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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Welcome to my district! The question now is “Who wins in a crazy off between Bost and Miller?” You may get rid of him but the replacement is worse. Bost mostly won because he promised to keep the Granite City steel mill running, and now that retrenchment is happening there he may be on thin ice no matter what. (He took over what was a fairly Dem district long represented by Jerry Costello, old-school St Clair County pol.) I’m mostly impressed at how the map managed to keep only the most Dem parts of the northern Metro East in the same district. God help you if you, like a friend of mine, live in Godfrey yet work with unions in Alton.
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new maps finalized, newman is gone once her term ends. she's in with Chuy now and has zero shot in a primary against him edit: she announced she'll run a primary against Casten, 40% of her former district went into his. he has a bit less carryover but more money mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Oct 29, 2021 15:35
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I got moved into Jan’s district
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Oct 29, 2021 15:41
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Kinzinger isn't going to run for reelection either. https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1454093968564699139?t=QR6u-itLEFJi3FFMr-J6YQ&s=19
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Oct 29, 2021 15:46
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I expect Kinzinger to run for Governor since Davis has not answered whether he would or not. His idea is that the crazies will split the vote and Kinzinger can pull a reverse Trump.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I expect Kinzinger to run for Governor since Davis has not answered whether he would or not. He'll just guarantee a Pritzker reelection unless something horrific on the scale of eating live babies comes out about him, so carry on, Kinzinger, you quiet part loving decorum-obsessed Republican, you.
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Oct 29, 2021 17:11
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The more Republicans that run the better. They can waste a bunch of money in the primary, and hopefully piss off some Republican voters in the process. I don’t really expect Prtizker to lose though. He’s been good enough and generally scandal free.
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Oct 29, 2021 22:10
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Duckworth seems easier to go after than Pritzker anyways https://twitter.com/napervillepol/status/1454166163068526596?s=21
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Oct 29, 2021 22:26
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What did Newman do to piss them off so much? Or are they trying to clean house of moderates or…?
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Oracle posted:What did Newman do to piss them off so much? Or are they trying to clean house of moderates or…? She beat Lipinski. It’s such utter bullshit. Is Newman even a moderate? Lipinski was so far out of step with his district that he relied on Republicans in his district propping him up in Dem primaries. I’m one district over, and driving through Lockport you’d see yards with Lipinski/Trump/anti-abortion signs. The district went +16 for Clinton though. I think his district was the one with so little Republican primary participation that a literal self-identified Nazi won the Republican primary in 2016 or 2018 - ‘cuz all of the actual Republican voters were saving Lipinski in the Dem primary yet again. I don’t know why certain powerful Dems in the party have such a boner for the guy. He was a pain in the rear end during ACA, was anti-choice, anti-gay marriage, and just plain out of step. If he had to be that way to win a conservative district, then fine, but that’s just wasn’t the case at all.
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Oracle posted:He'll just guarantee a Pritzker reelection unless something horrific on the scale of eating live babies comes out about him, so carry on, Kinzinger, you quiet part loving decorum-obsessed Republican, you. Look. If Large Dad needs to eat a baby or three to keep in shape, well . . . can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, etc. etc. I mean, he *is* a Large Dad and nothing in this world is free, after all. I really do appreciate the mask mandates around Cook County and truly think that aside from a Governor Bernie Sanders, that we likely could have very well done much, much worse.
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Oct 30, 2021 06:20
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Ugh I'm in the designated chud territory of the 15th
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Oct 30, 2021 06:45
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FuturePastNow posted:Ugh I'm in the designated chud territory of the 15th I sympathize. I'm still stuck in the chud zone as well and was really hoping they'd move the boundary for the Bustos district over a street to catch me. It wouldn't have hurt any! I think there are like three houses with Bailey poo poo out and at least three or four with rainbow flags and stuff. It seems like a pretty split neighborhood.
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:She beat Lipinski. It’s such utter bullshit. He was a good ol boy given his job strictly through nepotism. He was beloved by the Illinois dem machine. I think lipinski represented the south side/Beverly area cop and firefighter base pretty well, but he was probably the most conservative Dem left in the House in 2020. Good riddance. Newman is fairly progressive for a Democrat. Maybe she can bounce the more moderate Casten in the primary.
