So many political fliers are overkill

Picking up our mail is something I look forward to when I get home Thursday evenings.
That’s when my Sports Illustrated usually arrives.
There it was, too, Jamaica’s charismatic Olympic hero Usain Bolt on the magazine cover.
Guess what was also in our mailbox?
If you said more glossy campaign fliers pertaining to Tuesday’s primary, you are absolutely right.
We hit the jackpot.
There weren’t one or two or three this time, but five fliers.
They included the usual suspects.
One trashing county commission incumbent Joe McClash.
One touting his opponent, Betsy Benac.
One panning Ed Brodsky as state attorney candidate.
One praising him.
Then there was another one from Mike Bennett.

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