{"id":343116,"date":"2010-02-20T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/quinn-speaks-to-duckworth-about-ill-lt-governor"},"modified":"2010-02-20T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:20:12","slug":"quinn-speaks-to-duckworth-about-ill-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343116","title":{"rendered":"Quinn speaks to Duckworth about Ill. lt. governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHICAGO (AP)<\/strong> &#8211; Gov. Pat Quinn says he told Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth that she should let him know if she&#8217;s interested in being Illinois&#8217; lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>\nQuinn on Friday said Duckworth is &#8220;considering everything&#8221; because she has a job right now as an assistant secretary at the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\nQuinn and Democratic Party leaders are in the hunt for a new lieutenant governor nominee because primary winner Scott Lee Cohen dropped out after questions were raised about his past.<\/p>\n<p>\nLike Quinn, Duckworth is a champion for veterans issues. She served as Illinois&#8217; veterans affairs director before President Barack Obama called her to work in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuckworth lost both her legs and partial use of one arm in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq in 2004. <span id=\"more-20696\"><\/span>She ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2006 but lost.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5615449\" title=\"Quinn speaks to Duckworth about Ill. lt. governor\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/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\/W_qcZ5PxoQ7SF1esovQLJ_C5kro\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_qcZ5PxoQ7SF1esovQLJ_C5kro\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_qcZ5PxoQ7SF1esovQLJ_C5kro\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/W_qcZ5PxoQ7SF1esovQLJ_C5kro\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=tdyM3G6PT1E:RC9zZjWil3E: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=tdyM3G6PT1E:RC9zZjWil3E: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=tdyM3G6PT1E:RC9zZjWil3E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=tdyM3G6PT1E:RC9zZjWil3E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/tdyM3G6PT1E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; Gov. Pat Quinn says he told Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth that she should let him know if she&#8217;s interested in being Illinois&#8217; lieutenant governor. Quinn on Friday said Duckworth is &#8220;considering everything&#8221; because she has a job right now as an assistant secretary at the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington. Quinn [&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-343116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343116","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=343116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}