Congress.gov biography:
"Sherwood, Don, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pa., March 5, 1941; attended Lackawanna
Trail High School and Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School; B.A., Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N.H., 1963; United States Army, 1963-1965; member, Tunkhannock
Area, Pa., school board, 1975-1998, president, 1992-1998; business owner;
elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Sixth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1999-present).
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20070907
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 Craig
-  Vitter
-  Stevens
-  DeLay
-  Ney
-  Cunningham
- Sherwood
-  Renzi
-  Doolittle
-  Jefferson
-  Politicians
-  Lawmakers
-  Homosexual
-  Idaho
-  Louisiana
-  Alaska
-  Texas
-  Ohio
-  California
-  Pennsylvania
-  Arizona
- 2008
Election - "House
G.O.P.'s History Could Repeat in Senate." ... "The
embarrassing [Idaho Republican Senator] Larry Craig episode combined sex
and the justice system – always a potent political mix and one reason the
Republican leadership moved so swiftly to jettison Mr. Craig." ... "Already,
Mr. Craig is the star of a Web
video from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee featuring a
lineup of recent Republican scandals being shown to the tune of the “Bad
Boys” theme song from the television show “Cops.” It seeks to ridicule
Republican claims to hold the moral high ground." ... "Mr. Craig’s guilty
plea to a sexually related disorderly conduct charge only served to remind
people about Mr. [Louisiana Republican Senator] Vitter’s [alleged prostitution]
case – and prompt accusations of a double standard since Republicans took
no action against the Louisiana lawmaker for his heterosexual incident
compared to Mr. Craig’s homosexual one." ... "Republicans can point to
the indictment of Louisiana Democrat[ic Representative] William Jefferson,
but Democrats can counter with the names of Senators Craig, Vitter and
[Alaska Republican Senator Ted] Stevens not to mention those of former
Representatives [Texas Republican] Tom DeLay, [Ohio Republican] Bob Ney,
[California Republican] Duke Cunningham and [Pennsylvania Republican] Don
Sherwood." ... "Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona, another Republican
under investigation, has already announced he will not seek re-election
[in 2008] and top aides to [Republican] Representative John Doolittle of
California, a former member of the Republican leadership, were called before
a grand jury this week." -By Carl Hulse
-NYTimes
20061102
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Sherwood
- Secret
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 Money
- Politics
- Pennsylvania
- Election
2006 - "Rep.
paying ex-mistress about $500K." ... "A Republican
congressman [Don Sherwood of Pennsylvania] accused of abusing his ex-mistress
agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained
a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a
person familiar with the terms of the deal told The Associated Press."
... "The settlement, reached in November 2005, called for Cynthia Ore to
be paid in installments, according to a person who spoke on condition of
anonymity because the deal is confidential. She has received less than
half the money so far, and will not get the rest until after the Nov. 7
election [2006], the person said Thursday." ... "A confidentiality clause
requires Ore to forfeit some of the money if she talks publicly about the
case, according to this person and two other people familiar with elements
of the case." -By Michael Rubinkam
-AP via -Yahoo
20061020
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Sherwood
- Pennsylvania
- 2006
Election - Law
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 Police
- "During
National Character Counts Week, Bush Stumps for Philanderer."
... "So it has come to this: Nineteen days before the midterm elections,
President Bush flew here [Pennsylvania] to champion the reelection of a
congressman who last year settled a $5.5 million lawsuit alleging that
he beat his mistress during a five-year affair." ... ""I'm pleased to be
here with Don Sherwood," a smiling president told the congressman's loyal
but dispirited supporters at a luncheon fundraiser Thursday. "He has got
a record of accomplishment."" ... "Quite a record. While representing the
good people of the 10th District, the married congressman shacked up in
Washington with a Peruvian immigrant more than three decades his junior.
During one assignation in 2004, the woman, who says Sherwood was striking
her and trying to strangle her, locked herself in a bathroom and called
911; Sherwood told police he was giving her a back rub." ... "At a time
when Republicans are struggling to motivate religious conservatives to
go to the polls next month, it is not clear what benefit the White House
found in sending Bush to stump for Sherwood -- smack dab in the middle
of what Bush, in an official proclamation, dubbed "National Character Counts
Week."" ... "The nature of the accuser's allegations -- she said Sherwood
gave her "facial lacerations, bruises about the head, neck and other portions
of her body, head injury, injuries to her teeth, mouth and gums, back and
neck strain, injuries to her scalp" -- makes it more than a distraction.
Sherwood continues to deny abuse after reaching the secret settlement."
-By Dana Milbank -WashingtonPost
20061019
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Sherwood
- Pennsylvania
- 2006
Election - Lawmaker
- Police
- "Bush
campaigns for Pennsylvania congressman enmeshed in sex scandal."
... "He said she was "a casual acquaintance." She said they were extra-marital
lovers, but told police that he tried to choke her. His wife says she forgives
him. So does President Bush." ... "In fact, Bush traveled to northeastern
Pennsylvania Thursday to help the wayward husband, Republican Rep. Don
Sherwood, keep his seat in Congress. Perhaps it's a measure of the Republicans'
plight that the president would throw his prestige behind a candidate whose
marital misbehavior conjures memories of Bill Clinton." ... "Sherwood's
five-year fling with a woman half his age has all the elements of a bad
soap opera, but voter reaction to his performance could help decide whether
Republicans keep control of the House of Representatives. Polls show Sherwood
trailing Democratic challenger Chris Carney in a district that had been
considered a lock for the GOP." ... "Sherwood's problems started in September
2004, when Cynthia Ore called police to the congressman's Capitol Hill
apartment claiming that he'd choked her for no apparent reason." ... "She
was 29 at the time; he was 63." ... "Sherwood was never charged, and the
matter attracted little attention until the following spring, when Ore
threatened legal action and provided details of a relationship that Sherwood
had initially denied. The two met in 1999 at a gathering for young Republicans."
-By Ron Hutcheson -McClatchy
via -KansasCity.com
20061004
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Sherwood
- Pennsylvania
- 2006
Election -
 TV
- Ad
- Politics
- Law
- "Congressman
apologizes for affair in TV ad: [Pennsylvania Republican]
Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa. also denies abusing mistress." ... "Rep. Don Sherwood,
a Republican fighting for [2006] 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." ... "Sherwood, a four-term
congressman, has a seat that had been considered safe until it was revealed
last year that police in 2004 investigated an incident between Sherwood
and Cynthia Ore at his Washington apartment." ... "Charges were never filed,
but Ore sued Sherwood, claiming he had choked her. Sherwood apologized
for the affair but denied abusing Ore. The suit was settled for an undisclosed
sum." -AP
via -MSNBC
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