The shoe is on the other foot

Here is a KELOTV report:

10/29/2004 Daschle Staffer Charged With Notary Law Violation

On the same day three Republican workers pleaded guilty to breaking South Dakota's notary public law, a staffer for Senator Tom Daschle's campaign was charged with violating the same statute.

Brown County State's Attorney Mark McNeary says Chelsea Peterson is accused of notarizing two applications submitted by people who wanted to become notaries. He says the Secretary of State's office returned those two applications and both people eventually were approved as notary publics.

McNeary says both of them work for the Daschle campaign and have signed absentee ballot applications, but only after they got their notary commissions from the state.

In other words, he says the investigation found that the infraction had nothing to do with any absentee ballots.

The report seems to have left a lot unsaid. I have questions:

1. Will the Argus Leader have this on the front-page, if at all?
2. Will the reporting be at the same degree of intensity the Republicans notary problem received?
3. Will the Daschle Democrats take personal responsibility as the Republicans did or will they find some lame way to blame this on Republicans?