The billboard near Jack Franks’ Route 47 office that seems to have stimulated Franks to seek Jack Schaffer’s resignation from the Metra Board.
Even since Jack Schaffer’s billboard company posted the sign you see here, State Rep. Jack Franks has been on the warpath to force him to resign from the Metra Board.
After Metra Executive Director Alex Clifford’s golden parachute was made public, Franks even called McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill to urge her to get Schaffer to resign.
Hill told me she asked Franks whether he knew that Schaffer has been the only one to vote against the retirement package. He did not, but still thought Schaffer should leave the Board.
Following a Chicago Tribune revelation that Metra Board Chairman Brad O’Halloran had been receiving $22,000 a year because he is an Orland Park Village Trustee, he resigned his position.
Both Schaffer and Franks were heard by phone of WLS-TV’s Ten O’Clock News.
Republican Jack Schaffer gave his take on Metra Board Chairman Brad O’Halloran’s resignation.
Schaffer said O’Halloran’s resignation was “a start.”
Democrat Jack Franks continued to call for the resignation of all Metra Board members.
Franks continued to call for the entire Board to resign.
A simple review of the facts(including your own blog entries, Cal) shows that Jack Franks has been asking for Jack Schaffer to resign ever since Phil Pagano messed up a train engineer’s life on Hillside Road.
As to Tina Hill’s lie?
Jack Franks was laughing at Schaffer’s ‘hell, no’ vote the same moment the rest of us were- the moment it was noted in the media.
As with all politicians the problem with Jack Franks calling for any other politician’s resignation over supposed misdeeds is the unmitigated hypocrisy.
Like them or hate them all politicians have political blood on their hands and one calling for the others resignation for anything is ridiculous as it is always motivated by politics.
There are substantial documented misdeeds by Alderman in the City of Chicago every day and Franks doesn’t scream for their heads.
Mike Madigan kills good solid people serving legislation in committee without ever allowing it a vote all the time and Franks says nothing.
If Franks interests were to serve The People rather than hogging at the public trough with the rest of the politicians then he would stop head hunting one individual and spread the blame around to the many who so wholly deserve our derision.
Franks is disingenuous and his behavior is indefensible.
No particular surprise as many of our “representatives” follow the same path.
“The billboard near Jack Franks’ Route 47 office that seems to have stimulated Franks to seek Jack Schaffer’s resignation from the Metra Board.”
1st. – Editorialized title of the photo
2nd. – It’s not even walking distance from his office.
3rd. – You think a billboard that cumulatively sums Franks’ D2’s since 1998 and is quite disengenuous prompted a metra investigation. Seriously Cal? What about the package Clifford got? THAT is ridiculous and warrents an investigation.