It just doesn’t seem so difficult to figure this out, but candidates keep using their personal email addresses that seem to date back to their college days. Of course, there wasn’t email when I was in college…different story.<\/p>\n
Here is one I came across today:<\/p>\n
\nshovelhead@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Unbelievable. Instead of considering his candidacy, I am left with thoughts of the potentially peculiar shape of his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It just doesn’t seem so difficult to figure this out, but candidates keep using their personal email addresses that seem to date back to their college days. Of course, there wasn’t email when I was in college…different story. Here is one I came across today: shovelhead@yahoo.com Unbelievable. 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