{"id":385345,"date":"2010-03-03T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310f5a785a970c"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:23:45","slug":"betty-loren-malteses-attorney-joins-race-to-replace-scott-lee-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385345","title":{"rendered":"Betty Loren-Maltese&#8217;s attorney joins race to replace Scott Lee Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Monique Garcia<\/em> at 2:25 p.m.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>A criminal defense attorney who represented former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese has joined the growing list of Democrats who want to succeed Scott Lee Cohen as the party&#8217;s lieutenant governor candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Another 25 political newcomers submitted their names to the state Democratic Party, bringing the total to 69. Two potential candidates who submitted their names already have dropped out of consideration. <\/p>\n<p>Among the names posted today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ildems.com\">ildems.com<\/a> is Leonard Goodman, who represented Loren-Maltese during the appeals process following her conviction on racketeering, conspiracy and fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>Another would-be running mate for Quinn is a 25-year-old from Chicago who says one of his strengths is that he &quot;did not vote for Rod Blagojevich in 2006.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Democrats are holding an open casting-call after troubled Chicago pawnbroker Cohen dropped out of the race following the Feb. 2 primary election. The party began soliciting applications last week and started posting them online Tuesday. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Other applicants include Patrick Arbor, the former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, and Bob Arya, a television reporter-turned-adviser to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The applicants will be reviewed by the Democratic State Central Committee, which ultimately will vote on who will be partnered with Quinn on the November ballot.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>So far, none of the candidates who lost to Cohen during the primary election have submitted an application, though several have said they are lobbying committee members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Monique Garcia at 2:25 p.m. A criminal defense attorney who represented former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese has joined the growing list of Democrats who want to succeed Scott Lee Cohen as the party&#8217;s lieutenant governor candidate. Another 25 political newcomers submitted their names to the state Democratic Party, bringing the total to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385345","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}