-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, some Democrats were stating to get a little worried that pawn shop king Scott Lee Cohen wouldn’t really remove his name from the ballot for November despite that he said he was going to.
Cohen was officially and legally nominated by the Democrat primary voters to run for Lt. Governor, but then out came all his skeletons. His past drug use, his domestic violence accusations and arrests, and his prostitute girlfriend sort of cooked his goose.
Last week Cohen announced that he’d drop his bid for Lt. Gov., but he waited all the way until Friday to send the required letter making it official. This wait must have seemed like 100 years to the Democrats, some of whom were beginning to worry that Cohen wasn’t really going to quit.
But, it’s all over but the crying on the radio for Cohen. Now we’ll have to wait and see who the Democrat powerbrokers decide will fill his spot on the upcoming ballot.
The sad thing is that the Democrats are looking as though they are not going to listen to the voters and allow the number 2 vote getter on the Dem. side take the spot. It looks like the Democrat leadership is going to choose their own replacement despite what the voters might have said.
Typical of democrats, though. They do hate democracy after all.
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It’s Official Scott Lee Cohen Drops Out of Election”
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