The controversy over Senate candidate Ben Cardin?s fired staff member who made racial and anti-Semitic remarks in a blog is being kept alive by bloggers, talk radio and by Lt. Gov. Michael Steele?s campaign, which is suggesting Cardin ought to apologize to Steele directly.

The staffer, who has been identified as Ursula Gruber, was hired in early August and began posting on a blog under the name of “Persuasionatrix.”