What's in a name?

Not much. But when that's all you have, I guess you have to take it pretty seriously.

Secretary of State Doug La Follette is all fired up about a newspaper claiming that La Follette changed his name to make it match former Wisconsin Governor Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette. A story in the Duluth News Tribune has La Follette saying:

"It's pretty upsetting to have someone attack you for your name," La Follette said.

But if that's pretty much your entire campaign, it really can't come as much of a surprise that someone else brought it up can it?

The funny thing is that La Follette is using the story to attack his challenger, Scot Ross, even though he describes the issue this way:

Scot Ross, said Monday that he considered the dispute "a nonissue"

Tomorrow you can either vote for someone that considers the spelling of his last name an important campaign issue, or you can use your vote to give the job to someone that will seek to do more than just guard the great seal of our state.

I'm picking the latter and voting for Scot Ross.