{"id":292413,"date":"2010-02-08T08:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76019"},"modified":"2010-02-08T08:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:33:59","slug":"%e2%80%98and-i%e2%80%99m-voting-for-scott-lee-cohen%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/292413","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And I\u2019m Voting for Scott Lee Cohen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/elections\/2034827,cohen-dropping-out-020710.article\">dodged a bullet<\/a> in Illinois after Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who concealed a history of drug use and domestic violence until after he won the primary for lieutenant governor, dropped his bid. The Sun-Times story on his withdrawal &#8212; which happened at a Super Bowl party &#8212; paints a pretty good picture of the guy.<span id=\"more-76019\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;None of my opponents called to congratulate me, not a senator, not a congressman, not one person called to congratulate me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if that hurt his feelings, Cohen said that lack of calls &#8220;showed me no respect. It absolutely hurt my feelings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have to feel for Jason Kyle, whose image will now live forever as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zNTYnj4YwUA\">proud endorser<\/a> of a candidate who, in retrospect, practically oozed sleaze from every pore.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zNTYnj4YwUA\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zNTYnj4YwUA\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have dodged a bullet in Illinois after Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who concealed a history of drug use and domestic violence until after he won the primary for lieutenant governor, dropped his bid. The Sun-Times story on his withdrawal &#8212; which happened at a Super Bowl party &#8212; paints a pretty good picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292413","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}