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“Look, if you want to leave the state, I would like you to stay,
I’d like you to get involved and make it a better place by
working together with us,” Pritzker said. “But if you want to
leave, then get up and move.”
G.H. Merritt, the chairman of New Illinois, a movement to split
the state in two, said 70 of the 102 counties in Illinois have a
state split movement growing.
“One would think that if you're at the helm of a state and this
is going on, you would at least be a little curious about why
are these people thinking this,” Merritt told The Center Square.
“Why are these people wanting to do this? He has no curiosity
about that.”
Pritzker said splitting the state was a partisan idea and won’t
ever happen.
“That’s not how it works. You know, if they really want to get
involved, they should show up, vote, make sure that their voices
are heard,” Pritzker said.
Merritt said it’s not partisan, they’re not moving and the
governor is getting it wrong.
“He gets it wrong because he doesn’t care, and he’s never asked,
he’s never sat down with any of us to find out what the story is
and the story is that in the state of Illinois, if you don’t
live in Cook County, you have no voice,” she said.
Merritt said Pritzker stands up for voices of Texans against
gerrymandering, but for Illinois he signed the most
gerrymandered map in the country.
“Well, unfortunately, our voice isn't heard because he's
gerrymandered the state to death,” Merritt said.
Illinois has been among the states with the largest domestic
outmigration to other states in annual Census estimates.
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