{"id":340414,"date":"2010-02-19T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2010-02-19T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:29:06","slug":"quinn-asks-duckworth-to-run-for-lieutenant-governor-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340414","title":{"rendered":"Quinn asks Duckworth to run for lieutenant governor post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20538\" title=\"tammy-duckworth\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tammy-duckworth-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/>Gov. Quinn has asked decorated veteran and former congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth to pursue the lieutenant governor spot on the Democratic ticket this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn says that Duckworth told him she has other considerations, including her job in the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hoping to find someone to replace Scott Lee Cohen, who  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/elections\/cohen-speaks\"  rel='nofollow'> <strong>withdrew from the ticket<\/strong><\/a> following embarrassing domestic revelations. <span id=\"more-20502\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The final decision is with state party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Quinn Asks Duckworth to Run for Lt Gov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/elections\/quinn-asks-duckworth-lt-gov\"  rel='nofollow'>FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AZGObqMuLCNoXrNthRLoseydoto\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AZGObqMuLCNoXrNthRLoseydoto\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AZGObqMuLCNoXrNthRLoseydoto\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AZGObqMuLCNoXrNthRLoseydoto\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=-jaKn1Q5w5c:Q5EUEmvmwrI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=-jaKn1Q5w5c:Q5EUEmvmwrI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=-jaKn1Q5w5c:Q5EUEmvmwrI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=-jaKn1Q5w5c:Q5EUEmvmwrI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/-jaKn1Q5w5c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Quinn has asked decorated veteran and former congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth to pursue the lieutenant governor spot on the Democratic ticket this fall. Quinn says that Duckworth told him she has other considerations, including her job in the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington. He&#8217;s hoping to find someone to replace Scott Lee Cohen, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}