Maryland: Washington Post

Regular readers of Red Maryland and O’Malley Watch should be familiar with one of our favorite antagonists “justdafacts”. Justdafacts is the nom de cyber of one Steve Lebowitz, who unabashedly states, “I make no bones about who I am and where I’m coming from. I support and defend Gov. O’Malley, and I’ve volunteered on every one of his campaigns since 1990."

Interestingly, jusdtafacts has been peddling much of the same Fabian accusations from the Washington Post against not only Michael Steele, but Bob Ehrlich as well since last summer.

On May 30th 2008 Justdafacts wrote, “Keep watch for reports of humongous, gargantuan, contributions from an embarrassing contributor in a newspaper near you soon.

If you think something smells about the Washington Post hit piece on Michael Steele—yes it is a hit piece—then you are not the only one. I too am wondering how:

“The U.S. attorney's office inadvertently sent the confidential document, a defense sentencing memorandum filed under seal, to The Washington Post after the
newspaper requested the prosecution's sentencing memorandum.”

That glaring red flag aside, I decided to delve a little further into the thick weeds of campaign finance. I asked Professor Allison Hayward of George Mason University School of Law an expert in campaign finance laws a few questions about this. Professor Hayward served as Chief of Staff and Counsel in the office of Federal Election Commission Commissioner Bradley A.