“There is not a black America and a white America . . .. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States.” But my home state of Illinois has many different colors!
I mean, I’m enjoying this, and it’s fun, and it looks tasty, and even though I wasn’t invited… it looks like Kendall County has *three* different colors of frosting covering it.
I find this appalling, indefensible, and truly an attack on all things Kendall County.
I can live with the map if I must, but this cookie has me up in arms.
House GOP has issued a statement complaining that this appears to a half-baked creation that Democrats cooked up behind closed doors. They also decried the cake’s lack of transparency because the crust keeps the public from knowing whether the inside is yellow or chocolate. Republicans warned that the cake should be rejected because it may, in fact, be Devil’s Food.
- NIU Grad - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:51 pm:
“The most transparent and sugary redistricting process in Illinois history”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:52 pm:
“Toddler” approved…
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:52 pm:
OH MY GOSH, she remembered Kaskaskia (exclamation point)
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:53 pm:
“Here’s where we put all the Eastern Bloc blokes in in color, like the map”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
“If you look closely, the put… house out of their old district in yellow, when on the cookie”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:55 pm:
It took a lot of dough to make this cookie.
A lot of dough… forget it.
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:55 pm:
Upon further review, she put Kaskaskia where St Louis is. No points awarded.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:56 pm:
“For the Republicans sake… we made it an ‘edible’ too…”
- Dotnonymous - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:57 pm:
Illinois Dizzy Cake…is a new strain name?
- Jason - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:58 pm:
I would not eat anything baked by Cassidy
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:58 pm:
“I don’t get it”
- Color-Blind guest
- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:58 pm:
Ducky, it’s a district that votes D. Worth a try.
- Shawshank Red - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:58 pm:
Vince Demuzio’s idea of a Very Fair Cake.
- Rabid - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:58 pm:
Gop releases fair map
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:59 pm:
“It was suppose to be the judicial district map, but that’s just too mean spirited and went with this… “
- CMZ - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 1:59 pm:
With this new map…everyone get’s their piece of the cake.
- don the legend - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:00 pm:
The southern most blue shape looks like a laughing monkey.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:00 pm:
“No, we used the E-Z Bake oven in the Map Room… “
- Dysfunction Junction - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:02 pm:
Don’t look now, but I think you’ve got some Alton leakage…
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:03 pm:
“For GOP leaning areas, we used sour cream frosting… “
- Annonin' - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:04 pm:
Mr/Mrs OW
Perhaps the intent was to create more Supreme Court districts to ensure everlasting, high quality opinions
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:04 pm:
“The sweet taste of victory”
- Shawshank Red - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:05 pm:
She had one commemorating the cannabis bill too but it was half baked.
- DuPage Saint - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:05 pm:
One big edible. Go easy
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:06 pm:
Please, - Annonin’ -, just OW…
===Perhaps the intent was to create more Supreme Court districts to ensure everlasting, high quality opinions===
Huh. Plus, more opportunities to grift off Griffin… tasty idea.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:08 pm:
“So… what you’re saying is… it’s a bunch of *other* colors. Oh. Oh, that’s kinda funny”
- Color-Blind guest, again
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:09 pm:
“The bakery didn’t have enough of one color frosting to work, so I said… “
(Hashtag)GerryTasty
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:12 pm:
“It’s a Sicilian message. It means that’s how the cookie crumbles”
- Jibba - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:12 pm:
The new map of counties in Illinois for those who want less government.
- Keyrock - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:13 pm:
“There is not a black America and a white America . . .. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States.” But my home state of Illinois has many different colors!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:14 pm:
“Take the cookie, leave the lawsuit”
- Ill & Noise - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:15 pm:
Great cake for a few chuckles! Never mind those who aren’t laughing.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:18 pm:
I mean, I’m enjoying this, and it’s fun, and it looks tasty, and even though I wasn’t invited… it looks like Kendall County has *three* different colors of frosting covering it.
