The 6th Congressional District, held by Democrat Sean Casten
We don’t put editorials on the front page often.
But time is running out on representative government in Illinois.
May 3 is the magic deadline for both houses of the Illinois General Assembly to agree to put the Fair Maps Amendment on the November referendum ballot.
Here are the main reasons that probably won’t happen:
1. House Speaker Madigan doesn’t want it to, and truth be told, most other Democratic Party leaders don’t want it to either.
2. Gov. Pritzker doesn’t want any competition that might undermine his progressive income tax proposal, which already has been placed on that November ballot.
3. With the novel coronavirus necessarily occupying everyone’s attention, it will be virtually impossible to rally the kind of public uproar necessary to force the issue.
Read the complete Daily Herald editorial here.
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