If you’re going to have a kinda sleazy but not terribly surprising conversation to try to get someone to drop out of a race — make sure no one is running a taperecorder. Today Sharron Angle is learning this one the hard way.
“That’s really all I can offer to you (Ashjian) is whatever juice I have, you have as well…You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him…I go to Washington, DC, and want to see Jim DeMint, he’s right there for me. I want to see Tom Coburn, he’s right there for me. I want to see Mitch McConnell, he’s there.”
Late Update: Angle lawyer Cleta Mitchell tells TPM the call was “a setup.”
