Hell hath no fury like...
The bad part about this is these people's love spat dragged the whole state down. They should be ashamed.
According to the report, NCPAC was romantically involved with Ms. Lane. And Lane met with the Baltimore City health commissioner and O'Malley confidant Michael Enright in part to get a job. She also implied that NCPAC "a mole", whatever that means.
According to the rest of the article, Mayor O'Malley said he doesn't know who MD4Bush is, but he'd like to "give that person a medal" because "they ended a lot of pain that the governor put [him] and [his family] through for many, many months".
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This story needs midgets and a couple of explosions, but so does every other story.
mole = spy
As in, a KGB agent working in the State Deparment or the Pentagon.
So apparently, Ms. Lane thought that NCPAC, wherever he worked, was a spy for someone else or some other department.
Well, there it is. The Bard was right! In the modern age, he might have said "Hell hath no fury than an office boinking gone bad."
Who would believe that a Governor appoints someone who actually works for him, the duly elected Governor of a state?
Here is a further clarification to that point as quoted from the story:
Enright said Lane also described to him Steffen as "a mole for the Ehrlich administration."
She says he was a mole for the Erlich administration. That's true, except that there was nothing secret about it, which would be the case for a mole.
His job was to go into the state bureaucracy and weed out the incompetents and the political hacks. Evidently she knew he was doing that with the child welfare agency, which other threads have suggested was corrupt and needed fixing.
The only thing strange about this is that possibly he fell for a woman who couldn't be trusted. It happens.
There can be no doubt that Lane must have known that Steffan was a FReeper, and might have even known his handle here. My theory at this point:
* Lane was, herself, a Dimocrap mole
* Based on the whole "grim reaper" conspiracy theory held by the lefty inter-adminstration careerists, she targetted Steffen specifically.
* Lane is not MD4Bush
* MD4Bush has been either the direct recipient of, or, end point user of, intel on Steffen collected by Lane.
* Lane was fired because she was exposed as a mole. But not wanting to overtly discuss it, the firing was done quietly and with no questions asked.
* Subsequently, someone has convinved Lane not to go down quietly, and has convinced her to play hardball.
* MD4Bush has connections at the Baltimore Sun.