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Posted on Sat, Apr. 30, 2005




10th Congressional District


Sherwood denies choking woman
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/11530199.htm
Cynthia Ore, 29, who was receiving a back rub from him at the time, has retracted the claim.
By KEVIN AMERMAN [email protected]

Police responded to the Washington, D.C., apartment of U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood seven months ago after a woman who was visiting called 911 and reported he choked her.

Sherwood, R-Tunkhannock, says he was falsely accused. He pointed to a police report that stated the woman backed off the claim. He also said he’s the victim of a political smear.

No one has been charged in what the police termed a domestic incident.

“Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened,” Washington Metropolitan Police stated in the incident report.

Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md. locked herself in a bathroom and called 911 from her cell phone on the afternoon of Sept. 15, saying Sherwood “choked her for no apparent reason” while giving her a backrub in his apartment on D Street, according to a police report.

Sherwood, 64, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom, the report stated.

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Sherwood disputes her version of what happened.

Sherwood, who is married, called Ore “an acquaintance” but wouldn’t say why she was in his apartment.





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Exclusive: Republicans rallying to help Sherwood get past report
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/11549677.htm
Local political observer advises facing issue linked to D.C. ‘domestic incident.’
By BRETT MARCY [email protected]

Republicans are circling the wagons around U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Tunkhannock, in the wake of an incident involving a 29-year-old woman in his Washington, D.C., apartment last September.

“The only thing you have in life is your reputation,” said Marge Matisko, an activist with the Luzerne County Republican Party. “Don Sherwood has always been very well-respected, and he always valued that. This has hurt him personally and professionally, and that’s a shame.”

No one was charged in what police termed a domestic incident.

Despite an absence of charges, Sherwood may have suffered severe political damage, one pundit says.

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