Menacing Call From Malloy Administration (CT Gov) Official's Phone To Be Probed (Wiener redux)

Courant.com ^ | February 28, 2012 | JON LENDER

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Officials in Gov.Dannel P. Malloy's administration said Tuesday night that they will investigate whether deputy state Energy and Environment Commissioner Jonathan Schrag made a menacing cellphone call last Thursday night to Cynthia David of Essex, the leader of a conservative women's group who had criticized a state environmental initiative.

Schrag denied making the late-night call, which was reported Tuesday by Courant Columnist Kevin Rennie. But Schrag also offered a complicated explanation that leaves a number of questions unanswered — including how his voice got onto the voicemail.

This was the message that David, leader of an activist group called the Conservative Women's Forum, said she received on her voice mail last Thursday at 11:45 p.m. from Schrag's cellphone number: "We are calling from the Democratic Electronic Monitoring Service. We understand that you are an emailer with respect to Democratic candidates. We wish you to know that your emails are being observed. Thank you."

Schrag, in an interview with Rennie, theorized that someone recorded private remarks he had made in a social setting — although he would not say to whom, or when, or in what setting. Then, Schrag added, that recording of his remarks was played by some unknown method in the phone call to David last Thursday, and it somehow registered on the caller ID as coming from his cellphone.

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Portent of things to come during this elections season....

[Doogle]

...and it somehow registered on the caller ID as coming from his cellphone.

...and the dog ate his homework.....somehow

[raybbr]

This guy, Schrag, is the former director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative here in the Northeast. It's a failed mini cap and trade program that was supposed to make the states that are participating rich by selling carbon credits.

The woman he called lives in Essex which recently dropped out of Agenda 21. I am sure, by his biography he's a full supporter of Agenda 21.

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CT news ping

[Fred Hayek]

Duh... someone recorded some offhand comment I made in a bar, then stole my cellphone and played back that comment. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

[y6162]

Crazed eco-zealot member of the Malloy's organized crime gang

[PowderMonkey]

"Schrag denied making the late-night call, which was reported Tuesday by Courant Columnist Kevin Rennie. But Schrag also offered a complicated explanation that leaves a number of questions unanswered — including how his voice got onto the voicemail."

How infantile can one be? Making late night, and no doubt (insert drug of choice here)- fueled, crank calls. From your own traceable phone number no less. I'm sure a subpeona of his phone records would reveal a good bit more than crank calls. Ms. Essex should consider pressing forward in that regard.

[6SJ7]

Schrag, in an interview with Rennie, theorized that someone recorded private remarks he had made in a social setting — although he would not say to whom, or when, or in what setting. Then, Schrag added, that recording of his remarks was played by some unknown method in the phone call to David last Thursday, and it somehow registered on the caller ID as coming from his cellphone.

Is Schrag so stupid he doesn't know the phone company records would provide an audit trail of his call? Wait. Perhaps he is, considering his incredibly lame fabrication.

[N. Theknow]

Ah, yes. The old audio-shopped, cell phone hi-jacked excuse.

[Safetgiver]

“We are calling from the Democratic Electronic Monitoring Service. We understand that you are an emailer with respect to Democratic candidates. We wish you to know that your emails are being observed. Thank you.”...They call this menacing? I’m sorry, the Constitution does not give you the right to be offended nor does it give you the right to infer a threat when there is none.

[Safetgiver]

However, if they prove emails are being monitored by this organization she can REALLY menace them/him.

[NativeSon]

If she weighs as much as a duck, she must be made of wood and therefor it’s Bush’s fault