I am so glad you posted this. My husband and I talked about it after it arrived in yesterday's mail. The timing is such that there is no way for people to respond in letters to the editor about the repulsive conflation of details - right down to the blood stains on the yellow lines - into a condemnation of Mr. Levesque, someone who has served our state and local communities well. Hopefully, voters will see through this shameless fearmongering and vote for Levesque if ONLY out of an anti-Ottiano vote.

On a related note, we woke this morning to find a plastic bag containing local republican propaganda - a general Republican newspaper-ish thing, and palm cards for Jeff Plumb, Keith Hamilton, and Joe Robicheau - all weighted down with a rock. We brought ours in with the morning paper and threw it away. Later this morning, we went for a walk in our neighborhood and down along the Braman's Lane neighborhoods. Given the breezy morning, the area is now scattered with these materials, since the bags were weighted but not sealed. Way to go, folks. I guess that since none of their literature mentions any environmental or open space issues, at least it's not hypocrisy. I do plan to go to www.portsmouthrepublicans.com and ask them to come out and clean up their mess. I invite anyone else who has seen this to do the same.

-English