Lake County Gazette

Republican state Rep. Chris Bos is disturbed by what he sees as Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s selective behavior.

"It’s sadly cynical that the governor will speak out against gerrymandering in other states, but when numerous diverse, good-government advocacy organizations in our state call on him to stand by his word and reject gerrymandered maps, he conveniently ignores it," Bos recently posted on Twitter.

Bos has long expressed outrage at politicians saying one thing and doing another, recently taking to the House floor to demand that his colleagues take action on unfilled promises made to voters before the end of the spring session.

“Our communities deserve better than this,” he recently said in a House floor speech. “And every single person who read your promise, cast a vote for you and put their hope in your message that this year things were going to be different, they deserve better.”

Among other things, Bos stressed his commitment to fighting corruption.

"Many incredible bipartisan bills to combat these issues were filed, few were ever heard in committee, and as far as I can tell only one ever made it out of this house,” he said. “What have we done to end this cycle of corruption and make sure that it can never happen again? How many more Illinois legislators need to end up in jail or under indictment before we step up and say, 'no more?'”

Bos isn’t the only freshman lawmaker taking grave exception to the way things are done in Springfield.  

State Rep. Jackie Haas (R-Kankakee) recently blasted the way new legislative redistricting maps were drawn.

"Instead of shifting responsibility to a bipartisan commission to draw the new legislative redistricting map, Democrats have fallen back on the same disingenuous process that produced the initial flawed maps last spring that now need to be re-done,” Haas posted on Facebook. “Over the last week, ‘hearings’ were held that were nothing short of a sham, a disingenuous effort that was intended to merely check a box, not to collect any real input from community groups on what the new map should look like.”