{"id":475573,"date":"2010-03-26T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.33541"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:19:25","slug":"gov-quinn-wants-the-late-sen-paul-simons-daughter-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475573","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Quinn wants the late Sen. Paul Simon&#8217;s daughter as running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illiinois Gov. Pat Quinn will ask the state Democratic party to tap Sheila Simon, the daughter of the late Sen. Paul Simon to be his running mate, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. This comes in the wake of the debacle over Scott Cohen&#8211;the pawnbroker with a sketchy past who won the lieutenant governor nomination in the February primary, only to be pressure to step down because his presence on the ticket would have possibly doomed Quinn. <\/p>\n<p>In Illinois, the governor and lieutenant governor are nominated in separate primaries and then are fused into one ticket.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/politics\/2123742,sheila-simon-quinn-choice-running-mate-032510.article\"><br \/>\nBY <strong>DAVE McKINNEY AND STEVE CONTORNO<\/strong> Springfield Bureau Reporters<br \/>\nSPRINGFIELD &#8212; She doesn&#8217;t have the bow-tie, horn-rimmed glasses or booming baritone, but she&#8217;s got Downstate roots, potential appeal to women voters and a name revered among Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Simon, daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, is Gov. Quinn&#8217;s choice for a running mate, a top source told the Sun-Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illiinois Gov. Pat Quinn will ask the state Democratic party to tap Sheila Simon, the daughter of the late Sen. Paul Simon to be his running mate, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. This comes in the wake of the debacle over Scott Cohen&#8211;the pawnbroker with a sketchy past who won the lieutenant governor nomination in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475573","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}