Illegal or not, 'relax' robocall was astonishingly pointless

The state prosecutor has a long way to go in his effort to prove that former Ehrlich aide Paul Schurick broke the law in the case of the "relax" robocalls that went out to mainly African-American households on election night 2010 in an apparent effort to dissuade likely supporters of Gov. Martin O'Malley from going to the polls. But the evidence presented so far in Mr. Schurick's trial underscores just how stupid and pointless the exercise was.

November 30, 2011