Jack, you are right, Pat Hatfield's political giving history IS none of Ann's business...it's the business of EVERYONE WHO READS THE PAPER. We deserve to know if the Beacon has horrific reporters who disregard ethics and potentially misuse their journalistic privileages because they have gotten too close to certain campaigns (Pynchon). The fact that you keep trying to make this about Ann shows that you do not get it. Ann is not the issue here...this hack reporter and sorry excuse for a newspaper is! Nobody with a sane mind in his or her body faults Ann for what she did. Essentially, she blew the whistle and stood up to a bully reporter...that's the type of person I want fighting for me in the Supervisor's office...someone that won't be bullied around by special interests...like you, Jack!