From The Baltimore Sun:
The text messages were pinging to and from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s BlackBerry. It was the latter part of October, and Election Day was just around the corner.
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None of the messages were meant for public discourse. The governor’s office mistakenly gave the batch to The Baltimore Sun in response to a public records request. It meant to withhold the messages, arguing they were exempt from public records laws, and to share only a four-word note from then-public affairs director Rick Abbruzzese to his boss: “I have your ipad.”