Gov. Quinn was an aide to then-Mayor Harold Washington, and he was a state treasurer.
Its an interesting world. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Quinn_%28politician%29
“In 1978, Quinn protested an increase in state legislators’ salaries by urging citizens to send tea bags to Jim Thompson, then the governor. The tactic was a reference to the Boston Tea Party; Quinn was born on December 16, the anniversary of that event.[9] As Lieutenant Governor, he repeated the tactic in 2006, urging consumers to include a tea bag when paying their electricity bills, to protest rate hikes by Commonwealth Edison.”