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Shaivo Memo Author Found, But….

Ace of Spades HQ [1] comments this morning on the news that the author of the disputed Shaivo memo was a legal council in Mal Martinez’s office.

This sounds (And looks, if you’ve seen the actual memo… I have..) like a lower to mid-level staffer banging out thoughts and acting on his own… and being driven by the short time cycles involved.

I gotta tell ya right off the bat… My typing inhales canal water at rates that would make Venice look dry…. but if the guy who wrote this document considered it a formal document, he was either in one hell of a hurry to knock it out, or he has worse typing and editing skills than I do, or both. (I know, hard to imagine, but there it is) Had it been checked by anyone prior to going out, (As one would expect with any kind of a formal policy statement, I suppose) it wouldn’t have been nearly so typo-filled.

That factor alone should blow away any more nonsense about the GOP as a formal process trying to make use of this.

Update:

Jason Hayes over at Musing [2], agrees,based on the statements from all concerned, including Tom Harkin… who has been acting unusually human, for him…  saying in part:

“the memo was a worker drone’s working draft that was never ok’d (or asked for) by the higher ups, that was never meant to be released, and was never even meant to be printed… ~ …So it was one guy’s thoughts on an issue and not a whole lot more.”