The Lone Star Iconoclast, the newspaper in George Bush's home town, shook the small settlement of Crawford, Texas, yesterday by turning against its most famous resident and endorsing John Kerry.
The decision has not made W Leon Smith, the Iconoclast's publisher and editor-in-chief, very popular among Crawford's 705-strong population, a mainly conservative crowd who hope a second Bush term will invigorate the sleepy local economy.
"We're getting a lot of emails about it. A lot of hate mail and some saying this was something that needed to be done," Smith told the Guardian yesterday.
He conceded that the hate mail outweighed the more encouraging messages, but said: "Sometimes you have to do things that aren't very popular but you know in your gut are the right thing to do."
link via the Guardian UK.
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