Posted on 02/07/2010 5:58:55 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
Scott Lee Cohen announced his decision Sunday night at a Chicago bar.
The pawn broker and owner of a cleaning supplies company won the nomination Tuesday. Since then, it has become widely know that he was accused of abusing his ex-wife and holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend.
The girlfriend herself had been charged with prostitution. He also admits using steroids in the past.
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who would have been paired with Cohen on the November ticket, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis and Sen. Dick Durbin all had urged Cohen to leave the race.
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I wonder if the lib press is going to blast him as a quitter like they did Sarah?
No surprise here. Who will Pat Quinn choose as his running mate? He’s an anti-Machine Democrat who’s been making nice with the Machine crowd lately.
Ping
what’s all the fuss about? that’s a minor league rap sheet for a chicago politician.
Sounds like a dem’s resume enhancer to me.
Announced during the Super Bowl hoping no one would notice.
I was going to say Hynes, but after the way Hynes went after Quinn, perhaps not. Maybe the second-place finisher in the Lt Gov race that racked up the endorsements, State Rep. Arthur Turner.
Pay Back is a Breach...
BTTT
... but he’s a Democrat ... this should make him a shoe in for winning the election ... must be something we don’t know, probably teaches Sunday School and nobody knows it yet, but its about to break ...
hes a punk roid freak.
Not a PEEP out of the So-called Mainstream Media!! HYPOCRITES!!!!!
What about that guy who ran the radio commercial in Eubonics?
:::::hides under desk:::::
:) I can’t help but snicker. tee, hee.
Chicago politics at its finest. And, these scumbags have the nerve to coin, “handgate.”
These people make me sick! Why do the citizens of IL continue to vote for such bottom feeders?
Kwamee Kilpatrick could have taught him about how to deal with hookers.
Actually, there is ONE person who could help Quinn out, get him in tight with the Combine... Mark Kirk. He’d be perfect as the Democrat nominee for Lt Governor, and he doesn’t have to change any of his political positions. Can we get him to leave the Senate race to run with Quinn ?
Kirk would never run as a Democrat this year. In any event, he would be no worse than Charles Percy, the last Republican Senator there.
The men’s room/back room in bars can be very convincing if you know what I mean.......
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