Rep. Don Sherwood (R) makes apology in TV ad (for cheating on his wife)

[Kadie]

Pa. congressman makes apology in TV ad
8 minutes ago


SCRANTON, Pa. - Rep. Don Sherwood (news, bio, voting record), a Republican fighting for re-election in northeastern Pennsylvania, says in a TV ad that he is "truly sorry" for cheating on his wife but denies ever abusing the woman he had the affair with.

In the ad, he acknowledges that the affair nearly cost him the love of his wife and his daughters. He said his family has worked through it "because of my deep regret, our love and the fact that the allegation of abuse was never true."

"While I'm truly sorry for disappointing you, I never wavered from my commitment to reduce taxes, create jobs and bring home our fair share," Sherwood said, addressing viewers. "Should you forgive me, you can count on me to keep on fighting hard for you and your family."

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The ad began running Tuesday in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market and comes days after Chris Carney, his Democratic opponent, launched a hard-hitting commercial focusing on the affair.

Carney's ad features a voter saying, "This incident with Don Sherwood just cuts right at the core values of our district." The phrases "repeatedly choking" and "attempting to strangle plaintiff," taken from the lawsuit, appear on the screen.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_el_ho/sherwood_s_challenge_2

[Greeby]

1. The latest couple of polls have him losing badly

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2006/Info/all_house_polls.html

Chalk up another one for us.............unless...........say, what do you use over there in PA-10?

[KingFlorez]

2. It's really too late for that

Preach morals to everyone else, but don't follow you own standards? Hypocrite

[Hugin]

3. Ha! I'll bet IF Faux Noise reports on this there will be a (D)...

Instead of an (R).

Seems to be their way of being 'Fairly Unbalanced' these days.

[Virginia Dare]

4. He was screwing her, but he wasn't abusing her...

of course he had to pay her a tidy sum to make those charges go away.

So all is forgiven, right? Cue the clip with all of the repuke demogoguery from the Clinton years.

The party of family values my ass.

:spank:

[Iris]

5. His words just show that the GOP is all about GREED

"While I'm truly sorry for disappointing you, I never wavered from my commitment to reduce taxes, create jobs and bring home our fair share,"


Who cares about family values? I still cut your taxes!

[napi21]

6. HA! He can go cry in his beer with Santorum!

You know, I've always HATEDdirty gotcha politics, but I have eto say, the Party that started that kind of crap is suffering the reprocussions now, huh?