QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 05:53 AM)
It was an AP story from a staff writer in SD, where it happened. Local politician with a local story, the affiliation is always mentioned. I don't expect it to be mentioned prominently if it made national wires, but locally, it is news. Pick up the Trib or Sun-Times. If it mentions a state senator, it also mentions the party, right away. Not at the last paragraph of the story. Sloppiness, agenda, bias, whatever it is, it is wrong.
this was not written for local papers. AP is set up, so that stories like this can be sent to other newspapers for great national coverage.