Cox said he had an affair with a woman not connected to the attorney
general's office and he told his wife a few months after he took
office in January 2003.
The couple sought counseling, he said.
He denied an allegation of a second affair with another woman that was
mentioned in files of the blackmail investigation of Fieger.
Bill Ballenger, the editor of the political newsletter Inside Michigan
Politics and a Central Michigan University political science
professor, said some have been puzzled by the reaction -- or lack
thereof -- of party conservatives.
"Here's the party of moral values with this Christian conservative
element at its core. Aren't they going to be disgusted? Couldn't it
have grave political consequences?'' he said.
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As dust settles in sex scandal, support for Cox emerges
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
By Judy Putnam
Lansing Bureau
LANSING --
Even some of the more conservative members of the Michigan Republican
Party say GOP Attorney General Mike Cox's admission that he cheated on
his wife isn't likely to get in the way of his re-election bid.
In fact, one conservative leader, Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt, said he
was impressed with the way Cox took responsibility for his behavior.
"At this point, I think people will take a look at Mike Cox and say,
He came clean,'' said Cropsey, a member of the board of directors of
the Michigan Conservative Union, an association that promotes limited
government and conservative thinking.
"I can only go by what Mike Cox has said. At this time, I don't think
it's going to hurt at all.''
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