Interesting. ;)
So Steffan resigned because...........
Ehrlich has been a great Governor, He is a decent man.
Now this Mayor of Baltimore ,a city by the way that got Millions of dollars out of Glendenning, is trying to turn a posting on the internet into a ticket to the Governors mansion. It takes more than that to make a Governor and this guy hasnt got what it takes.
Jim probably has his logs ready for him.
This is all just an attempt orchestrated by the Baltimore Sun, as the official cheerleading "newspaper" of the Democratic party, and the Washington Post to steal the 2006 Maryland gubernatorial election from Ehrlich and hand it to O'Malley. In short, it's a pathetic left-wing effort to take attention away from the fact that Baltimore City, run entirely by Democrats and headed by Mayor Martin O'Malley, is no better off than it was 5 years ago and have absolutely no one to blame but themselves. Heaven knows Martin O'Malley couldn't run on his "record" as Baltimore City mayor.
I notice that in yesterday's Sun O'Malley's comparison of the President's budget to the 9/11 attacks, while sharing the stage with a former President, received one sentence of mention, while this so-called imbroglio received a juicy frint-page article, and an extra article inside, practically accusing Governor Ehrlich of orchestrating some kind of 7th gradish character "assassination." So much for objectivity of the press...
welcome a probe? I thought this story was about Gov. McGreevey of Jersey. (if you get my thrust)
Yet another article appears - PING.
Hope your OK and weathering the storm, somehow I think you are.
Would really like to see this injustice righted though. If we are right, and I think we are, I hope this whole thing backfires and blasts that Mayor and his operatives into political oblivion.
I understand why we FReepers are so interested in this matter. But I just did a quick google news search and found 6 items related to "Steffen":
S.F. Chronicle
Newsday
Washington Postrag
Annapolis Catital
WJLA
WTOP
U.K. Guardian
All this over mentioning gossip on a website????????????
a fringe, nutjob right wingnut website, but a tough, well educated and formidable opponent
is the way these huge media organizations are all admitting to the power a quote, a rumor, or an idea has when started here.
Monkey Business redux
Governor Probed, Welcomes Rumors.
Hmm. All you had to do was go to the original post and see that the Washington Post and the NY Times lied through their teeth about what the post said or who posted it.
A completely different freeper asked for information about the rumor. Steffen posted a couple of innocuous comments on the thread. Nothing that he said added to the rumor, confirmed it, or spread it in any way. His comments were about the equivalent of saying that it was a nice day.
I figured I'd ping you even though you probably have seen it..... b4
Heard a few minutes of buzz on all of this on the Ron Smith show on WBAL around 4:50 PM EST.
Ummmm.....Is that worse than a mere Zot?
Graham Parker's last record with the Rumour was in 1980, so there's really not much point to this probe.
It's a shame this isn't a crime. Then we could get supoena power and some people up before the grand jury to give testimony "under oath".
Now THAT would be interesting. I would especially like to hear what that little cutie had to say.