Rep Jack Franks (D-Woodstock) was a loyal follower of old King Rod Blagojevich way back in the early days of the Governor's takeover of the state government for his personal pleasure. And way back in 2003, King Rod asked those loyalists to submit the names of people to fill up porky seats in state government, with hefty salaries and even heftier perks - so Jack be nimble, and he tried to get some family members some nice jobs, sorta like the one Clown Prince Emil Jones' wife got.

A tough week for Governor King Rod Blagojevich in a short four day span. A discrimination lawsuit against him is moving forward, an independent auditor sampling a minuscule portion of the state's contracts found some hanky panky going on with how King Rod doles out our tax dollars - and his buddy Tony Rezko gets indicted in Nevada for more gambling related shenanigans. Oh - and the House has collectively told him to kiss their ass on the budget.

The people of Illinois should be calling for the election of Rep. Raymond Poe, R-Springfield, as governor after his second introduction of a bill to eliminate the ripoff of the taxpayer perpetrated by King Rod Blagojevich and has cronies. HB4177 simply states:

"Section 5. Travel expense reimbursement. No State funds
shall be used to pay or reimburse, and no State-compensated

Well, the chickens are coming home to roost, since so MANY of King Rod Blagojevich's cronies have not filed the lawfully mandated ethics statements. Where is Attorney General Lisa Madigan? She should be jumping all over them to comply.

We know the Senate while it is led by Clown Prince Emil Jones and HIS lack of ethics isn't doing anything to revoke these appointments.

The Illinois Senate ignored the House on Friday, and instead voted on restoring $59 million of Governor Rod Blagojevich's slash-and-burn line item vetoes totaling $463 million.

Did Clown Prince Emil Jones just say the King made MISTAKES? This article quotes Jones as saying "We’re not doing overrides. There were some mistakes made in the governor’s reductions, so we may do some corrections.”

And then he says he's going to do supplemental appropriations. From the Senate. And I guess they plan on forcing the House to do... what? Roll over and play dead?

King Rod Blagojevich and his henchman continue on their mass power play to usurp the powers of the Legislative branch, primarily through lawsuits brought against the various officers of the Illinois House and Senate.

The well-intentioned Illinois House Democrats continue their series of town hall meetings around the state, to demonstrate to King Rod Blagojevich and Emil Jones that the potentially disastrous set of line-item vetoes will demolish many human service agencies' ability to serve the public.