http://www.pjstar.com/stories/020605/DOU_B5GDMJIU.036.shtml"After having his State Police bodyguards tote around his hairbrush, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has found another use for them - keeping reporters away.
It's been a tradition the last several years for the governor to take questions from the news media after his State of the State speech. Not this year. Blagojevich on Thursday wanted nothing to do with reporters after his speech, perhaps worried they might ask about Comptroller Dan Hynes refusing to pay for the governor's flu shot fiasco or about the Chicago political operative who is threatening to sue the governor for bad-mouthing him.
Anyway, Blagojevich had the guard detail running interference as he left the Illinois House chamber, where he gave his speech, and returned to his second-floor office. It was quite impressive to watch the guards on their shirt-cuff radios alerting each other that a reporter was spotted here or there and then forming a barrier to make sure reporters (but not members of the public) couldn't get close to Blagojevich.
As Blagojevich ducked into his office, one reporter confronted Blagojevich spokeswoman Cheryle Jackson, prompting this exchange."
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