As regular readers of both FDL and Mercury Rising know, I’ve been following the ups and downs of Minnesota Republican Party chair Tony Sutton , and his money-handling difficulties, for some time now. And guess what? He’s in the news again — and as always, it’s about money, or the difficulties pertaining thereto. Bluestem Prairie’s Sally Jo Sorensen has the deets concerning possible Republican dissatisfaction with Sutton’s ham-fisted leadership and subpar money-handling.

The Washington Post’s Ombudsman attempts a pull back from WaPo’s rerunning of the Bloomberg expose on the Koch Bros. Shorter WaPo OBM: We can’t disagree with anything Bloomberg Markets said about the Koch Bros illegal activities, but we should have included his paid PR denial even though it didn’t shake the original story, and besides there are lots of other corporate evil doers besides the 4th richest men in America.