The other shoe drops

For weeks, local political observers have been anticipating one last, killing revelation that would finally and utterly sink Keith Ellison’s 5th District congressional campaign. Would it be some evidence of womanizing or a damning connection to a terrorist cell or some untidy financial affair? Nobody knew for sure, but rumors of another shoe about to drop have been flying.How ironic it was, then, to find not Ellison, but his “values-based’ Republican opponent Alan Fine, scrambling to explain allegations of domestic abuse by his ex-wife. Coming as it did on the heels of Fine’s latest attack ad, the news must have struck the (appropriately silent) Ellison campaign as poetic justice.

Indeed, it was such a delicious “live by the sword, die by the sword