Posted on 08/06/2025 8:38:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Late-night host Stephen Colbert confronted Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker with gerrymandered maps of Illinois congressional districts on Tuesday amid Texas Republicans' efforts to redraw the state's congressional map.
"If you are considering doing a little more redrawing in Illinois, you already have some crazy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this. Look at [district] 17 here. It does that, then it comes up here, and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here and then goes right over there like that," Colbert said as he gestured, describing the districts. "Is this common for all states to do?"
Texas House Republicans have introduced a redistricting proposal that could net them five new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is likely to change before approval by both state legislative chambers, aims to redraw district lines to include more Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston. The move has prompted Texas Democrats to leave the state in order to halt the vote, and Pritzker put himself at the center of the national discussion by offering refuge in Illinois.
Pritzker joked that a kindergarten class drew the map, and called it his independent commission.
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LOL! THE PRICKSTER LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THE FOOL HE IS!
Are you a racist?
Good on Colbert. Illinois has some doozies. Some in the Chicago area are beyond belief. My favorite is the 13th, which is narrow strip that runs northeast from the St. Louis metro area through Springfield to Champaign, nearly splitting the 15th district in half. I’ll bet in some places, if you pull off the interstate, you will be out the district.
Democrats carefully draw many of the districts in their state to include a small but effective D vs R & I ratio of voters, while concurrently packing as many R as possible into the fewest number of districts.
One ACRE, One VOTE!
The time is now to give dirt the franchise.
The OP mentioned that Trump won more counties. Many of them barely have people in them.
Not Congressional Districts.
Mass. has eight Districts, ALL ‘Rat.
Check
If those counties barely have any people in them, how did Trump wind up with 77 million votes?
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