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State Rep. Jack Franks weighs '06 primary challenge to Blagojevich
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 20, 2005 02:58pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Apr 20, 2005 02:00pm |
| Description | During so-called “down time” in Springfield, when bored and restless state legislators have time to kill between (or during) committee meetings and floor votes, a favorite parlor game of many is mocking Governor Rod Blagojevich, who is roundly reviled.
For the more perversely imaginative, acronyms seem to be the order of the day – namely: concocting a series of adjectives negatively describing the governor’s character and temperament. For example, Governor J-I-V-E seems quite popular; it’s an acronym for Juvenile, Inconsiderate, Vindictive and Egotistical. Another is Governor O-A-S-I-S; it’s an acronym for Obstinate, Arrogant, Superficial, Insincere, and Self-centered. Yet another is Governor E-L-V-I-S: Erratic, Lazy, Vindictive, Inconsiderate and Spoiled.
The grand prize goes to whoever can figure out eleven relevant adjectives for the acronym B-L-A-G-O-J-E-V-I-C-H. That’s currently a work in progress.
What’s also a work in progress is the developing gubernatorial candidacy of Jack Franks, a four-term Democratic state representative from north suburban Woodstock in McHenry County.
Franks, age 41, is chairman of the House Government Administration Committee, and has recently been generating headlines for his committee’s investigation of ineptitude in the state Fire Marshall’s office, as well as the appropriation of $2.6 million for the governor’s failed attempt to import flu vaccines from Europe, and of personnel irregularities within the state department of Central Management Services. “We need an audit,” said Franks. None of the headlines have been favorable to the governor, and, in a fit of vindictiveness, deputy governor Brad Tusk recently authorized an e-mail to state department heads and agency chiefs requiring that all future requests for state services by Franks should be immediately re-routed to him – presumably so that he could insure that they would not be fulfilled.
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