Kendall County Times

State Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) wants voters to be clear about the kind of state government she argues Gov. J.B. Pritzker seems to want for them.

“It’s not déjà vu,” Rezin recently posted on Twitter. “Gov. Pritzker did sign politician-drawn legislative maps. He has now broken his promise to the people of Illinois twice.”

The newly revised legislative maps signed by the governor will be used in elections for the next decade.

Democrats revised the maps after the redrawn district maps they passed earlier this summer brought legal challenges from Republicans and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who charged they 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.

Moving ahead on the maps before a June deadline allowed Democrats to maintain control over the process rather than run the risk of a bipartisan committee being installed to handle the process.

Rezin isn’t the only Republican lawmaker taking issue with the way things have been handled. State Rep. Jackie Haas (R-Kankakee) also derided the 'sham' process back in September.

"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.”

Republican state Rep. Jeff Keicher (R-Sycamore) is even more direct, insisting “politicians should not be drawing maps. Period."