Those delicate Jesuit sensibilities

Said Block: "They respect diversity but not diversity of opinion."

Money to spend

It's probably not on his resume, but long before Shaun Adamec became spokesman for Gov. Martin O'Malley, he was sidekick to an Internet millionaire.

Adamec shed some light on himself the other night as a performer in The Stoop storytelling series at Center Stage. (The Baltimore Sun's Julie Bykowicz attended and filled me in.)

When he was a student at Providence College in Rhode Island, Adamec said, he had a computer-geek friend, Chris. It was the height of the dot-com boom. Chris' company went public. His net worth ballooned to $12 million.

"As any young, single multimillionaire - overnight - he needed someone to help him spend his money," Adamec said. "And I was going to be that friend."

Adamec never used his friend's last name in the show and wasn't giving it out yesterday, but he did say that the company was Akamai Technologies and that "they basically invented live Web streaming."

In any case, the newly rich Chris bought a movie theater. Adamec ran it for him.

Chris bought an airplane and flew to Cape Cod, New Hampshire and Manhattan for lunch. Adamec tagged along. Until they got caught in a storm and barely made it home. They never flew together after that.

Eventually the dot-com bust came along, and Chris lost the job, plane and theater. Chris has since recovered financially. And we all know where Adamec wound up.

Adamec told his story months after his wife, Elizabeth Adamec, took her turn on The Stoop. Her tale was about how her family got into a brawl in the back room of a hotel one New Year's Eve. Police were called.

Have those unruly in-laws, or that stint as an Internet millionaire's BFF, prepared Adamec in any way for his current job?

"I suppose to expect the unexpected and be prepared for anything," he said. "Comes in handy in the world of politics."

Connect the dots

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