State Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, wrote a letter to the editor to the Brainerd Dispatch, criticizing a DFLer and fellow member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for voting in favor of a gas-tax increase.

You can read the letter and the heated discussion that ensued at http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/042208/opi_20080422040.shtml [1]. (Registration on the Dispatch's Web site is required, but it is free.)

Buesgens' writing prompted a response from Rolf Westgard, the associate chairman of the Crow Wing County DFL. Westgard's letter will run in the May 1 print edition of the Jordan Independent.