Seahawks Lose, Wash. State Democrat Trashes Arizona as 'Desert Racist

December 23rd, 2013 11:17 AM
Beware angry Democrats when they're football fans. AP reporter Mike Baker wrote up Washington state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, who grew angry over the Arizona Cardinals upset of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Referring to Arizona's fight over illegal immigration, he tweeted  "Losing a football game sucks. Losing to a desert racist wasteland sucks a lot." Washington state Republican Rep. J.T.…

Name That Party: AP Fails to Tag Nearly Indicted John Edwards as a Dem

May 25th, 2011 12:19 PM
UPDATE: As seen here, the very earliest AP reports appear to have identified Edwards as a Democrat (the age of the item may not correspond with when the AP subscriber actually received it), but the latest ones, including this item found at AP's home site (as of 12:59 p.m.), do not. UPDATE 2: A mixed bag -- The 6:55 p.m. report from the same AP reporters (pic here) notes that Edwards was the "…