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brugroffil posted:He was a good ol boy given his job strictly through nepotism. He was beloved by the Illinois dem machine. I think lipinski represented the south side/Beverly area cop and firefighter base pretty well, but he was probably the most conservative Dem left in the House in 2020. Good riddance. Looks like she lives in the district shared with Garcia now, though.
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Oct 30, 2021 15:02
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Is there a requirement for residency specifically within the district or just the state?
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brugroffil posted:Is there a requirement for residency specifically within the district or just the state? District. She should move house.
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Fast Eddie's slow roll toward prison is coming to an end. From the Trib:quote:Former Chicago Ald. Edward “Fast Eddie” Vrdolyak’s 84th birthday is in December, and it appears he will spend it in federal prison.
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Oracle posted:District. She should move house. In this housing market? Good luck!
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That’s why you pull the old Allen West and rent the cheapest place you can and throw a mattress in there. Now you live in the district!
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Nov 2, 2021 03:59
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what ever happened to illinois ditching daylight savings?
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Soonmot posted:what ever happened to illinois ditching daylight savings? Last I heard it required authorization from the us congress, and good loving luck with them getting anything done.
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Nov 7, 2021 02:38
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Switching to permanent daylight savings time would require changing the Time Act. Switching to permanent Standard Time does not and Arizona and Hawaii both did it like 60 years ago. For whatever reason there seems to be a large push behind going to permanent-DST, even though most experts agree we should just do permanent-standard.
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Nov 7, 2021 02:52
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Permanent daylight savings makes sense to me because under that system we get maximum daylight in the evenings. I don't need more light in the mornings.
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Yeah I don't need more daylight at six am but now it'll be dark by the time everyone gets home from work/school
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brugroffil posted:Yeah I don't need more daylight at six am but now it'll be dark by the time everyone gets home from work/school You honestly want it dark at 8 AM?
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Nov 7, 2021 03:32
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Lammasu posted:You honestly want it dark at 8 AM? Nothing useful happens at 8am, so sure why not
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Zarin posted:Nothing useful happens at 8am, so sure why not Well it's loving stupid.
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If it's worth anything, the country tried doing permanent-DST in 1974 and it was initially very popular (more daylight in the evening sounds reasonable at first blush) but within one year it became incredibly unpopular and was reverted shortly after. Waking up when it's still dark out also has a number of health impacts that look Not Good in general.
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Shere posted:If it's worth anything, the country tried doing permanent-DST in 1974 and it was initially very popular (more daylight in the evening sounds reasonable at first blush) but within one year it became incredibly unpopular and was reverted shortly after. Wow, I never knew that!
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Well I grew up in Alaska and lived with waking up in the dark and coming home in the dark just fine so obviously everyone has to do things my way because I'm all that matters.
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As someone who works very long hours in January and February, I would much prefer if it were light out for my drive home than in the morning.
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Lammasu posted:You honestly want it dark at 8 AM? 100% better than dark at 5pm
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Shere posted:If it's worth anything, the country tried doing permanent-DST in 1974 and it was initially very popular (more daylight in the evening sounds reasonable at first blush) but within one year it became incredibly unpopular and was reverted shortly after. I worked night shift for over a decade, loving deal with it.
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See?! Look what happened to you!!!
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FuturePastNow posted:As someone who works very long hours in January and February, I would much prefer if it were light out for my drive home than in the morning. It still won't be light going home. Days are shorter so it's still going to be dark.
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Lammasu posted:It still won't be light going home. Days are shorter so it's still going to be dark.
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In march we push the clock forward by half an hour and be done. Split the difference. Enough. No more of this poo poo.
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On the winter solstice in the Chicago region sunrise is at 7:16 am and sunset is at 4:24 (under standard time). So if we used DST in the winter sunset would be at 5:24 and we'd all be stuck in rush hour with a bit of sun.  That's kind of unique to locations with the same longitude as Chicago though as we're so close to the east edge of our time zone. By the time you get to the western edge somewhere in western Nebraska, under standard time sunrise is at 8:06 and sunset is at 5:18. So under the premise of "light in the evening is more important" they benefit more from DST in the winter.
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xzzy posted:Well I grew up in Alaska and lived with waking up in the dark and coming home in the dark just fine so obviously everyone has to do things my way because I'm all that matters. As a fellow Alaska-bred goon I second this motion. SAD is for the weak.
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