After our new Gov. Pat Quinn spent the morning with a Sharpie crossing out "Lt." on all his business cards, he got right to work trying to clean off the stank of our (good god we love saying this) now former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The first order of business was to issue an executive order bringing the Illinois Reform Commission he had set up earlier this month under his wing in the governor's office. The commission consists of at least 12 commissioners and is an "independent advisory group [that] will examine government practices and ethics." OK, sure, having the group directly under the governor seems about as "independent" as Mayor Daley's Office of Compliance, but at this point we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for even the tiniest chance of reform in this state -- especially when Quinn says that "we're going to start to fumigate state government from top to bottom to make sure that it has no corruption." more ›