Obama Re-Ignites Fight over Drawing Illinois Political Maps
via Chicago Sun-Times
“At first blush, it may have seemed like a rare moment of bipartisanship at the Illinois Capitol: Democratic President Barack Obama called for changes to a process for drawing political maps that too often favors one party, bringing Republican lawmakers to their feet.
‘In America, politicians should not pick their voters; voters should pick their politicians,’ Obama said during last week’s speech in Springfield, echoing comments from his final State of the Union address.
But Illinois’ redistricting process is shaping up to be one of the biggest battles of 2016, as a bipartisan group of supporters and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner push to put a measure on the November ballot and opponents, including some top Democrats, argue it would ‘devastate the voices of minority communities.'”
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