This is IL-17. Not too bad in the north but in the southern areas there are some place no wider than an alley leading from one Rat neighborhood to another.
Posted on 05/03/2021 4:39:55 PM PDT by Conserv
Republicans in Illinois and Washington, D.C., closed the week on a happy note, as Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos announced late Friday her retirement in Illinois' 17th District (Quad Cities).
All political eyes were immediately on Republican Esther Joy King, U.S. Army officer and tax attorney, who came close (52 to 48 percent) to denying Bustos a fifth term.
Many Prairie State political observers believe that Bustos’ position as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) left her vulnerable to King’s spirited attacks that the congresswoman was out of touch with the 17th District.
But obervers also agree that the Democrats’ $3 million spending in the twilight of the campaign to just over $300,000 by King was enough to put Bustos over the top.
A few hours after Bustos’ surprise announcement, King told reporters she would run again in ’22 ''because I know that the residents of this district deserve so much better than what the liberal elites have been serving them up in Washington."
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Will she finish out her term, or will there be a special election?
As long as she’s not Nancy Mace.
Sorry - but Republicans won the Illinois 6th and 11th Congressional Districts in 2020, until there was a 3:00 AM “re-count” both stayed in Democrat hands.
No chance this house seat will flip.
And in the end it won’t matter because The Combine will ensure a tame Republican wins.
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She’s finishing her term and not running for re-election.
Not a single human being on the planet, in the past, present or future will ever be able to explain to me how campaign commercials, radio ads, flyers or some idiotic campaign speech/slogan/press release can sway someones opinion.
At this point in our country’s history, in the political realm, if you don’t know which side to pick then you’re too f*cking stupid to vote.
Are all the Republican’s(at any level) perfect, competent, able, willing to stand up for their constituents no matter what, all about low taxes, etc etc etc? Nope. Not at all.
But....EVERY Democrat will support and vote for their parties agenda, at every single level....schools, zoning, HOAs, city councils, county commissions, state, federal....that will do everything possible to take away the rights of anyone they deem an adversary...ie Conservatives.
There are no Moderate/Center Left Democrats. If a person votes for a Democrat they are voting for open borders, crime, a 9-0 Liberal SCOTUS, high taxes, no 2nd Amendment, etc etc etc....no matter how moderate your neighbor may seem to you.
The country is that polarized and the two sides are that far apart.
She’s such a clown, isn’t she?
BS. I live here and there are “Esther” signs still up just down the road. Bustos started out as a moderate dem with appeal to Indies but then went fully into the tank for Pelosi, running the DCCC and turned her back on half her district. People are fed up with democrats and want change.
The Combine hasn’t redistricted the lines, yet. They’re probably going to chop the seat up, which is why this article is jumping the gun.
Agree bb, I’m in ILL6 but travel frequently through Busto’s district. I think no amount of campaign cash will save that district for the Rats. They have not groomed a replacement, and King is very popular and a great candidate.
If the district stays intact, it’s King’s race to lose.
“...can sway someones opinion...”
I agree wholeheartedly! Sorry assed state of affair when who spends the most money wins and never mind what they stand for!
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
They will just redraw the district to make it unwinnable for a Republican. There is no story here unfortunately.
Talk to Jeanne Ives [IL 6 ] - she had a big lead on Communist Sean Casten - the lead disappeared in minutes once the election officials realized the seat was going to flip.
Plus Governor Putzker is on the top of the ticket in 2022 - he will pull in a lot votes for the Dem ticket.
Don’t forget - this is Illinois.
This is IL-17. Not too bad in the north but in the southern areas there are some place no wider than an alley leading from one Rat neighborhood to another.
Exactly
A good old gerrymander if ever there was one.
If you think the 17th is bad take a look at the Illinois 4th district:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional_district
It would flip under the current lines.
But it’s a remap year.
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