Kevin Coan
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Claims to fame: Republican; Missouri election official; Internet predator
Moral apex: Arrested in Illinois in 2001 for offering to pay for sex over the Internet from a 14-year-old girl — who turned out to be male police officer working a chat-room sting.
Twinkie defense: Coan’s attorney accused Democrats of framing Coan as retribution for leading investigation into voting irregularities in St. Louis, and said Coan thought he was meeting his wife, and not underage girl, in Illinois supermarket.
Damning evidence: Arresting officer recognized Coan by the photo of himself Coan e-mailed to the “14-year-old.”
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Coan:
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
— Matthew 26:41
