Illinois Democrats start off the general election season with a big problem and his name is Scott Lee Cohen, the pawnbroker and political unknown who self-financed his way to winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor on Tuesday. Then came news Cohen was accused of threatening his live-in girlfriend with a knife and being user of injectable anabolic steroids. Gov. Quinn is saddled with Cohen as a running mate. Under Illinois law, the governor and lieutenant governor contenders each run in their own primaries for the nomination. Once nominated, they have to run as a team, like it or not. On Thursday, Quinn was not liking it and called for Cohen to step down. With the revelations–splashed on the front pages of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune–Quinn said the “only appropriate thing is to step aside.”<\/p>\n
The Chicago Sun-Times Quinn\/Cohen package<\/em><\/p>\n BY ABDON M. PALLASCH AND DAVE McKINNEY Staff Reporters<\/p>\n Gov. Quinn said today that if his running-mate, Scott Lee Cohen, can’t adequately explain the charges against him — that he held a knife to the throat of a prostitute ex-girlfriend — then “he should step aside” as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor.<\/a><\/p>\n and this headlined, Scott Lee Cohen allegedly abused steroids, forced himself on ex-wife<\/em><\/p>\n