If you love local politics, this was the place to be today. Great food and great fun as we surge full steam ahead into the silly season, that wonderful time before a big election when some people do and say the darnedest things

Sheriff Jackson, running to unseat Kevin Stufflebean, it turns out, is a gifted griller and I don’t mean just in the interrogation room. The tri-tips were perfect and so was the broccoli salad.