Republicans sure do like to challenge people to duels. First Zell Miller menaces Chris Matthews, now L. Brooks Patterson goes after Keith Schneider. (Yes, technically Zell Miller was a Democrat, but that was false advertising.)
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If dueling was legal in Michigan, Patterson said, "I'd smack Schneider across the face with my glove."
Say what?
The Republican politician bristles when politicians and environmental activists, especially Schneider, criticize Oakland County as an example of unfettered sprawl.
"Where do I start to rebut this idiot?" queried Patterson. "Sprawl is not bad. It's in the eye of the beholder: If you have it, you call it economic development. If you don't have it, you whine and call it sprawl."
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/bytes14e_20050214.htm