An ongoing nationwide battle against offending online comments has taken on a political tinge in Idaho, where a local Republican party official is suing a commenter on a newspaper website and trying to force the newspaper, the Idaho Spokesman-Review, to turn over the commenter’s information, as well as the information of two other commenters who replied.

Tina Jacobson, chair of the 71-member Kootenai Republican County Central Committee filed a defamation lawsuit against one of the Spokesman-Review’s commenters in April, seeking $10,000 in damages.

The lawsuit stems from a comment the lengthily-pseudonymed commenter posted on February 14 on a blog entry on the Idaho Spokesman-Review website featuring a photo of Jacobson and other Republican officials.