AP: Pa. congressman faces election challenge (Sherwood)

[Eugene]

Posted on Thu, Sep. 28, 2006

Pa. congressman faces election challenge
MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. - Sex could be the undoing of a family values Republican.

Four-term Rep. Don Sherwood recently had one of the safest seats in Congress
as his conservatism played well in his heavily GOP, rural district in northeastern
Pennsylvania. Democrats didn't even bother fielding a candidate in the last two
elections.

Then last year Sherwood admitted to a five-year extramarital affair with a woman
35 years his junior. He settled a lawsuit claiming he had choked her.

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His Democratic opponent, former Pentagon intelligence analyst Chris Carney, alludes
to Sherwood's personal conduct in a television ad.

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In another spot, Carney says, "What we have in Washington are people who don't
accept responsibility for their actions."

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Full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15627652.htm

[annabanana]

1. I don't think there is a "safe" republican district anymore...

There is so much wrong with how they've governed these past 6 years.....