Maryland's O'Malley Affair -- MD4BUSH and Ryan O'Doherty

Stingray: A Blog for Salty Christians ^ | November 2, 2005 | Michael McCullough

[DallasMike]

I wrote this mainly so that I could get a handle on the story and to place the most significant information (with citations, of course) in a single post. Those of you who have been following this story won't find it of much use. I hope that newbies to the story will find the information valuable.

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[DallasMike]

Ping

[sodpoodle]

Excellent work!

I often wondered what happened to the NCPAC/MD4Bush caper.

IMHO WAPO is up to its usual CR*PO and could very well have instigated the whole setup....between one of their lefty reporters and O'Doherty.

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[Anti-Bubba182]

"...I would feel a lot better if we could depend on the mainstream media to properly cover this story."

No way that would happen! If Mosk received the information on MD4Bush through an intermediary he should have immediately smelled a rat. This is especially true with all the indications at Free Rebublic that the affair was instigated by a Democratic operative.

FR will still probably never receive a subpoena which would show which email address MD4Bush used in his regestration. The reason is that the investigation is controlled by the Democratic Majority on the legislative committee investigating the affair who has subpoena power.

They won't ask the question because they bloody well know where the information will lead and that is right back to the Maryland Democrats.

[TBP]

If the Dems start accusing the Republicans of "dirty tricks" I hope this all turns into an ad.

[conservative in nyc]

MD4Bush Ping!

Nice work.

[Republican Red]

Can Steffan sue the Maryland Democratic Party or Mosk in order to get the info out in a court of law? The man was set-up and lost his job. Maybe he can sue for defamation of character.

[RebelBanker]

I have been following this story and I found your post VERY helpful in sorting out this mess. I happen to live in a conservative part of Maryland and would appreciate your permission to forward your write-up to my US Congressman. I believe he may find it useful as well.

Thank you!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Maybe, but he hasn't so far. The Maryland Democrats control the legislative committees that have subpoena power to get the info, but they will block any GOP request for one and for obvious reasons.

The Washinton Post certainly won't apply any pressure for a subpoena.

[Congressman Billybob]

You did a good job of summarizing the story. You reached the same conclusions that I did, at 4 a.m. when I revised my story on the same subject, on Newsbusters.org Click below for my take, which is the same as yours except I also picked up on the Wa-Po's denial of knowledge, which raises more questions than it answers.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Democrat Official Outed as 'Sleaze' Source on Mayor O'Malley; Washington Post Ignored Story it Had (Updated)"

[DallasMike]

Thank you for the compliments. You are quite kind. You are welcome to send anybody any portion of the post thereof. If you send something by e-mail I would prefer that you offer a link to my blog, but do whatever you think will work best.

This story makes me wonder how many supposed Karl Rove dirty tricks are actually cooked up and implemented by Democrats against each other.

[RebelBanker]

I think hard copy would be safer - my Congressman is quite up in years and not likely to be very tech-savvy.

Good question about the dirty tricks. As with this case, I always try to ask, "Who benefits?"

[BreitbartSentMe]

I think this answers one of your questions. Thanks to maggief for posting this on an earlier thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513580/posts?q=1&&page=101#170:

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http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=Ryan+O%27Doherty&Cmte=DPC&cycle=2004

Ryan O'Doherty


$1,247

8/30/2004

Payroll

Ryan O'Doherty

$1,247

9/15/2004

Payroll

Ryan O'Doherty

$1,247

9/30/2004

Payroll

Ryan O'Doherty

$1,247

10/15/2004

Payroll

Ryan O'Doherty

$1,247

10/29/2004

Payroll

Ryan O'Doherty

$1,247

11/15/2004

Payroll

170 posted on 11/01/2005 3:48:28 PM PST by maggief

[backhoe]

The O'Malley Affair- NCPAC, MD4Bush, Ehrlich, & more
various FR links & stories | 02-13-05 | the heavy equipment guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342165/posts

[BreitbartSentMe]

FYI, that link to Open Secrets - the expenditures notated to him are for payroll for the Democratic Party itself, for 2004 - and is 'mistakenly' filed under "R" as in "Ryan O'Doherty" instead of "O'Doherty, Ryan" (lastname, firstname) as are all others. Hiding in plain sight??

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It should provide an amusing and highly entertaining ride for all involved
(as far as safaris through Maryland liberal politics generally go - i.e., Mr. Toad will be driving).

[King Prout]

ping

[GOP_1900AD]

That is a really good executive summary.

[King Prout]

ah, you're here already. sorry.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

As late as yesterday the remedial Baltimore Sun was still trying to spin the Steffen angle to this story (as an example of Republican dirty tricks). Can you say "bias"?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker01nov01,1,1648873.column?coll=bal-home-columnists