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Ex-Packers groupie seeks score at polls
Book on '60s exploits spices up campaign
By Todd Richmond, Associated Press
Published October 11, 2006
MADISON, Wis. -- The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by one candidate's tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with Green Bay football legends during the team's glory days under Vince Lombardi in the 1960s.
Sandy Sullivan, 65, a Republican with no political experience, published a gushing memoir in 2004 titled "Green Bay Love Stories and Other Affairs" in which she says she was the girlfriend of Packers Paul Hornung and Dan Currie, deflected a pass from retired Hall of Famer Don Hutson and was on the receiving end of a saucy comment from Richard Nixon.
In football-crazy Wisconsin, it is unclear whether the book will be a gain or a loss for Sullivan, who is not given much of a chance of beating Secretary of State Doug La Follette, a 28-year incumbent and a member of one of Wisconsin's most distinguished political families.
Sullivan's Web site mentions the book and features a picture of her with former Packers quarterback Bart Starr.
To those offended by the notion that a Packers groupie wants to run for state office, Sullivan said: "It tells a little bit about my youth, which was 50 years ago. If anybody has any problems with it, they ought to look in their own closet."
La Follette bemoans the attention the book is getting. But "it's sort of amusing, quite honestly," the 66-year-old Democrat said. "She has a right to her life."
Sullivan says she was 19 in 1961 when she took a job with the Packers selling tickets and met Hornung, the Heisman Trophy-winning running back.
"Here he was, in the flesh! Oh! My God! He was soooo CUTE!" Sullivan wrote. She recounted an encounter with him during training camp in which Hornung picked her up at 5:30 a.m. and drove to a Green Bay hotel for sex. Some Packers coaches were in the lobby, so Hornung made her climb the fire escape to the fifth floor while he went in through the lobby, she wrote.
Hornung did not return numerous messages seeking comment. But the book includes a foreword in which he describes Sullivan as a "carefree, fun-loving girl who fit right in with me and the rest of the `Pack."'
Sullivan also fell for Currie, a Packers linebacker, and later married Currie's dentist, Matt Sullivan. He died in 1984.
One time, Nixon came to Green Bay for a ceremony to honor Starr, and Sullivan attended in a miniskirt.
Later he shook her hand, leaned over into her and softly said, "Hello there . . . so you must be the CHERRY of the evening." No one was sure what Nixon meant, Sullivan wrote, though she speculated he had confused her with Starr's wife, Cherry.
Packers fans at Lambeau Field on Monday said her stand on the issues--not her one-night stands--would determine whether they would vote for her.
"Who isn't doing things like that these days?" said Carol Williams, 78, of Menasha.
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AP writer Colin Fly in Green Bay contributed to this report
Book on '60s exploits spices up campaign
By Todd Richmond, Associated Press
Published October 11, 2006
MADISON, Wis. -- The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by one candidate's tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with Green Bay football legends during the team's glory days under Vince Lombardi in the 1960s.
Sandy Sullivan, 65, a Republican with no political experience, published a gushing memoir in 2004 titled "Green Bay Love Stories and Other Affairs" in which she says she was the girlfriend of Packers Paul Hornung and Dan Currie, deflected a pass from retired Hall of Famer Don Hutson and was on the receiving end of a saucy comment from Richard Nixon.
In football-crazy Wisconsin, it is unclear whether the book will be a gain or a loss for Sullivan, who is not given much of a chance of beating Secretary of State Doug La Follette, a 28-year incumbent and a member of one of Wisconsin's most distinguished political families.
Sullivan's Web site mentions the book and features a picture of her with former Packers quarterback Bart Starr.
To those offended by the notion that a Packers groupie wants to run for state office, Sullivan said: "It tells a little bit about my youth, which was 50 years ago. If anybody has any problems with it, they ought to look in their own closet."
La Follette bemoans the attention the book is getting. But "it's sort of amusing, quite honestly," the 66-year-old Democrat said. "She has a right to her life."
Sullivan says she was 19 in 1961 when she took a job with the Packers selling tickets and met Hornung, the Heisman Trophy-winning running back.
"Here he was, in the flesh! Oh! My God! He was soooo CUTE!" Sullivan wrote. She recounted an encounter with him during training camp in which Hornung picked her up at 5:30 a.m. and drove to a Green Bay hotel for sex. Some Packers coaches were in the lobby, so Hornung made her climb the fire escape to the fifth floor while he went in through the lobby, she wrote.
Hornung did not return numerous messages seeking comment. But the book includes a foreword in which he describes Sullivan as a "carefree, fun-loving girl who fit right in with me and the rest of the `Pack."'
Sullivan also fell for Currie, a Packers linebacker, and later married Currie's dentist, Matt Sullivan. He died in 1984.
One time, Nixon came to Green Bay for a ceremony to honor Starr, and Sullivan attended in a miniskirt.
Later he shook her hand, leaned over into her and softly said, "Hello there . . . so you must be the CHERRY of the evening." No one was sure what Nixon meant, Sullivan wrote, though she speculated he had confused her with Starr's wife, Cherry.
Packers fans at Lambeau Field on Monday said her stand on the issues--not her one-night stands--would determine whether they would vote for her.
"Who isn't doing things like that these days?" said Carol Williams, 78, of Menasha.
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AP writer Colin Fly in Green Bay contributed to this report