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| 2010-02-05 |
| Scott Lee Cohen -- a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party's nomination for lieutenant governor -- was arrested about four-and-a-half years ago and accused of holding a knife to a former live-in girlfriend's neck, newly obtained court records show. The misdemeanor charge against Cohen was dropped weeks later when the woman -- who had just been found guilty of prostitution -- failed to show up to testify, according to those records. This isn't the only piece of information Republicans might try to use against the Democratic gubernatorial ticket, the other half of which was being sorted out as Gov. Quinn and Dan Hynes ran neck-and-neck with ballots still to be counted. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #8 The word here is that the machine is #*&^%%-ed simply because this guy comes pre-smeared. Nobody's got nothing on him. The GOP, of course, is thrilled, but need to watch out for the Kirk-Giannoulias race - plenty of mud will be thrown there. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-02-05 16:49 |
| #7 Ebbang Uluque, there are always 'accidents' (or 'potholes' to be 'filled') on the Dan Ryan Expressway. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-02-05 13:08 |
| #6 An aggressive, ambitious reporter could have a heckuva lotta fun in Chicago providing, of course, that his editors don't muzzle him...or the bosses don't have him whacked. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-02-05 11:46 |
| #5 "information Republicans might try to use" Payback for Ryan? Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of assh*les. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-05 10:14 |
| #4 Cohen told anyone who would listen about his arrest and messy divorce. At least one columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, house organ for the Democratic Party, skated around it FOUR TIMES since March 2009 as did the rest of the Chicago media. Why? Because they are: a) LAZY b)pick the Democrat side in any election or on any issue. Cohen won his election, his opponents did not bring this issue up during the campaign. Quinns, and the medias immediate reacton was to dump the results of a free election and default to banana republic dictatorship tactics. Cohen isn't the problem, the Chicago Media and the Governor candidate is the problem. |
| Posted by: Waldemar Gleamp1150 2010-02-05 09:41 |
| #3 Well, it's shocking that it got reported. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-02-05 09:10 |
| #2 Oh, come ON! How is this shocking? From the same state where the governor tried to sell Obama's Senate seat? Which resulted in the chain of events that culminated in this election? |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-02-05 06:06 |
| #1 The only function the lieutenant governor of Illinois serves is to fill in the gap when the current Illinois governor is imprisoned. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-05 01:10 |