The SF Chronicle offers this report, which surely has the most tantalizing election-law related lede I’ve seen in some time: “Until this week, Missouri attorney Charles ‘Chep’ Hurth III was best known for a headline-grabbing incident a decade ago in which he bit a young female law student on the butt in a bar. Now Hurth, the city attorney for New Haven, Mo. (population 1,800), is the agent for a deep-pocketed group that donated $175,000 to fund a Republican-backed effort that would reshape the landscape of presidential politics in California.”