THE STEALTH STATE REP. RACE, 94th DISTRICT: SUBTITLE "MR. MYERS, THERE'S SOMEBODY AT THE DOOR"

While Chuckasaurus Rex was blocking out the sun, moon and stars, not to mention almost all the media, a funny thing happened. Rich Myers caught an opponent on the other side of the Legislative District. This race could be a grease fire for Myers.

Rich is a great guy. The folks around the collar of Macomb love him. If there's a family event such as a wedding or funeral, he's there.

He's also pretty good at constituent services.

Still, it's fair to say he's not a star and his minority party is so incredibly poorly positioned that he can't do much anyway. On his best day, he's a poor public speaker. Moreover, while people may like him, polls show ordinary citizens don't like "the legislature" or even "the government". He's both. At this stage, it appears the tendency among independent voters will be to vote the "ins" out, especially if they are republicans. Finally, and this is odd, his party's house committee is not raising much money. He probably won't be a featured race so there may not be a lot for him out of that pot.

Add to this that every time he's had a presentable opponent, he has just narrowly won. This despite one of his opponents having had some reputation problems and one having a geography problem. They still scared the beJesus out of him. And that was before some preposterous fiction writer on crack invented a John Sullivan.

While the free world is watching the Chucker's Oddesy (Also known as Larry Ehmen's Agonistes), democrats could shoplift the "other" seat.