{"id":689820,"date":"2010-03-12T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a92caaa6970b"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:15:56","slug":"illinois-democrats-to-pick-scott-lee-cohen-replacement-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689820","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Democrats to pick Scott Lee Cohen replacement March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Rick Pearson<\/em> at 10:15 a.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Democratic Party officials will vote March 27 on a candidate to replace Scott Lee Cohen as their lieutenant governor nominee, state party chairman Michael Madigan announced today.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In a letter to the 38-member Democratic State Central Committee, Madigan said four hearings to interview prospective candidates for the running mate job will be held a week from tomorrow in Chicago, Hoffman Estates, Bolingbrook and Springfield. A final vote on a nominee by the state central committee is set for a week later in Springfield.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p><\/br>More than 220 people have submitted applications for the job in an online open casting call held by Democrats looking for a running mate for Gov. Pat Quinn in the Nov. 2 general election. Cohen, a Chicago pawnbroker, won the nomination on Feb. 2 but gave it up following controversial revelations about his personal life.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Among those seeking the lieutenant governor\u2019s job is state Rep. Art Turner, a Chicago Democrat who finished second to Cohen in the primary, and Sheila Simon, the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon.<\/p>\n<p>The state central committee is made up of two representatives from each of the state\u2019s 19 congressional districts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Rick Pearson at 10:15 a.m.Democratic Party officials will vote March 27 on a candidate to replace Scott Lee Cohen as their lieutenant governor nominee, state party chairman Michael Madigan announced today.In a letter to the 38-member Democratic State Central Committee, Madigan said four hearings to interview prospective candidates for the running mate job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"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-689820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ts8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689820","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\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}