With Democratic Party State Representative Jack Franks’s support, State Comptroller is edging out Governor Pat Quinn in McHenry County.
| Precincts Reporting | 212/212 | 100.00% | |
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| PAT QUINN | DEM | 4292 | 48.98% |
| DANIEL W. HYNES | DEM | 4428 | 50.54% |
| Write-in | 42 | 0.48% | |
Caution is urged in viewing these numbers because the early and absentee votes have not yet been added.
Kirk Dillard
Andy McKenna
As I suggested after I got Mary Pat’s call on behalf of Andy McKenna earlier today, the race for the Republican nomination for governor has narrowed down to three candidates:
The Tribune’s Eric Zorn is reporting the results seen above.
17% reported still being undecided.
Among those with less than 10%, here are the results:
Bob Schillerstrom had 2%, but he dropped out in favor of Jim Ryan today.
In the Democratic Party primary, Zorn reports
As Zorn puts it,
“Game on.”
Just in case you’re interested, the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed appointed-Governor Pat Quinn in the Democratic Party primary and Kirk Dillard in the GOP election.
Sunday, the Chicago Tribune is endorsing Andy McKenna.
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The big news in the Northwest Herald Sunday was that State Representative Jack Franks was not going to run for governor.
He had been teasing the media that he might make such a run for a long time, gathering about a million dollars of mainly family money into his campaign fund to generate a July publicity push.
He was getting mentioned into late August. But not so much after State Comptroller Dan Hynes entered the race against appointed Governor Pat Quinn.
He said he would decide by Labor Day.
But didn’t.
Instead he went to Ireland with the two guys who will have the most to say about reapportionment for Congress for the 2012 election.
And, Sunday the big news was Franks’ congressional ambitions, about how he’d like to have McHenry County all be in one congressional district, which, I would point out, it would come close to dominating.
And, in order to wait for that, he would run for state representative again.
Which brings us to the question about his run for governor:
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?“
So, I anxiously watched to see if any of the statewide media would report that Franks was not running for governor.
Last night, I typed “Jack Franks, governor” into Google’s news search engine and set it to be from newest to oldest story.
I discovered that only one paper had written a story besides the Northwest Herald. That was the Galesburg Register-Mail. The story appeared on its web site Tuesday night at about 6 P.M.
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The cartoon of Jack Franks wearing a cook’s hat is from his invitation to his Bull Valley Country Club breakfast on October 3rd.
Chicago Tribune political writer Rick Pearson may ignore State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Marengo) as a potential candidate for governor in the Democratic Party primary, but Chicago ABC TV reporter Charles Thomas is still willing to mention his name.
Franks got considerable face time on the highly-rated Six O’Clock News.
This comment from attorney Franks cracked me up:
True, Franks’ grandfather was a pig farmer, but I don’t think qualifies Franks as a farm boy. And, his father Herb is a lawyer, too.
If Franks is a “farm boy,” I guess I am, too, since I vacationed at my grandfather’s farm near Barkley, Maryland.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the DuPage County Board has voted without dissent to ban video poker (read “slot machines”) in unincorporated liquor license holders’ establishments.
The annual estimated loss of income is $300,000.
DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schillerstrom, who is running for governor, made the ban a central part of his campaign, as you can see from the front page of his web site that I have captured.
State Comptroller Danbitur Hynes announced he was going to take on an “indecisive” Governor Pat Quinn in the Democratic Party primary election Thursday.
In the ABC-TV Six O’clock News report of Hynes’ candidacy, McHenry County State Representative Jack Franks’ name was not mentioned.
African-American Metro-East State Senator James F. Clayborne, Jr., was mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate.
As I have observed before, being ignored is one of the worst things that can happen to a politician.
That’s been the rule, rather than the exception, since July.
Meanwhile, if you read McHenry County Blog carefully two days ago, you know where Franks was.
He and his buddies were probably discussing the options I suggest a month ago.
Franks did escape being named as the sponsor of his hopelessly compromised gubernatorial recall constitutional amendment in a Chicago Tribune editorial yesterday:
Quinn supports giving citizens the power to recall public officials, as do we. But the measure waiting in the Senate is just a bit of Hokum–it allows for the recall only of the governor, protecting every other elected official in the state.
You’ve read what others thought of Patrick Quinn’s role in Dan Walker’s 1972 primary and general election gubernatorial campaigns.
Today, we look at what Taylor Pensoneau’s and Bob Ellis’ biography of Dan Walker heard from Quinn himself. It’s on page 356:
It “was entrepreneurial in every way. It changed the way candidates ran for office. The citizens coalition it flowered was was a truly unique happening, a rare moment in history for the iconoclasts, the mavericks and the independent thinkers to bloom.”
Tomorrow – Pat Quinn evaluates Dan Walker’s term as governor.
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The picture of Patrick Quinn is from another press conference during the Governor Rod Blagojevich ouster process.
That, plus computerized redistricting of legislative seats are the main suggestions of Capitol Fax’s Rich Miller in his latest syndicated newspaper column.
Term limits for legislative leaders.
Where have I heard that before? (See third issue link on the left.)
Oh, I know, I espoused the idea when I ran for governor as a Libertarian in 2002.
Here’s what I pulled up from the Library of Congress archived web site:
Where does Cal Skinner stand on term limits?Professional politicians are running our country and our state into the ground. They spend most of their time scheming to get re-elected. Then they pass porkbarrel legislation to please their biggest donors, to keep the donations rolling in.
And guess what keeps this corrupt system going? Your tax dollar.
The problem is especially bad in Illinois, where four legislative leaders — the House Speaker, the Senate President, and the House and Senate minority leaders — dictate nearly the entire legislative agenda. The founders of our country never meant for so much power to be in the hands of so few elected officials.
The solution?
Six-year term limits for legislative leaders. Don’t give career politicians like Michael Madigan and Pate Philip time to build political empires that allow their power to go unchecked. Bring back the era of the citizen-politician, when the average citizen took an active role in governing his community.
Cal Skinner and the Libertarian Party support term limits as a sensible means of restoring order to the out-of-control power and money system at the highest levels of our government.
Well, infusing new ideas into the body politic is the primary role of third parties, isn’t it?
That, plus computerized redistricting of legislative seats are the main suggestions of Capitol Fax’s Rich Miller in his latest syndicated newspaper column.
Term limits for legislative leaders.
Where have I heard that before? (See third issue link on the left.)
Oh, I know, I espoused the idea when I ran for governor as a Libertarian in 2002.
Here’s what I pulled up from the Library of Congress archived web site:
Where does Cal Skinner stand on term limits?Professional politicians are running our country and our state into the ground. They spend most of their time scheming to get re-elected. Then they pass porkbarrel legislation to please their biggest donors, to keep the donations rolling in.
And guess what keeps this corrupt system going? Your tax dollar.
The problem is especially bad in Illinois, where four legislative leaders — the House Speaker, the Senate President, and the House and Senate minority leaders — dictate nearly the entire legislative agenda. The founders of our country never meant for so much power to be in the hands of so few elected officials.
The solution?
Six-year term limits for legislative leaders. Don’t give career politicians like Michael Madigan and Pate Philip time to build political empires that allow their power to go unchecked. Bring back the era of the citizen-politician, when the average citizen took an active role in governing his community.
Cal Skinner and the Libertarian Party support term limits as a sensible means of restoring order to the out-of-control power and money system at the highest levels of our government.
Well, infusing new ideas into the body politic is the primary role of third parties, isn’t it?
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