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Yet Another Intern Scandal

By Lloyd Grove
Tuesday, July 15, 2003; Page C03

Just what in the name of decency is going on in the office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? A recent e-mail from one former Hutchison intern to another (a particularly brutal breakup letter after an apparently brief romance) has exploded all over the Internet, provoking arched eyebrows and wagging tongues on Capitol Hill and beyond.

Yesterday, the Texas Republican's communications director -- who no doubt took the job to make a difference in national affairs -- was forced to weigh in on the tawdry little affair of Paul Kelly Tripplehorn Jr., the author of the e-mail.

...Tripplehorn's e-mail, titled "you suck," featured such literary gems as: "I was planning on ruining your career by making phone calls to all of my parents [sic] friends and have you blackballed from the workplace as well as every prestigous [sic] law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because you are a sad sad person and I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyes. . . . I am sorry, I don't care how big of [a] sadistic [expletive] crush you have on me but people like me simple [sic] don't date people like you."...