| Apparently Scott Lee Cohen has some personal issues in his past, something about holding a knife to his lover's throat about the time he was getting divorced. The police got involved. But the day after the woman was convicted of prostitution the woman failed to appear in court and charges against Cohen were dropped. So, since the charges were dropped it's not that big a deal, right? See Sun-Times (Chris Fusco, Dave McKinney, Abdon M. Pallasch and Steve Warmbir).
State Sen. Terry Link (D-Vernon Hills), one of the unsuccessful candidates for lieutenant governor, and representatives of the other candidates met a month before the election with representatives of the Quinn and Hynes campaigns to warn them about Cohen, Link said.
"We tried to warn the governor beforehand and they didn't want to listen to it," Link said. "He and Dan should have issued a joint statement denouncing this guy."
So, Terry Link lacked the balls to make the allegations about Cohen himself.
Link is too fucking stupid about politics to see why Quinn and Hynes wouldn't derail their campaigns to deal with Cohen.
And Link lacks the savvy to get the information to the media in a way that he wouldn't be connected (almost wrote "linked") to it.
And Link has succeeded in making himself part of a story that no sensible politician would want to be part of. And Link has succeeded in not only making himself part of the story, but making himself look cowardly, foolish and inept. |
