Congressman Rodney Davis joined his Republican colleagues in the General Assembly Monday in calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to support legislation to form an independent commission to redraw congressional and state legislative district maps.
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Lisle Township Republican Organization Chairwoman Becky Rudolph said removing the now-former long-serving House speaker is only potentially the first step in igniting Springfield s reform movement. Unless we dismantle the whole system he s built over all these years, it won t make a difference, Rudolph told the DuPage Policy Journal. I think it was genius the way he s set up this system to keep putting Democrats in office.
After approximately four decades of leading the Illinois House of Representatives, Madigan stunned many in mid-February when he resident his District 22 House seat and as chair of the Illinois Democrat Party.
Madigan had represented the district for 50 years.
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Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch on Wednesday declined to weigh in on who should replace Mike Madigan as state Democratic Party leader, downplayed his contact with Madigan’s short-lived House successor and defended allowing party officials to take another crack at filling the vacancy.
“If there’s a vacancy they have a right to do that,” Welch said of the Democratic leaders legally charged with making such appointments. “I do believe that different committeepeople do different things, and we could probably encourage and hope that they would do things in a more open and transparent manner.”