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Hollowell Accused of Picking Up Hooker (Kerry Campain Legal Adviser!)
Detroit Free Press | 08/20/04 | Chris Cristoff, Cecil Angel, Ben Schmitt

Posted on 08/20/2004 9:35:07 AM PDT by Kieri

Hollowell accused of picking up hooker

Allegations stun those who know Kerry aide August 20, 2004 BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF, CECIL ANGEL and BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS

Melvin Butch Hollowell had barely stepped into his prominent new role as a legal adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign when the bombshell dropped late Thursday afternoon: The attorney with friends in high places had been cited for allegedly picking up a prostitute near his upscale Palmer Woods home in Detroit.

Hollowell, 44, had recently resigned as cochairman of Michigan's Democratic Party to take the position with Kerry's campaign.

Hollowell's car was impounded with a $900 retrieval cost. The allegations of soliciting a prostitute left dumbfounded those who know him as a straitlaced attorney with deep political and family roots in Detroit and Michigan.

His attorney, Gerald Evelyn, said his client is innocent and that he was just trying to help the woman. She was charged with soliciting.

http://www.freep.com/news/mich/hollowell20e_20040820.htm


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: butchhollowell; kerry
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There's been a lot of friction between Hollowell and others in the Democrat Party here in Michigan lately. I never knew that Hollowell was black until I read this article.

Charges of racism, anyone?

1 posted on 08/20/2004 9:35:08 AM PDT by Kieri
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To: Kieri

I think there's a rule that you can't post a story like this without a picture, preferably one of the hooker as she looked at the time in question ;-)


2 posted on 08/20/2004 9:38:40 AM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
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To: Kieri

'His attorney, Gerald Evelyn, said his client is innocent and that he was just trying to help the woman.'

How clintonesque...


3 posted on 08/20/2004 9:39:00 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Kieri
The allegations of soliciting a prostitute left dumbfounded those who know him as a straitlaced attorney with deep political and family roots in Detroit and Michigan.

Maybe the hooker is actually his cousin.

4 posted on 08/20/2004 9:39:14 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Kieri

I am thinking even if he's on the outs with the state party leadership, this episode will be done away with quietly.


5 posted on 08/20/2004 9:39:54 AM PDT by saveliberty (Liberal= in need of therapy, but would rather ruin lives of those less fortunate to feel good)
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To: Willie Green; hobbes1; secret garden; TheGrimReaper

LMAO! was he rotating her tires or what?


6 posted on 08/20/2004 9:40:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

ping


7 posted on 08/20/2004 9:40:45 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: Kieri

The Co-chairmanship was one of the reasons cited for voting problems on caucus night here in Mi.


8 posted on 08/20/2004 9:41:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Here, bite down on this.)
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To: Willie Green
Maybe the hooker is actually his cousin

Or maybe he's her pimp !

9 posted on 08/20/2004 9:42:02 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: 556x45

I was thinking of Eddie Murphy and/or Hugh Grant...

I didn't know she was a pro!


10 posted on 08/20/2004 9:42:24 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder (Lt.Col. Myles Miyamasu -"These guys really make us work to kill them, but in the end, they're dead.")
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To: Willie Green
Maybe the hooker is actually his cousin.

Or closer relative?

11 posted on 08/20/2004 9:43:12 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The time is coming for all true Patriots to rise up and take back this Republic!)
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To: Kieri

"When a hooker in your neighborhood tells you she's working 24/7 to pay for health insurance, you tell her HOPE IS ON THE WAY!!!"


12 posted on 08/20/2004 9:44:14 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Kieri
Dems are such slime.

The media has been covering for Dems for so long, while going after Reps, that the two parties have evolved in two different directions. Dems have become slime, because they get away with it. Reps become pure as-the-driven-snow, because they must to survive.

Political evolution. Survival of the worst and best.

13 posted on 08/20/2004 9:45:27 AM PDT by narby (Bush: Genuine F-102 Fighter Jock)
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To: Kieri

Pic here:

http://www.friendsofhollowell.com/


14 posted on 08/20/2004 9:45:53 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Kieri

He was engaged in a voter registration drive.


15 posted on 08/20/2004 9:45:57 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
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To: Kieri

I'm sure the "hooker" was a Texas Republican and this was all a set-up.


16 posted on 08/20/2004 9:46:15 AM PDT by Guillermo (OJ was innocent because Mark Furhman said the "N" word.)
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To: Ciexyz

Polling the electorate.


17 posted on 08/20/2004 9:47:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Here, bite down on this.)
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To: Kieri

This is just awful. Now the Dems will try to use this to justify getting rid of most of the minorities at the DNC a few months back.


18 posted on 08/20/2004 9:48:45 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
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To: Kieri
Saw him on the news early this morning. "Its all just a big misunderstanding..."

Right up there along with "the dog ate my homework..." LOL!

19 posted on 08/20/2004 9:49:14 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (After 30+ years dealing with idiots, I still haven't earned the right to just shoot them.....)
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To: mountaineer

How could they tell the difference between Hollowell and the hooker?

And for those of you not in Detroit..........Palmer Park, Woodward Ave, Night, Democrat, Woman going into a car....... trust me, she's a hooker.


20 posted on 08/20/2004 9:49:53 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I am on my way to the GOP convention in NYC and am very honored to be representing my party.)
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