These attacks have surfaced this week, at the same time that Howard Dean, pioneer in computer fundraising and web logs for the democrats, is ascending to power in the democrat party. Coincidence? I think not.
hmmm...pretty thin but, you never know.
The real reason, IMO, is that O'Malley has been trying to find an opportune time to put this "rumor thing" onto someone as a political dirty trick and he opportunistically found his man. He had to clear this up (obfuscate it) before he runs for guv and the opportunity presented itself in the form of NCPAC aka Steffan..etc.
These rumors have been out there for years. One certainly needs to "question the timing".
I really think Dean is the coincidence in this matter.