Sen. Sue Rezin | Facebook
Sen. Sue Rezin | Facebook
State Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) is pointing out to voters that Gov. J.B. Pritzker can't be trusted to stand by his own words.
“Gov. Pritzker did sign politician-drawn legislative maps,” Rezin recently posted on Twitter. “It’s not déjà vu. He has broken his promise to the people of Illinois twice.”
The newly redrawn maps signed by the governor just weeks ago are set to be used in state elections for the next decade. Democrats agreed to revisions after legal challenges from Republican lawmakers and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund claimed the maps were unconstitutional because they were based on numbers from the American Community Survey rather than the 2020 U.S. Census, which had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rezin and others have pointed out that as a candidate for governor, Pritzker vowed to reject partisan-drawn redistricting maps.
By passing the maps before a late-June deadline, Democrats kept the process from going to a bipartisan committee.
Rezin has plenty of company in finding fault with the process, with state Rep. Jackie Haas (R-Kankakee) deriding all of it as a “sham” process.
"Instead of shifting responsibility to a bipartisan commission, Democrats have fallen back on the same disingenuous process that produced the initial flawed maps last spring that now need to be re-done,” she posted on Facebook. “Hearings were held that were nothing short of a sham, a disingenuous effort that was intended to merely check a box, not to collect any real input from community groups on what the new map should look like.”
State Rep. Jeff Keicher (R-Sycamore) is even more direct, insisting “politicians should not be drawing maps. Period."
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