{"id":1185,"date":"2010-03-25T18:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:13","slug":"is-sheila-simon-governor-quinns-top-pick-for-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Is Sheila Simon Governor Quinn\u2019s top pick for Lt. Governor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I received a call from Sheila Simon, one of the 16 finalists in the Lt. Governor selection process.\u00a0 Simon said that she was one of Governor Quinn\u2019s top picks and wanted to know if that would influence my vote.<\/p>\n<p>I told her that the Democratic Party needs to restore some integrity and go back to being a party that lives up to our promises. That being said, I\u2019ve already given my word to Dirk Enger that I would nominate and support his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>I have been around long enough to put two and two together and it would not surprise me if Governor Quinn will announce his support for Sheila Simon tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Quinn has indicated that he will weigh in regarding his preference in this matter before\u00a0Saturday\u00a0and Mike Madigan has stated that he would honor Quinn\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I received a call from Sheila Simon, one of the 16 finalists in the Lt. Governor selection process.\u00a0 Simon said that she was one of Governor Quinn\u2019s top picks and wanted to know if that would influence my vote. I told her that the Democratic Party needs to restore some integrity and go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[105,325,2869,324,321,45,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}