* IlliniPundit points to a story today that featured several Republican legislators pushing for the capital construction plan…

The state could gain 18,000 jobs a month if the legislature could pass a capital spending plan, bipartisan advocates said.

IP then goes over a history of the governor promising the world to the University of Illinois and not delivering and concludes…

Rep. Hoffman is the Governor’s buddy, so his motives are transparent, but [Republican] Rep. [Bill] Black and Rep. [Chapin] Rose should know better than to participate in this. Why are they standing with Blagojevich on this when they know he cannot be relied upon to fulfill commitments made more than five years ago?

* And speaking of Democratic Rep. Jay Hoffman, the IP has been slipped a new poll which shows 65.46% of the resident’s of Hoffman’s Democrat-leaning district think it is “appropriate for the Illinois Legislature to form a special impeachment committee.”

65.67% said they want their “local legislators to support the formation of that special impeachment committee.”

56.81% said that based on what they know about Gov. Blagojevich, they think the “legislature should attempt to remove him from office.”

Remember, that’s the Blagojevich floor leader’s own district we’re talking about here.

IP gets the last word…

Can someone please explain to me why the House Republicans are standing with Rod Blagojevich to call for this $34 billion capital plan, when nobody trusts him, even in a Democratic district represented by his staunchest ally?

[AskIllinois poll conducted June 11, 2008 of the 112th House District. 3,772 respondents, with a margin of error of ± 1.57%]

…Adding… IP doesn’t mention it, but his company built Dwight Kay’s website. Kay is Hoffman’s GOP opponent. This shows you how upside-down things are going to get before this is over. Republicans vs. Republicans, Republicans siding with Democrats against other Democrats and Republicans. Fascinating. [Hat tip to a commenter.]

…Adding More… From Gordy…

I built the campaign website for Hoffman’s opponent several months ago, but I don’t have any ongoing involvement with that campaign. I didn’t talk to them about this post, didn’t get any information for it from them, and did not get the poll from Hoffman’s opponent or his campaign.