{"id":355300,"date":"2010-02-23T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/quinn-duckworth-rejects-lt-governor-offer"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:45:52","slug":"quinn-duckworth-rejects-lt-governor-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355300","title":{"rendered":"Quinn: Duckworth rejects Lt. Governor offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth doesn&#8217;t want to be considered for lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn said Duckworth told him Tuesday she will keep her job at the Veterans Administration in Washington. She is a former director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn won&#8217;t say who is his second choice for lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn 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>Cohen left the race after it became widely known he was accused of abusing his ex-wife and arrested for holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend. <span id=\"more-21094\"><\/span>He denied the allegations concerning his ex-wife, and charges relating to his arrest were dropped.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x531843779\/Quinn-Duckworth-rejects-Lt-Governor-offer\" title=\"Quinn: Duckworth rejects Lt. Governor offer\" rel='nofollow'>Journal Star<\/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\/S_mFgv2L7n6Nbnt5FObFjqjCUWY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/S_mFgv2L7n6Nbnt5FObFjqjCUWY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/S_mFgv2L7n6Nbnt5FObFjqjCUWY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/S_mFgv2L7n6Nbnt5FObFjqjCUWY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=xmppU02DsBQ:eqy96wXecBM: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=xmppU02DsBQ:eqy96wXecBM: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=xmppU02DsBQ:eqy96wXecBM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=xmppU02DsBQ:eqy96wXecBM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/xmppU02DsBQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth doesn&#8217;t want to be considered for lieutenant governor. Quinn said Duckworth told him Tuesday she will keep her job at the Veterans Administration in Washington. She is a former director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. Quinn won&#8217;t say who is his second choice [&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-355300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355300","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=355300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}