Name That Party

Lawhawk over at A Blog for All notes the big news of a pretty large corruption bust involving elected officials in New Jersey. He also notes what's missing from the news coverage. Those busted are Democrats.

Of course, what's lacking is the political affiliation of these politicians.

This is how you're supposed to identify the politicians. Should it surprise anyone that some of the reports lack that tiny detail?

New Jersey and corruption: Perfect Together

He notes in an update that the AP actually did note the party affiliations (I saw that over at Yahoo News just a moment ago.)

The arrests were related to insurance contracts for local governments, a law enforcement officials said on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement was pending.

Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were both arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, the law enforcement official said. Also arrested were the chief of staff to Newark's City Council president, Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson, and five Pleasantville school board members.

UPDATE: Others:  Michelle Malkin, Wake up America, Jammie Wearing Fool, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Macsmind, Take Our Country Back, Enlighten New Jersey, Fausta, Central Sanity,

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  By quilly mammoth, September 6, 2007 @ 11:37 am

  A corrupt Passaic mayor?? who’d a thought.

  Then there’s Newark:
  http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2007/mayorindict071207.htm

  NEWARK – Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was charged in an Indictment today with using city-issued credit cards to spend lavishly on himself, eight female companions and others during personal trips and vacations to such places as Martha’s Vineyard, Rio de Janeiro, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie and State Attorney General Anne Milgram announced.

  The Indictment also charges James in a second fraud against the citizens of Newark in which he allegedly facilitated and approved the drastically cut-rate sale of city-owned land to Tamika Riley, one of his companions, who fraudulently reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sales. She too is charged with this fraud in the Indictment.

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