That didn't take long: two days of serious reporting by self and Phil Anderson, and we have a public statement by Michael Caputo, here in the comments.
There's some interesting stuff happening here. First of all, one person using a blocked IP address is presently paying very close attention to both Daily Gotham and The Albany Project, and there especially to our coverage of Emailgate. Which two blogs are even covering this?
Daily Gotham...
The Albany Project...
There's more on the flip.
In his comment, Caputo asserts:
Look, folks - I am not being paid. Not by Sen. Bruno, not by Roger Stone, not by anyone. I am just a conservative activist and I take orders - and money - from nobody on this.
...which is probably why, as exhaustively detailed here, there is a 1:1 correlation between Caputo's activities and those of Roger Stone - same goals, same tactics, same email addresses.
Honest to God, I wouldn't know Sen. Bruno if he boarded my boat. But I graduated from SUNY, I've been in the arena nearly 30 years, I read the news, and I have computers.
Dude, I'm not even a republican, and I'd know Bruno. He's not exactly low-profile. Besides, the critical link here isn't Bruno - it's Roger Stone.
I'm normally thick-skinned, but even I'm starting to get a bit offended here. Fess up: do you think I'm just too stupid to pull this off?
Strawman. Caputo's intelligence isn't at issue; it's why and more critically how he's doing this.
With all the people AG Spitzer screwed in the business community - entire industries - can't you imagine a groundswell of folks out there eager to see him pay for his crimes? Well, those people are on my email list and many are in New York City.
This is critical, because it shows,
in Caputo's own words,
...what this is all about: overturning the results of November's election.
Gotcha, Mister Caputo. And you still haven't explained some critical questions:
- How did you get access to the emails you have, and from whom?
- How do you explain that your emails, and those of Roger Stone, and those of other republican entities, all go to the same set of recipients?
- How is it possible, when Roger Stone is working as a paid consultant for Joe Bruno, and you have worked for him in the past, and you're now both working on the same goal - protecting Joe Bruno's job - and you're both obviously using the same email list, that there is no coordination between you?
- And lastly: How much does Joe Bruno know about you, and when did he learn about your activities?
Those are the pertinent questions here.
