[zeestephen]

The city commission was moderately Conservative when I moved here in the early 2000s. We actually had a Republican Congressman, too.

The attack was in 2010. By then, he was the only pro-business, small government, elected Republican left on the entire Eastside.

[rlmorel]

I live in the bluest-of-blue states, and there hasn’t been a non-leftist voice anywhere in any part of government at any level for decades now.

I sympathize completely. Behind Enemy Lines and all.

Sigh. For my whole adult life, I have had the “Taxation Without Representation” feeling, but it is what it is.