Virginia: "He pulled a Pontius Pilate and punted"
AP reports: Legal battles over Republican eavesdropping on Democratic conference calls effectively ended Tuesday with both sides signing an agreement obliging the state GOP to pay Democrats $750,000.
Democrats also released depositions and court records that they say show the state's highest-ranking Republican official, Jerry Kilgore, did nothing to prevent a second intercepted call.
"He pulled a Pontius Pilate and punted," Del. Brian Moran, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said of Kilgore, the presumed GOP nominee for governor next year.
Sworn depositions from top Kilgore aides show that the attorney general intentionally cut himself off from hearing details when he first learned of possible illegal spying on the Democrats' calls from a senior staff member, Anne Petera. Kilgore said in an interview it was legally prudent to insulate himself from the details. -- Eavesdropping suit settlement inked; records fill in some details
The call was a Democratic strategy session about the state court redistricting decision.