As far as proving I'm a bigger hick: I live da UP...I grew up shooting guns and varmints and eating stuff like muskrat stew. While I don't eat muskrat stew anymore, I love me my guns and shooting varmints and eating such things. In short, I can easily prove I'm a bigger hick than Mr. Gillman ;)

As for other assertions about what's going on with the tea party and their angst with Mr. Richardville, I got that directly from tea party members up the food chain.

Again, I appreciate Mr. Gillman's self-serving modesty about not being in a loop or being clueless of what's happening in Lansing behind closed doors, but that does beg the question of credentials to run such a site if we are to take him at his word.

Off to work--gotta pay off those union dues! ;)