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- NATION, Page 29American NotesINDIANATaking a Chance on Love
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- Start with a promising Indiana politician. Add one
- mistress. Season with love notes and broken promises. The
- result? A pungent political scandal.
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- The imbroglio came to light last December, when Mary
- Cartwright, personnel director for the Hoosier Lottery, accused
- her boss, Jack Crawford, of sexual harassment and he was forced
- to resign. Out of concern for the couple's privacy, Governor
- Evan Bayh initially kept a lid on embarrassing documents
- Cartwright presented: a handwritten contract in which Crawford
- promised to pay Cartwright $125 a week and a pledge to promote
- her to lottery director if he ever became Governor. But Bayh
- made the documents public two weeks ago, after Crawford
- indicated he might run for prosecutor of Marion County and
- Cartwright charged that a state trooper and a lottery official
- had broken into her apartment. The Governor also fired
- Cartwright.
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- "I just don't think I belong in public life," said a
- dejected Crawford. Said Cartwright: "I have been royally used."
- But the Governor had the last word: "I think the whole thing can
- be categorized as tragic."
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