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Jesse Walker | 10.31.2005 11:48 AM

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Republican dirty trickster Joseph Steffen used to be an aide to Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich; he lost his job last winter after he was caught spreading rumors about Ehrlich's most likely opponent in next year's reelection race. Now Steffen is contemplating a run against Ehrlich himself -- as a Libertarian.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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