Affair / Lawsuit Stop Career of Promising Prosecutor (hypocritical Repugs)

[baby_bear]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/18/national/18hamilton.html

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Until last month, top Republican officials saw the Hamilton County prosecutor as poised to follow a long line of Cincinnati Republicans into state office. Republicans had latched onto the prosecutor, Michael K. Allen, a former police officer and judge who was running President Bush's re-election campaign in southwestern Ohio, because he had risen through the ranks. As a candidate for re-election himself, he promoted a strongly conservative platform and as a prosecutor he stood for toughness and "family'' issues.

Politicians regarded him as quite likely to be the nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, joining other Cincinnati Republicans in Columbus like Gov. Bob Taft, Treasurer Joseph T. Deters and Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. Cincinnati Democrats failed to place a candidate on the ballot, leaving Mr. Allen, 48, to run unopposed for a second term for an office that Hamilton County Republicans have owned since 1932.

But Mr. Allen's career began disintegrating last month, when he acknowledged on Aug. 25 that he had an affair with an assistant prosecutor for nearly four years and that they had had sex in the prosecutor's private office. A day later, the assistant prosecutor, Rebecca Collins, 33, filed a federal sexual harassment suit that said Mr. Allen had used his position to force her into having sex with him. Mr. Allen quit his post in the Bush campaign.

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Cincinnati DUers: any chance of a successful write-in for a Dem?

s_m

[blueknight]

1. no chance.

i live across the river from cincy in northern ky, and cincy is probably the most conservative city in the midwest. they could see someone eat a baby and still vote for him