Our local "conservatives" are for some reason treating this election like Armageddon  --  they really, really, really want Colleen to remain as Queen of the Port.  

I'm not sure why.  I wonder if it might have something to do with her unspecified plans to sell off public holdings.  Or...  the Port takes in and hands out a lot of money, and there's plenty we don't know about what's going on day to day.

Anyway, to a political extremist, everyone who doesn't passionately agree with them is obviously an extremist in the other direction  --  they don't recognize how many people are neutral.  Apparently for Mr Heisel, anyone who questions the Port's actions is a commie, or at least a liberal  --  because the Port is being run by McAleer.