Kleberg County, Texas, hugs the South Texas coastline and holds more cows than people.  Kleberg is reliably Democratic, with Barack Obama winning by 5 percentage points in 2012.

Apparently, there are some people who are not dandy happy about that.

Kyle Benson, the head of the Democratic Party in Kleberg County, called police around 5 p.m. to report that he had been assaulted by an unknown man.

Speaking at the headquarters Thursday evening, Benson said he was checking early voting numbers alone at the office, located at Seventh Street and Yoakum Avenue downtown, when a man entered the office.

“A gentleman came in through the door, picked up one of the stakes for a yard sign, said that ‘I’d been warned,’ and swung at me,” Benson said.

The man swung the wooden stake, which was about 4-feet long and two inches thick, at Benson’s head, but Benson was able to block the attack with his left arm.

Benson took a swing of his own and landed a good enough punch that the man fled from the office, dragging his “Dan Patrick for King” sign with him.  (Okay, so I just just made up the Dan Patrick part, but it could happen.)