For the first time, Gov. Quinn gave credence Friday to rumors that federal Veterans Affairs official Tammy Duckworth is on his short list of candidates to fill the vacant Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
But Duckworth would have to leave her position as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to accept the party nod, a risk that would require her to forgo a guaranteed job in the Obama administration just for a chance to run.
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