LOCAL - Atty General Admits Affair

MI Attorney General Mike Cox admitting to having an extramarital affair a number of years ago. This is all over a recent threat to disclose the affair to the public by an alleged Fieger associate. Democrat Geoffrey Fieger pledges to run against Cox in the '06 election and denies knowing the man who threatened Cox.

The Fieger and Cox rumble has been going on for some time now, ever since Cox began an investigation of Fieger. Since March, Cox's office has been investigating a $450,000 television ad campaign that urged viewers to "vote no" against Justice Stephen Markman in last year's Supreme Court race. Markman easily won re-election. But it was not until June -- seven months after the election -- that Fieger, a multimillionaire, filed papers in Oakland County acknowledging he paid for the anti-Markman ads.