From an article by Justin Elliott over at Salon.com:
This one does not look good for the Democratic Party in Michigan: Two county-level party officials have been hit with felony charges in an alleged scheme to put bogus Tea Party candidates on the ballot to draw votes away from Republicans. (Via Jim Geraghty.)
Former Oakland County party chairman Michael McGuinness and former county operations director Jason Bauer were each charged with perjury, forgery, and another violation called false swearing.
@3 LOL
# 2 Tea Leaves.
How would one go about telling the difference between a “bogus” tea party candidate and a regular tea party candidate?
More awkward news for the Dems:
The Barack H. Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, N.J. will be shuttered this summer, largely due to low enrollment, the Asbury Park Press reports.
Bruce N. Rodman, the official who oversees the district’s finances, determined that it was necessary for one of the district’s elementary schools to close and the Obama school’s enrollment had dropped 35 percent in the past 10 years ………..
[Lake: I just cannot make this stuff up. And in my old home town, the soon to be FORMER mayor of Kansas City [Missouri] teamed up with the public relations oriented school board to blow $256K on a totally unneeded ‘art fence’ around Ruskin High School. Just months later the campus was almost [one vote shy of being ] decertified. Welcome to the logical, rational 21st century!]