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In its final issue before Tuesday’s election, the eight-page La Conner Weekly News published a cover story and four letters attacking – and even slandering – a candidate for the state legislature.

With no chance of rebuttal, Bill Bruch, a La Conner resident running for the state House of Representatives, was targeted by known Democrat operatives.

This is because Bruch, a Republican, along with the more than a quarter million people who signed the R-90 petition, is opposed to the mandatory sex education law pushed forward by his rival. The Democrat in this race is the one who made t...