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GOP leaders call out House Dems for redistricting ‘hypocrisy’ in Illinois

Sarah Mansur by Sarah Mansur
May 6, 2021 - Updated on May 10, 2021
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SPRINGFIELD (CNI) — Illinois House Republicans continue to demand a “fair” redistricting process, following a news report depicting Democratic lawmakers meeting behind a closed door to discuss the mapmaking process.

The “secretive” room on Capitol grounds where House Democrats are said to be drawing maps was first reported by WCIA-TV’s Mark Maxwell. In response to the report, House Republicans held a news conference Thursday outside of the room to address their concerns.

The U.S. Census Bureau has not released official block-level data that Republicans and advocacy groups say is necessary to ensure a full accounting of Illinois’ citizens. That data isn’t expected to be released until Sept. 30, which is past the initial June 30 deadline written in the Illinois Constitution for the General Assembly to draw maps.

The Census Bureau has released less descriptive data, including data from the American Community Survey, which doesn’t include the detailed, block-level data showing exactly where people live – the kind of data needed to draw equal-size legislative districts.

State Rep. Ryan Spain (R-Peoria) said the ACS data is not accurate and is not appropriate to use when drawing the map.

“That’s what the Census Bureau says, that’s what advocacy groups across the state of Illinois have testified…more than 55 groups have said it is not appropriate that we use estimated data sources to do one of the most important things that happens every 10 years, and that is draw this map,” Spain said.

“We need to have accurate census data as the methodology that we use to draw this map. This is the doorway to further corruption in the state of Illinois, and it needs to stop,” he added.

Democrats have not said exactly what data has been used in the mapmaking process thus far. They did, however, point to the House Redistricting Committee’s 30 public hearings on the matter, noting they heard testimony from advocacy groups and the public providing input on the process.

During an unrelated news conference Thursday, Democratic leaders brushed off the Republicans’ criticisms, saying this is the normal process that state lawmakers have used in years past.

“We are just following the process like we always do, (the Republicans are) doing the same thing,” said Rep. Lisa Hernandez (D-Cicero), assistant majority leader and chair of the Redistricting Committee.

She said ACS data is just one source, but not the sole source being used to draw the maps.

“The participation of the public hearings, and the kind of information that has been offered, we’re really combing through all of that,” Hernandez said.

“It’s a wait-and-see, but like I said, we’re just off of the hearings, we’re looking at all this information, trying to figure it out. I’m sorry I don’t have the answer right now, maybe in a few weeks we can,” she said.

Rep. Avery Bourne (R-Raymond) said Gov. JB Pritzker is going back on his campaign promise that he would not sign a partisan-drawn map.

“Our Democratic colleagues have called for a fair process…the governor himself has said that he wants a transparent process. And what we see today, what we saw reported last night, is literally the opposite of a transparent process,” Bourne said.

“They are going behind a closed door to pick their voters. Gov. Pritzker previously endorsed a fair map process and went so far as to say that he would veto a map that was drawn by politicians, partisans or their staff.”

The U.S. and Illinois constitutions require lawmakers to redraw congressional and legislative district boundaries every 10 years, following the decennial census, to account for population shifts.

Under the Illinois Constitution, the Illinois General Assembly must pass a redistricting plan, approved by the governor, by June 30. If lawmakers do not meet that deadline, the redistricting plan goes to an eight-person legislative redistricting commission that consists of no more than four people from each party.

The commission has until August 10 to file a new redistricting plan. If the commission still fails to compromise on a plan, the Illinois Supreme Court submits the names of two people of opposing parties to the secretary of state. By random selection, the secretary of state chooses one of the two people, and that person becomes the ninth and tie-breaking vote on the commission.

Republicans have proposed using a bipartisan 16-member commission to redraw the maps, and that commission would send the maps to the eight-person commission for approval. But a law creating that new commission has stalled in the General Assembly.

Grace Barbic contributed to this story.

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Sarah Mansur is a field reporter for Capitol News Illinois and has been on the team since October 2020. Mansur, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, was previously a reporter for the Henderson, N.C. Daily Dispatch before entering the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. After graduating, she joined the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in 2017 as Capitol bureau chief.

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