Back in September, when we wrote about Lake Co. Sheriff Mark Curran's escalating deportation efforts, a commenter left this note:

Curran somewhere along the line became a republican. No one is going to support him for re-election.

"Somewhere along the line," indeed.  Today, Curran announced that he's switched parties and officially joined the Republicans, citing the Democratic Party's record on "positions on immigration, charter-school funding and other issues." 

Wonder what Jim Edgar thinks about his party's newest member?