CNN just announced that Martinez has admitted

[Discord]

writing the controversial GOP memo about using the Schiavo case for political means. He resigned today.

[LynneSin]

1. Wait - Mel Martinez or the staffer?

:shrug:

[Walt Starr]

2. MARTINEZ FELL ON HIS SWORD??????

Man, that's heavy. He fell on his sword for Tom Delay!

[Jo March]

3. What??? Martinez wrote it?

What???Link?

[hippiechick]

Martinez resigned, or the staffer who wrote it resigned ?

:shrug:

[UCLA Dem]

12. The staffer resigned

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/07/schiavo.memo.ap/index.html

[Avalux]

4. Martinez or his aide? I heard his aide -

Do you have a link?

[HEyHEY]

5. So who REALLY wrote it then?

[Inland]

22. Ha! You are absolutely right.

Taking the fall has zero to do with the truth.

[Avalux]

26. Rove n/t

[formerrepuke]

6. The memo was slimy, all right- but was it against the rules..?

[skypilot]

19. There was never a question about it..

...being against any rules. It was simply a matter of it being, as you say, slimy. It was an open admission that the whole Schiavo affair was being used for political gain. That isn't the kind of thing anyone would want to own up to, even if they hadn't broken any rules. It's just slimy on it's face.

[Alpharetta]

7. Obviously a victim of the left wing media witch hunt

(sarcasm)

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Damn. Is it really that easy? Or is that little problem that is plaguing

Buddy Dyer about to take its toll on Martinez too?

[Cooley Hurd]

8. The aide resigned, NOT Martinez (you should edit your post)...

That's what they said on CNN (confirmed - I TiVO'd it)...

[callous taoboy]

9. Ramifications? Ripples? n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. b-but hannity said!

we had another rathergate coming!

the freepers are losing it over on that site and are trying to justify it with
"but ted kennedy's a drunk, so why should this matter?'

they're getting desperate

[Guckert]

15. What about

Bill Clinton got a BJ from a consenting Adult??? Yea, thats it, Clinton :puke:

[Guckert]

18. Dupe

Sorry, Tech difficulties.

[Horse with no Name]

33. lol

yeah that's what they pull out when they've abused bigdogs blowjob.

[malaise]

11. His aide resigned

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/07/schiavo.memo.ap/index.html
<snip>
Martinez, R-Florida, said in a written statement that he discovered Wednesday that the memo had been written by an aide in his office.

"It is with profound disappointment and regret that I learned today that a senior member of my staff was unilaterally responsible for this document," Martinez said.

He said he accepted the resignation of the staffer who drafted and circulated the memo. "This type of behavior and sentiment will not be tolerated in my office," he said.

Martinez did not identify the aide, but The Washington Post said he was the senator's legal counsel, Brian Darling.

[mr_hat]

It's hilarious that Martinez "had no knowledge" of the doc, but >

just happened to have it in his pocket, mistakenly handing it to Tom Harken.

Too funny!

[Guckert]

13. Yes, the Aide only accoridng to MSNBC. here is a link

Author of Schiavo memo steps forward
Sen. Martinez accepts senior aide’s resignationBy Mike Allen

Updated: 11:33 p.m. ET April 6, 2005The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.

Brian Darling, a former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group on gun rights and other issues, offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted, Martinez said.

Martinez said he earlier had been assured by aides that his office had nothing to do with producing the memo. "I never did an investigation, as such," he said. "I just took it for granted that we wouldn't be that stupid. It was never my intention to in any way politicize this issue."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7411079 /

[paula777]

16. MARTINEZ admitted it - r u fucking kidding me???

Are you sure they didn't say his aide?????

[Cooley Hurd]

20. OP has it wrong...

I was watching CNN also and they clearly said it was the aide who resigned, not Martinez...

[paula777]

25. Okay - that's what I thought - thanks for posting

[oldtime dfl_er]

28. Tom Delay needs to resign

the "aide" to Martinez was merely paraphrasing what Delay was preaching!!!

www.cafepress.com/blackoutbush

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

17. Here's an interesting bit of intel from MyDD:

Now that Brian Darling of the Alexander Strategy Group has been penned as the author, it connects the dots to why Tom DeLay also used the talking points. The Alexander Strategy Group is a firm created by former DeLay chief of staff Ed Buckham (and yet another place from where DeLay's wife has cashed checks). Tom DeLay used the talking points at least on three occasions...

[saracat]

21. I HATE THESE PEOPLE! Martinez should resign as well.

these people are pond scum. No doubt Martinez is also mourning the Pope and praising him for "moral values". Ugh.

[flordehinojos]

23. martinez is a lying scumbag who likes to adorn his temple with a few

silver hairs as to give him an aura of respectability. lying scumbag ought to do the honorable thing and step down!!!!!!!!!

[jojo54]

24. Repuke self - destruct button

PUSH HERE:B-)


:nuke:

[maxsolomon]

27. "unilaterally responsible"?

the buck never travels up in the GOP.

should at least make for some fine ammunition for a martinez challenger.

[johnfunk]

29. Not just a "staffer," but Melle-Mel's COUNSEL!

Counsel to GOP Senator Wrote Memo On Schiavo
Martinez Aide Who Cited Upside For Party Resigns

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 7, 2005; Page A01
The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.

Brian H. Darling, 39, a former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy Group on gun rights and other issues, offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted, Martinez said.

Anyone want a good laugh? One of the biggest propagators of the "Schiavo memo's a forgery" is Powerlie... er, Powerline blogger "Hindrocket" (more appropriately, "Assrocket"), whose real name is John Hinderaker and whose full-time job is as an overpriced attoprney, who was supposed to appear this previous Sunday on Howie Kurtz's Reprehensible Sources on CNN. He was whining somewhere earlier this week about how the Pope's death preempted his appearance.

Hinderaker and WaPo's Kurtz were out to discredit WaPo's Mike Allen. I hope Mike Allen throttles Reliable Whore Howie...

[KoKo]

30. Kurtz's "Reprehensible Sources." A good one!

:D It's interesting when WaPo has infighting amongst reporters, isn't it. Howie's wife is running him hard. The one that's the Repug Lobbyist. Pretty soon he won't have any credibility left.

[MollyStark]

31. What? Is this a joke?

Do you have a link?

[sescob]

32. Per my local news

an aide of his resigned over the memo in the Schiavo case. Said he was responsible?

[Moderator]

34. Locking......

There appears to be an error here. Martinez
did not resign. If you have a news source
that is reporting this, please provide
a link.


Thanks.

DU Moderator