MD4Bush Identified!

WBAL Radio 1090AM ^ | 11-01-2005 | Ron Smith, WBAL Radio 1090AM

[ILLUMINATI_216]

WBAL news team has announced at 5pm on The Ron Smith Show that MD4Bush has been identified as Ryan O'Doherty, a former Maryland Democrat Party operative/official.

Further details will emerge in moments.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Too bad.

Peter King would be a very popular pol there, I take it.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I don't know really.

[Herosmith]

During your research don't forget about archive.org

Can find some interesting history... And nail down dates

[darkangel82]

Maybe you mean the Progressive Democrats - vaguely classical liberal/conservative.

Very different from what's called "Progressive Democrats" in the US.

[TBP]

Check here for more info and discussion, and see the liberals squirm:

http://www.baltimoresun2.com/talk/showthread.php?t=41459

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yes, of course!!

[robowombat]

Ryan O'Doherty
rodoherty@mddems.org
410-269-8818 (voice)
188 Main Street Suite 1 Annapolis, Maryland 21401

[robowombat]

Here we have the perp trying to deny some other rat malfeasance:

Campaign signs face partisan ire


By Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


A Randallstown, Md., couple has been charged with destroying Bush/Cheney '04 signs, police said yesterday.
Peter Lizon, 30, and Stephanie Louise Lizon, 34, of Valdivia Court, were arrested over the weekend by Howard County police during a surveillance operation along Route 40. They were observed cutting down a sign next to the road and will each face a $500 fine.
The incident is one of the most recent among numerous reports across the country about vandalism and worse connected to the Nov. 2 presidential election.







In Bearden, Tenn., an unknown gunman yesterday fired several shots into the Bush-Cheney campaign office, WBIR-TV of Knoxville reported.
A red, white and blue mailbox in Anderson Township, Ohio, with John Kerry stickers on it was damaged by somebody who drove by and smashed it with a baseball bat, WLWT News 5 in Cincinnati reported.
The arrest yesterday in Howard County was just the latest in a series of political vandalism investigations there. Police recently charged Corey Cook, 33, of Ellicott City, for stealing Bush/Cheney signs along Route 40.
In another case, Anthony McGuffin, an Ellicott City Democratic activist and former congressional candidate, told investigators that he left his upstairs study late one night last week, then returned to find a .45-caliber bullet had been fired through the window.
Mr. McGuffin, 51, ran for Congress in 2000, the state legislature in 2002 and is serving on the Howard County Democratic Central Committee.
He and his wife are not sure whether the bullet was fired into the house because they have a Kerry/Edwards sign in their front yard, but they suspect that was the case.
"I just want this election to be over," said his wife, Abby. "Maybe everyone will recover their sanity."
In Annandale, Brad Chittenden replaced his Bush/Cheney signs six or seven times after they were repeatedly stolen from a lot he owns next to his home. Mr. Chittenden first posted regular campaign signs, then hammered a 4-by-4 wooden post into the ground, then planted a steel beam in a concrete base, then erected a wire fence around the sign.
Only the fence has worked. After spending nearly $100 and lots of time, Mr. Chittenden's sign has remained up for five days, he said, sparing him the expense of buying a video-surveillance system, which was his next step.
Bob Davies, a Republican supporter, had a sign stolen Saturday afternoon from the front yard of his Potomac home and said he was advised by the Republican campaign office in Rockville to put axle grease on the new one.
Officials from both political parties in the metropolitan area are blaming their opponents for the vandalism.
"It's more an issue of Democrats than Republicans destroying the signs, though I'm sure there are some Republicans who might be out taking signs," said Deborah Martinez, spokeswoman for the Maryland Republican Party.
She also said Democrats destroying signs "speaks a lot to how that party operates, which is based on anger and rage as opposed to sensible solutions."
Ryan O'Doherty, spokesman for the Maryland Democratic Party, said he would "like to see some of facts" to back up the Miss Martinez's statement.
"If they were tracking each sign that was stolen, which I doubt they have because they don't have the resources, it'd be different," he said.
In Beaverton, Ore., one man had his Bush/Cheney sign burned five feet from his propane tank, while in nearby Raleigh Hills, a Kerry supporter's sign was shot, the Oregonian newspaper reported.
In Lake Oswego, Ore., another Kerry supporter had six signs stolen from his yard. He responded by pounding in 100 more, according to the paper.
The problem has forced some people to take creative measures to protect their signs.
A Bush supporter in Collinsville, Mo., chained his sign to the ground, the Belleville News-Democrat reported. In Fond du Lac, Wis., Republican officials are offering a reward for information on sign vandalism, according to the Reporter newspaper.
Democrats in Virginia make the same assertion as Republicans in Maryland about the vandalism.
"We have places all over Virginia that report either desecration of our signs or outright theft," said Laura Bland, spokeswoman for the Virginia Democratic Party. "It's something that is happening all over Virginia. I haven't heard any reports of Bush campaign folks complaining about their signs being stolen or desecrated. We would never encourage people to steal people's campaign signs. I think it's against the law."

