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House recent gun votes and primary election contests


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Senate data http://illinoiscarry.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=68328

 

 

And here is the corresponding data for the house.

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ok, that's lots better :)

 

 

(edit - this has been moved down, due to readability issues)

 

OK, trying this:

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I hope the forum software hasn't squeezed it into un readability.

trying to put in a bigger one.

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Thanks, Mark, that must have been some kind of drudgery.

Note most of all how the Republican leader, Jim Durkin, voted YES on three of the four bills in the survey. Quite a ways out of bounds of the rest of the party's caucus.

Living in Mr. Durkin's district, we're frequent callers to his office. A couple of days ago, an earnest young campaign worker called my phone to run a spiel asking us to vote for Durkin in Tuesday's primary, which must be close. I informed the young gentleman that it would be impossible for us to vote for Mr. Durkin owing to the votes he cast on the gun bills. That ended the call rather abruptly, I have to say. I wonder that the campaigner hadn't run into more such pushback.

Yet the mailings we get insist Mr. Durkin is running as a "conservative."

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I called Durkin's office last week and told them that even though I didn't live in his district, and couldn't vote for him, I would dedicate my time and money to see that he was not elected again. I said that I would come into his district and work tirelessly to help his opponent. When asked why, I said it was because of his votes on firearm issues. Long pause and "thank you for your call."

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So, looking at Mark's other Senate summary post and this House summary, what happened to the Pro 2A downstate Dems we keep hearing about?

Wish I could do a "mapping" function somehow, to differentiate the machine pols versus the down state pols.

Maybe size in square miles, denote urbanization of the district.

 

Would LOVE to integrate in some sort of "mapping", so that perhaps an outline of the state and an outline of a

district could be put up. Even if I had to do it once and STORE/pull up the results...

 

 

Notice there are NO political ratings, just a reporting of selected votes and current primary election contests.

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So, looking at Mark's other Senate summary post and this House summary, what happened to the Pro 2A downstate Dems we keep hearing about?

If you look at the 118th dist. , taken over by Phelps Cousin I think , voted no on all 4 bills. Costello , 116 voted No on three of them but Y on the bump stock. Dist. 111 voted No for all 4 bills also.

 

I don't know about the rest of them

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Wish I could do a "mapping" function somehow, to differentiate the machine pols versus the down state pols.

Maybe size in square miles, denote urbanization of the district.

Would LOVE to integrate in some sort of "mapping", so that perhaps an outline of the state and an outline of a

district could be put up. Even if I had to do it once and STORE/pull up the results...

 

From the state board of elections site you can download a Senate district map and a Representative district map with the district number on it and the geography color coded. Superimposing the legislator name and/or red/blue color coding if one had software/skills could identify the D vs R areas (assuming not already done elsewhere at election time by some political wonk site).

 

If you look at the 118th dist. , taken over by Phelps Cousin I think , voted no on all 4 bills. Costello , 116 voted No on three of them but Y on the bump stock. Dist. 111 voted No for all 4 bills also.

 

I don't know about the rest of them

But she was only 2 of 67 Dems in the House who voted NO on all. The other 60 some D were YES or a majority YES. That isnt a strong downstate Pro 2A showing.
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Wish I could do a "mapping" function somehow, to differentiate the machine pols versus the down state pols.

Maybe size in square miles, denote urbanization of the district.

Would LOVE to integrate in some sort of "mapping", so that perhaps an outline of the state and an outline of a

district could be put up. Even if I had to do it once and STORE/pull up the results...

From the state board of elections site you can download a Senate district map and a Representative district map with the district number on it and the geography color coded. Superimposing the legislator name and/or red/blue color coding if one had software/skills could identify the D vs R areas (assuming not already done elsewhere at election time by some political wonk site).

 

If you look at the 118th dist. , taken over by Phelps Cousin I think , voted no on all 4 bills. Costello , 116 voted No on three of them but Y on the bump stock. Dist. 111 voted No for all 4 bills also.

 

I don't know about the rest of them

But she was only 2 of 67 Dems in the House who voted NO on all. The other 60 some D were YES or a majority YES. That isnt a strong downstate Pro 2A showing.

 

I agree with you on that statement.

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I called Durkin's office last week and told them that even though I didn't live in his district, and couldn't vote for him, I would dedicate my time and money to see that he was not elected again. I said that I would come into his district and work tirelessly to help his opponent. When asked why, I said it was because of his votes on firearm issues. Long pause and "thank you for your call."

I am relieved at least about his opposition to 1469. That is by far the worst of the lot, IMO.

 

As an aside (sorry for hijacking the thread with an unrelated matter), I find it sadly hypocritical of these gun grabbers that they trot out manipulated high school kids and scream how "mature" they are and we must listen to them on grabbing guns, and then out the other side of their mouths claim that college age young adults are not mature enough to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Of course, we all know this isn't about reason, logic or consistency.

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