U.S. Senate Hands Jack Franks Congressional Campaign Issue

Tucked at the bottom of the Associated Press article published in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune entitled,

Concessions made to gain Senate votes,”

is a paragraph ready made for State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Marengo).

For those of you who don’t remember, Franks announced to the Northwest Herald that he was thinking about running for Congress after the re-districting for 2012.

So what besides his favorable name ID would Franks offer to prospective constituents?

Read this last paragraph in the AP article first:

“Drugmakers fended off proprosals to allow importation of cheaper drugs from Canada and other countries, and to let the government negotiate drug prices for Medicare recipients.”

Remember, these concessions were not made to the big, bad Republicans. They were made to buy votes from Democrats.

But, back to Jack Franks.

As recently as November 10th Franks was on Dennis Miller’s WIND Radio show talking about his “Sam’s Club for Seniors.”

The suggestion that government buy drugs in bulk, the same way virtually every product is purchased, is eminently logical. When I ran for Governor as a Libertarian in 2002, I made the same type of proposals to save money on medical purchases made by state government.

So, if the House Democrats don’t beat some sense into the Senate Democrats, expect Franks to have a pre-tested plank in his platform for Congress.


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U.S. Senate Hands Jack Franks Congressional Campaign Issue — 1 Comment

  1. From the Back-Handed Praise Department:

    As a life-long conservative, libertarian, erstwhile Republican, I don’t know what to make of Franks.

    I have followed him in the papers for as long as he’s been around. And for those at all interested in politics, it’s been extremely hard not to be unaware of him. (That statement made with both personal chagrin and by his own very able facility for personal publicity).

    In his early days as a Representative, I abhorred his commentary directed at Pate Phillip and the Republican Party generally, yet he seems to have moderated over time. Back then, his argument, *literally*, was over who actually had a bigger dick, or a dick at all. While I’ve never had to “pull the trigger”, as he is just outside of my own district and thus have not had to “commit” to him one way or the other, I DO wonder how I would vote were that not the case.

    While I still have a few issues on which I disagree with him, my personal view is that I would find myself hard-pressed to vote against him, would I have had the franchise. I have yet to personally determine whether or not he has moderated himself as a self-serving politician, or if he has indeed become the sort of Democrat I could respect – the kind of Democrat that used to be in the mainstream before the extreme leftists took over the party.

    Those were the kinds of Democrats that my father (and most others of his generation) were pleased to vote for in the past, which alas, I never had the chance to vote for. As Reagan said, “I did not leave the Democrat Party, the Party left me”. The Democrats had long, long ago “left the station” before I even started exercising my franchise. Perhaps there is some real substance here?

    DBTR

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