Franks Should Have Filed His Power Grab Petitions by Now
Here’s the petition that was being passed.
The courthouse closed at 4:30.
That was the deadline for 500 petition signatures to be filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office.
(Don’t ask me why it wasn’t to be filed in the County Clerk’s Office. Some difference in the law undoubtedly and Jack Franks’ law firm surely did the research to point him toward the right office.)
When last seen by a friend of McHenry County Blog, the Democratic Party’s only McHenry County State Rep. was seeking voters to sign his petition to hold a referendum in front of his tent.
A friend of McHenry County Blog caught Jack Franks in front of his tent waiting for voters to approach for their signatures.
Earlier, two of his employees were soliciting signatures at locations not approved in the contract his campaign signed with the McHenry County Fair Board, for which they were admonished.
This Jack Franks’ petition passer was not staying where the County Fair contract said he should be.
Undoubtedly Franks filed several times the number of petitions signatures needed to get the referendum on the ballot.
That number was 500.
People were being told by solicitors that signing would end cronyism in McHenry County.
When I heard that report, all I could think that if Franks were elected County Executive, it would shift cronyism from the Republican side of the political spectrum to the Democratic Party side.
Others suggested harsher consequences. Maybe they will add them in the comment section. (No personal attacks, please.)
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Franks filed 169 petition pages yesterday afternoon.
Read the fine print, everyone.
1Wow…Franks looks like the spider waiting for the fly.
Creepy guy…
2Good luck trying to change this back once enacted.
Franks has $500K in unusable campaign funds burning a hole in his pocket.
Who is going to mount the campaign to re-establish the current system when all of the contrators and developers will by then have an interest in keepting their guy in power?
I am one of Koehler’s main detractors.
This is not about Keohler, it is about our system of government.
Do we want to rename the county “McCrook”?
If we could have the real question, that of electing the County Board Chair at large, put on the ballot by the Board, the Board could still have the ability to curtail that person’s power.
They can’t do that here as the new official’s powers are set by state statute.
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