It's not just us.

Some of the little communities around us have amazingly bitter political battles -- unrelated to the Republican-Democrat or even conservative-liberal or just about any other normally recognizable divide. The local newspaper reports of town meetings are a riot, and sometimes it sounds like a riot is what is going on.

But today I ran across this story from Idaho, proving that this is not a uniquely Badger State phenomenon:

In resignation speech, Idaho mayor tells town and council they're just too stupid to work with

ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) -- You can't call Bill Beck the mayor of "stupid" town anymore. The former St. Anthony mayor resigned from his post at a city council meeting Wednesday night, but not before telling off the townspeople and his fellow city council members.

Councilman Bryan Fullmer told the Standard Journal that Beck walked into the start of the meeting and announced his surprise resignation to the audience. Fullmer said Beck then told the audience that he was tired of people who were too stupid to understand, and turned and told council members that they were too stupid to work with, too.

Fullmer said Beck continued by telling the town to go to hell.
The audience responded to his resignation with applause. Beck left the meeting shortly after.

Beck declined to comment on the resignation.

Beck and the city council are the subjects of a recall petition. Beck said last week that he would vigorously defend himself against the recall.