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Davis: No Decision On Defending Congressional Map
CHICAGO (AP) -- Democratic Congressman Danny Davis says he hasn't decided if he'll help defend the state's new congressional map being challenged in court by Republicans.

He backed away from comments by fellow Rep. Jesse Jackson's office that Davis, Jackson and Rep. Bobby Rush decided not to contribute $10,000 each to fight the legal challenge, as Illinois' Democratic members of Congress were asked to do.

Davis told The Associated Press on Friday he hadn't decided whether to kick in the money nor has he drawn any conclusions.

Jackson released a statement Thursday suggesting fellow Democrat's had drawn the new map to help politicians instead of minority voters.

Davis says the three agreed to look at the census data used to draw the maps. He says Jackson may have been ``editorializing a little bit.''

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