{"id":281425,"date":"2010-02-05T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/05\/democrats-have-a-big-problem-in-illinois\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:40:54","slug":"democrats-have-a-big-problem-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281425","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have a Big Problem in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/h51cwWWNe94\/democrats_have_a_big_problem_in_illinois.html\" >Democrats Have a Big Problem in Illinois             <\/a><br \/>It turns out that Scott Lee Cohen (D), the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor in Illinois, has bigger problems that were reported yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>  In an <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/video\/?id=67312@wbbm.dayport.com\">extraordinary interview<\/a> with the local CBS news affiliate, we learn Cohen&#8217;s own brother sued him for $200,000, he tried to choke his wife before they were married and he didn&#8217;t pay child support while spending $3 million on his primary race.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/politics&amp;id=7257870\">ABC News<\/a> affiliate, Cohen also admitted to using &#8220;inject-able steroids&#8221; which &#8220;contributed to periodic episodes of violence against his family.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  As for the allegations that he <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/04\/democratic_nominee_pulled_knife_on_prostitute_girlfriend.html\">pulled a knife on his prostitute ex-girlfriend<\/a>, Cohen claims the wounds on her throat were &#8220;self-inflicted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/archpundit.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/just-save-yourself-what-little-dignity-you-have-left\/\">Arch Pundit<\/a>: &#8220;Dude is like Jack Ryan meets Blair Hull meets Charlie Sheen.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/h51cwWWNe94\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Have a Big Problem in Illinois It turns out that Scott Lee Cohen (D), the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor in Illinois, has bigger problems that were reported yesterday. In an extraordinary interview with the local CBS news affiliate, we learn Cohen&#8217;s own brother sued him for $200,000, he tried to choke his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}