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IL LT GOV Candidate Scott Cohen (D) drops knife, out of race.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 7th, 2010 at 10:03 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As always, Cohen was going to stick it out to the end, right up to the moment that he decided to spend more time with the members of his family that don’t currently have restraining orders on him.

Illinois Democratic Lieutenant Governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen announced Sunday evening that he is withdrawing from the race amid revelations about his personal history.

Cohen, a millionaire pawnbroker and cleaning supplies company executive who emerged the victor in last week’s primary, had been accused of holding a knife to the neck of his ex-girlfriend, a prostitute, in 2005.

It has also been revealed in recent days that Cohen had once been accused of abusing an ex-wife. Cohen has also acknowledged using steroids for a period of time.

Word is that the Democrats are trying to find a replacement – a bit of a surprise to second-place finisher Arthur Turner, but then ‘democratic Illinois Democrat’ is an oxymoron – and it is my devout hope that the questionnaire gets leaked to the press. Between this, the entire ‘avoid paying taxes’ thing, and the rumors that another major philandering scandal’s going to hit a sitting Democratic governor tomorrow, the party leadership may end up deciding that the best way to get halfway normal candidates is to raise them from birth in a big plastic bubble…

Moe Lane

PS: Jason Plummer for Lt. Governor. He doesn’t cut women.
Shoot, I was looking forward to running on that one, too.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Repair_Man_Jack

    When Porter picked him off and took the route. We’ve been Torricellied again!

  • cookcountyconservative

    Poor Scott … it’s not like he drove the woman off a bridge and left her to die or anything.

    I was hoping he’d run on that one.

    Oh, well.

  • Wayne

    would have trouble now picking up a hooker in a prison if he had a carton of cigarettes and a fistful of pardons. With a h/t to a poster on TAH.

  • http://www.voteforteri2010.com teridavisnewman

    Cohen spent almost 2 million of his own money to get elected, so don’t tell me that he got nothing in return to drop off the ticket! This is Illinois and he was dealing with Mike Madigan who has a reputation that spreads so far and wide that I don’t even have to mention it. If’ I’d spent 2 million of my own money and put in the effort to get elected to the Lt. Governor spot, I’d have to be assassinated to leave the ticket, so what did he get to withdraw? It had to be something worth at least 2 million bucks plus to compensate Cohen–he didn’t do it out of the goodness of his heart or for the good of the party, that’s for darn sure!
    I’m already getting smeared by the incumbent who is too chickens**t to debate me. Of course I’ve got FACTS on him–he took 3 mill in contributions running unopposed, greased Blagojevich to the tune of more than 50K when Blago was under investigation and there’s not a dirty deal that comes down the Mississippi that doesn’t have his fingerprints on it. I am going to take him OUT in November–people are FED UP with him!

  • qurys

    Its getting tough in this country if you hold a knife to your prostitute to get elected to high office. I can sit back and relax…the morals of America are in good hands in Illinois.

  • qurys

    Its getting tough in this country if you hold a knife to your prostitute to get elected to high office. I can sit back and relax…the morals of America are in good hands in Illinois.

  • jb13

    It’s not what Scott Lee Cohen got in exchange for withdrawing. It’s what he didn’t get. Think about it this way: The Chicago media just performed a great service for the Illinois Democrats (I know, as usual, but still…) This has been orchestrated from the beginning. How do you get something that state law forbids you to get? Find a loophole. Madigan, Quinn, et. al., have known from the beginning all about Mr. Cohen. Knowing what they knew, they WANTED him to win. Yes, there would be the initial black eye, and ragging from the peanut gallery. But once they could use Cohen’s past to hound him from the race, they now get to do what every other gubernatorial nominee in Illinois has wanted to do: Pick their own Lt. Gov. candidate!

    That’s why there was the huge “sudden” media firestorm within hours after the primary. The media was either played or they were willing accomplices in this little theatrical tour de force staged for the enjoyment of all.

    See how much they care about corruption, those always wise Democrats? They saved the state from the pimp pawnbroker and his band of hookers! They are cleaning up Illinois!

    My guess on what happens next? They will nominate a “reformer,” maybe someone like David Hoffman, who lost to Alexi Giannoulias in the Dem senatorial primary. Then, Quinn — the sitting governor and the man who sat quietly in the background since 2002 while Blagojevich and the other corrupt Dems in this state pulled corrupt stunt after criminal act — will be permitted by the same punks in the media who hounded Cohen out of the race to use the street cred of Hoffman or some other “reformer” and run as a “outsider” who will “continue the job of cleaning up Illinois.” It will then be up to the voters of Illinois to prove the cynics wrong and demonstrate that we are not that stupid.

    Unfortunately, if I were a betting man, my money would be with the cynics.

    So with all that said, what’s in all of this for Mr. Cohen? The answer is quite simple. He will be allowed to walk away. He will no longer have reporters beating down his door. He will not be accused of any more crimes (whether they are true or not, who wouldn’t believe it at this point? And undoubtedly a pawnbroker who associates with prostitutes certainly has more shady dealings in his past, right?) He will be allowed to keep his business. And he will be allowed to live in peace, without fear of any unfortunate accidents that might happen to his chubby, weepy son or other family members. THAT is what Mr. Cohen gets out of the deal. And, knowing who he knows, he was smart enough to take the offer.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    maybe then can get him out of prison and transplant him… in keeping with their recent usual candidates.