This: Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said it was difficult to know how to react without details of the situation. There could be fallout for the Democratic Party, he said, but the situation reflects the actions of a single individual rather than the thousands of people making up the party.
versus this:
Christian Morgan, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said Morrison's affair with Carter raised profound ethical issues that went beyond partisan politics.
For those familiar with Kansas, it's probably obvious that Morrison is a Dem. But if not, one has to read fairly far down to find out that Morrison is a Dem. I can't help but think, as in the case of Sen Craig, if he were a Repub, it would be in the title and scattered 'liberally' throughout. Hensley's glossing over is fairly typical of what I'd expect a Dem to say. *eyeroll*
If Morrison was still a Republican, the Senate minority leader would be calling for his head while Christian Morgan would be saying that he really was a good and decent person who merely strayed and that we should forgive him. Such is politics.
Some of the local stories, in an effort to distance Morrison from the Democrat Party, refer to him as Attorney General Morrison, former Republican.
95% of the article passes before the word Democrat is even mentioned and his affiliation is never very clerly identified. There is probably a 3 hour journalism college course on how not to embarrase the Party-of-the-Left in print that every journalist must take.
In old Rino Johnson County politics, it wasn’t a big reach for this high office seeker to switch parties.
Phil Kline had made himself vulnerable by making his first term about no issues other that his pursuit of a Pro-Life agenda. He was absolutly invisible on any other issue and sealed his easy defeat by being a single issue office holder and failing to work actively on the broad scope of the office. That was an obvious weakness that Morrison had little trouble exploiting.