Posted on 11/09/2005 7:30:37 AM PST by kristinn
BALTIMORE -- For the first time, the Maryland Democratic Party condemned the personal attacks MD4BUSH used in his bid to engage a former Gov. Robert Ehrlich aide into spreading rumors about the personal life of Baltimore Mayor O'Malley on the Internet.
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WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said the executive director of the Maryland Democratic Party earlier dismissed questions concerning the tactics used by MD4BUSH as "irrelevant." Party officials changed their mind and issued a strong, purposeful statement of condemnation.
"It is despicable in my opinion," said Keiffer Mitchell, co-chairman of the state Democratic party. "It is gutter politics. It should not take place."
Mitchell is condemning the character assassination tactics used by the mysterious poster MD4BUSH to get the attention of Ehrlich aid Joe Steffen, then engage Steffen in rumor mongering about O'Malley's personal life on the Internet. Mitchell is encouraging his party to launch an investigation.
"It would be a step in the right direction, to clear the air, to put this to rest," Mitchell said.
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Statement from party officials: "The Maryland Democratic Party would never ever condone personal attacks on anyone for any reason, including as a response to a dirty trick campaign conducted by Gov. Ehrlich and his staff."
Collins reported MD4BUSH targeted Illinois U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, used ugly slang to describe Maryland U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, and repeatedly attacked the character, integrity and moral values of O'Malley.
A review of all the e-mails between Steffen and MD4BUSH indicate Steffen never got personal nor did the self-described political hit man add more dirt to the rumors he acknowledges he helped spread.
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"If there is something happening within our party, then let's take responsible action and let's handle it," Mitchell said.
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He is bound by the law not to divulge the ip or other personal info about MD4BUSH.
FR would get sued until the end of time.
Rhetorical question:
If a Democrat committed treason, really, really, really bad treason, the kind that resulted in thousands of American deaths, would the democrats be able to find a reason to investigate and prosecute?
I'm not so sure it would be ILLEGAL Jim Robinson to divulge the IP address or other information about someone who breached his User Agreement. But I'm no expert on the ECPA or similar laws.
The WashPost has sworn on a stack of Bibles, so to speak, that it got the code from MD4Bush legitimately, "through an intermediary." And, FreeRepublic is under attack on this very subject.
Under those unique circumstances, which have never applied to any other of the 200,000 or so participants on FreeRepublic, my conclusion is that JimRob may release the access information (computers used, exact times of day, etc.) on MD4Bush, as he, JimRob) chooses.
Does that make senses to you, JimRob? You have paid me a quarter in hand received, and this is legal advice from a fairly experienced First Amendment lawyer.
Cordially,
John Armor, Esq.
Congressman Billybob
John / Billybob
They did move her to somewhere safe and museum-like in Washington - far enough from the high school students of West Baltimore and Baltimore County to calm things down on weekend nights in Druid Ridge Cemetery.
But the legend lives on!
Details on Haunted Maryland site link:
Sure! As soon as you move on from the Tom Delay case, and the "CIA leak" extravaganza!:-)
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