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Almost comic relief after the week we’ve had, as the Los Angeles Times reports: The mayor of Los Alamitos said he will resign after coming under fire for an e-mail depicting the White House lawn as a watermelon patch, saying the controversy over racism has made it difficult to lead the city. Dean Grose issued […]

How much worse it could be, the Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was interviewed by federal authorities for several hours Saturday as part of the ongoing corruption investigation into charges that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell a Senate seat for personal or political profit, sources familiar with the talks said. Burris’ […]

As the Denver Post reports: A wide-ranging investigation has been launched into allegations that a well-known Pueblo resident has molested many boys over the years, including most recently when he was the manager for Sen. John McCain’s presidential-campaign office in Pueblo. Under investigation is Jeffrey Claude Bartleson, 52, who was arrested Jan. 29 and then […]

As the Chicago Tribune reports: Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning. Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were awakened in their residences and transported to […]

The Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog reports: The McCain campaign has denounced a racially charged, anti-Barack Obama newspaper column written by one of the Republican campaign’s organizers in Virginia, and has removed the author-activist from his post as a member of the candidate’s statewide leadership team, our colleague at the Top of the Ticket reports. “The […]

Probably not what Jesus would do, as the AP reports: A Christian university [in Oregon] said Tuesday it had punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. George Fox University broke the news to students and staff at an all-campus meeting. About 1,000 […]

Democrat Vince Chowdhury, a Jefferson County School Board member who was elected as a Republican (he changed party affiliation in September 2006), has had a bad run of publicity…which will happen when you allegedly slap and strangle your teenage daughter for not opening the garage door when your car is in the driveway. But Chowdhury, […]

As The Dallas Morning News reports: A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said […]

In another edition of “At Least He’s Not Your Legislator,” we head back to Missouri to follow up on a link we provided more than a year ago (we can’t find the original post). Missouri Republican Gov. Matt Blunt recently appointed Joe Ortwerth to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, whatever that […]