New Hampshire political operative and veteran blogger Patrick Hynes admitted to a second example of failing to disclose his financials while authoring an opinion piece.

Hynes already was on the blogosphere hot seat over having not reported he was on the payroll of John McCain's Straight Talk America political action committee while writing his popular, right-wing blog, ``Ankle-Biting Pundits.''

On more than one occasion during that time, Hynes defended McCain's moves to curry favor with the religious right.

The National Review Online columnist Jim Geraghty was the first to get Hynes to concede he didn't make the disclose early or complete enough.

``You are right, Jim. I ought to have disclosed my relationship with Straight Talk America earlier. The reason I didn’t do so is because I was not being paid ‘to blog’. I have been a political consultant for fifteen years. That’s what I was doing for Straight Talk America: providing political consulting,'' Hynes answered in an e-mail.

NH Prime Cuts confirmed Hynes had a like example in a Nov. 18, 2005 op-ed article he did in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Hynes extoled the virtues of a controversial, mercury reduction pending before lawmakers in 2006.

The legislation proved to become a political tour du force for Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, the state's largest utility. It put off reductions in mercury produced from the utillity's three, coal-burning power plants five years longer than an aggressive coalition of environmental groups had wanted.

The article identified Hynes as representing Responsible Environmental Policy for New Hampshire, a fledgling, tax-exempt group he never got off the ground to promote public policy that isn't anti-development.

What Hynes didn't mention was he was also a full-time employee for Calypso Communications and the Portsmouth public relations firm had PSNH as one of its biggest clients.

``I do regret that,'' Hynes said. ``It’s more or less the fact of the matter is if you are in any way a consultant, you have got to be very judicious about who and what you write about.’’

Look for leading Democrats to call on McCain to prove he's a straight talker by sacking Hynes but Straight Talk America's Mike Dennehy said Hynes came clean and said attacks he's getting from the left are over the top.