{"id":656850,"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.com\/index\/656850","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":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KSm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}