Posted on 10/22/2004 5:16:25 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
BATH, N.Y. (AP) - Sealed divorce records alleging a Republican candidate for Congress once threatened his wife at gunpoint were obtained by his Democratic opponent's campaign manager, a prosecutor said Thursday.
On instructions from Democrat Samara Barend's campaign manager, a college student went to the Steuben County Clerk's office in September to get ``publicly available information'' about Republican state Sen. John ``Randy'' Kuhl, county District Attorney John Tunney said.
Court-sealed documents detailing Kuhl's divorce in 2000 were included inadvertently, and the student, Andrew Rachlin, 22, copied the papers and turned them over to Barend campaign manager Jonah Siegellak, said Tunney, who investigated at Kuhl's request.
Barend and Siegellak have repeatedly said there was no connection between the campaign and the release of the divorce papers. In the Oct. 7 edition of The Leader newspaper in Corning, Siegellak said that ``no one in this camp went to retrieve those documents.''
Barend in a statement Thursday did not address Tunney's findings, saying instead: ``Today it was made clear that Mr. Kuhl is the one who has explaining to do. Now he is free to explain why he told the public there was `nothing incriminating' in the documents.''
Kuhl and his former wife, Jennifer, have called the release of the papers ``ugly politics'' and an invasion of the family's privacy.
``I was extremely disappointed to learn that Samara Barend was behind'' the disclosure, Kuhl said in a statement.
The district attorney said no charges will be filed.
Kuhl is running against Barend for the seat vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Amo Houghton. Barend is a former aide to New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Earlier this year, Illinois Republican Jack Ryan ended his U.S. Senate bid after the release of divorce records that included allegations that he took his wife to sex clubs.
I think we all know where Ms. Barend learned this particular trick.
Too bad for her she didn't learn her mentor's tricks on how to keep her fingerprints OFF it.
campaign manager Jonah Siegellak
Any Freepers out there able to show ties, preferably current, betweeen Siegellak and the Hildebeast?
That could be fun.
Follow up to previous posts for the Upstaters on the CoE list.
Why does it not surprise me? From one witch to another.
I wonder if we could hire this kid to get Kerry's unreleased divorce records? He seems to have a good track record.
Papers revealed "indadvertantly? My fanny. Following this election Kuhl should bring civil suit against the person who released the records, the recipient, and the candidate who knowingly used them. This garbage politics has simply got to stop, and the only thing a Democrat fears is a law suit.
Typical brazen response. Totally ignore that you got the documents under questionable circumstance and then demand your opponent explain it.
Our side is so inept in matters like this. We really play way too nice against vile, subhuman thugs.
To paraphrase one of my fave films, "We need a wartime consigliere. A Sicilian!"
Time we ended some careers and ruin some lives, if you ask me.
Anyone watching the Democrats know they have special friends in courts. They can get 1200 FBI files and go through them like Christmas wish lists? They can get into court records at will. They can even overturn a Democrat senate primary in New Jersey and nullify it because the winner has low poll numbers. They can have the Defense Dept. release an employee's private file to the media. The Florida Supreme Court went in front of the world and tried to change election laws after the election. I fault the people that stand and watch. It is long past the time when the GOP should make a stand.
"inadvertently"--yeah, right! (BIG SARC) Someone should pay royally for this "inadvertently".
This girl must be defeated at all cost.
No more socialist Hillary scumbags, not Upstate anyways.
"Time we ended some careers and ruin some lives, if you ask me."
BTTT
defeat socialists BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
BTTT
And remember...NEVER gamble with a sicilian when DEATH is on the line!
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