[conservative in nyc]

It was just about sex.

Well, I guess that's true, since this all started over "rumours" about Mayor O'Malley's sex life!

From the Mosk Washington Post article with the misleading headline:

Steffen would not, on advice of counsel, discuss the incident that forced him into the spotlight: his boasts on the Internet that he helped orchestrate a campaign to smear Ehrlich's chief political rival, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley (D). He described how he tendered his resignation that day, in order to try and protect the governor from bad publicity, but did not respond to questions about his role in any political dirty tricks.

I wonder if the Dems or the Republicans on the committee asked this. The ranking Republican on the committee said he wasn't even going to show up to the witch hunt.

[kristinn]

Democrat Brian Frosh asked him about that.

I attended the hearing today.