Jonathan Schrag, until today the deputy commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), does not deny that he once said, “One way to push back on e-mails is to freak someone out.” He also doesn’t seem to deny that it’s his voice left on Cynthia David’s answering machine at 11:45 last Thursday night, telling her that “we are calling from the Democratic Electronic Monitoring Service. We understand that you are an e-mailer with respect to Democratic candidates. We wish you to know that your e-mails are being observed. Thank you.”
Ms. David runs an informal gathering known as the Conservative Women’s Forum (of which my mother-in-law belongs), which recently informed its members of a hearing involving DEEP. But the forum doesn’t make endorsements of any kind—it doesn’t even collect dues.
