Political Silly Season Starts Today

Anonymous flyers. Disavowed mass texts. Straight up lies. Welcome to day one of early voting.

If I have to care about what Debbie Dooley has to say, something terrible has already happened.

Dooley remains the leader of a faction of what remains of the Tea Party. Once upon a time, she and I had a relatively cordial relationship — politically opposed but willing to trade information — borne of the now-decade-old Occupy movement.

I still have this r…