Via PrimeBuzz [1], we get a sneak peek at Chep Hurth, the Missouri Republican who's in the midst of a national plan to skew the 2008 presidential election by rejiggering the assignment of California's electoral votes.  Behold, the prototype of the 21st Century GOP superlawyer [2] and operative:

Hurth, then a third-year law student at St. Louis University, was taken to court by a young woman who said he grabbed her in a bar and bit her on the buttocks so hard she required medical attention - then laughed and high-fived his friends.

Hurth testified that he had told her she should take it as a compliment.

Sexual degradation and assault: high five!  Had he just mixed in an illicit homosexual rendezvous in the public toilet he would have hit the GOP Trifecta.

Hurth also chaired First Class Funding, a 2005 educational reform campaign supported by conservatives and another big political donor, Patrick Byrne, the chief executive officer of the Internet shopping site Overstock.com based in Salt Lake City.

Longtime FiredUp! readers will no doubt remember Patrick Byrne as Matt Blunt's partner in the failed 65% Education Illusion [2].  Turns out Chep was a partner in Byrne's scam as well.

How wonderful that the party which controls Missouri state government can rely on the help of Chep Hurth.  The place would probably fall to pieces without the contributions of butt-biters and education de-funders to their cause.