Pat Strachota. Grothman landed the position of state senator that year and has stayed in his seat, virtually unopposed in every election, ever since. For a man who has spoken at tea party rallies – the same people who yelled “No incumbents!” during the 2010 midterm elections – Grothman seems to be doing pretty well as a politician who has been in office for so long.

When we arrived at the office to sign the recall petition, we were greeted by an older, kindly man wearing a T-shirt and sporting a terrific white beard. He was Waring Fincke, a local political activist and columnist for my local newspaper. In addition to being the spitting image of my favorite philosopher, Karl Marx, he was respectable, committed and equipped with aThere was a wealth of new tools and tricks on offer from Apple during today's Worldwide Developer Conference. But the biggest news was that Apple decided to open up a number of core services — Maps, Siri, and iMessage — that for a long time have been closed off. Given its massive install base and the billions of dollars flowing through its App Store, developers are almost certainly going to experiment with building new experiences for these areas, or at least connecting old ones. For Apple there is a huge opportunity to build big new businesses around Siri and iMessage as platforms in their own right. There is also the danger that companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon will be able to get their hooks deep into some