My Senate district has a similar de-evolution a few election cycles back, going from a centrist Lipinski type Democrat (the solidly pro-life and anti-illegal alien Ed Maloney) to a worthless Mike Madigan yes-man (Bill Cunningham). Of course, Cunningham won his first Senate race in 2012 by CLAIMING to be a Lipinski-type RAT (ran campaign ads with cute family photo ops walking out of church services claiming to be "Your average Catholic dad") and then promptly voted to legalize gay marriage shortly after being sworn in, and went full moonbat after that.
Of course, Maloney himself was a downgrade from what we had in the late 90s/early 2000s: a Peter Fitzgerald type suburban Republican (Patrick O'Malley). Then O'Malley retired to run for Governor in 2002, and the RATs redrew the district to be majority RAT. Since the district was still 80% suburban, they ran "conservative Democrat" Maloney.
It just shows you the continued leftward creep of Illinois overall. Now even the collar countries have fallen to marxist RAT control. Look who Randy Hultgren just lost to, in what USED to be Dennis Hastert's district. I think we might only be left with a handful of Republicans way downstate when the dust settles.
Davis hung on in CD-13.
I’m afraid to look at state leg.
GOP Holds PA leg.
With just 5 out of 33 members, the TN Senate Democrat caucus is about as useless as tits on a bull. At least with Thelma Harper, she could play ball with the majority. The new member is just a moonbat who will probably just trot out the race card every time she loses a vote. Harper did not back her, she backed a more moderate type.
Nashville Democrats, of course, achieved a feet not done in 44 years in having an all-Democrat 10-member House delegation. Even Crook County must have one Republican House member somewhere...
Whoever next becomes Speaker after the lousy Beth Harwell (only the 2nd GOP Speaker since Reconstruction, and the last one before her was in 1969), I don’t want to hear any excuse about not slicing, dicing and fileting the lines in Nashville, which were left virtually untouched from decades of Democrat gerrymanders. Beth didn’t want to upset her Nashville colleagues. Thanks for nothing, Beth (BTW, I had THE most left-wing member of the entire TN legislature as my House member, Sherry Jones, who is white. She retired and was replaced by another rodent who may or may not be as deranged).