[robowombat]

Long article showing the post weaseling and nailing the perp as a high ranking rat party operative:

Democrat Outed as 'Sleaze' Source on Mayor O'Malley: WashPost Ignored Own Story (Updated)
Posted by John Armor on November 1, 2005 - 23:09.
Thanks to the efforts of investigative reporters for WBAL in Baltimore, which has just broken the story, the former third-ranked official for the Democrat Party in Maryland has been outed as the original source for sexual slanders against Baltimore’s Democrat Mayor, Martin O’Malley, who is currently running for Governor.

The original stories in February in the Washington Post blamed the kerfuffel on Joseph Steffen, then an aide to Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich, Jr. The aide was terminated from his position as a result of his name (but not the Democrat’s name) coming out at the time.

Source: www.wbal.com/shows/Smith/ Transcript should be up, shortly.

Personal note: much of the back story on this subject occurred on FreeRepublic.com, known as FR. I have written on that website, and been a speaker at several rallies in D.C., for that website and its founder, Jim Robinson. My association with the website has lasted over seven years.

Steffen was a participant in that website a year ago, under a screen name. He got into a PRIVATE conversation by “Freepmail,” a person to person communication system on that website, with someone whose screen name was MD4Bush. This person represented that he was a staunch Republican, in a state where Republicans are in a distinct minority. MD4Bush, in this private exchange, made several salacious sexual charges against the Mayor of Baltimore. MD4Bush, it now turns out, was Communications Director for the Maryland Democrats when he signed up on FR and as his first participation began pushing rumors that “O’Malley was cheating on his wife.”

Steffen did not rise to the bait on most of the charges. But he responded (shades of the Libby investigation) “I heard that, too,” with respect to one.

Within minutes of the last private communication, two reporters for the Washington Post wrote a story outing Steffen by name as an aide to Governor Ehrlich (a Republican) for dealing in rumors about O’Malley. Subsequently, Democrats in the state legislature asked for a full investigation of the Governor’s staff.

The speed with which the Post had the story suggests that they used MD4Bush as their source. And they must have had some reason for believing that their source was reliable. In short, it is highly likely that the Post knew they were getting information from a then-Democrat staffer in order to attack a Republican staffer and the Governor he worked for.

The understanding of the story would have been much better, and the story would have been far more honest, if the Post had reported that part of the story. But they did not. That suggests that the Post story was deliberately slanted to harm the Republicans and protect the Democrats, when they knew from the get-go that this was a set-up by a Democrat.

John_Armor@aya.yale.edu

Post Script: As of the close of business on Tuesday the 1st, Ryan O'Doherty, the former Democrat Party Official was Coordinator for Business Development & Customer Relations for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. That organization reports to the Mayor of Baltimore, and the County Executives of the surrounding Counties.

In the course of highway litigation in Baltimore in the 80s, we found a handwritten note by then-Mayor of Baltimore, Donald Shaeffer, demanding the firing of a metropolitan staff member whose views were crosswise with the Mayor. Odds are, Mayor O'Malley will have seen to the firing of Mr. O'Doherty by noon on 2 November, and not a minute too soon.

Here is the complete text of Mr. O'Doherty's Profile Page on FR (punctuation as in the original): " "I hate John Kerry and I'm sick of his lies. This is the most important election in history and George bush must win. If not the Islamic Terrorists will win, there will be more attacks on the states." Nice statement for someone who was then employed as the Communications Director for the Maryland Democrat Party.

Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1513580/posts?q=1&&page=201

Shortly before 4 a.m. EST, the Washington Post published on line a denial that it knew who MD4Bush was. It claimed that it received his password on FR "through an intermediary" in order to determine that the "messages were genuine." This article was datelined "by Washington Post Staff Writers."

The name of Matthew Mosk, principal writer on the original story in February, did not appear. It is possible that the intermediary was the brother of the Democrat official named above, who was then working for Mongomery County Executive Duncan, who is running against O'Malley in the Democrat primary, and if won, against Ehrlich in the general election. That would make the original story a two-fer smear -- harm O'Malley, and blame it on Ehrlich.

Also, the Post asserts that MD4Bush "was not working for the Democrat Party" at the time the story appeared. How would the Post know that, if it didn't know who MD4Bush really was? A screen capture from Google showed him as working for the Md. Democrat Party as of January. The story broke on 8 February.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110102223.html

Also, didn't Ben Bradlee insist on knowing who Deep Throat was, as the main source for Woodward and Bernstein in the Wategate coverage? Didn't the Post get a black eye subsequently, and have to fire a reporter and return a Pulitzer Prize over articles, without a legitimate source, on an 8-year-old heroin addict in D.C.? Has the Post now relaxed its standards for anonymous sources?

Also, exactly an hour before the original Post story ran electronically on 8 February (in print the lext day), MD4Bush dumped the whole correspondence from the Freepmail (where only the participants can see it and privacy concerns applied) to a public forum where anyone could read and use it. Did a Post reporter himself or herself make this public dump precisely to set up the story that was already written? An hour between last available information and publication of a story is extremely tight, unless the Post was in on the gag.

In short, the denials of the Post raise many more questions than they answer. I am authorized to say that FR will guard anyone's privacy, including MC4Bush, until and unless an appropriate subpeona is issued, seeking such information.


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[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"...the former third-ranked official for the Democrat Party in Maryland has been outed as the original source for sexual slanders against Baltimore’s Democrat Mayor, Martin O’Malley, who is currently running for Governor."

You would think The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun which have spread the canard that Steffen was the source of spreading the rumors about O'Malley would have the decency to offer page one corrections of this error.

Given that it looks like writers from The Washington Post cooperated with a Democratic operative to plant a false story, it does make you wonder how much of the news in general is part of orchestrated liberal smears.

"Dan Rather, calll your office."

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They were observed cutting down a sign next to the road and will each face a $500 fine.

So their boy Kerry lost anyway AND they had to pay a $500 fine for chopping down Bush-Cheney signs?
Well, well...pro-abortion liberal maniacs waste their time doing the dumbest things. Expensive ones, too.

I'm amazed at how much time liberals spend just reacting to conservative internet activity. It shows they waste inordinate amounts of time letting their anger get the better of them. And this liberal dork who logged on to FR pretending to be conservative to set up Steffen - that's pretty silly. One could imagine a lot of ridiculous situations for liberal operatives - but wasting your life with dirty tricks for Duncan or O'Malley is really taking bottom feeding to a new low.

Buckhead nailing Dan Rather must have really pushed these wacko libs over the edge. You just never know how kooky these types will get.

[Designer]

With a name like that I think I would pick a "screen name".

[Toskrin]

Anyone have any speculation on why MD4Bush's first post, on the day he signed up to FR, was in response to a post by NCPAC?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=173184

[Huck]

What "did in" NCPAC were private FReepmails to MD4Bush where MD baited NC into talking about rumors about O'Malley. Pretty low dirty trickster stuff.

Dirty tricks? In politics? Shocking I tell you! Shocking!

[Beagle8U]

I've had problems for years with RATS stealing "Bush" signs in front of my property, Heres how I solved that problem...

I put the signs on a steep hillside near the road(but off the right of way), I then dump manure( cat or dog works great, but hog is best) liberally around the sign, and half way down the hill.
Since most of the signs are stolen at night, and its a country road with no streetlights, They scramble up the hill and slip and fall face first in shit!

Trust me..Its works great!
I've seen the slide marks, but haven't lost another sign!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/01/2005. Thanks ILLUMINATI_216.

MD4Bush site:freerepublic.com

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