From STLToday:

St. Charles County Councilman Joe Brazil has filed a defamation suit against Jeff Roe, a Kansas City-area Republican strategist, for allegedly posting a political blog claiming Brazil was drunk in an accident in 1982 in which a friend died.

Republican's being nasty in primaries is nothing new as EditorMOTO points out, but this is particularly sad after certain Republican buddies of Jaba Jeff Roe made a big deal about how not being anonymous would prevent bloggers from making slanderous claims.  Wonder what precident this sets?