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Quinn Aide Resigns
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A former aide to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn confirms that she resigned amid questions about doing political work on state time.

But Carolyn Brown Hodge says she worked hard to separate political work from official duties and resigned only to avoid creating a cloud over the administration.

Hodge was deputy chief of staff to Quinn. She resigned last month, but Quinn's office would not say why.

Hodge told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register on Wednesday that she stepped down after state inspectors seized her computer to see whether she had done political work on state time.

Hodge says she sometimes used her state computer at night to check personal e-mail and may have responded to a political message.

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