In March a feeble astroturf attempt to fight the potent Tea Party movement was launched, the Coffee Party USA, CPUSA for short. Longtime Democratic operative Baxter Swilley was in charge of a North Side Chicago CPUSA kaffeeklatsch, as Chicago News Bench reported at the time. Before he was swilling coffee, Swilley was in charge of pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen's successful effort to win the Democratic Primary for lieutenant governor. After revelations of an assault arrest--his prostitute girlfriend who made the allegation didn't show up in court, so the charges were dropped--and steroid abuse, among other things, pawnbroker Cohen was pressured to quit the Democratic ticket.
Now he's running for governor as independent, and today Cohen announced that coffee boy Swilley is his running mate.
It's a ticket that is full of beans.
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