A noted Democratic blogger apologized for creating an intra-party feud.
In an open letter to state Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek on group blog BlueNC, James Protzman, a.k.a. Anglico, said he was sorry for writing an inflammatory post about the potential for state Rep. Rick Glazier to challenge Congressman Robin Hayes in 2008.
Glazier, a Fayetteville Democrat, was mentioned as a possible candidate in an article last week in The Hill, a Washington, D.C., newspaper. That upset Protzman and other netroots types who favor 2006 candidate Larry Kissell, who fell just 329 votes short of beating the Concord Republican in a surprise upset.
"This pretty much annoys the hell out of me," Protzman wrote in a post on BlueNC. That sparked a flame war between supporters of Glazier and Kissell, Meek weighed in, and the chair of the state Republican Party gleefully issued a press release saying she'd "heard more rational discussions in a first grade sandbox."
And today, Protzman apologized.
"I'm sorry it happened and I hope you will forgive me for my role in starting the frenzy," he wrote.
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