That Schivo memo ....???

[southernleftylady]

yeah it was an aid that wrote it but didn't the guy he was working for passed it around?

[whistle]

1. What guy, what aid?

[Warpy]

2. Yes, but he claims he never read it!

Mel Martinez would have us believe that an underling (Darling) wrote a memo and then INSTRUCTED his boss to pass it around, and said boss never thought to wonder what was in it first.

There are only a few possibilities here, all of them unattractive: Martinez is a liar (most likely), Martinez is so arrogantly incompetent that he prides himself on never reading anything (also likely), or Martinez is an illiterate puppet who is being used by a lot of sharpies in his office team (also likely, but the least likely of the bunch).

I'm still waiting to hear a retraction from all the howler monkeys who swore it was Democratic Party dirty tricks.

[peekaloo]

3. Sideshow Mel........from a central Fl. paper

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050410/NEWS/504100341/1036

[MrBenchley]

4. Senator Mel Martinez

was passing it out on the Senate floor, and inadvertantly handed one to Democrat Tom Harkin with the words "Here are some great talking points to use" (or damn close to that).

By the way, Martinez has got caught and fobbed the blame off on staffers before. And he isn't just a freshman senator...he was also in Chimpy's cabinet as Secretary of HUD.

And the guy who wrote it wasn't just any aide...he was Brian Darling, chief legal counsel....and before joining Martinez he worked for the gun lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby, the nuclear power lobby, Enron and Tom Delay. The only way he could be any more in the mainstream of the GOP is if he'd blown up a women's health clinic or beat up a gay person.

[jean]

5. Brian Darling, legal counsel to Martinez, wrote it and Martinez passed it

citations for 'Brian Darling' on April 7. 2005 on BlogPulse:
http://www.blogpulse.com/05_04_07/keyPerson_bursty_1.html

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/4/7/0825/82781
"Brian Darling (The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), a former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group (this is the DeLay link) on gun rights and other issues, offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted, Martinez said. "