Political Season Underway

Quigley announced for mayor - he's there to split up the vote.

The Contrarian is pointing out a Madigan tool who thinks shes entitled to an easy pathway:

• There was a time in America when politicians understood that reelection was something they had to earn. They campaigned, made their case to the voters, served their terms, and then submitted themselves to the judgment of the electorate. Victory was never guaranteed. That uncertainty is not a flaw in democracy; it is one of democracy’s essential features. Yet in modern day Illinois, some politicians appear to hold a very different view.

  State Representative Angelica “Angelita” Guerrero-Cuellar (22) seems to believe reelection is not something to be earned but something to which she is entitled. Nothing illustrates that mentality more clearly than her lawsuit challenging Illinois’ Democratic redistricting map, a lawsuit that effectively complained one of the most aggressively gerrymandered states in America had not gerrymandered her district enough to guarantee her political future.

  That fact alone should tell voters everything they need to know. We are constantly told politicians are fighting for better schools, safer neighborhoods, affordable housing, and economic opportunity. Angelita had an opportunity to devote her political capital to any number of issues affecting the people she represents. Instead, she chose to fight over district lines. Not because the map disadvantaged Republicans. Not because it threatened minority representation generally. Not because it would somehow improve government. She fought it because she believed the map endangered her own political prospects. Strip away the legal arguments, and that’s what remains: a complaint that her seat was not safe enough to let her misrule with impunity.

In one of the most outrageously gerrymandered states, the loss of national representation is pitting dem against dem for seats they think they're entitled to instead of seats that represent the voters.

And without King Madigan around, the infighting is getting more intense.