In the interest of the public's right to know...

Due to the fact that Grant County is broke (generally speaking), the general election "sample ballot" was not published in our Herman-Hoffman Tribune.

Once the county auditor's office found out what it would cost to publish it in our newspaper, they decided to do only what the state law requires: publish it two times leading up to the general election in the official "county newspaper" - which is the Grant County Herald.

Obviously, my publisher was angry. I am too. Of course, 99% of the blame lies with Governor Pawlenty and the tea party, anti-tax, cut-government-into-oblivion crowd. I don't have ill feelings towards our county auditor - this time, the county budget said "no".

Our phone has been ringing off the hook today with angry seniors who wanted to see the ballot in their Herman-Hoffman Tribune.

The best I can do is have a copy of it in my office (which I do) so people can come down and look at it or get copies.

The dumbing down of America continues...

Tea Party "poll watchers" - I'll be watching you in my area - I dare you to suppress voter turnout

Read more about what the Tea Party is whining about here: http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/105829608.html?page=3&c=y

This is truly awful - Tea Party activists push a woman to the ground and stomp on her head (I wish I was making this up)

The incident happened before a debate in Kentucky. A sad day in America.

Click here for the details: http://www.bluebluegrass.com/2010/10/25/republican-rand-pauls-brownshirts-assault-and-stomp-the-head-of-a-moveon-org-woman-before-the-ket-debate

Could it get any better than this? Where does the "Tea Party" find these nut jobs? I feel sorry for the Republican Party, getting saddled with this

Click here to read about Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnel, a U.S. Senate candidate in Connecticut.

http://www.wctrib.com/event/article/id/72327/

Oh boy... Tea Party official thinks that too many Americans are not being taxed!

While thousands of people rushed to file their taxes Thursday, others used it as a day to rally. One Tea Party protest was in Rochester.

Among the hundreds of people gathered at the Tea Party rally at Soldier's Field was David Razidlo. A father, who says he's looking out for the future of his two sons.

"When you look at the growth of the federal government, the growth of the deficit, I got concerned not just for my sake, but for the children that this can't go on," says Razidlo.

Event organizers geared the rally towards families as they shared their concerns about fairness in taxation.

"Not that we think were necessarily being taxed too much, but that too much of our population is not being taxed," says Rochester Tea Party Chair, Cindy Maves.

...what a sad, sad individual. (My opinion)