{"id":287099,"date":"2010-02-06T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.71176"},"modified":"2010-02-07T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T04:39:22","slug":"lt-governors-race-in-illinois-cohen-admits-past-steroid-use-ex-girlfriend-arrested-for-prostitution-finally-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287099","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Governor&#8217;s Race In Illinois: Cohen Admits Past Steroid Use; Ex-Girlfriend Arrested For Prostitution; Finally Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois politics often make other states look quite tame.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in that state involves&nbsp;lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen &#8211; a pawnbroker who recently won the Democratic primary.&nbsp;One of the problems is that Cohen had&nbsp;been&nbsp;charged with holding a knife to his then-girlfriend&#8217;s neck. Another problem is that he said&nbsp;he did not know that she had been previously arrested for prostitution and instead thought she was a masseuse.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were dropped in the knife incident, but Cohen&nbsp;has not yet dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Details are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/sns-ap-us-lieutenant-governor-illinois,0,1917257.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/sns-ap-us-lieutenant-governor-illinois,0,1917257.story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Cohen finally stepped down on Super Bowl Sunday, making the announcement at a bar during halftime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois politics often make other states look quite tame. The latest in that state involves&nbsp;lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen &#8211; a pawnbroker who recently won the Democratic primary.&nbsp;One of the problems is that Cohen had&nbsp;been&nbsp;charged with holding a knife to his then-girlfriend&#8217;s neck. Another problem is that he said&nbsp;he did not know that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287099","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}