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Federal court pushes back congressional candidate filing while Illinois map in dispute

November 22, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Rick Pearson Clout Street

A federal judge today moved back the filing schedule for Illinois congressional candidates to late December while deliberations continue on a lawsuit challenging the state’s new U.S. House district boundaries.

The start date for filing candidate petitions was to begin next Monday. But U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow, one of three federal judges overseeing a Republican challenge to the Democratic-drawn boundaries, set Friday, Dec. 23, through Tuesday, Dec. 27, as the new filing period.
 

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A Revolution in Canvassing Among Voters

Novmeber 19, 2011
New York Times

By KRISTEN McQUEARY

When political candidates ring doorbells this election season, the people who answer should not be surprised if the stranger on the stoop seems particularly intuitive.

Technology is allowing candidates — many for the first time — to log into voter databases from their cellphones. The combination of data mining and hand-held connectivity gives canvassers instant access to files that may include details about voters’ political leanings, voting history and even magazine subscriptions.

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Judges weigh GOP challenge of congressional map; filing for 2012 races could be extended

November 18, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Rick Pearson Clout Street

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 their nominating petitions.

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Politicians get rich at taxpayer expense

November 18, 2011
The Beacon News

By Jeff Ward

It isn’t often that “60 Minutes” pays a visit to this Illinois political backwater. And with senior correspondent Steve Kroft no less! Had it been Scott Pelley, we’d all have hung our heads in shame at the thought of having to endure all those Chicago Democratic machine sneers, taunts and giggles.

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Trial ends in redistricting lawsuit

November 18, 2011
Peoria Journal Star

By DEANNA BELLANDI
The Associated Press

CHICAGO —

The fate of Illinois' new congressional districts is in the hands of three federal judges after a trial that will decide a Republican lawsuit against the Democrat-drawn map ended Friday in federal court.

"We'll do our best to work very hard as well," U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow told the teams of attorneys who had spent two days presenting evidence, grilling witnesses and fighting over experts who clashed.

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ICPR asks Chicago aldermen to ramp up efforts to engage public in ward redistricting

The Chicago City Council has announced six preliminary public hearings to take input from residents about the 2011 ward remapping cycle. Below is the testimony ICPR presented to the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics, which is in charge of the redistricting process, Monday, Nov. 14.



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Chicago residents: Get involved in the redrawing of your ward

With huge population and demographics shifts over the last 10 years, the redrawing of Chicago’s 50 wards might be the most interesting – and contentious – redistricting yet.

And that’s why you need to get involved.



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Republicans claim national Democrats tainted Illinois legislative maps

November 6, 2011
Chicago Tribune

Republicans trying to block a Democratic-drawn congressional redistricting map have told a federal court panel that documents show a concerted effort from Springfield to Washington to “get more Democratic pick-ups” at the expense of GOP members in the Illinois delegation.

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Remap forces GOP to pick new districts

November 6, 2011
Associated Press

By Deanna Bellandi | Associated Press

CHICAGO -- U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger is certain he'll seek a second term -- he just doesn't know in which of Illinois' 18 congressional districts. Veteran congresswoman Judy Biggert isn't sure either, after being drawn out of her district in a Democrat-led state remapping that tries to erase recent Republican gains in Congress.

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Top Democrat calls for Gov. Jan Brewer's ouster over redistricting

November 4, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Kathleen Hennessey, Washington Bureau

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) suggested that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer should be impeached for her role in ousting the independent official at the helm of the state’s redistricting commission.

"I think the people of Arizona should consider impeaching Jan Brewer for what she did," Israel told reporters on Friday at a meeting to discuss the 2012 landscape for House candidates.

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