The 'Prince' And The Pols

Professional GOP emailers and rabblerousers--creepy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52621-2005Mar20?language=printer
...In the end, true or false, a myth is powerful. It has power today in Maryland politics because so many of us are ready to believe in the existence of a Prince of Darkness. We are certain that in the shadows there is always a Dick Tuck or a Lee Atwater or a Karl Rove, working dark magic. His existence would explain bruises, defeats that don't otherwise comport with our sunny worldview. He is why Kennedy beat Nixon, or, if you like, Bush beat Gore. We hate to be naive, so we believe in the Prince of Darkness.

We might be right.

The Many Sides of NCPAC

He's a libertarian, a rock-and-roller, a painter, a raconteur, a dedicated bureaucrat who was ready, he wrote last month, "to throw myself on the grenade" for his bosses. A man of strong opinions, vividly expressed.

Steffen's submissions to FreeRepublic.com were posted under the name "NCPAC." That's short for the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which funded attack advertising against liberal candidates. Steffen was its spokesman in the early 1980s.

Steffen also was an inveterate e-mailer during his two years in the Ehrlich administration. The governor has said Steffen handled "troubleshooting" at departments including human resources and juvenile services before he moved to the Maryland Insurance Administration. In response to Maryland Public Information Act requests filed by news organizations, the state released 14,500 e-mails sent from Steffen's government computer.

these thugs come in such weird packaging. here we have another weirdo like gannon... a libertarian who supports the neo-cons? how completely creepy and bizarre.