What does this do for the Democrat’s chances in November?
“As far as the governor is concerned, they’re done,” said Paul Green, a political scientist at Roosevelt University.
Green says Quinn would need moves like Houdini to separate himself from his unwanted running mate in the public’s eye.
“The fact of the matter is that all the media would be covering would be this fellow, and it wouldn’t be dealing with the state’s revenue problems, tax problems, pension problems. It would be ‘how close did that knife get?” Green said.
