Posted on 12/24/2005 12:55:14 AM PST by conservative in nyc
Josh White, who took over daily operations of a dispirited Maryland Democratic Party after the Republican gubernatorial victory in 2002, is leaving the organization nine months before next year's primary.
A widely respected political professional, White, 38, was hired in 2003 as executive director, but lost the title after Terry Lierman replaced Isiah Leggett as party chairman last year.
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White declined yesterday to give a reason for his departure but said he was leaving at the end of the year. Party offices in Annapolis are closed next week, meaning White's duties have effectively ended.
"I'm just looking forward to doing something else," he said, adding that he planned to stay in Maryland in another political or campaign position. "I am still going to be working to put Democrats in office and take back Maryland," White said.
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White leaves as Republicans and conservatives continue to seek the identity of MD4Bush, the anonymous Internet poster who created an online identity and began discussing rumors about Mayor Martin O'Malley's personal life with another message board visitor who was an aide to Ehrlich.
The aide, Joseph F. Steffen Jr., resigned, and apologized to O'Malley. But disclosure of Steffen's activities in several state agencies led to a legislative probe of whether Ehrlich was firing relatively low-level state workers for political reasons.
A conservative Web site, free republic.com, recently disclosed that one of the e-mail addresses used to operate MD4Bush was rodoherty@mddems.org, the same e-mail address as former party communications director Ryan O'Doherty, who used to work with White.
Democratic Party officials say they do not know who MD4Bush is and have questioned the authenticity of O'Doherty's e-mail address on freerepublic.com. They said White's departure is not tied to questions about the online poster.
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(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I will bet that Josh White and MANY Maryland Democrats had something to do with this saga ... this wasn't something MD4Bush concocted in a vacuum ... and there are several more prominent Democrats who seem to have been in hiding since the story broke - including one VERY prominent operative who called himself a "media consultant".
Of course these arsonists have returned ... with new ids and new addresses.
He is fixin' to become a Republican!
I just love the smell of Burning Rat on Christmas Morning! Nice prestent FR.
Merry Christ's Day
Verry interesting... Unfortunately, with the percentage of welfare queens and government drones in the People's Democratic State of Maryland it probably won't matter much.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the gang here!
I wish that were true, ain't gonna happen.
Probably so.
I'm still pondering the gratuitous slap to Barbara Mikulski.
[Channelling Dan Bogus Rather] As anyone who worked a police beat knows, look at motive...[/Dan Bogus Rather off]
Damn good thing he didn't work at NSA!
They know they're caught in the crosshairs, but they will keep lying and spinning and obfuscating until doomsday. 'Rats do not "come clean" even when there is video showing them accepting payoffs, so why would they 'fess up when they think they still have a chance to work their MSM butt-boys to spin their story for them???
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