Carmen Ortiz was a Democrat up-and-comer, a potential candidate for Governor or Senator. That is, until Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
Now she’s in House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s sights, and even some Dems are running for cover, like Rep. Jared Polis, an internet entrepreneur from Colorado.
Ortiz blew it and she’s handled it badly from the get-go, including not muzzling her idiot husband, a 1%-er IBM exec who posted his opinion of the case and Swartz’s family on Twitter.
Disregarding the merits of this case – and I personally think she was way, way, WAY out of line – Ortiz’s big blunder was misjudging the political fallout that she and (worse) her bosses now need to deal with. We have enough amateurs now in government, and we certainly don’t need one more.