| When the man who described himself as "the Prince of Darkness" arrived at the Maryland Department of Human Resources two years ago and placed a Grim Reaper figurine on his desk, longtime employees were baffled.
Though Joseph Steffen had no apparent role in the agency, he would attend meetings, conduct interviews with employees and make extensive notes on a legal pad. Then they started getting fired. "We realized he pretty much was targeting people," said Tom Burgess, a former personnel official in the agency. "He apparently was there to root people out who weren't loyal to the governor." The man who would himself be forced to resign this week -- for writing e-mails and Web site postings that spread false rumors about the private life of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley -- was not just one of more than 50,000 state employees, as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. referred to him yesterday. He was a loyal soldier of Ehrlich's who worked on campaigns for the governor dating back two decades, and who took on a key role in both Ehrlich's transition team and administration, according to numerous sources and Steffen's Web postings. |
And the place he went to spread those rumors? Freerepublic.com, one of the largest conservative blogs on the planet. Yet another sign of the power of the blog AND the moral bankruptcy of those on the right.
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