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Jul 22, 2011 ... Illinois Republicans in the U.S. House are poised to challenge. ... Cash on hand for the Illinois congressional delegation: ... filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday asking a judge to order legislative districts to be redrawn. ... He is the only Republican to have a safe GOP district created in the 2012 remap. ...
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2 hours ago ... U.S. District Judge John Darrah imposed the maximum 20-year sentence, which ..... The IL GOP is challenging this year's remap, which placed ..... “With a $60000 -a-year budget, no staff and his hands pretty well tied behind ...
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* Congressman Tim Johnson just rented an apartment in Litchfield, which is in the middle of his new congressional district. He talked about the move and his pending ...
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Edwards, concerned that some of her black base is being stripped away, is mulling a legal challenge to the map, sources familiar with her thinking said. And Van Hollen, who also met with ... Reply #2. Oct. 7, 2011 - 6:31 PM EST. I live in GOP controlled Florida. ... But on the other hand - this guy has been in office for 2 decades? He needs to go, as well as all the other ... Thought I'd look to see if it was as bad, but you be the judge. Isn't compactness supposed to be one ...
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The Democrats freely admit that politics played a major role in the remap process. The GOP allegations amount to a legal longshot, however… Trying to get a court to reverse a map based on political decisions has historically been difficult. ... Think of it as a challenge. Take a violent photo and make fun of it without using overly violent imagery. You're supposed to think, not just react with the first thing that comes to your mind. ...
updated x1 League of Women Voters files suit over remap's ...
The League of Women Voters of Illinois has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state and congressional remaps based on 1st Amendment partisanship rights, which would be a pretty unique interpretation if ... Someone maybe should check out whether the League of Women Voters of Illinois recently received any big donations from some of the same Republican fat cats funding the straw-man organization set up by the IL GOP to pursue its ...
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Ohio Governor John Kasich— A Poster Boy For Voter Buyers’ Remorse Gets His Comeuppance November 10, 2011 The Democratic “shellacking” in the 11/02/2010 ...
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Things change fast during remap time. But this sort of thing is ... Hinz says this new district is designed to lure wealthy Democratic businessman John Atkinson away from a challenge to Lipinski… ... Mr. Dold still could run, but either in a significantly more Democratic district or in a more Republican district to the west where GOP incumbent Joe Walsh might have the edge. Chicago .... I was not a BIG$ supporter so he had some time on his hands to call a lot of people ...
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Apr 21, 2011 ... On the other hand, the Justice Department is in Democratic hands for the first ... from last year's oil spill and continued post-Katrina challenges. ..... the ability to demonstrate a discriminatory impact of the remap, and the burden ...
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Maryland redistricting has members on edge - Dan Hirschhorn ...
Oct 7, 2011... that some of her black base is being stripped away, is mulling a legal challenge to the map, sources familiar with her thinking said. And Van ... I live in GOP controlled Florida. ... But on the other hand - this guy has been in office for 2 decades? ... Thought I'd look to see if it was as bad, but you be the judge. ...
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With the redistricting process done (other than the prospect of a Justice Department challenge, which will surely come) and Louisiana's congressional districts remapped into six pieces instead of the current seven, the 2012 campaign can now enter its early stages. And the first ... Cassidy's 2012 re-election was made far more likely by virtue of his campaigning in the 2010 cycle; Cassidy entered 2011 with better than $800000 in cash on hand. Now his war chest is ...
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Letter from Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Dan Patlak to GOP ... The truth is that if Mr. Morrison were not challenging the first Republican to unseat ..... the seal procedures on voting equipment, to voter rolls, to use of Election Judges ..... At the end we shook hands and agreed to put the past behind us and work ...
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The hearing starts today… Illinois Republicans will get their day in court over the state's new Democrat-drawn congressional remap. A Thursday hearing is scheduled on the long-shot legal challenge filed by GOP members of ...
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Houston Chronicle: "3 judges decline to block remap plan: Trial on legality of new districts begins." December 12, 2003. Dallas Morning News: "Texas redistricting challenge goes to court today; ... Austin Chronicle: "Redistricting Lands in the Feds' Hands. ... Houston Chronicle: "Perry savors GOP's redistricting victory. ...
GOPs remap challenge in judges hands
While a panel of federal judges weighs a Republican challenge to Illinois new U.S. House district boundaries, lawyers for the state and the GOP said Friday they will discuss whether to push back the deadline for congressional candidates to file ...
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Roskam had a really tough week last week, I don't think he's in a position to challenge walsh or the tea party at this point and I don't think he'd back hultgren over walsh or if it would count for that much. - Crow04 ... On the other hand, if the Dems can find somebody similar to Bean in the Walsh/Hultgren district, Walsh's personal issues and extreme views can make him ripe for an upset even in a GOP district. ..... Associate judge Foley to seek Souk's circuit court opening ...
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Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Remap report
* Greg Hinz has a story about the new congressional map. He cautions, and I concur, that none of this stuff is set in stone. Things change fast during remap time.
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From NBCs Pete WilliamsTodays ruling by a federal appeals court in Ohio, upholding the Obama health care law, marks the first time a Republican-appointed ...
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Illinois election officials today asked a panel of federal judges to avoid any delay in candidate filing for the 2012 Congressional election while the court considers a Republican challenge to the new boundaries for U.S. House districts. But one of the three ... GOP U.S. House members blast Illinois' new district map in court - Democrat-drawn plan under review by federal panel. * Republicans testify in ..... Occupy LaSalle Street: A First-Hand Account * Mayor Scares Up ...
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Republican Roundup: Cellini, Straw-Poll, Remap ... - Capitol Fax.com
Nov 7, 2011 ... Remap forcing GOP lawmakers to pick districts. * Kirk calls on Obama to ... Looks like a “dare ya” challenge to ban folks. - Rich Miller - Monday ...
Remap forcing GOP lawmakers to pick new districts
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger is certain hell seek a second term — he just doesnt know in which of Illinois 18 congressional districts. Veteran congresswoman Judy ...
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A three-judge federal court panel in Chicago has opened the door for ... Remap challenge deserves ruling in favor of voters ... Illinois GOP Rep. ... have supported efforts to take the map-drawing out of the hands of legislators from the get-go.” ...