{"id":1097,"date":"2010-03-01T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:13","slug":"help-choose-our-next-lieutenant-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Help Choose Our Next Lieutenant Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to thank everyone who voted to elect me as the Democratic State Central Committeewoman for Illinois\u2019 14th District in this past February 2010 election.\u00a0 If you voted for my opponent because you liked her platform better than mine, I would like to hear some of those ideas and I want you to know that I am also here to serve you.<\/p>\n

When I ran for this seat, I had no idea that I would be in a position to help select the next Democratic nominee to run for Lieutenant Governor in Illinois.\u00a0 After Scott Cohen won the nomination on February 2, a past arrest record was used to pressure him to step down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This decision by Mr. Cohen puts the 38 Democratic State Central Committeewomen and Committeemen in a unique position to help slate the Democratic nominee to run on the ticket with Governor Quinn.<\/p>\n

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I spoke to Governor Quinn about the issue the other day and he said, \u201cwe need to have a progressive Lt. Governor.\u201d\u00a0 I couldn’t agree more, but we also have to continue to ask, “who is going to tell it like it is, be honest with Illinois voters,\u00a0and maintain some kind of moral compass in Springfield?”<\/p>\n

I am only 1 of the 38 voices who will help make the selection and many of us are still uncertain as to what the process will be.\u00a0 What I do know is that residents of the 14th Congressional District should have a say in this matter.\u00a0 I am a firm believer in democracy and transparency so I want to communicate openly to residents of the 14th district as the process continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have been hearing from a number of candidates who want to run for Lt. Governor.\u00a0 Some have submitted resumes and many have made calls or sent letters in the mail seeking my vote.\u00a0\u00a0 Below is a polling memo (put out by Mike Boland’s campaign) along with several other letters from potential candidates and their supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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In making the decision, I have decided to seek advice from three groups of people:<\/p>\n

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1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other Democratic Party Chairs in the 14th District<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The voters who elected me<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The progressive community and members of Progressive Democrats of America<\/p>\n

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I am going to use this website, www.progressivefox.com<\/a> as a place to post my letter, any correspondence from potential candidates, and as a place for people to offer suggestions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to thank everyone who voted to elect me as the Democratic State Central Committeewoman for Illinois\u2019 14th District in this past February 2010 election.\u00a0 If you voted for my opponent because you liked her platform better than mine, I would like to hear some of those ideas and I want you to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[105,320,9,2869,321,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}