MD4Bush Update

David Gerstman, aka Soccer Dad, has an update on the case involving a staffer working for Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) who got fired after an email he wrote mentioned unsubstantiated rumors about Baltimore Mayor O'Malley (D). The Washington Post managed to write about that after getting its hand on emails between the staffer, Joseph Steffen, and a Free Republic poster so far identified only as MD4Bush. The Post reporter involved, Matthew Mosk, says he does not know MD4Bush's identity.

To wit:

David Collins of WBAL TV has done a little more digging and has discovered that the e-mail address of "Freeper" MD4Bush matches that of a former Democratic party operative who is associated with Mayor O'Malley. Now an e-mail address alone isn't enough to convict anyone of impropriety. E-mail addresses could be spoofed. However it seems pretty clear that MD4Bush was a plant who, according to Jim Robinson of FreeRepublic, may be involved in a dirty trick against Governor Ehrlich:

I feel that a (possibly criminal) political dirty trick has been committed against Governor Ehrlich and Joe Steffen and the evidence would lead any rational thinking person to believe that it was perpetrated by officials of mddems.org, perhaps working in concert with a reporter from the Washington Post....

Check out David's blog for why it matters if true. Hints: Not so good for O'Malley and maybe the Post.