Salon.com Politics | Busted!
"Hughes went on to question the timing of the story, which was broken Thursday evening by Fox News Channel and a Portland, Maine, Fox station. She said she finds "it interesting that in the closing days of this campaign, the Democratic candidate for governor of Maine has now admitted that he is the one who released this information to the public and to the media in the closing days of this campaign about something that happened more than 24 years ago." (The man who leaked the story, Tom Connelly, was actually the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1998. And? Half the negative stories we get about Gore come from the GOP, and vice versa. It's pretty standard stuff, for better or for worse.)"

Personally, I can't believe the GOP is complaining about this - I seem to recall their outrage - and exploitation - of the admissions on the parts of Al Gore and Bill Clinton that they had tried marijuana.