Name That Party: Reuters, AP Fail to Tag Ray Nagin, Under Federal Inve

February 13th, 2012 11:56 PM
Maybe there's some unwritten guideline in the press relating to when a politician who is no longer holding office doesn't have to have his party label applied if he gets into some kind of trouble -- even if that trouble is related to when he was in office. The suspicion here is that the rule only applies to past Democratic Party officeholders, and that the guideline period is unduly short. A…