A Theory on the Bruno-IRS Letter Leak
So, how did the draft letter senate Democrats were thinking about sending to the IRS wind up in the hands of the Republicans?
In a story today, the New York Sun speculated that it might accidentally have been sent to Democrat Carl Kruger, a Democrat whose last name is one letter off from Liz Krueger, a Democrat whose name was attached to the letter. Both are on the Finance Committee (like two other people whose name was attached to the letter) but unlike Liz Krueger, Carl Kruger is somewhat of an ally of Joe Bruno.
I asked Kruger’s spokesman, Jason Koppell, about that theory.
“It’s so ridiculous it’s not even worth responding to,” he said. Koppell also said that his office was never sent the letter and that he and his colleagues learned about it from reading the newspapers.
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maybe it was the tax department
"...but like Liz Krueger, Carl Kruger is somewhat of an ally of Joe Bruno."
Since when did Liz become an ally of Joe Bruno?
'Carl Kruger is somewhat an ally of Joe Bruno." That's something of an understatement, no?
Bruno appointed to him to chair the Social Services, Children and Families Committee, with a nice $12,500 yearly bonus and even doled out almost $400,000 in member items last year from the "Majority Form", the Republicans pile of pork. What other Democrats get their member items from the Republicans?
There's more here.
The "not worth responding to" response sounds like a confirmation to me.