Yesterday, I read a South Bend Tribune profile of a prospective mayoral candidate. Bill Davis, a Republican no less, bears a history that has his thrown out of middle school for attacking a teacher, has spent time in prison for assault, and runs his campaign from a local flophouse where “communication at times has been difficult, if the minutes on their prepaid cell phone run out, because squirrels keep chewing through the phone line leading into their room.”

Naturally, he took nearly 40 percent of the vote in a 2008 race for St. Joseph County Commissioner.

Update: Now I feel bad—it seems he’s suffered a heart attack.