Theft of Mink

If you can't trust the folks at a party for a pawnbroker-turned-lieutenant governor candidate, who can you trust?

• The Sun-Times is reporting pawn shop owner Scott Lee Cohen's election-night party at the Palmer House Hilton had some unexpected guests -- Chicago Police -- who arrived within an hour after Cohen gave his victory speech in the Democratic lieutenant governor's race. Police weren't responding to anything involving steroids or a domestic dispute -- topics that led to Cohen withdrawing Sunday night as Gov. Quinn's running mate.
  
  Instead, police came because of a missing full-length woman's mink coat valued at an estimated $5,000.
  
  When Cohen aides "saw I was calling police, they asked me, 'Please don't do that. It's going to cause negative press,'" said Cecili Tomlin, a Cook County medical examiner's autopsy technician who was at the party with a friend.

An autopsy technician in a $5,000 coat? Whatever. Cohen's 15 minutes seems to be up now and Madigan is taking names for the #2 spot on the ticket. SCC is running a distant 12th seeing as how we are registered Independent.