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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