Claire Lucas has grabbed more than her fair share of headlines in recent weeks.

The Democratic National Committee's gay board chair caught our attention when she refused to testify in the ongoing discrimination discovery hearings. Then Lucas popped up in a story about her potential perjury and backstage scheming against former DNC-staffer Donald Hitchcock.

In an effort to preserve his client's image, lawyer Barry Reingold sent our editor the following missive:

Ms. Lucas is a witness, not a defendant, in this matter. She has not been sued. The issues of this case, including Ms. Lucas's motion to quash the subpoena, are pending before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by a Judge appointed by the President of the United States. Ms. Lucas has told and will continue to tell the truth to the Court. All of the issues in Hitchcock v. DNC will be litigated in this Court and decided by this fair and impartial tribunal.

We never said that Lucas was being sued, nor did we call her a "defendant". It appears to us that Reingold's attempting to distance his client from this ugly matter. And we can't blame him: she looks really, really bad, especially when she refers to Hitchcock as a "complete loser".