Here's another sex scandal I missed involving a politician:
As the Mike Cox sex-and-extortion drama lingers, more questions are raised every day about whether he can survive the scandal politically, win renomination to the attorney general's office next year and continue to serve as the state's chief law enforcement officer.
Eleven days ago, Cox shocked the state with the tearful admission that he had cheated on his wife.
"It's too early to write Mike Cox's political obituary ... but this can't help him," said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, a longtime GOP honcho.
Cox said he was coming clean because of an extortion threat from potential rival Geoffrey Fieger that the bombastic Oakland County attorney would expose the affair unless Cox dropped an investigation into Fieger's alleged campaign finance violations.
A decision by the Oakland County prosecutor not to pursue criminal charges against Fieger for extortion was followed by a lurid tape released last week by the prosecutor's office. The tape contained a vulgar account of conversations between Fieger associate Lee O'Brien and Cox's chief deputy, Stu Sandler, that alluded to the attorney general carrying out his infidelity with two women, including in a courtroom and stairway. Cox denied a second affair.
There are lots of related stories at the link, including this one.
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A teen proved to the entire world he was a bigger dummy than the mannequin.
It sounds like he watched Richard Burton's antics in Candy.
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Going to prison didn't diminish Martha Stewart's fan base one bit.
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This is so gross I have to link it on my blog.
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Small towns and strip clubs make for an uneasy coexistence.
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Another dumb Republican has shot off his yap.
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Mayor Jim West may need to borrow out of Tricky Dick's playbook to survive in office, as a majority of those polled favor recall.
By borrowing from the Nixon playbook, observers aren't saying West should rig an election, as Nixon's people did in the 1972 primaries, but instead he should go on television and give a Checkers-like speech.
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A zoo in my town is asking for $50,000 in donations from the public.
They will probably get it, especially when considering local schools are involved.
The Animal Ark, mentioned on this blog in earlier posts, also gets a lot of help from local schools.
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For 647 condemned killers on San Quentin's Death Row, it ain't Club Fed.
And many will never be executed:
Execution is not the usual fate of Death Row inmates. On average, those who are executed spend 16 years in prison before they get a date with "the needle." So far, there have been 11 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978. Twelve condemned inmates have committed suicide and some 30 have died of natural causes during that time.
"I've found that living a life of inactivity and non-productivity makes some inmates desire the sweet taste of death," Crittendon said. "I've talked with several who have said they would not appeal their death sentences."
The article notes there is a "caste system" of three Death Rows at San Quentin.
If you are a condemned killer there, you want to be at the North-Seg part. This is where people like Stanley "Tookie" Williams, scheduled to be executed December 13, lives. He and the other 67 inmates in this section are model prisoners and don't make trouble.
The majority, 414 prisoners, are housed in a pretty shitty section called East Block, while the worst of the worst are in the so-called "Adjustment Center." Some celebrities in this last section include Richard Ramirez, the infamous "Night Stalker," and Richard Allen Davis, the killer of Polly Klaas. Davis is especially hated by the inmates, for they hold him primarily responsible for the "three strikes" law.
Davis probably has more to fear from fellow inmates than he does the injection needle.
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