SPRINGFIELD - Sen. Bill Brady, D-Bloomington, drafted a senate resolution calling for the governor to resign immediately. It will be filed next week when the General Assembly returns to Springfield.

"Scores of state and federal officials from both parties have called on Gov. Blagojevich to resign, but their requests do not seem to be making much of an impression," said Brady in a statement Wednesday evening.

"Well, if he needs it in writing, here it is."

"Having battled for six years to keep our state on course in a rudderless ship, we are now asking the governor to step aside," he wrote, adding years of partisan fighting brought the legislative process to a veritable standstill. "We have a lot of catching up to do."