Doug Grow, PR Flack -

Doug Grow, PR Flack - Doug Grow continues to provide ammunition for opponents of campaign finance reform, using his Strib column as an unpaid promotonal vehicle for Paul Wellstone.

Grow's column serves as the "point man" for Paul Wellstone's claims about Norm Coleman's stances on the environment - or, more accurately, his stances on the tagged-and-bagged hot-button issue of motors and logging in the Boundary Waters.

We have a war, a stagnant economy, and an education system that's failing (for all of which Wellstone is more culpable than average). So of course Doug Grow's hot button is...outboard motors.

One Step Up, One Step Back - The left is crowing over the primary defeat of Bob Barr, as if it were a referendum on the Clinton Impeachment for which Barr fought so hard (and endured so much). In fact, Barr was defeated because the Democrats who control the Georgia legislure gerrymandered their redistricting to ensure he'd go up against a popular incumbent in another district, one more favored by the state's GOP establishment.

In the meantime, Cynthia McKinney, who along with Maxine Waters was perhaps the most noxious by-product of 1992's "Year of the Woman" in national politics, also fell by 16 points.