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Here is a helpful tip for all you local lawmakers who want to look at porn in your office: DON’T PRINT IT OUT AND THEN LEAVE YOUR PORNOGRAPHY LYING AROUND. Oh, and if it is horrible child pornography? First, quit looking at that shit, and second, DO NOT LEAVE IT LYING AROUND. Sadly, New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen seems not to have mastered this valuable concept.
Cohen served 17 years in New Jersey’s General Assembly before resigning when evidence surfaced last week that he was maybe looking at kiddie porn at his office:
Last week, a staffer in the Union Township legislative office shared by Cohen, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan and state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, all Democrats, found a printout of a nude girl who appeared to be in her early teens or younger.
Now investigators have seized all the computers in the office and Cohen has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. He should just be glad he doesn’t live in Louisiana, where Bobby Jindal would have personally castrated him with a rusty can opener, for Jesus.
Assemblyman Cohen had to resign [Courier Post]
Union legislator quits amid suspicion of child porn [Star-Ledger]
This picture of Einstein. I do not understand its significance as it applies to the article. Einstein wasn’t a flagrant pr0n-leaver or …ohhhhhhhhh, I get it.
Hope it wasn’t his daughter.
Isn’t half the porn on the Internet 30 year old women posing with pigtails and lollipops? And that’s the good half.
…who prints out their porn anyways?!
Someone needs to teach this guy how to upload his porn to his PDA.
Finally, the Demrats are slowly bridging the deviance gap between them and the Repubs.
Only about 3200 more scandals to go.
1. Was the print out laminated? I need to know, otherwise I think the printing out was very unwise.
2. In his defense he had actually asked the Intern to file it.
3. Morepunkthanyou… I’m sorry, far more than half of the porn on the internet is good. I’ve watched nearly 72.7% of it, and can reveal its all great!
Until the part where he checks himself into a hospital I thought this was a setup.
SO STUPID! I NEVER leave my kiddie porn out. What an idiot!
Serolf Divad: “Someone needs to teach this guy how to upload his porn to his PDA.” Get with the noughties grandad! Its all about getting it wi-fi’d to your Kindle nowadays… hmmmm monochrome ascii pron! Excuse me for a moment (rummage)
Einstein porn, mrrr.
Einstein’s Theory of Pornativity: The speed of naked women in vacuum is the same for all observers, unless those naked women are under the age of 16, in which case you’re a fucking perv.
Why didnt he just install a toilet cam like Chuck Berry? This reeks of amateurism.
And why isn’t he using the “Roman Polanski emailed it to me” defense?
why does everybody pick on jersey?
20% of the state is not so bad.
in fact, i think that’s our state motto.
And Jersey drivers are great.
If you look at porn, do you have to check yourself into a psychiatric hospital like this guy? If so, I’d like to invest some capital in psychiatric facilities.
I wonder if Bob Novak’s tumor made him do it.
Serolf Divad: I know the all three of those bozos in that office. Cohen isn’t the brightest, sharpest crayon in that box.
-snark off
I have worked with this man. This is very sad. He’s an extremely smart and passionate man (he generally fought for people who didn’t otherwise have a voice or power) who was extremely fucking stupid…who prints out porn?? That being said, also knowing a little about the guys who caught him (Lesniak and Cryan), it would not be beyond my wildest dreams that somehow they are setting him up because he threatened to rat on them for something (not that I know anything). I will be following this closely.
tsunami: Jersey smells bad, and has lots of non-Americans living there. And Mafia headquaters is there. And the highway system causses people to get lost.
fistedbymollyringwald:
Wow, brings back memories of 2 bit porn on a Mac plus… sort of like whaking off to a Wall Street Journal dot drawing.
Larry Fine: Cohen also served a term in the NJ Assembly in 1991 - 1993 getting defeated during the Christie Todd (I don’t see no smoke coming from the WTC debris) Witman days. During that term he introduced a child protection law which was so vague, parents risked running afoul of it if they read sections of the Old Testament to their childred or walked naked if front of them.
tsunami:
I think I recently saw a New Jersey tourism board ad that said something like “Come visit the 20% of New Jersey that isn’t a superfund site. You might even have a good time.”
