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Friday, July 01, 2011

Ganler Claims “No Political Motive” in RoboCall Case

Any contention that he is trying to score political points in Maryland’s robocalls controversy is “absurd,” Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) says in a new legal filing.

Gansler was reacting to a claim by a lawyer for Julius Henson, a political operative who was indicted on charges that he orchestrated a misleading election-night robocall last year. Edward Smith Jr., a lawyer for Henson, has questioned Gansler’s motives for pursuing a civil case against his client, who was then working for former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), while a criminal case is pending.

“Defendants’ insistence on making the headline-grabbing argument hat the Attorney General’s interest in bringing this action for ‘political benefit’ is absurd and designed solely to distract from the issues in this case,” Gansler wrote in a filing Friday in federal court. “The Attorney General ran unopposed in the election in question, and he is not facing re-election until 2014. Thus, it is difficult to see how prompt resolution of this case would serve any purely political ends.”

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