Posted on 05/03/2021 8:47:48 AM PDT by bigbob
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) announced Friday she won't seek reelection in 2022.
“As I have rounded each new decade of my career, I’ve taken time to reflect on how I can best serve. That’s how, 10 years ago, I decided to run for Congress,” Bustos said in a video announcing her decision. “And it’s why today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection after completing this term. It will be a new decade, and I feel it’s time for a new voice.”
Bustos, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chairwoman who led her party’s efforts to recapture the House majority in 2018, has faced increasingly difficult political prospects as her western Illinois congressional district has drifted rightward.
Her decision to retire comes after a particularly trying reelection campaign in 2020. She ultimately won that race by a narrow 4-point margin — far less than her nearly 25-point win in 2018. Former President Trump carried her district by about 1.5 percentage points in November.
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1. Redistricting following the loss of a congressional seat in IL would not make it easy to maintain the gerrymandered district that she and Durbin engineered to get her into office in the first place.
2. A very credible opponent, Esther Joy King, nearly beat her in the 2020 race and will likely win in 2022. Bustos won re-election by a narrow 52-48 margin against a 34-year old first time politician and knows she would not be as lucky in 2022 without the presidential race to bring voters to the polls.
3. Bustos abandoned any semblance of balance when she became head of the DCCC and turned into a partisan hack. This was clearly part of her plan to rise in leadership but it backfired. First, after she was forced to fire qualified staffers by the black caucus on the basis of skin color, and then because of her embarrassing failure to not only grow the Dem House majority in 2020 but coming very close to losing it.
3. With the 2020 House losses effectively ending her career in House politics she may be thinking she'll sit out a few years and then make a run for her mentor Durbin's Senate seat when he retires or croaks.
4. After redistricting, I'm encouraged to think that a pro-Trump candidate like King might win this downstate district.
And the first rat to leave announces before the flood.
Try this...jump off a tall building. 
Cheri sure made a big splash while there! /s
With the lefty control of the party here what they do to conservatives;
IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE USED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES BUT WAS NOT
FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?
.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.
In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts
.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS
.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father William O Lipinski then sucessor son Daniel also votes against abortion and then be the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap his district of areas which supported him for the 2020 primary.
The ward (the 23rd) and the congressional district formerly the 5th which they changed into being the 3rd Illinois congressional by taking ward areas which had areas dominated by hispanic fore names and placed them into the Louis Gutierez district.
In the reshaped 3rd Congressional district primary Daniel Lipinski lost because of this redistricting. Of a district which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd. which was “re-mapped in 2012 after former alderman and ward committeeman now congressman William O Lipinski annouced his retirement and wanted his son for his congressional replacement .
The remap was replacing ward boundaries of the 14th known as the stockyards which had experienced extensive demographic changes. They chopped up and placed sections of streets and blocks that were not only in the 23rd but the of adjacent 12th and 15th wards and made them the 14th ward
Now because Chicago alderman oversee routing of such things as garbage collections and getting city services . Some have complained of seeing rodents since as well as complained of poor road maintenance on their block. Because with this remap if your residence was in one ward your neighbor across the street or a block down is might be in another ward
.. The 5th was a district in the 1950’s which was a part of the third largest school district in the country run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Those city wards were primarily composed of dozens of traditional value family oriented Catholic/Christian communities centered around their churches and their schools. Hence opposed to funding such things as abortion and LGBT activities rather for issues that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway.
These Wards once were reliable supporters of Dan’s father, William O Lipinski. But after the 2012 redistricting the number of precincts in the 23rd were cut back to 39 and even their ward headquarters location was stuck in another ward.
And where many wards had areas with Hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to the Louis Gutieriez’s district. In areas where buildings were abandoned affected by the no money down home mortgages or had changed because of this. The ward such as the 14th known as Back of The Yards because of the former stock yards which has since relocated was remapped to include portions of other wards mainly the 23rd which Those results actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.
In some of those wards areas of city blocks which were zoned exclusively for single family dwellings residents suddenly found their neighborhood having houses torn down and being replaced with multiple apartments with the units not required to furnish parking facilities and many renters were illegals. Much of which fit the plans for the suburbs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881650/posts
http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm
You want to serve? Make me a sammich.
Just don’t land on anyone unless it Pelosi!
What an unfortunate name. She must’ve had a terrible time in junior high school.
with a name like that, anything is possible ...
Perhaps. But redistricting could cost one or more of the other Republican seats in the congressional delegation so there could still be a net loss.
But redistricting could cost one or more of the other Republican seats in the congressional delegation so there cou
Lived in that district for 62 1/2 yrs (south central Mercer Co). The farming communities were largely conservative in the 50s and 60s. But by the 70s, the ‘free stuff’ mindset was getting big momentum, which included the ag industry. I farmed until 2001, and hated all the guvmint red tape. I rationalized taking part in the subsidy programs because the politicians made some of our problems; especially fake Christian Jimmah Cahtah (support abortion and sexual confusion? Not a Christian imo).
And the rural farming population has fallen immensely, thanks to big modern machinery and chemicals. (Anyone wonder why the crop dusters are much busier than ever? Farmers don’t plow under the dead plant material nearly as much as in the past. Therefore the rotting material is above the ground where molds and fungus grow wonderfully, and climb right up the soybean and corn stalks, weakening their health. Out comes the fungicides, sprayed by large ground sprayers, or aircraft.)
The small country churches has dwindled in number, further weakening conservative values in the rural midwest. That’s how Lane Evans got elected; a leftist Rat that supported every commie bill that he was aware of.
But there may be hope since the unions are getting weaker there.
Somebody hand her a hanky.
Is that really her name????
Thanks for your comments. The downstate area is changing but I also think there are enough traditionalists who are fed up to make a change. Time will tell.
Yep I hear you. Kids are cruel that way.
My dad knew someone whose family name was Lifschitz. They legally changed it to Lorring.
Any Dem who won by 4 points or less are going to have a real problem in 2022. In 94 we picked up 70+ seats. I hope 2022 beats that. The House needs a unifying message like Newt had with his contract with America.
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