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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 February 2010 12:51
From Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois has been without a lieutenant governor for more than a year, and Democrat Scott Lee Cohen’s political implosion poses even greater doubts about whether the state really needs the office.
But at the moment, the only plan to eliminate the lieutenant governor’s post is languishing in the Illinois House.
The lieutenant governor’s position has been around since the state formed in 1818, and seven of the 47 lieutenant governors got promoted when a governor died, moved to a higher political office, resigned or was impeached.
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