Cain's Cigarette-Puffing Aide Has Checkered Past

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He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.

"We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen," he says before taking a puff. "But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain."

Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.

Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.

Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/cains-cigarette-puffing-aide-has-checkered-past/#ixzz1c5bY6pXG

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1. Oh, Mr. Block, Americans have seen LOTS of candidates like Herman Cain

The last one was this sort of pretty lady from Alaska. Served about half a term as their governor, if memory serves. Sharon? Farah? Something like that. Yep, we've see the likes of Herman Cain before.

[Erose999]

2. He seems like the kind of guy who drives around in a white van with no windows

and "free candy" painted on the side.

[bullwinkle428]

4. "Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown,

The parents want to beat him and run him out of town!"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. glad he doesn't have a chessed past.

Checkers is so pedestrian

[Lint Head]

5. An icon of purity. Are his cigarettes filter free? That's the sign of a Real Man.

:sarcasm:

[dtexdem]

6. And likely cancered lungs.

[unapatriciated]

7. those are just black spots on his lungs

[Blue_Tires]

8. He's just auditioning his 'dirty trickster' skills

for when the GOP finally has their real candidate...

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9. In other words, he's a model Republican.