As to LeDuff personally putting the ringer in the race- it appears, if you follow the story,starting somewhere around July 12, LeDuff was uncovering a plot in Napoleon's campaign and LeDuff was the first Detroit journalist to confirm who the ringer is. And then, in his style, he did a sardonic story with the ringer. As he he has with a lot of jerks around town. In Charlie's stories the jerks usually reveal all their jerkiness to all the world.