Plan 11 on hot mic night

It wasn't local Republican leaders' cussing or whining disguised as grandstanding that got to me in Thursday's meeting. It was their unwillingness and inability to do anything constructive.

The Champaign County Board passed a map outlining new board districts at Thursday’s meeting in a party line vote. It was indeed the “Plan 11” map, drawn by Democrats, that I wrote about last week.

Republican board members didn’t like it. They voiced their dissent by muttering “fucking democrats” into a hot mic, declaring the map “disgusting,” and claimi…