GOP scandals key issue in Pennsylvania, too

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday October 3, 2006
GOP scandals key issue in Pennsylvania, too
By Dianna Cahn

Times Herald-Record

Milford, Pa. — Until last week, veteran Pennsylvania Rep. Don Sherwood was facing down a sex scandal with unflagging certitude that he could keep his 10th Congressional District seat in November.

Democratic challenger Chris Carney was giving the four-term Republican a real run for his money in a district that two years ago was considered one of the safest seats in Congress.

The race in this quiet corner of northeastern Pennsylvania was already being watched as one that could help Democrats topple Republican control of the House in November.

Sherwood was fighting to fix his image after he admitted last year to a five-year extramarital affair with a woman 35 years his junior. The news emerged after he settled a lawsuit claiming he tried to choke her. But Sherwood insisted that his base was behind him.
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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061003/NEWS/610030320/-1/NEWS


Don Sherwood, Cynthia Ore

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Rep. Sherwood and the 911 Call


In late April 2005, news outlets in the northern Pennsylvania congressional district represented by Don Sherwood received faxes of a police report that raised questions about the 64-year-old congressman’s private life.

The report showed that Washington police had responded Sept. 15, 2004, to a 911 call placed by Cynthia Ore, 29, who said she had locked herself in the bathroom of Sherwood’s apartment. The report said Ore told officers that Sherwood had choked her while giving her a back rub. However, police did not arrest anyone. The report said that the officers found “no physical evidence of injury” to Ore and that neither she nor Sherwood wanted to talk in any detail. The report quoted Ore as saying when they arrived, “We were just sitting in the living room sipping tea.”

The matter remained hidden from public attention until the faxes were sent out by Veronica Hannevig, the Constitutional Party candidate who lost the 2004 election to Sherwood by an overwhelming margin. She said the report (actually, only the first of its two pages) had been mailed to her in an envelope with no return address.

The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader published a front-page story on April 30 under the headline, “Sherwood denies choking woman.” The story quoted Ore as saying that Sherwood was upset because she was late in arriving at the apartment. She told the paper that she met Sherwood at a Young Republicans meeting in 1999 and had conducted an ongoing relationship with him.
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http://support.comm.psu.edu/~ethics/case3.html

[SoCalDem]

1. "...she met Sherwood at a Young Republicans meeting in 1999 ... "

PEEEyuke

she needs to lay off the peroxide for a while.. that hair looks like straw:(

I guess he likes he to dress like an 8 yr old headed for a birthday party..

these guys are freaks

[zbdent]

2. Yeah, they both look like "young republicans" ...

Were they there at Katherine Harris' function, too?

[Joe Bacon]

3. Don't forget Melissa Hart in PA-4 who sits on the Ethics Committee

Yeah, I wonder when Melissa knew about MASTURGATE® and why she joined in the coverup!

[Matariki]

4. 35 years his junior? - i thought that photo was him in drag

and that the scandal was that he went to a republican fund raiser dressed as a cheap party favor. LOL