Belated apology from ex-state Rep. Bryan Lentz

Former Democratic state Rep. Bryan Lentz has resolved a defamation lawsuit that Delaware County Republican campaign workers had filed against him for dragging their name through the mud during Lentz's failed congressional campaign against now-U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan.

All it took was an apology, according to Geoffrey Johnson, the Sprague & Sprague attorney representing the plaintiffs.

Lentz, now working in Philly with the longest job title I've ever witnessed – "chief supervising special assistant district attorney" – had accused the GOP workers of submitting forged signatures for Meehan. There were forged signatures, which resulted in a criminal conviction, but the workers who filed the suit, Jeff Rudolph, Bill Lovejoy and Amy Wechsler Foran, were not involved. This is called casting too wide of a net.

"Based upon further information received, we are able to acknowledged that you did nothing wrong in regards to the petitions and you did not participate in any forgery," the letter states in part.

Lentz declined to comment on the apology, which I am going to assume he took no great pleasure in writing.

Now, shall we return to the blood sport that is Delco politics?