How can this be okay?
By now most in the community have seen, received or heard about the flyer the Alpena County Republican Party mailed to countless county residents in the last couple of weeks. The flyer is a smear campaign against four school board candidates, Sarah Fritz, Claire Kipfmiller, Evan Carlson and Kayla Ratz. The flyer was disparaging of four of our fellow community members who decided to give of their time and personal finances to serve this community by running for a nonpartisan school board seat. And for that they were subject to nothing short of character assassination. All of that is ...