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By Benjamin Cox on May 13, 2021 at 7:17pm
Illinois House and Senate Republicans gathered outside of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Office yesterday to voice their displeasure with the state’s remap process.
Republicans have complained that Democrats have controlled the map-making process behind closed doors, and Pritzker has flip-flopped on the issue for having an independent body draw the map.
While running for governor, Pritzker said Illinois lawmakers needed to create the commission, either through a constitutional amendment or legislative statute, like Republicans are trying to do now in the current General Assembly session.
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th District Representative Tim Butler of Springfield says that Pritzker has allowed state Democrats to go back on a promise to use Census Data that cost the state $30 million to collect. You can watch Butler’s full comments here.
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