Nathan Baca and Sharron Angle have both encountered Scientology in the past.

When Mr. Baca was working for KESQ Palm Springs, that station did a series of programs focusing on the Scientology compound in Riverside County, County Supervisor Jeff Stone, and other Scientology-related stories that the Riverside media chose to ignore.

Sharron Angle is a member of the National Foundation of Women Legislators, a Scientologist-infested organization that introduces people like Sharron to people like Joy Westrum, the president of a Scientology front group called Second Chance.

Sharron Angle introduced Second Chance to the Nevada legislature in 2003. Legislators were offered a free trip to see Second Chance operating in a Mexican prison in Ensenada. The program has since been terminated due to questionable success rates.

Under the program, inmates receive sauna and massage treatments for extended periods of time. Only 10 percent of the inmates who enter the program return to drugs, Angle said.

Nevada's legislature turned down the program. New Mexico did not. The whole Second Chance program blew up last year, ending with Second Chance personnel sneaking out of their leased facility in the middle of the night, taking some large appliances with them.

For several days, a few inmates were unaccounted for. They eventually were "found" back at the facilities they'd originally come from.

This article notes that Second Chance still owes over $600,000 to the city, the IRS, utility bills and rent.

Yet Sharron Angle still supports the program. The theories behind the "detoxification" program have been reviewed and dismissed as potentially dangerous junk science, "based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard," a college dropout and pulp fiction writer.

Compared with her plans to do away with the EPA, Medicare and Social Security, Ms. Angle's support of a Scientology front group seems unimportant.

However, New Mexico nearly voted to give Second Chance a $3 million dollar windfall of public money! Ten percent of that goes right up the money chute to the Scientology organization for licensing fees and other costs of doing business through them. Once the Scientology organization figures out a way to clamp on to the public teat, they'll be rolling in our tax dollars.

This isn't likely to happen, because most politicians take their jobs a little more seriously than Sharron Angle and her moonbat Scientology quack therapy.

She was provided with information about the Second Chance program, its link to Scientology and the crackpot theories and the unlicensed practice of medicine by unqualified Second Chance personnel. Rather than listen to doctors and rehab experts, she chose to rely instead on the overblown hype provided to her by the nice Scientologists.

Her other outrageous and attention-getting rhetoric is simply her, pandering to the Teabaggers. Sharron Angle and Second Chance demonstrates a crucial lack of responsibility for her constituents and prison inmates alike.

And this is the important thing. She will not research what she endorses. She is willing to support a completely fraudulent Scientology therapy and get it funded with public money. And Scientology has a bunch more front groups dedicated to human rights, getting kids to sign drug pledges, publishing 'The Way to Happiness' booklets...it's a never-ending flood of gaping Scientology maws, replicating, renaming, and all ravenous for funds.