Back in March of this year, the Associated Press "showed Chris Graff the door", with no hint of why it was done.The reasons were reported today on WCAX-TV and in print in an article by the "Vermont Guardian"."AP said it was firing Graff for running an op-ed on March 8 by an elected official, and for allowing an AP reporter to write a chapter in a 2003 book about Howard Dean, then an aspiring presidential candidate."http://www.vtguardian.com/local/052006/GraffLetter.shtml(The "elected official" reffered to in the above statement, was U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.)