Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) joked Tuesday that a “kindergarten class” drew his state’s district map after comedian Stephen Colbert called the map “crazy.”
“If you're considering doing a little more redrawing in Illinois, you already have some crazy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this — look at — look at 17 here. It does that, then it comes up here, and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here, and then goes right over there, like that,” Colbert said while holding up a map of Illinois and its congressional districts, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“And look at — look at — look at this one kind of goes, ‘whoop’ up there. It's like the stinger on a scorpion down here. Is this common for all states to do?” the comedian added on his CBS show.
“We handed it over to a k