Daily Dolt: Illinois Review
Eaton is upset she didn’t get a call back on Friday from her State Rep:
Why do I call Davis “bigoted”? East of I-57 his district is heavily black. West of I-57, it is not. Need I say more? Those of us in Davis’ district west of I-57 are ignored. He doesn’t care what we think, because he gets all the support he needs east of I-57. We are Davis’ dis-enfranchised voters, and he demonstrated Friday he could care less.
The story of how this district came to be is partially my fault, or so an Illinois lawmaker/friend told me.
In 2002, when the Democrats were re-drawing senate and state rep districts, my then-State Rep, now-Senator Maggie Crotty (D-Oak Forest) told a Republican lawmaker that she drew an “X” on my house and told the map drawers, “I don’t want that woman in my district…”
And lo, and behold, though I live in a subdivision with those from another district, my neighbors aren’t too happy, as all of us –because of Senator Crotty’s map demands – were drawn into a House and Senate district centered far east of us, in the heavily black communities of southern Chicago, Harvey and Markham, making our Republican-leaning precinct irrelevant to district voting.
Now, not only is Will Davis our state rep, Senator James Meeks is our state Senator. (And Bobby Rush is our Congressman.)
I don’t think disenfranchised means what she thinks it means. There’s so much more to take in, but I’ll let the whole experience wash over you.
January 12th, 2009 at
Wash over me?
I need a shower now.
Let’s see … she has a problem with Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Bobby Rush, James Meeks, Will Davis… well, they are all … Dems.
Funny, I’ve written my Republican legislators in the past and … they’ve never answered me either. I wonder if there’s an X on my house.
And, on another note, do the property tax records reflect the fact there’s an X on a house? O’, the anarcho-syndicalismishness of it all….
January 12th, 2009 at
Gaw…
She’s like one big conspiracy theory waiting to happen. Rep Davis called her back this morning…
Let’s see. She called him Friday afternoon. He called her Monday morning.
Instead of thinking that the only reason he called her back this morning was because Rich Miller featured (and ridiculed) her rant on his blog, maybe in reality Davis just … took the weekend off. Teh horrors.
January 12th, 2009 at
She is f–ing clueless! She credits the mention in Capitol Fax as reason she was called back. As if the CapFax mention was to give more air to her plight, and not her ridiculousness.
Never mind the utter stupidity of her premise, the borderline racism in her post, and the asinine conclusions she draws. I won’t even get into those.
All I can say is Ms. Eaton, you might leave “delusional” off of your criticisms of the governor, unless you’re prepared to answer the same criticism yourself.
January 13th, 2009 at
I just love how she absolutely misses the irony of writing a post claiming that Davis is bigoted, and then immediately complains that her district is centered in “heavily black communities.”
January 19th, 2009 at
I have a Dem Rep, Lipinski, who never answers my letters either because I’m not in his targetted demographic. Am I being disenfranchised because I’m not elderly?