting it’s not uncommon to get certain reps drawn together trying out oust one of them. I guess the thought process was something like “if she runs against bost she’ll loose and if she runs against Davis he can’t attack her as a carpet bagger”

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You all know it is not a legal requirement for CD seats to live in the district right? The only requirement is to live in the state.

Yea but usually around redistricting it’s not uncommon to get certain reps drawn together trying out oust one of them. I guess the thought process was something like “if she runs against bost she’ll loose and if she runs against Davis he can’t attack her as a carpet bagger”

Off topic, but if your screen name was "pack the court with homosexuals," I am good to go with that. Keep hope alive.