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JB Pritzker Avoids Direct Answer When Questioned About Illinois Gerrymandering Practices
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker was questioned about the state's gerrymandered congressional map during an interview with NBC's Meet the Press.
- Pritzker claimed Republicans are trying to 'steal seats' in Texas without addressing his own state's map, which has been criticized for fairness.
- Kristen Welker highlighted that Illinois has an 'F' grade for its congressional maps from Princeton University's Gerrymandering Project.
- Pritzker's remarks sparked criticism, with critics accusing him of hypocrisy for using tactics he condemns in Texas.
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JB Pritzker Explains Exactly Why Trump Is Pushing His GOP Allies To Redistrict—And He's Spot On
Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker perfectly explained why President Donald Trump is pushing for gerrymandered redistricting in Republican-led states amid pushback from Democrats in Texas.Redistricting has been all over the news cycle in the days since Texas Democrats fled the state to avoid voting on a new heavily-gerrymandered redistricting map and to deny their GOP colleagues a quorum, the minimum number of lawmak…
Manipulated maps, hypocrisy and Illinois’ collapsing Congressional influence – Wirepoints
Gov. Pritzker wants to be a national hero for the “resistance,” but there’s a problem: Illinois is far from the influential powerhouse he portrays it to be. Illinois has been bleeding people relative to the rest of the country for decades, and that can be seen clearly by the state’s collapse in Congressional representation.
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DailyTruthReportIllinois Governor Protecting Runway Texas Dems Stumped After NBC Host Calls Out His Hypocrisy
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois seemed to short-circuit during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday after being asked whether it was hypocritical of him to mirror Texas’ […] The post Illinois Governor Protecting Runway Texas Dems Stumped After NBC Host Calls Out His Hypocrisy appeared first on The Western Journal.
JONATHAN TURLEY
Utopia - you are standing in it!Politics Without Shame: Gerrymandering Makes Hypocrisy a Political Punch Line
Below is my column in The Hill on open hypocrisy of many denouncing the Texas redistricting effort. While I have been a critic of gerrymandering for decades, the faux outrage of Democrats in heavily gerrymandered states would make Captain Louis Renault blush. Here is the column: Former diplomat and Democratic senator Adlai Stevenson once remarked that “a hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump …
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