Out in California, the Republicans, led by a barking crazy right winger from Missouri who has been fined for ass-biting...yes, fined for ass-biting...are trying new ways to steal elections. Of course no one is buying it. The Republican Ass-Biter Initiative seems not to be too popular anymore, now that people have thought it over. I think California now realizes that if they let the Republicans split their electoral votes, it will basically make California irrelavent in elections. This kind of initiative has to be done either not at all or across all 50 states or it just plain isn't fair.

(X-posted at TAP)

This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder. It starts about 24 hours after Andrew Cuomo released his report on L'affaire Bruno. Bouldin remembers it like this:

The first Spitzer-bashing email from Michael Caputo's NYFacts.net went out on July 10th, 2007, at 12:41 PM Eastern. Since then, the group has sent out 35 further emails. Another site, Spitzerfile.com, which interestingly only loads through a redirect from NYFacts.net, went live sometime after July 10th, and has also been sending out emails.

NYFacts.net even briefly branched out into Obama-bashing on August 8th, with an email entitled "Obama pulls from all-white Harmonie Club', which contained a piece by Maggie Haberman in the Murdoch Post.

Both Bouldin and I were both on this email list as were pretty much every media outlet in the state. It was one hell of a list and it was apparently assembled in record time. what was interesting was not so much who those emails were going to but the addresses that were being used. Some folks were getting those emails at addresses they hadn't used in years, others at brand new ones. Some people were getting them at purely personal addresses.

You ain't seen nothing yet. MUCH more weirdness on the flip...