What do you get when a tobacco lobbyist decides to run for county commissioner? A corruption-laced Dukes of Hazard style politician. That is what we have in Spokane County with Todd Mielke. In 1995 RepublicanTodd Mielke resigned from the Washington State Legislature to become a high paid lobbyist for big pharmacuetical companies and the tobacco industry. A few years later he ran for Spokane County Commission. Read more about Todd Mielke at this site.