Now that Rod Blagojevich's political career is over, we now have former Democratic lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen to supply bizarre comments.The pawnbroker is running for governor now, as an independent. WLS-AM's Bill Cameron interviewed Cohen for his "Connected to Chicago" program, and Cohen let loose some wild accusations about a "top Democrat" who forced him to quit the fall ticket:
It was: "If you don't drop out today, then all your tax records better be in impeccable order because someone's going to jail."As well as:
And then I was told, if they couldn't find anything to put me in jail over, they would still put me in jail. They would make something up to put me in jail. They did not want me on that ticket.Cohen didn't reveal who the top Democrat was, other than it was not Governor Pat Quinn or state House Speaker Michael Madigan, who doubles as the state party chairman.
Cohen can provide much needed comic relief to the governor's race--Illinois is in terrible financial shape, in essence it's been pawned--but he needs 25,000 valid petition signatures to appear on the fall ballot--not an easy feat.
As for Blago, he is still making noise. On Thursday his lawyers subpoenaed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to testify at his corruption trial.
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