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Friday evening updates: New maps aren’t as Dem as earlier portrayed; Lipinski eyes comeback on first draft maps; Vaccinated Catanzara muzzled by judge

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* As you can see, these districts aren’t nearly as Democratic leaning as they were portrayed by some folks last night. Several close or even lean-GOP districts were declared Democratic. Ignore presidential results and focus more on races like the 2018 attorney general contest…

Here is the past electoral performance for the newly proposed congressional districts. If you'd like to compare them to the current map you can find that here:https://t.co/D8IGJiZfjH pic.twitter.com/noUCopHGgO

— IL Election Data (@ILElectionData) October 15, 2021

* Also, keep in mind that these maps are first drafts. So, while Lipinski might like what he sees now, things could look a whole lot different by the end of this process in two weeks…

.@RepLipinski bombshell!: After taking a look at the proposed new congressional map rolled out in Springfield today, ex-rep says he may primary @Marie4Congress, who's loudly griping about what what mapmakers want to do to her. https://t.co/SNurqSfoOs

— Greg Hinz (@GregHinz) October 15, 2021

* On to another topic…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s high-stakes standoff with the police union over the city’s vaccine mandate landed in court Friday, with a judge doing what the mayor could not — temporarily silencing Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara.

Circuit Judge Cecilia Horan granted the city’s request for an injunction, but only to the extent that Catanzara be precluded — at least until the next hearing Oct. 25 — from making any further YouTube videos or otherwise using social media platforms to encourage his members to defy the city’s mandate to enter their vaccine status on the city’s data portal.

Horan rejected as “unenforcible” the city’s request that FOP members be enjoined from engaging in a “concerted refusal” to submit their vaccine status information or comply with the policy.

Also rejected was the city’s request that Catanzara be ordered to “retract or disavow” his previous statements encouraging his members to ignore the city’s order.

“A restraining order is designed to be preventative. It’s not designed to remedy past harms,” Horan said.

* This is so often the case…

“What’s truly extraordinary is they want to silence somebody who is the elected president of the union,” said D’Alba, who in the course of the hearing noted that Catanzara himself is vaccinated.

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Friday evening updates: New maps aren’t as Dem as earlier portrayed; Lipinski eyes comeback on first draft maps; Vaccinated Catanzara muzzled by judge

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