Comment: IF Jeff Kruse were a liberal democrat;
 First, Kruse would fight back, and argue: racists bigots are attacking his Native American heritage, and are denying him his right to partake in tobacco Americana, an indigenous plant us Indians have been smoking since the dawn of time, as is our cultural right to do.
 Kruse would also go on the attack of his Native American culture being demonized in a most bigoted manner. The only time you will find a more hugging group than my Chickasaw family is attending an AA meeting Native Americans tend to be huggy people. They remind m much of my hippy friends. 
 Here's what the liberal bigots do not want to talk about. They claim this is pervasive in Salem, and yet Kruse is the only one to be singled out. as a smoking conservative he makes an easy political target to deflect from the fact the democrats were busted taking money from a sexual predator.