OUR POLITICAL HERITAGE – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  Another Democrat heads for the hills:

CHICAGO (AP) - The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
Scott Lee Cohen announced his decision Sunday night at a Chicago bar.

The pawn broker and owner of a cleaning supplies company won the nomination Tuesday. Since then, it has become widely know that he was accused of abusing his ex-wife and holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend.

The girlfriend herself had been charged with prostitution. He also admits using steroids in the past.

COMMENT:  It's those steroids again.  So unfair.  Now everything the man has done, all the abuse complaints against him, will have an asterisk next to them because of steroids.

You know who caused his problems?  Bush.

No replacement has been named.  A number of inmates have applied.

February 8,  2010