{"id":656106,"date":"2010-02-05T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:00:44","slug":"dems-to-nominee-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656106","title":{"rendered":"Dems To Nominee: Drop Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVANSTON, IL &#8212; &#8220;He&#8217;s not going to be lieutenant governor&#8221;. \u00a0Those words were repeated several times today by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) when asked about Scott Lee Cohen. \u00a0The pawnbroker and political neophyte, who spent $2 million of his personal money on his ad campaign, won the Democratic Party nomination for lieutenant\u00a0governor\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the Illinois Democratic leadership has publicly suggested Cohen to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>US Rep Jan Schakowski (D-IL) agreed with Durbin saying that &#8220;people didn&#8217;t really pay attention&#8221;, and that &#8220;clearly this nominee got there because he spent about 2 million dollars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=on&#038;width=375&#038;height=212&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=056ECDA95475D2359E80347D927BB23E&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D10615&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3D056ECDA95475D2359E80347D927BB23E%7Cts%3D1265523903%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=aa006dcee5517273dde448c52b1f1b78\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>For more background on Scott Lee Cohen<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/02\/04\/domestic-abuse-charge-haunts-illinois-dem\/\" > http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/02\/04\/domestic-abuse-charge-haunts-illinois-dem\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVANSTON, IL &#8212; &#8220;He&#8217;s not going to be lieutenant governor&#8221;. \u00a0Those words were repeated several times today by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) when asked about Scott Lee Cohen. \u00a0The pawnbroker and political neophyte, who spent $2 million of his personal money on his ad campaign, won the Democratic Party nomination for lieutenant\u00a0governor\u00a0Tuesday. Since then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KGm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}