Scary People Showing Up in Some Republican Races

Sometimes the best information in the Livingston Press and Argus shows up in its letters to the editor.

That was the case Sunday (August 3, 2008) when a letter-writer raised the possibility of extreme right-wing ties of some of the Republican candidates for office in Brighton Township, specifically Tom Murphy and Lana Theis. The candidates are tied up with a group called Americans for Prosperity, which was founded by the owner of Koch Industries, the world's largest polluter. His father was co-founder of the John Birch Society.

That information didn't appear to concern the newspaper, which endorsed the two anyway.

The John Birch Society, for crying out loud. How extreme are Republicans in Livingston County getting? Are there not any moderate voices in that party that voters could turn to?