Serolf Divad: dont stop, keeping talking… nearly there you little minx you!
mookworthjwilson: What? Lesniak is sleazy?
My guess is that is his porn, but somebody else printed it out to help get the ball rolling.
Ah, Jersey. The Sword of Damocles hangs over every politician.
Sounds like he’ll be spending another 17 years in service to the state of New Jersey.
Comic Book Guy: “The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.”
He’s resigning over the Vanity Fair cover of Miley Cyrus? Good lord, we live in an uptight country.
The Intern: Win.
I prefer kitty porn with fish props
Monkey: http://www.livenudecats.com don’t know if it still works, but if it does, have at it.
tsunami: I, too, hail from the great state of NJ. The good part (Southern, but no too Southern). Umm, we just had a cop nearby arrested for making kiddie porn then they searched his house and found electronic evidence of him doing COWS. So maybe, the part of NJ that’s good is my house and yours.
http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2008/04/robert-melia-moorestown-cop-accused-of.html
no joke.
Serolf Divad: It was actually an ASCII printout on an EPSON dot matrix printer. The most incriminating part of the printout was: @@@@@\/@@@@
irisheyes: Moorestown is not the good part…keep heading north…
mookworthjwilson: The part where the smog is so thick one can’t breathe properly and the air always smells of sulphur, or the really Northern part that just wants to keep big air and secretly longs to be NY?
mookworthjwilson: Then you know that Cryan is the state party chair and Lesniak is probably second only to Cody in Senate Democratic tenure and has more years from combined legislative and senate terms. Cohen is law/procedure smart, but I always found him humourless and socially out of it, almost Asperbers.
In January I was at a table with Cryan, a couple other state committee members and the younger Lesniak. They were, “Yep Hillary’s going to win next week, get the nomination, win the election and all us early supporters are going to sitting fat and happy.” Then, their election district went to the Obama - which other than rebuking them, nobody knows who the Obama delegates are. So, overall, there are some bad attitudes up in that district.
As for outing Cohen intentionally, they should know that state law would require an election unless Cohen hangs on until mid February next year. I doubt any state senate or assembly menber wants to test what the 2009 elections may bring. Too much bad vibes from the budget wars, especially in districts like Cohen’s which lost a lot of local municipal and school board aid.
irisheyes:
jersey city…
the new village…which means more like the old village is today.
Delicious: LACE: THE FINAL BRASSIERE
JamesMichaelCurley: That’s moot…he’s resigned…and on the upside, Reed “of the many different hair colors” Gusciora will probably be subbing for him at the DNC…
irisheyes: The really northern part…but basically you first need to get out of the area where there is any chance of finding a Phillies/Eagle fan…
AngryBlakGuy: I think the last time I saw that happen was when I was in 8th grade and guys were trading it in the locker area. Pot nuthin’!, we wanted teh pr0n!
I love how he left it IN HIS OFFICE. Want to get caught much?
irisheyes: as a Philly native, I went down the shore annually, Ocean City, NJ. As a kid, that was great stuff (stay-out-of-the-water-because-of-medical-waste warnings weren’t a big deal when you were 7). As an adult, well, there are a lot of nice produce stands–love the blueberries.
trophy(forparticipation)wife: Larry Fine: Serolf Divad: Best part of Jersey is the jug-handle intersections which occur randomly along major thoroughfares. When you want to turn left, you never know if you’re going to have to be in the right- or left-hand lane. The next best part is the stench in the air as you drive south from the Newark Airport.
Nasara: 16! Holy shit, I thought it was 12!
[/feverishly erases hard drive]
I live in the western part of NJ - I can see the east bank of the Delaware river - and it’s a natural paradise. The only think that ruins it is all the Big Pharma junior executives living out there, but, hey, it’s not as built up as Bucks County. Which has nothing to do with child porn, except that I’m sure a lot of those McMansions have harddrives full of the stuff because they’re all evil people in them. Q.E.D.
V572625694: I myself am a fan of the traffic circles, once ubiquitous in S. Jersey.
Serolf Divad: I prefer my porn in braille.
Doglessliberal: No, the Jersey barriers — Jersey’s gift to the world