At least your mental health.

RaDene Hatfield, the Democratic candidate in Provo's Senate District 16 against Republican incumbent Curt Bramble, claims to be the latest female victim of the county's oligarchy.

In an e-mail posting made public, she wrote of an encounter she had while campaigning door-to-door Saturday involving Bramble and several members of his family.

First, she claims she learned that people wearing "Bramble for Senate" T-shirts were following her through the neighborhoods and picking up campaign materials she was leaving on doorsteps. Then she complained of an encounter with Bramble where she says he was threatening, accusatory and mocking. His children, she said, also were there in a mocking fashion, which made her feel surrounded.

Her husband then wrote Bramble a letter telling him to leave his wife alone. He made that letter available to the media.

Bramble denies the conversation was hostile, stating he did just state his concern about her making campaign appearances in a public school. He also denied that anyone in his campaign lifted Hatfield's fliers from doorsteps.

But these types of accusations seem par for the course in Utah County.

There was Jacqueline deGaston, who ran against Bramble in the Republican convention. She had trouble getting a delegate list from Republican officials, and, she said, attempts were made to block the selection of a would-be delegate thought to be one of her supporters.

There was Linda Housekeeper, who challenged Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, in the Republican convention. Some of her delegates were disqualified just before the convention.

And there was Lisa Shepherd, who challenged Rep. Keith Grover, R-Provo, in the Republican convention and was advised by Republican leaders that because she was a mother of children still at home, she should tend to her family rather that get into the rough-and-tumble world of politics.

And, of course, there was the pizza-delivery girl who became a celebrity of sorts after posting on her political blog her encounter with Bramble when she informed him her company didn't accept personal checks. She articulately described him as a rude, self-important bore.

Beware the sign holder: The ire of conservative Republican legislators against the "liberal media" seems to have had a shifting focus recently from the Deseret News to KSL-TV and, particularly, its reporter John Daley.

And, it appears, the media can be as thin-skinned about criticism as the politicians it often criticizes.

After Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, was acquitted of ethics-violation charges Friday, Daley, whose coverage of the Hughes matter has been roundly criticized by conservative lawmakers, was doing a live report from the Capitol.

Suddenly, a man stood behind Daley holding a homemade sign that said "KSL is Biased."

The report, with the media blasphemer unmistakably visible, was omitted from KSL's online report, where viewers can call up past news coverage.

And signs inside the KSL offices feature the culprit's face with the warning that he is someone who is "stalking" KSL employees.