I find this appalling, indefensible, and truly an attack on all things Kendall County.
I can live with the map if I must, but this cookie has me up in arms.
- PublicServant - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:18 pm:
Democrats have their cake, and eat it too.
- Amalia - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:35 pm:
Illinois redistricting goes outside the lines.
- a drop in - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:39 pm:
“Someone left the remap out in the rain…”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:42 pm:
If “The Starry Night” by van Gough had to be interpreted… via cookie and remap
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:44 pm:
“No food, beverages… or cookies… on the House floor”
#Noted
- RIJ - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:44 pm:
Worms! Worms everywhere! (Okay, that’s a family joke. Too long a story.)
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:46 pm:
“Tell Maxwell he can have some.. we’ll meet him, go through the tunnel… “
- Mama - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:50 pm:
You have to be very creative to bake up a new map in Illinois.
- SouthSide Markie - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 2:56 pm:
House GOP has issued a statement complaining that this appears to a half-baked creation that Democrats cooked up behind closed doors. They also decried the cake’s lack of transparency because the crust keeps the public from knowing whether the inside is yellow or chocolate. Republicans warned that the cake should be rejected because it may, in fact, be Devil’s Food.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:00 pm:
The areas without frosting are reserved for Eastern Bloc types. #OutOfStateOutOfBounds
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:04 pm:
This map is not half-baked.
- Norseman - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:06 pm:
GQP tries a new tactic to gain support for their maps.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:12 pm:
“I made DuPage blue just to show off”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:12 pm:
Land Don’t Vote But Give Me More Frosting
- A Guy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:17 pm:
A spoon full of sugar…makes it easier to shove it down their throat.
- Kayak - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:20 pm:
Compliments of the Ken Kesey Bakery
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:20 pm:
Try to pull that out of Lincoln’s hat
- Lurker - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:33 pm:
The Eastern bloc requested it on Texas cake. The first thing they have won in years
- Secret Square - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:35 pm:
I suggest sending this pic to a blog called Cake Wrecks (google it and you’ll see why).
- Elginite - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:39 pm:
Frozen out of the Map Room, Republicans present their own map to the General Assembly
- obiter dictum - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:53 pm:
the Democrats present the new map to the Republicans and like Marie Antoinette said: “let them eat cake”
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 3:55 pm:
A mess no matter how you frost it.
- thisjustinagain - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:02 pm:
Did somebody get into the ’shrooms?? Looks like Peter Max frosted it. I mean, far out redistricting map, man. Groovy.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:04 pm:
The frosting has less GOP incumbents facing off against each other than the other map… think on that HGOP
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:05 pm:
“If you really look, you’ll see the ‘Heart of Illinois’… “
- Rock & Comptroll - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:07 pm:
Good news! The Eastern Bloc gets the biggest slice because all their voters are moving to urban areas!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:10 pm:
“I think it was your brownies I ate earlier, but all the squiggly colors are chasing each other.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:12 pm:
Where did you get your data for this map, Betty Crocker?
- Soccermom - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:18 pm:
I don’t understand why it doesn’t show municipal boundaries
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:18 pm:
Don’t tell anyone, but when you cut it, the inside is blue.
- Amalia - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:29 pm:
Counties, where are the counties? oh the horror…..
- Tommydanger - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:37 pm:
Looks like something Mr. Bill would make; “Oh Nooooooo”
- zatoichi - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 4:53 pm:
What does the lower left side, out of state puff represent?
- Lt Guv - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 5:08 pm:
“Trust me, no. I didn’t not bake a file in it for Mapes to find.”
- Unionman - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 5:26 pm:
Fair maps
- Levois J - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 7:02 pm:
Hmmm, as much as I do have a sweet tooth the idea is appreciated the execution not so great.
- TK - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 7:08 pm:
Love living in such a beautifully diverse state!
- Radio Frequency - Thursday, May 27, 21 @ 8:42 pm:
Psychedelic