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Lt Governor Pat Quinn called on Rod Blagojevich to "rock the system" this weekend by leading the fight to pass a recall amendment to the state constitution. "If you really want to rock the system and end business as usual, recall is the ultimate weapon," said Quinn in a statement to the press. "Governor Blagojevich has long said that he joins me in supporting the voters' right to recall unfit, inept or dishonest elected officials. I hope he will join me in testifying in favor of HJRCA28 at Wednesday’s hearing in the Senate and demand a straight up-or-down Senate vote on this historic Recall Amendment."
Although the bill to put the amendment before voters in November cleared the House 75 - 33 last week, it still needs to get through the Senate. Quinn joined State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Woodstock) on Friday in denouncing what they termed "shenanigans" in the Senate to kill the amendment. The bill in being sponsored by state Sen. Donne Trotter (D-Chicago), who told the Tribune last week that he thought the amendment was "stupid". “As a matter of fact, what I told Representative Franks is that I believe it's a bad bill and it's a stupid bill, and I don't think it should focus on getting rid of someone in a way that circumvents the Constitution and free and fair elections,” Trotter told the DeKalb Daily Chronicle. "Sometimes, waiting for the next election is waiting too long," Franks told the Tribune.
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Why do we need recall?
Our elected lawmakers already have the power of impeachment.
If they don't want to wait for the next election, and really think the governor should be removed, our lawmakers should do their duty and impeach (and attempt to remove Blago from office) instead of making voters do the heavy lifting.
This is what a republic is all about.
Perhaps Blago said the he supported a "recall option" back around the time when he was a state rep, which would have been around the last time he and Quinn actually had a conversation.
Blago should have give Quinn a major roll in his administration from day one, which would have kept Quinn occupied and happy, served the state well, and kept Quinn quite during all this scandal . Now the Lt. Gov Quinn has all the time in the world to take double barrel gun shots at Blago, because Jack Franks certainly didn't think up this bill by himself